Autodesk Launches Key Market-Focused Products at Annual User Conference; Fourth Largest PC Software Company Moves Aggressively, Meets Commitments.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1995--Delivering key elements of a product roadmap outlined earlier this year for its new markets, Autodesk today introduced four new products to its large user-base at San Francisco's Moscone Center The Moscone Center is San Francisco, California's largest convention and exhibition complex. The complex consists of two main underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone North and Moscone South, as well the three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street. . The new products target the GIS, Data Management, Mechanical, and Education markets. The annual conference, Autodesk University, consists of four days of training, hands-on labs, exhibits and, for the first time ever, a Multimedia Film Festival (October 30 - November 2). "These announcements demonstrate Autodesk's aggressive moves into new target markets and its commitments to its customers," said James D'Arezzo, Autodesk's Vice President of Corporate Marketing, GIS and Data Management. "Autodesk has more growth opportunities than ever before." AutoCAD Map is the first in a family of products for the Geographic Information Systems/mapping market. It integrates automated mapping capability directly into AutoCAD. The Data Management product, AutoCAD Data Extension (ADE) Release 2, lets design teams organize and integrate multiple CAD drawings and related databases into a single AutoCAD environment that can be shared by the entire team. ADE Release 2 is the first Autodesk product designed with the company's object-oriented development environment, ARX. Inside Track for Mechanical Drafting and Design, jointly developed by Autodesk and Autodesk Press(a), is a new brand of interactive education material that lets new users of design (whether students, mechanical engineers, or teachers) learn on their own and explore CAD without buying the software first. In addition, the Autodesk Data Publishing group announced Volume 1.1 of its Mechanical Library that includes 100,000 more parts and 66 percent more data records than Volume 1.0. Autodesk was the first major software company to publish intelligent digital content for technical professionals earlier this year. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. users, the Mechanical Library has increased productivity for designers and drafters by up to 20 percent. (Note to journalists: See separate press materials released today.) Autodesk has continued to make progress in all of its markets. Earlier this year Autodesk announced it will publish a set of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. ) for the AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission market; these form the basis for all building industry software applications to share intelligent data internationally. Autodesk also added four UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (b) platforms and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT on Alpha Systems to its list of platforms for AutoCAD Release 13, bringing the number of platforms for that product to eight. For MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design users, the company introduced the Mechanical Desktop, a tightly integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. application that provides advanced 2D and 3D mechanical CAD for desktop systems. And for multimedia users, Autodesk launched 3D Studio MAX, a re-architected, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. version of the world's leading professional 3D animation software. In addition, Autodesk previewed a revolutionary character animation Character animation is a specialized process of the animation process, concerning the animation of one or more characters featured in an animated work. It is usually as one aspect of a larger production, and often to complement voice acting. product that operates within 3D Studio MAX. Autodesk products are available through Authorized Autodesk Dealers, Distributors and Autodesk Systems Centers Worldwide. For North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. sales information contact any Authorized Autodesk Dealer, call Autodesk at 800/964-6432, or fax requests to 415/507-5100. For Latin American sales information, fax requests to 415/507-6110; for European sales information, fax requests to +41-22-788-44; and fax Asia/Pacific sales requests to 415/507-6117. Autodesk is the world's leading supplier of PC and UNIX-based design software and PC multimedia tools. The company's 2D and 3D products and data management tools are used in many industries for architectural design, mechanical design, film-making, videography vid·e·og·ra·phy n. The art or practice of using a video camera. vid  e·og and
geographic information systems. The fourth largest PC software company
in the world, Autodesk has three million customers in 118 countries.
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New Product Pricing and Availability
Suggested Retail Pricing (SRP) is for the United States only and
appears in U.S. dollars.
All products are English language versions.
Product U.S. SRP Available
AutoCAD Map $4,495 Fiscal Q4
Localized
versions later
in 1996
AutoCAD Data Extension $795 December 1995 Release 2 Upgrades from ADE 1.0 $119 Inside Track $149.95 Now Mechanical Library $349(c) Now Volume 1.1 PartSpec $199(c) Now MaterialSpec $199(c) Now (c) Special introductory price until May 31, 1996. June 1, 1996, the Mechanical Library Volume 1.1 will be $495; PartSpec and MaterialSpec will be $295 each. The Library is sold as a subscription and updated twice a year.-0- Notes to Editors: (a) Autodesk Press is a partnership between Autodesk and International Thomson Publishing that develops and distributed advanced training materials. (b) The UNIX platforms include: Sun Sparcstation, Hewlett-Packard 9000 Series 700, Silicon Graphics workstations, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. System 6000. Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Data Extension, are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. 3D Studio MAX is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. All prices are suggested retail prices. CONTACT: Autodesk, Inc. Jennifer Heller Reidy, 415/507-6536 jennifer.reidy@autodesk.com |
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