Leading Printer Manufacturers Choose CoCreate 3D CAD

OneSpace Designer Modeling Delivers Speed & Flexibility for Laser, Large Format, and Inkjet Companies

FORT COLLINS, Colo., and SINDELFINGEN, Germany - November 15, 2004 - CoCreate Software, Inc., a leading provider of 3D CAD and collaboration software, announced today that leading printer manufacturers around the world use CoCreate's OneSpace Designer Modeling as the tool of choice for fast and flexible 3D CAD design.

Designer Modeling has become an essential tool in the printer manufacturer sector, where rapid design cycles, complex mold parts, and intense supply chain interaction allow little time for design changes. Printer manufacturers such as Brother, Canon, Epson, Fuji Xerox Printing Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Mutoh, Oce, and Oki Data rely on Designer Modeling to support 3D CAD development.

History-based modeling tools constrain designs and make changes difficult, especially under the time pressures of releasing a design to manufacturing. Throughout the design cycle, team members also need the freedom to hand off their work to other contributors to continue or complete the design.

Printer manufacturers face aggressive price competition and continually seek to optimize their product development process. One of the most expensive aspects of printer manufacturing is the design and construction of molds; Designer Modeling significantly cuts these costs for 3D users through the re-use of common features. Simple cut and paste operations make it possible to simply and easily apply ribs, bosses, and other features from one design to another.

Designer Modeling offers the alternative approach that has popularized it across printer manufacturers and other industries that face time-to-market pressures: dynamic modeling, or history-free modeling, lets designers quickly make changes and pass designs to other team members. Teams using Designer Modeling can support frequent or late-stage design changes as well as true team design where engineers work on each other's complex models.

"The reality today is that products are designed in teams. Any team member should be able to pick up a design and run with it," said William M. Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO. "At CoCreate, we're providing a real-world design solution for real people. Our customers demand design flexibility and rapid return on investment. They don't have the luxury of dedicating weeks or months to mastering the complexity of history-based 3D CAD tools. CoCreate's Designer Modeling is modeling for the real world."

OneSpace Designer Modeling is priced at $2,780 for an annual subscription which includes updates and support. Alternatively, it can be purchased as a perpetual license. Additional design modules, CAD data management tools, and CAD converters for translating data from other 3D design systems are also available for purchase.

About CoCreate 

CoCreate develops 3D CAD and collaboration software for manufacturers and their project teams who need work done today, not tomorrow. Our mechanical CAD product, Designer Modeling, is for designers who need freedom to create and change 3D designs without misunderstandings or delay. Model Manager, a data management product, is for teams who can't afford to work on the wrong revision of a 3D CAD model or 2D drawing when creating assemblies. OneSpace.net collaboration software is for project teams who are overwhelmed by the complexity of a design process that stretches across sites, contractors, or outsourced teams. We help teams design products, manage CAD data, and share ideas so they can reach their time-to-market goals. CoCreate can be found in more than 30 countries.

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