EDrawings Adds Lightweight Viewing to CoCreate CAD

Geometric & CoCreate announce the release of eDrawings� Professional for OneSpace Designer

BOMBAY, India, February 23, 2005 - Geometric Software Solutions (NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) services and technologies, and CoCreate Software GmbH today announced the release of eDrawings� Professional for OneSpace Designer. The announcement marking the first of a series of products to be released is a result of Geometric signing a license agreement with CoCreate Software GmbH whereby eDrawings lays the foundation for lightweight viewing of CAD designs across all CoCreate products.

With this agreement, designers can now save their CoCreate CAD designs in the eDrawings format. With lightweight viewing formats like eDrawings, 3D CAD design data can reach beyond the engineering team to manufacturing, procurement, marketing, and even suppliers and customers. Each can see engineering models in eDrawings and then offer expertise in design reviews.

�For every seat of CAD in a company, 10 or more people exist who can reuse 3D CAD design data or help support product development,� said William M. Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO. �Now that designers can easily publish eDrawings from directly within Designer Modeling, our customers can expect better value from their CAD designs because they can easily collaborate with everyone involved in the product.�

�I am delighted CoCreate has chosen eDrawings to create a platform for superior lightweight viewing capabilities in CoCreate�s products,� said Pramod Rao, Business Head Collaboration products, Geometric. �This partnership extends a richer user experience and superior visualization features to CoCreate�s customers. Geometric and CoCreate are committed to developing a complete, tightly integrated suite of products within the OneSpace environment for rapid product development and engineering collaboration.�

Currently eDrawings supports AutoCAD�, CATIA� V5, UG 17, 18 & NX�, Autodesk Inventor Series, Pro/ENGINEER�, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire�, and SolidWorks� software.

Availability 

eDrawings is now available with version 13.01 of OneSpace Designer. CoCreate offers two forms of eDrawings:

Basic. 
Available for all users of Designer Modeling. Use the basic eDrawings format to share 2D and 3D CAD designs. Unlike CAD files, eDrawings files are compact and easy to email. Typically, an eDrawings file is more than 90% smaller than its CAD counterpart. But unlike other formats such as PDF and TIF, eDrawings are highly interactive, so recipients can actually experience designs in 3D.

Professional.
Available as a separate add on. Use the professional module to produce inspection- and review-enabled eDrawings, and to add markup, comment, measure, and dynamic cross-sectioning to your eDrawings. Pricing information is available from your local CoCreate reseller or account representative.

With eDrawings Professional, you can:

- Share product designs with eDrawings and collaborate with your extended teams.

- Receive feedback on CAD design data from an unlimited number of recipients.

- Manage, track, and merge comments from different team members.

- Examine internal details of parts and assemblies using dynamic cross sectioning.

- Measure the geometry in part, assembly, and drawing files when dimensions are absent. Or, disable the measurement feature and protect your sensitive design data.

About Geometric Software Solutions 

Geometric is a leader in providing the most cost-effective PLM services and technologies to the global mechanical design, manufacturing, and industrial markets. Partnerships with major PLM vendors such as Dassault Syst�mes, UGS, and MatrixOne offer the unique advantage of providing cost effective services on leading PLM platforms. Geometric offers services based on SolidWorks, CATIA, ENOVIA�, DELMIA�, eMatrix�, Teamcenter Enterprise (Metaphase)�, Windchill�, Unigraphics 17,18 & NX� and other leading CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM software platforms. The company is traded on both the Bombay (BSE) and the National (NSE) stock exchanges in India. 

www.geometricsoftware.com

eDrawings is a trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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.

www.cocreate.com