ALGOR Enhanced Report Wizard Speeds up Engineering Design Reports.

Business Editors

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2003

ALGOR, Inc., a leading maker of software for mechanical engineers, announced that its report wizard and environment now feature an improved format, easier navigation, the ability to include additional input and output data and built-in options for customizing output. The report wizard automatically collects information related to any finite element analysis (FEA) and automatically generates an organized, professional report in standard HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The report wizard is available for all analysis types and is supported by a wide range of image and animation options along with report customization tools.

"ALGOR's report wizard enables me to quickly create professional reports that communicate my design and analysis work to others," said Project Engineer Robert Turney. "The reports facilitate communication during the design process and help me and my team to work more efficiently."

"The new report wizard streamlines the process of creating professional design reports while giving users additional content and customization options," said ALGOR product manager, Bob Williams. "These reports can then be instantly shared with managers, colleagues or clients by publishing them to any Internet or Intranet site."

Reports are displayed within the report environment in FEMPRO, a complete and easy-to-use finite element modeling, results evaluation and presentation interface. Reports can be printed or shared through any common Internet browser and modified using any HTML-editing software.

Enhancements to the report wizard and environment include:

-- an updated report format that is concise and easy to navigate

-- improved ability to navigate reports using an expanded table

of contents in the tree view

-- new load and constraint summary sections

-- ability to include additional types of output, including

electrostatic analysis results, reaction forces and mass

properties

-- ability to specify an image file to be used as the title logo

-- ability to insert text file content as a user-defined appendix

entry

-- ability to modify the order of user-defined appendix entries

-- ability to modify the format of tables

To see a sample report, visit report.ALGOR.com.

ALGOR customers with current software upgrade subscriptions can get these new capabilities at no charge by requesting the latest updates. For more information, contact ALGOR or visit www.ALGOR.com.

ALGOR makes computer software and provides services for mechanical and civil engineers. The company serves over 20,000 engineers in over 60 countries in organizations such as DuPont, General Motors, Goodyear, Hewlett-Packard, NASA, Naval Surface Warfare Center and Yale University. Partnerships with other leading mechanical engineering software companies offer data interchange with products from Alibre, Inc.; ANSYS, Inc. (Nasdaq:ANSS); Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADSK); CADKEY Corporation; MSC.Software Corporation (NYSE:MNS); Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC); Robert McNeel & Associates; Structural Dynamics Research Corporation; Solid Edge, EDS-PLM Solutions (NYSE:EDS); SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq:DASTY) company; and others. Educational support and customer service include the use of Internet audio/video technology for distance learning and free, live software demonstrations.

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