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Anark Announces Sale of Entertainment Division and Series 4 Expansion Financing.


Company to Focus on Accelerating Enterprise CAD-PLM and Visualization Business

BOULDER, Colo. -- Anark Corporation, a leading provider of advanced 3D solutions, today announced that it has sold its Entertainment Software Division, including its award winning Gameface UI software platform. It also completed an additional funding transaction that will allow it to focus entirely on its rapidly growing Enterprise 3D CAD-PLM and Visualization division.

Anark's Entertainment Division has delivered powerful 3D tools and middleware platforms to leading video game and entertainment content developers since 2002. Anark's products helped streamline interactive 3D content creation and deployment for many industry leading customers, such as Microsoft, Sony, and Nvidia.

In mid-2007, Anark launched the Anark Core Platform, targeted at the enterprise CAD-PLM market. This revolutionary software platform dramatically reduces repetitive CAD file conversion and preparation tasks, enabling efficient and secure interoperability between producers and consumers of 3D CAD data for applications such as OEM-Supplier data exchange, technical illustration, and visual-simulation.

The current platform, Anark Core version 1.1, provides users with design-feature removal capabilities (parts, holes, fillets), then exports modified CAD data into high-precision BREP BREP Boundary Representation
BREP Bug Reporting
 and lightweight mesh file formats including CATIA A family of 2D and 3D CAD programs from IBM. CATIA was one of the first CAD programs to provide 3D solid modeling. The program was developed by Dassault Systems, a French aerospace company.  V4/V5, Parasolid, Pro/E, STEP, NX (formerly Unigraphics), IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) An ANSI file format that is system independent and also intended for human interpretation. Evolving out of the U.S. , Collada, DWF DWF Design Web Format
DWF Digital Wedding Forum
DWF Drawing Web Format
DWF Dwarf
DWF Divided We Fail (AARP campaign)
DWF Divorced White Female
DWF Department of Wildlife & Fisheries
DWF Distant Water Fleet
, X3D X3D Next Generation Three Dimensional
X3D Extensible Three Dimensional
, and VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. . All of these steps can be automated in process-driven workflows specific to each project underway.

"Anark's history working with leading manufacturers such as Boeing, Cessna, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see .

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta.
, and Pratt & Whitney has given us considerable experience overcoming major obstacles that prevent the effective use of 3D product data throughout the enterprise and supply chain," said Stephen Collins
For the political editor of the Sunday Tribune, see Stephen Collins. For the motorcycle speedway rider,see Stephen Collins ,


Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1 1947) is an American actor.
, 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 Anark Corporation. "The Anark Core Platform has been well received by our customers, reducing the time and effort of preparing 3D CAD files for data exchange, collaboration, and visual-simulation applications by as much as 80 percent compared with competing products and solutions."

Anark is already ramping up its product development efforts, with the goal of delivering Anark Core Version 2.0 in the coming months, as well as continuing to evolve and expand the capabilities of the Anark Media Platform. The company is also expanding its Sales Operations across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia.

About Anark: Anark Corporation provides powerful enterprise software and solutions to organizations that need to cost effectively utilize their CAD data and other 3D graphics assets to deliver a wide array of high-end collaboration and visual communication applications. Anark helps customers such as Boeing, Cessna, Pratt & Whitney, Nvidia, and Sony unlock the potential of their 3D data assets to improve efficiency, save money, and communicate more effectively with mission critical Collaboration, Product Visualization, and Marketing Communication applications. For more information, please visit: www.anark.com.

About Anark Core: The Anark Core[TM] Platform is an innovative software solution that quickly and easily transforms 3D product design data for use throughout design, engineering and support organizations.

About Anark Media Platform: The Anark Media Platform 4.0 consists of Anark Studio and Anark Client, the most powerful rapid application authoring tool and delivery platform for efficiently creating interactive 3D content for the web, PCs, Kiosks, and other target delivery platforms.
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