Avatech Solutions Releases PrescientQA for CATIA V5.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OWINGS MILLS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003

Industry-Leading Quality Assurance Software Improves

Data Quality for Manufacturers using CATIA(R) V5 Platform

Avatech Solutions (OTCBB: AVSO.OB), a leading provider of design automation and quality assurance solutions for the manufacturing, building design and engineering markets, announced the availability of PrescientQA(TM) for CATIA V5. The latest release of Avatech's award-winning PrescientQA Enterprise Solutions provides a superior quality assurance platform--enabling manufacturers to achieve greater productivity and profitability by reducing product design errors and engineering changes, and improving data interoperability from start to finish throughout the manufacturing supply chain. Building on top of CATIA V5 platform's current capabilities, PrescientQA improves the quality and re-usability of all CATIA models.

"As long time users of PrescientQA products, we are looking to the new version designed for the CATIA V5 platform to complement our existing architecture and provide valuable model checks against data to be used in our PLM system," says Jim Day, CATIA Specialist at Black & Decker. "PrescientQA for CATIA V5 will help us enforce global standards and requirements, ensuring that we continue to provide the Black & Decker community with the high level of quality they expect."

"The implementation of good design standards and quality practices during an engineering project can save a company millions of dollars by the time a product goes to market," says Donald R. "Scotty" Walsh, CEO at Avatech Solutions. "Our approach to developing the PrescientQA CATIA V5 product is based on our extensive work in deploying large-scale solutions at aerospace, automotive, consumer products and discrete manufacturers worldwide. Our quality enterprise solutions reflect an understanding of the real-world complexity of standards and practices that have enabled our customers to significantly reduce costs during the manufacturing process."

Powerful-Interoperable-Flexible

PrescientQA for CATIA V5 is built on the award-winning Prescient 4.0 architecture and includes such capabilities as stamping results into the model, capturing quality metrics, supply chain control features, advanced reporting, and an extremely flexible and powerful standards configuration. PrescientQA allows maximum flexibility by enabling overlay onto existing processes, procedures, best modeling and design practices--so companies don't have to adapt their processes around the tool.

A New Level of Quality Control

Modeling practices that are incomplete, inaccurate or incomplete, typically account for 45% of change orders in an organization. PrescientQA Enterprise Solutions address these challenges and help companies to:

-- Identify problems early in the design process, substantially reducing product development cycle time, rework and cost

-- Ensure consistency and conformance to company's standards and best practices

-- Enhance data interoperability throughout the manufacturing supply chain

-- Support ISO 9000 and Six Sigma initiatives

-- Ensure efficient, consistent and "clean" legacy design data

-- Enable management high-level oversight of aggregate data quality, including distribution of quality, financial impact, and specific areas of concern

Pricing and Availability

PrescientQA Solutions for CATIA V5 are available immediately and provide customers with a complete quality assurance solution. Avatech offers individual modules and encourages customers to contact their account manager for specific pricing at [phone] in North America or visit www.avatechsolutions.com for European distribution partners.

About Avatech Solutions

Avatech Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: AVSO.OB) is a leading provider of design automation and quality assurance solutions for the manufacturing, building design, civil engineering and GIS markets. Headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland, the company specializes in software development, technical support, training and consulting aimed at improving design and documentation efficiencies and the seamless integration of workflow processes.

Avatech is one the largest integrators of Autodesk software worldwide and a leading provider of engineering document management solutions. The company is the developer of the award-winning PrescientQA(TM) quality assurance software and cycle time reduction products for the manufacturing supply chain.

Avatech serves 20,000 clients worldwide including the industry leaders from Fortune 500 and Engineering News Record's Top 500 companies. Visit www.avatechsolutions.com for more information.

This press release contains forward-looking statements about the expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions and strategies of Avatech Solutions, Inc. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by any forward-looking information. A description of risks and uncertainties attendant to Avatech and its industry, and other factors that could affect Avatech's financial results, are included in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings of PlanetCAD, Inc., which merged with Avatech on November 19, 2002 including, but not limited to, PlanetCAD's annual report on Form 10KSB for the year ended December 31, 2001, its quarterly reports on form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, June 30, and September 30, 2002, and the proxy statement/prospectus relating to the merger of Avatech and PlanetCAD. Interested persons may obtain a free copy of these documents at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov, or by contacting Gary Rever at Tel: [phone] or email [e-mail].

PrescientQA is a registered trademark of Avatech Solutions, Inc. CATIA is a registered trademark of Dassault Systemes. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.