SofTech Expands ProductCenter CAD Platform Support with New 8.3 Release.Business Editors TEWKSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2003 ProductCenter 8.3 Adds Support for Pro/Engineer Wildfire for 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). , SolidWorks 2004, Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Inventor is the 3D parametric solid modeling package produced by U.S.-based software company Autodesk. It competes with other CAD systems such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solid Edge. 8, CADRA 2003 and Oracle 9i; Along with Expanded New Feature Set SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :SOFT), a leading provider of design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions, announced the availability of a new release of its ProductCenter(TM) product lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. management (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ) solution, ProductCenter 8.3. ProductCenter 8.3 expands SofTech's industry-leading computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive (CAD) integration suite with support for several of the newest CAD solution releases, including PTC's Pro/Engineer(R) Wildfire(TM) for UNIX, SolidWorks 2004, and Autodesk(R) Inventor(TM) 8. It also extends ProductCenter's Integrator suite with a brand new integration to SofTech's design solution CADRA(R). In addition, the new release provides platform support for Oracle(R) 9i, enhanced functionality for existing ProductCenter Integrators, as well as other timesaving PLM features. "A hallmark of ProductCenter, and focus of 8.3, is ProductCenter's best-in-breed PLM integrations to popular CAD products, especially 3D modeling solutions from PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , SolidWorks, and Autodesk," states Jay Pappas, SofTech ProductCenter product manager. "Many companies have found out the hard way that 3D brings new complications in managing product data. SofTech stands out with an in-depth understanding of this environment. We know what it takes to more readily and cost effectively implement PLM, helping companies make the critical transition from 2D to 3D and to better manage and maximize these and other important product resources." ProductCenter Integrators provide direct accessibility to ProductCenter PLM functionality from within the user's familiar CAD environment, including configuration management, release control, workflow for automated ECO E·co , Umberto Born 1932. Italian writer best known for his novels, including The Name of the Rose (1981). He has also written extensively on semiotics and British and American popular culture. approvals, BOM creation and management, and enterprise integration. ProductCenter eliminates common CAD management problems, such as difficulty finding where-used or reference items, the overwriting Overwriting An options strategy that involves the sale of call or put options on stocks that are believed to be overpriced or underpriced. The options are not expected to be exercised. Notes: Also referred to as overriding. of files, and other similar situations that can occur without proper control. Associated product In the context of fuels and lubricants, a petroleum or chemical product used as a hydraulic fluid, corrosion preventive, liquid propellant, or specialized product, required for the operation, maintenance, or storage of military equipment. specifications, planning, test, and other important information can also be linked to CAD models for quicker reference and greater reuse. Information is centralized and accessible to minimize wasted effort recreating items impossible to find. ProductCenter also automates PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. conversion of CAD drawings and other product data for easy access and viewing by manufacturing personnel, suppliers, vendors and others. Summary of ProductCenter 8.3 Enhancements: -- Support for Newest CAD Package Releases: SofTech has premier partnerships with leading CAD solution partners to keep up with the most current releases of their products ensuring in-depth and reliable operation for customers. ProductCenter 8.3 adds updated integration support to latest releases, including PTC's Pro/Engineer Wildfire for UNIX, SolidWorks 2004, and Autodesk Inventor 8. -- New ProductCenter CADRA Integrator: ProductCenter 8.3 extends its CAD integrator suite with a brand new ProductCenter Integrator for SofTech's CADRA design solution. As with other ProductCenter Integrators, the new ProductCenter CADRA Integrator uses the Hierarchy Explorer and provides accessibility to ProductCenter PLM features directly from within the CADRA application. -- New ProductCenter Pro/Engineer Integrator for UNIX: Expanding its existing integration to Pro/Engineer, SofTech introduces a new ProductCenter(TM) Pro/Engineer Integrator for UNIX, a true client/server implementation similar to the existing ProductCenter Pro/Engineer Integrator for Windows and a replacement for its previous Motif/X-Windows client. This new Pro/Engineer Integrator for UNIX now includes functionality introduced in 8.2 that supports a new data model for representing Pro/Engineer family table generics and instances members and provides a more intuitive display of the Pro/ENGINEER file relationships through the ProductCenter Hierarchy Explorer. -- CAD-to-BOM for Pro/Engineer and Inventor: Available previously for SolidWorks, and now with this release for Pro/Engineer and Inventor, 8.3 introduces new CAD-to-BOM export capability for these applications. ProductCenter supports open standard XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. BOM import/export capabilities to enable users to directly populate BOMs from their CAD models and even consolidate BOMs from multiple sources, such as mechanical and electrical CAD Electrical CAD refers to software packages that allow an electrical engineer to create and manage electrical schematics. Advanced packages will not only manage electrical schematics, but also integrate functionalities such as cabinet and panel lay-outs and terminal management. systems. BOMs are keyed just once, which can then be used and viewed by any user, as well as imported or exported to other proprietary systems, such as ERP/MRP systems. This saves time and eliminates the potential for error that can occur when re-keying BOMs between systems. -- Other New Time Saving Features: To make searching much more specific and efficient, ProductCenter 8.3 now supports multiple-value search statements. This allows users to search for more than one possible value in a statement, as well as to repeat an attribute in two or more statements. In addition, the ProductCenter 8.3 Web Client has been enhanced to provide the ability to select multiple items for a single operation (such as Check out, Get copy and Return Unmodified). The new release also adds additional flexibility for designing style sheets for forms, modifying elements such as fonts, attributes displayed, the colors of attributes, background color, etc. to fit a company's needs. About SofTech, Inc. SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB:SOFT) provides design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions with its computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), a form of automation where computers communicate work instructions directly to the manufacturing machinery. The technology evolved from the numerically controlled machines of the 1950s, which were directed by a set of coded (CAM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) products including CADRA(R), DesignGateway(TM), Prospector(TM), and ProductCenter(TM) (through SofTech's Workgroup Technology Division). SofTech's solutions optimize product lifecycle processes at the lowest cost by fostering innovation, extended enterprise collaboration, product quality improvements, and compressed time-to-market cycles. SofTech has more than 100,000 users benefiting from its solutions, including Boeing, FlightSafety International FlightSafety International is the a provider of professional aviation training, simulation equipment and software. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway NYSE: BRKA NYSE: BRKB Divisions Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL) founded in 1954, listed among the S&P 500 since the early 1990s, is an international biosciences company, known widely for its micrometer pore-size filters and tests. , Siemens, Sikorsky Aircraft For other meanings and similar spellings, see . Sikorsky is an American aircraft and helicopter manufacturer. It was founded 1923 by a Ukrainian born American aircraft engineer Igor Sikorsky, who made the first stable, single-rotor, fully-controllable helicopter to enter , U.S. Army, and Whirlpool Corporation. Headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, SofTech (www.softech.com) has locations and distribution partners throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. SofTech, CADRA, DesignGateway, ProductCenter and Prospector are trademarks or registered trademarks of SofTech, Inc., in the U.S. and/or other countries. SofTech is a trademark of SofTech, Inc. 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