Actify Unveils the Most Advanced Digital Design Communication Tools Available to Manufacturers and Their Supply Chains.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

National Manufacturing Week 2004

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004

Actify SpinFire(TM) Professional 2004 And Actify(R) Server 2004

Make CAD Data More Easily Accessible to Knowledge Workers

Actify Inc., the worldwide leader in client-server design visualization and collaboration solutions for the high technology, automotive, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries, today unveiled SpinFire Professional 2004 and Actify Server 2004, the most advanced digital design communication tools available to manufacturers and their supply chain partners. SpinFire Professional 2004 and Actify Server 2004 are designed to make CAD data more easily accessible for non-technical users.

SpinFire Professional 2004 provides powerful 3D and 2D CAD visualization capabilities, without requiring a CAD system, in a secure and user-friendly format. SpinFire Professional 2004 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 product design, procurement, quoting and estimation, manufacturing, sales, marketing and support.

"Every product development company recognizes the need to have design and manufacturing teams, whether in-house, located in different geographical regions, or outsourced across the supply chain work more effectively together," said Dr. Ken Versprille, research director, CPD Associates, LLC (formerly the PLM group of D.H. Brown Associates, Inc.). "Actify's SpinFire Professional 2004 and the Actify Server 2004 target the essence of that collaboration to help shorten product development schedules and improve product quality. The important new multi-document workspace capability will especially facilitate ease of use in communicating and eliminate potential misunderstandings for all participants in product development."

The Actify Server Solution empowers enterprises to host, control and distribute CAD data, office documents and image files across the entire enterprise. A cost-effective and secure communication and collaboration solution, the Actify Server is easily installed, needing no complex network or firewall configurations.

"Our goal is to re-define the standard in our industry for the most advanced and affordable 2D and 3D design communication tool available," said Randy Ochs, president and CEO of Actify. "With the release of SpinFire Professional 2004 and Actify Server 2004, Actify's over 6,000 worldwide customers, and others, can realize significant cost savings and productivity gains across the manufacturing supply chain through faster, more efficient communication of 2D and 3D design data."

Actify's SpinFire 2004 family of products support files created in any major CAD file format converting them, into .3D, which is a world-renowned, compressed and secure CAD visualization file format. This allows users in the manufacturing industries, and throughout their supply chains, to use a single software solution that enable them to view, measure, mark-up and share all major 2D and 3D data formats without needing to purchase and maintain seats of a native CAD system. This streamlines the communication process and allows for paperless distribution of complex design data, ultimately increasing productivity and cutting costs.

SpinFire Professional 2004

New Features

-- .3D WorkSpace. Multiple different file formats can be opened

in a single viewable 2D and 3D data file, allowing users to

easily group together all files associated with a project.

This makes distribution of multiple documents, associated with

a specific project, more efficient, for instance MS Office

documents, PDFs, GIF and TIFF files.

-- Ability to take a 2D snapshot of a 3D model gives users the

ability to take a 2D snapshot, or picture, of a 3D model and

add/save it to a .3D file. This feature enhances communication

by giving users the ability to freeze a view in order to

highlight or comment on a specific issue.

-- Redlining tools for 2D markup offers intuitive, easy to use

redlining and annotation features, giving the user the ability

to link comments, approvals and notes to specific features in

a 2D format.

-- New measurement enhancements. This adds the ability to access

accurate part data without the original CAD file, the ability

to read thickness as well as other measurements.

-- User-defined coordinate systems improvements. This adds the

flexibility of defining multiple coordinate systems for

improved model set-up for the user.

Actify Server 2004

New Features

-- Share entire folders on Actify Server instead of sharing files

one at a time. This increases the ease and speed of sharing

files.

-- Share a folder with an entire group increasing ease and speed

of sharing files. The user can create a project group and

ensure each member of the group receives all files associated

with the project.

-- Automatically creates a new .3D file when native CAD files

change. Keeps all .3D files up-to-date so that the user knows

they are viewing the most current files.

-- Easy-to-use folder architecture giving the user the ability to

better organize files that are accessed and shared.

-- Automatic installation of importers when opening a CAD file on

the server streamlining the viewing process.

-- Secure environment - with the ability to know when and who

accessed shared files

Actify SpinFire Professional 2004 and Actify Server 2004 are available immediately. Pricing for SpinFire Professional 2004 starts at $499. Actify will launch foreign language versions of both products at MICAD, taking place in Paris, France on March 30 and 31, and at Solid Modelling, which takes place in Birmingham, UK on March 31 and April 1.

About Actify Inc.

Founded in 1996, Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning global leader of client/server CAD visualization solutions. Actify's SpinFire product line provides the lowest total cost of ownership with the highest scalability across manufacturing industries and through their supply chains. The Actify SpinFire solution is sold through authorized distributors and Value Added Resellers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Actify is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information please visit www.actify.com or call 415-227-3800.

*Visit Actify at the National Design Engineering Show, booth #4024