SOFTECH AND CIMMETRY PARTNER TO OFFER ADVANCED VISUALIZATION AND COLLABORATION

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 12, 2004 - SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT), a leading provider of design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions, and Cimmetry Systems, the global leader in visualization and collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets, today announced their partnership, with SofTech licensing Cimmetry's AutoVue visualization and collaboration technology for its ProductCenter PLM (product lifecycle management) solution.

Integration of AutoVue technology with ProductCenter PLM will extend the collaboration capabilities of ProductCenter, enhancing the solution's document management, design integration, configuration control, change management, and enterprise integration capabilities for optimizing product development. ProductCenter PLM users will gain advanced capabilities to view, markup, and collaborate in real-time on native product data of virtually any type directly from within ProductCenter, including: 3D CAD parts and assemblies, 2D CAD drawings, EDA PCB/IC layouts and schematics, scanned and raster documents, vector files, office documents, and graphics.

"We are pleased to be able to offer this industry-leading visualization and collaboration solution to our customers," said Jay Pappas, SofTech ProductCenter product manager. "AutoVue has a well-earned reputation for being an exceptionally powerful application, a standout in today's market. By seamlessly integrating AutoVue with ProductCenter, we will empower users across the extended enterprise and throughout the supply chain to fully collaborate on product data."
"ProductCenter is a comprehensive, yet easy-to-deploy PLM solution with sophisticated integrations for many leading CAD modeling systems," said Michael Vidmar, business development manager at Cimmetry. "AutoVue integrated with ProductCenter provides technical and non-technical users alike with access to invaluable design data, regardless of format, from an intuitive user interface."

AutoVue allows users to view, markup and collaborate in real time on over 200 native formats including: CATIA, Pro/Engineer, Unigraphics, SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, JT, AutoCAD, MicroStation, Mechanical Desktop, Cadence Allegro, Mentor Board Station, Orcad, PADS, Microsoft Office, Visio, PDF, TIFF and many more. AutoVue is available as a Windows desktop application or a thin-client server based solution.
About SofTech SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT) provides design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions with its computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (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, General Electric Company, Goodrich Turbine Fuel Technologies, Honeywell, Millipore Corporation, Siemens, Sikorsky Aircraft, U. S. Army, and Whirlpool Corporation.

Headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, SofTech () has locations and distribution partners throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

www.softech.com

About Cimmetry 

Cimmetry Systems Inc. is the recognized technology pioneer and market leader in the area of Visualization and Collaboration software tools for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets.

Cimmetry's flagship product, AutoVue, is the premier enterprise-wide viewing and markup package, providing native support for more than 200 formats including 2D/3D CAD, EDA, raster, vector, hybrid, office and graphics. Users have a single point of access to their documents, regardless of format, from a single, easy-to-use interface.

AutoVue is available as a Windows desktop application as well as a thin-client version, deployable on Windows or UNIX servers. Cimmetry's viewing and markup products are strategically designed to integrate seamlessly with Document Management (DM, EDM), Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ASPs and e-business Portals, either directly or via the Web.

AutoVue is sold worldwide and available in many languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. 

www.cimmetry.com

 

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