CoCreate Announces Strategic Development Agreement to Integrate Spatial's IntraVISION Technology Into OneSpace Collaboration Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FORT COLLINS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000 OneSpace to Support Wide Range of Drawings and Documents for Collaborative Viewing and Markup CoCreate Software Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company, today announced that its OneSpace engineering collaboration solution has been enhanced to support a wide variety of engineering design-drawing and document formats. Users will now be able to interoperate within OneSpace co-modeling sessions to access information available in other formats, allowing them to improve understanding and speed problem solving. The technology for this enhancement, IntraVISION Software Developer's Kit See SDK. (IVSDK), is being licensed from Spatial Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :STY sty, in medicine, acute localized infection of one or more of the glands of the eyelid, with pain, swelling, and redness of the lid margin, usually caused by a staphylococcus infection. An external sty usually releases its pus and disappears in a day or so. ) of Boulder, Colo. The new capability will be incorporated into the next release of OneSpace. "OneSpace users have 2-D and markup capabilities at the top of their wish lists," said Doug Johnson, vice president and general manager of CoCreate's Shared Engineering Division. "By incorporating Spatial's IntraVISION viewing technology, we have leveraged each other's strengths to create a superior solution for our users." CoCreate chose Spatial as its 2-D and 3-D viewing-technology provider because of the proven IVSDK and Spatial's support of many high-quality formats. The kit is well suited to being quickly and easily integrated with CoCreate's world-class collaboration capabilities to allow for multiperson co-viewing and co-markup. The Javabean encapsulation of the IntraVISION Software Developer's Kit makes the integration of this technology into OneSpace virtually seamless. IVSDK will significantly improve CoCreate's time-to-market by saving development time and broadening its product functionality. IntraVISION is a leading, full-featured, commercially available viewing and markup solution providing access to major 2-D and 3-D engineering product data including engineering drawings and models, word processing documents, spreadsheets and graphic images. The IntraVISION Software Developer's Kit allows rapid integration of its viewing, markup, measurement and conversion functionality into existing engineering software solutions. IntraVISION allows access to more than 300 file formats, including DWG (filename extension) dwg - The filename extension for Autodesk drawing files. http://faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/. , DXF DXF - Drawing Exchange Format , 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. , STEP, STL (STereoLithography) A 3D printing file format created by 3D Systems for its stereolithography system. Also supported by many numerical control, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing machines, STL provides the surface geometry of the item in triangles. , VDA-FS, ACIS-SAT, TIFF, GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) A vector graphics file format from HP that was developed as a standard plotter language. Most plotters support the HPGL and DMPL standards. , PDF and Microsoft(R) Office document formats. With the integration of 2-D design and other document formats, OneSpace functionality can now be applied to a much broader universe of engineering problems. "Spatial is delighted to be chosen as a strategic technology supplier for CoCreate's OneSpace, and we are pleased with the synergy that is evolving between our respective research and development organizations," said Bruce Morgan, president and chief executive officer for Spatial Inc. "We look forward to a continued, broadening relationship between our companies as the combination of our technologies takes a leading and global position in the CAD-collaboration marketplace." "We value Spatial's commitment to adapting IntraVISION for Internet and network environments. Due to Spatial's background in 3-D modeling, Internet and visualization technologies, we saw a synergy between our companies that didn't exist with other viewing-technology providers," said Johnson The formats provided by the IVSDK will subsequently be extended to FirstSpace, CoCreate's entry-level collaboration product that features a 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. viewer running under a peer-to-peer architecture. This will allow entry-level users to use the same methodology and calls in collaborative viewing, markup and co-modeling as advanced users, giving them valuable skills that can be applied to using the more powerful OneSpace collaboration solution. About Spatial Technology Spatial is a leading provider of Web-based, business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) interoperability services and 3D solid modeling software, which sets global standards for product engineers, designers, software developers, and manufacturing professionals. Founded in 1986, Spatial is an international organization headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, USA, and has offices in California, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Spatial's Web site at http://www.spatial.com, or call (303) 544-2900. About CoCreate CoCreate Software Inc. is a software subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company. It develops mechanical computer aided design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". and product data management software that supports the concept of shared-space design. The software includes OneSpace for distributed, collaborative product development Collaborative Product Development (Collaborative Product Design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. ; SolidDesigner for product modeling design; ME10 for 2-D design, drafting and documentation; and WorkManager for product data and workflow/process management. CoCreate solutions are known for high quality, ease of use, customization and support of industry standards. They are available in 10 languages and are installed on more than 120,000 systems in design, engineering and manufacturing organizations worldwide. Information about CoCreate Software Inc. and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cocreate.com. Note to Editors: Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. |
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