Okino's PolyTrans To Provide Revised 3D Data Translation Solution for Advanced Rendering Technology's RenderDrive 3D Rendering System & CAD|CAMERA Software

LOS ANGELES, CA - August 15, 2001 - At Siggraph 2001, Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. announced today that it is making available a newly revised version of its PolyTrans 3D CAD/Scene/Animation conversion software for users of ART's (Advanced Rendering Technology) CAD|Camera software bundle. ART and Okino agreed in February 2001 to provide PolyTrans as a core component of ART's CAD|Camera software and as an adjunct to ART's RenderDrive advanced 3D rendering system. The new revised software allows CAD|Camera users to import SolidWorks and Solid Edge part plus assembly files without a resident copy of these 3D modeling packages.

With the inclusion of PolyTrans in the CAD|Camera software, RenderDrive users have access to dozens of additional 3D file formats for import (and optionally export). In particular, for those in the Industrial Design and Engineering markets RenderDrive users are able to import from such CAD packages and file formats such as Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Pro-E/CATIA/UG/SDRC via IGES, Autodesk's AutoCAD/Inventor/Mechanical-Desktop via ACIS SAT, and all other major CAD packages via ACIS/DXF/IGES/SLP/STL/VRML.

The CAD|CAMERA software bundle in particular "loads Solid Edge and SolidWorks CAD data files via the OLE for Design and Modeling standard interface and provides a rich and extensible visualization environment allowing accurate materials, real-world lighting and camera attributes to be set up before rendering with RenderDrive". A technical overview is provided on the Okino WEB site. With the August 15th 2001 release of these import converters, an alternative method is provided to import part and assembly data without the need for a local resident copy of Solid Edge or SolidWorks.

"Okino is very pleased to have ART select our PolyTrans software as a key software component in their CAD|CAMERA software," said Robert Lansdale, President of Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. "This new software brings RenderDrive's award-winning visualization environment to designers in the automotive, aerospace, consumer goods and electronic goods design and manufacturing industries. In addition, our newly revised Solid Edge and SolidWorks importers for Okino PolyTrans have become quite popular with our customers who do not have direct access to these application programs; RenderDrive users in particular will now be able to accept CAD assemblies from their Solid Edge or SolidWorks clients, thus removing the need to acquire either of these software packages. This lowers the entry cost for CAD rendering services and provides RenderDrive users with added flexibility to accept native CAD data files."

PolyTrans & NuGraf, An Overview

Okino's stand-alone "PolyTrans CAD/Scene/NURBS/Animation Translator" for Microsoft Windows and SGI IRIX was released in August 1996 and has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed and respected 3D geometry translators. Unlike most translation programs which only convert basic polygon geometry, hierarchy and some shading information, PolyTrans is unique in its ability to convert every aspect of a 3D model file; this includes all geometry (meshed polygons with recursive holes, trimmed NURBS and bicubic patches, and quadrics), object hierarchy, pivot points, smoothing data (vertex normals), (u,v) texture coordinates, bump mapping information (tangent vectors), lights, cameras, all texture projection methods and animation (for specific formats). Okino's NuGraf is the elder sibling of PolyTrans that includes, in addition to everything in PolyTrans, high-end scanline and multi-threaded ray tracing, material editing, bitmap and procedural texture mapping, texture projection methods, extended user interface and font editing. NuGraf received the "IEEE Technical Excellence Award" from IEEE CG&A Magazine and the "Golden Pixie".

Notable users of Okino's software include Acuris, ATI, Disney, DPS, Dreamworks, EDS, HP, Hughes, Infobyte, IBM, Intel, JPL, LEGO, MIT Media Labs, PIXAR, REM Infographica, Westwood Studios and major 3D game development companies such as Acclaim Entertainment, Broderbund, Electronic Arts, Interplay, Lucas Arts, Microprose, Namco, Sierra Online, Stage 22, Virgin Interactive, Virtual World Entertainment, Williams/Bally/Midway and thousands more (an interesting list of notable users can be viewed at http://www.okino.com/conv/users.htm).

Supported PolyTrans Import File Formats

Okino's NuGraf & PolyTrans programs support dozens of major 3D file formats, for import, for export or for both. For the benefit of RenderDrive users the following extensive list of import converters are provided by Okino's NuGraf and PolyTrans software products (some of these formats are optional add-on components): 3D Studio, 3D Studio MAX (via native plug-ins), ACIS SAT, Alias PolySet, Apple 3DMF (Quickdraw-3D), DXF, Electric Image FACT, Fractal's Detailer, GameExchange-II, Houdini's GEO, IGES 5.3, Imagine, Lightwave, Maya/NT (via native plug-ins), Pro/Engineer .SLP, Protein Database (PDB), SoftImage .hrc models and scene databases, Solid Edge, Solid Works, StereoLithography .STL, Strata StudioPro, trueSpace, USGS DEM, Vistapro, VRML1/SGI-Inventor, VRML2 and Wavefront. The 3DS MAX, Maya and Solid Edge converter require a local copy of these programs on the same machine as PolyTrans. The converters have been developed by Okino Computer Graphics over a period of 12 years and are complete implementations of their respective file formats. The complete list of supported import and export file formats is available at http://www.okino.com/conv/filefrmt.htm.

Applicable WEB pages

The following are pertinent pages relating to this press release:

CAD|Camera press releases from Advanced Rendering Technology:

http://www.tenlinks.com/news/pr/021301solidworks.htm
http://www.tenlinks.com/news/pr/021301solidedge.htm

PolyTrans support for native Solid Edge and SolidWorks applications:

http://www.okino.com/press/sw100899.htm  = SolidWorks
http://www.okino.com/press/se100899.htm  = Solid Edge
http://www.okino.com/conv/conv.htm  = PolyTrans home page
http://www.okino.com/nrs/nrs.htm  = NuGraf home page
http://www.okino.com/conv/filefrmt.htm  = Supported file formats
http://www.okino.com/conv/users.htm  = List of notable users
http://www.okino.com/testimon.htm  = Customer testimonials and magazine reviews
http://www.okino.com/press/releases.htm  = Recent Okino press releases

Available Through VARs

The CAD|Camera software bundle is available directly from Advanced Rendering Technology (http://www.art-render.com) along with their RenderDrive product. Okino's "NuGraf Rendering System" or PolyTrans products can be purchased through normal means from Okino Computer Graphics directly. Fully functional demonstration versions (with minor limitations) of the PolyTrans and NuGraf are available through Okino's Internet WEB site.

Upgrades and Product Pricing

The updated Solid Edge and SolidWorks importers are free to any Okino PolyTrans or NuGraf user who has a valid IGES-SolidWorks-SolidEdge serial number. Please send your product serial number to [email protected]  to receive upgrade instructions.

NuGraf and PolyTrans operate efficiently with Pentium�-based computers equipped with Windows 2000/NT or Windows 98/95/Me, 64MB of RAM, a SVGA video card, and a hard disk with 40Mb of available space.

Company Background

Founded in 1991 and based in Toronto, Ontario, Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. is an industry leader in the development and deployment of 3D model/scenes/NURBS/animation translation technology (PolyTrans), 3D photo-realistic rendering software (NuGraf) and OEM developer software (NuGraf Toolkit). Okino software is used the world over by all major Fortune 1000 companies, production studios, and 3D content creation, game development, CAD, engineering and product design companies.

http://www.okino.com 

 

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