Felix GmbH Joins Open Design Alliance as Founding-level Member

Future generations of popular FelixCAD and CeCAD products to support OpenDWG 2005+ standard

PHOENIX, AZ, February 3, 2004 - The Open Design Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium committed to promoting open industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data, today announced that Felix GmbH has joined as a founding member of the Alliance.

Felix GmbH develops affordable Windows-based CAD software products that provide a high level of compatibility with AutoCAD, both in data, and in operation. Its products and services are targeted at small- to medium-sized enterprises and individuals with limited resources but a need for high-performance software tools, but they have also found favor in larger organizations and in OEM applications.

"Wilfried Graebert, the founder of Felix, was a pioneer in the DWG-compatible CAD market,� said Evan Yares, president of the Open Design Alliance. �As a founding-level member of the Alliance, Felix will be working closely with us in the further development and optimization of out software tools, including DWGdirect � our advanced program library supporting the OpenDWG 2005 standard.�

Felix is one of the first companies to have developed a DWG-compatible AutoCAD �workalike� product. Felix has two main product lines: FelixCAD, which is an AutoCAD workalike product running under Microsoft Windows, and CeCAD, which runs on the PocketPC under Microsoft WindowsCE.

Felix�s existing products are based on the OpenDWG Toolkit, the Alliance�s widely-used C language program library, which provides DWG, DXF, and DWF compatibility with versions of AutoCAD up 2002. As a founding member of the Alliance, Felix will start working with DWGdirect, the Alliance�s advanced object-oriented program library, which provides data compatibility with versions of AutoCAD up to and including the soon-to-be-released version 2005.

About the Open Design Alliance 

Founded in 1988, the Open Design Alliance is a non-profit consortium committed to promoting open industry-standards for the exchange of CAD data. Its members include thousands of the largest and the smallest companies in the world. The Open Design Alliance is a leading light in interoperability issues for the engineering software industry and its users.

www.opendesign.com

About Felix GmbH

Felix GmbH is an emerging software and services company delivering price-performance leading desktop and mobile/wireless solutions for the design/build industry. Besides desktop products - FelixCAD LT and FelixCAD 5 - Felix leads the market for mobile CAD with CeCAD�. Over 100,000 users and developers in 40 countries around the world depend on Felix technologies. 

www.graebert.com

 

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