Spatial Announces the Licensing of the 3D ACIS Modeler to the IntelliCAD Consortium; CAD Development Organization Now Offers Solid Modeling Capabilities to Members.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 Spatial Corp Spatial Corporation was founded in 1986, and had one main product: ACIS, the first commercially available 3D modeling kernel. Through subsequent years, Spatial added products to its portfolio that enabled ISVs mostly in the CAD/CAM industries, to build applications. ., a market-leading provider of 3D development technologies, today announced its partnership with the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium is an organization of CAD software developers, who develop applications for IntelliCAD, a Computer-aided design engine. The IntelliCAD engine, which is based on the DWGdirect library from the Open Design Alliance reads and writes the (ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → ). ITC is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. committed to promoting a cooperatively developed CAD engine. Member-companies of ITC gain access to the source code of its CAD application, IntelliCAD, for commercial application development. IntelliCAD is a low-cost CAD alternative that provides DWG (filename extension) dwg - The filename extension for Autodesk drawing files. http://faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/. file compatibility as well as support for industry standard commands, menu files, script files, shape files, text styles, hatch patterns, linetypes, LISP programs, ADS/C++ programs, and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) A subset of Visual Basic that provides a common language for customizing Microsoft applications. VBA supports COM, which allows a VBA script to invoke internal functions within Excel, Word and other COM-based programs or to make use of programs. IntelliCAD had previously provided optional ACIS libraries that provided viewing and printing of ACIS-based models. Under the new agreement, ITC members can use the full spectrum of ACIS(R) solid-modeling capabilities in their CAD applications. To date, nine of the 29 commercial ITC members are marketing or actively pursuing development of ACIS-enabled products, including: ADeko Yazilim CADopia DaVinci Technologies IntelliFrance IntelliJapan Co., Ltd. pit-cup GmbH R&C TASK Comercio de Produtos de Informatica e Servicos Ltda. SoftApply International Corp. TechnobitSRL "By offering the full version of ACIS within an IntelliCAD-based product, our members extend their market reach to users who require a large scope of modeling capabilities in addition to viewing and printing," said Scott Hucke, operations manager See datacenter manager. for ITC. "As an added benefit, embedding ACIS in IntelliCAD allows our users to view ACIS data included within the Autodesk .DWG format." "By utilizing ACIS through IntelliCAD, we can now offer a larger range of 3D modeling capabilities without an extensive overhaul in code," said Surya Sarda, president of CADopia. "This increase in functionality augments our competitive value against more expensive software, such as Autodesk AutoCAD." "Our new agreement with ITC will help to proliferate greater options in the 3D CAD market," said Linda Lokay, executive vice president of Spatial. "Providing ACIS to ITC has opened an opportunity for its members -- innovative, dynamic smaller companies -- to rapidly build and market quality 3D CAD software for minimal cost to the consumer." ACIS and SAT are registered trademarks of Spatial. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. About the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) The ITC is an independent organization of commercial software developers that has been established specifically for the purpose of licensing and coordinating broad future development of the IntelliCAD platform amongst its contributing members. Commercial Members pay a fee to join and in return get access to the IntelliCAD source code to develop it into commercial products. For more information on licensing the IntelliCAD Technology, please visit our website (www.intellicad.org). About Spatial Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes (Dassault Systèmes S.A.) (Pronounced - Dasoh) (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext: 13065) is a leading company specializing in 3D and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software. S.A. (Nasdaq:DASTY) (Euronext Paris # 13065, DSY DSY Drum Storage Yard .PA) company, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software development technologies. Spatial develops, markets, and supports best-of-breed 3D development technologies and services, to address the requirements of 3D in 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 ) applications. Spatial's component products for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability have been adopted by some of the world's most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. In addition, by offering CAA Caa See CCC. V5, the Component Application Architecture developed by Dassault Systemes, Spatial is the market-leading provider of 3D development technologies. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit Spatial's Web site at www.spatial.com or contact Spatial by email at info@spatial.com or by phone at 303/544-2900 or 800/767-5710. |
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