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D-Cubed's 2D DCM and 3D DCM components licensed by Ashlar, Inc. for use in Vellum Solids

CAMBRIDGE, England - July 2000 - D-Cubed Ltd., a leading provider of software components to the CAD/CAM/CAE industry, announces a new software licensing agreement with Ashlar, Inc. of Austin, Texas. Under the agreement Ashlar has simultaneously licensed both the 2D and 3D DCM (Dimensional Constraint Manager) components for use in their Vellum Solids CAD system. 

Ashlar's adoption of the DCM components underlines D-Cubed's position as the supplier of the world's most widely used variational/parametric technology. An overwhelming majority of popular Mechanical CAD systems use one or both of the DCM components. The addition of Ashlar to the prestigious DCM customer list is particularly significant for two reasons:

1. Ashlar has pioneered the use of sketcher based constraint inferencing technologies to maximise the productivity of the CAD user interface. For them to choose D-Cubed's technology to further enhance their sketcher is a major tribute to the capabilities of the DCM.
2. In addition to the Mechanical CAD field, Ashlar is also targeting the requirements of the industrial design market. Until recently, the complex freeform curves and surfaces requirements in industrial design applications have been beyond the capabilities of the variational design approach. However, many of the very latest DCM developments have concentrated on overcoming these previous limitations. The result is that a range of powerful technologies that are now established in the mechanical CAD field will also be available to industrial design professionals. 

Great technology must be readily accessible. Robert Bou, President of Ashlar, Inc., comments "the well documented and robust API will allows us to ship DCM enabled Vellum Solids this year." 

"I am delighted that the DCM's benefits have also been recognised by Ashlar, an innovative player in the industrial design arena, and a CAD industry pioneer", says John Owen, Managing Director of D-Cubed. "Ashlar will be bringing the benefits of advanced constraint-based modeling techniques to a new community of designers, significantly enhancing their productivity."

About Ashlar 

Ashlar Incorporated captured the design community's attention with the release of Ashlar Vellum in 1988. Featuring the Drafting Assistant, Vellum's unparalleled user interface changed CAD forever. Today, Ashlar continues to develop 2D and 3D software products for conceptual designers who demand the freedom to concentrate on the creative process, not on the tools. Headquartered in Austin, TX, Ashlar's products run on Windows and Macintosh OS-based systems. 

http://www.ashlar.com

About D-Cubed 

Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, England, D-Cubed provides software components and technical consulting services to the CAD/CAM/CAE application development industry in all areas of geometric, solid and variational/parametric modeling. Most of the world's leading CAD vendors have adopted one or more of D-Cubed's well respected component technologies for integration into their end-user applications. Ashlar and Vellum are registered trademarks of Ashlar, Incorporated. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

http://www.d-cubed.co.uk 

 

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