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Actify Ships SpinFire Professional(TM) 8.0; New Features Deliver Cost Savings and Productivity Gains in Digital Design Communication Throughout the Supply Chain.


SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  -- Actify Inc., the global leader in digital design communication solutions, today announced that SpinFire Professional 8.0, the most advanced digital design communication tool available for the automotive, high technology, aerospace, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems.  industries, is now available. New features allow users instant access to complete and accurate design data, reducing design errors, lowering operating costs operating costs nplgastos mpl operacionales  and shortening product development cycles.

"The new functionality in SpinFire Professional 8.0 was the direct result of increasing demand and feedback from customers as their needs to stay competitive evolve in their respective markets," said Randy Ochs, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Actify Inc. "As these needs change across the different markets it became obvious that we needed a way to allow our customers to customize functionality pertinent to their own internal workflow or processes. With the new API New API (also referred to as NAPI) is an interface to use interrupt mitigation techniques for networking devices in the Linux kernel. Such an approach is intended to reduce the overhead of packet receiving.  in SpinFire Professional 8.0, customers, and developers alike, can create their own plug-ins for specialized functionality. This ultimately allows Actify customers to improve their communication and collaboration across their organizations and down through their supply chains."

New features in SpinFire Professional 8.0 include the ability to interact with Product Manufacturing Information Product and Manufacturing Information, or PMI, is used in 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and Collaborative Product Development systems to convey information on the design of a product’s components for manufacturing.  (PMI See Private Mortgage Insurance. , also known as GD&T), a plug-in application program interface (API) to create custom solutions, a completely new user interface, improved analysis capabilities, an easier exploded assembly creation tool, and more.

Key features of SpinFire Professional 8.0 include:

--The ability to view and interact with PMI annotations and is the only product on the market that has forward-reading labels during 3D dynamic camera rotation

--Expanded Exploded Animation capability - new handle-based transformations allow for easy drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another.  user-view creation and animations

--New Application Program Interface (API) that allows 3rd party developers and end users to create plug-in applications to leverage functions and technology within SpinFire Professional for customized uses and vertical industry applications

--A new Intuitive User Interface that features a new layout, grouping, style and logic of the application user interface similar to Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities.  

--Enhanced Markup features for notes and dimensions added to a part or assembly, now can be placed on a surface

--Improved Analysis Capabilities for removing material and retaining material cross-section modes allowing users to choose between a full cross-section view and a profile view

--Complete Part Comparisons between an original model and a second version to highlight added and/or removed material

--Save Files to Intel's U3D format for back-end archiving of design data in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  format

SpinFire Professional 8.0 makes 2D and 3D CAD data more easily accessible to both technical and non-technical users. The product supports files created in any major CAD file format allowing users in the manufacturing industries manufacturing industries nplindustrias fpl manufactureras

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 and their supply chains to use a single software solution enabling them to view, measure, mark-up and share all major 2D and 3D data formats without needing to purchase and maintain seats of native CAD systems. This enables access, communication and distribution of multiple CAD formats throughout the enterprise and supply chain allowing companies to realize cost savings and productivity gains in all facets of product design, procurement, quoting and estimating, manufacturing, sales, marketing and support.

Pricing for Actify SpinFire Professional 8.0 starts at $495. A free trial version of the product is available for download at www.actify.com.

About Actify Inc.

Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning global leader of CAD visualization and digital design communication solutions with over 8,000 customer companies throughout the automotive, high technology, aerospace, industrial automation, and discrete manufacturing industries. Actify's Suite of Products provide the lowest total cost of ownership with the highest scalability across manufacturing industries and through their supply chains. The Actify Suite of Products are sold through authorized distributors and Value Added Resellers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Actify is headquartered in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation).

The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] 
. For more information please visit www.actify.com or call 415.227.3800.

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