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ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer version 6.2 translates Parasolid v.13 and includes real-time simultaneous view, mark-up capabilities. Alameda, CA ¾ September 26, 2001 ¾ Tech Soft America (TSA), the leading provider of component graphics technology to the CAD/CAM/CAE industry, announces the latest release of the free ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer built around TSA’s powerful HOOPS Product Suite and Parasolid v13, UGS’ widely used geometric modelling kernel. The most recent version of this popular free 3D viewer allows for real time collaborative view and mark up of XT part files, translation between Parasolid versions, and web publishing to the HOOPS Stream File (HSF) format. The HOOPS Stream File (HSF) format is a robust, customizable and highly compressed 2D/3D visualization format specifically tailored to the needs of displaying engineering data. With HSF, application developers can create highly customized, stream-capable visualization files, which may also contain application-specific information and have that data intelligently associated with the tessellated model data. The ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer can be downloaded free at http://www.hoops3d.com/downloads/partviewer/partviewer.htm Developers wishing to customize or extend the viewer or build other complementary products based on the framework may contact Tech Soft directly for complete licensing information. Major features of the ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer include: · Real-Time, simultaneous collaboration between multiple users. · Web Publishing with HOOPS Stream Files (HSF), which contain tessellated geometry as well as associated model and assembly structure in a highly compressed, stream capable format. · Large Model Visualization capabilities such as Level-of-Detail 3D Spriting and consistent frame-rate rendering using dynamic swapping of LODs and rendering modes. · Conversion of Parasolid part files between all supported versions of Parasolid up to and including v13 to ensure maximum data interoperability. · Rendering modes for wire-frame, Parasolid’s precise hidden line and Gouraud (smooth) shading and triangulated. · Ability to browse topological structure of models and zoom to selected entities. · Vector-based hardcopy output for accurate printing of complex models. · Save models as TIFF or EMF files to incorporate part images in technical publication documents and other related materials. “We’re very pleased to demonstrate the power of our latest HOOPS Net Server component in this latest version of the ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer. In addition to this being a valuable tool for the entire Parasolid Data Pipeline we hope this demonstrates how developers can quickly develop their own collaborative application using our components.” said Ron Fritz, Managing Partner for TSA. "The Parasolid XT pipeline now connects many of the industry’s leading and most widely-used MCAD applications. We are pleased to be working with TSA to deliver Parasolid and HOOPS together, extending the XT pipeline to an even wider community," added Ken Sears, Director of the Parasolid line of business for UGS. About Parasolid Parasolid is an industry-leading component geometric modelling product with technology and innovations that power today's most advanced mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE applications. Parasolid's Extreme Modelling is a series of well-integrated, proprietary technologies that provide the ability to confidently model the most complex parts and assemblies found in any industry. In addition, Parasolid pioneered the first production implementation of a symmetric multi-processing (SMP) enabled geometric kernel that provides significantly increased performance on today's multi-processor computers. Furthermore, Parasolid delivers an interoperable Data Pipeline allowing Parasolid-based systems to share and exchange geometric data without translation using its de facto standard XT file format. More than 240 Parasolid-powered applications have shipped or been announced and more than 230 organizations have licensed Parasolid. In addition to its use in UGS' Unigraphics and Solid Edge products, licensees of Parasolid include Parametric Technology, SolidWorks (a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes S.A.), Bentley Systems, CADKEY, ANSYS, Mechanical Dynamics and MSC.Software. Over 720,000 end user seats have the Parasolid kernel embedded within them. For more information please visit http://www.parasolid.com/ on the World Wide Web. About Tech Soft America Tech Soft America (TSA) provides premier customer-driven development tools, consulting, and support services enabling their partners to rapidly deliver world-class technical software. The HOOPS 3D Application Framework is a high-level, object-oriented development tool, which dramatically simplifies the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for Windows, Unix, Linux and the Web. The core of HOOPS 3D Application Framework is the HOOPS 3D Graphics system, which has been integrated into over 100 commercially shipped applications in the areas of Earth Science, CAD/CAM/CAE, Scientific Visualization, GIS, and Business Graphics. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California. For more information, visit TSA’s Web site at www.hoops3d.com. All products identified are trademarked by their respective owners. Melle Amade-Vice Business Development Group Tech Soft America 1830 Embarcadero Ave; Suite 103 Oakland, CA 94606 ph: 510.434.7630 x214 fax: 510.434.7631 melle@techsoftamerica.com www.hoops3d.com <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; LETTER-SPACING: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer version 6.2 translates Parasolid v.13 and includes real-time simultaneous view, mark-up capabilities. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I> <P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Alameda, CA </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol">¾</SPAN></SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> September <SPAN class=629020121-26092001>26</SPAN>, 2001 </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol">¾</SPAN></SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> </SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Tech Soft America (TSA), </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">the leading provider of component graphics technology to the CAD/CAM/CAE industry,</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> announces the latest release of the free ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer built around TSA’s powerful HOOPS Product Suite and Parasolid v13, UGS’ widely used geometric modelling kernel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The most recent version of this popular free 3D viewer allows for real time collaborative view and mark up of XT part files, translation between Parasolid versions, and web publishing to the HOOPS Stream File (HSF) format.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> The HOOPS Stream File (HSF) format is a robust, customizable and highly compressed 2D/3D visualization format specifically tailored to the needs of displaying engineering data. With HSF, application developers can create highly customized, stream-capable visualization files, which may also contain application-specific information and have that data intelligently associated with the tessellated model data. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.9pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer can be downloaded free at <A href="http://www.hoops3d.com/downloads/partviewer/partviewer.htm">http://www.hoops3d.com/downloads/partviewer/partviewer.htm</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.9pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Developers wishing to customize or extend the viewer or build other complementary products based on the framework may contact Tech Soft directly for complete licensing information.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="TEXT-INDENT: 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Major features of the ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer include: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Real-Time, simultaneous collaboration between multiple users.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Web Publishing with HOOPS Stream Files (HSF), which contain tessellated </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">geometry as well as associated model and assembly structure in a highly compressed, stream capable format.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Large Model Visualization capabilities such as Level-of-Detail 3D Spriting and consistent frame-rate rendering using dynamic swapping of LODs and rendering modes.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Conversion of Parasolid part files between all supported versions of Parasolid up to and including v13 to ensure maximum data interoperability. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Rendering modes for wire-frame, Parasolid’s precise hidden line and Gouraud (smooth) shading and triangulated.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ability to browse topological structure of models and zoom to selected entities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Vector-based hardcopy output for accurate printing of complex models.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo29; tab-stops: list .25in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Save models as TIFF or EMF files to incorporate part images in technical publication documents and other related materials.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“We’re very pleased to demonstrate the power of our latest HOOPS Net Server component in this latest version of the ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer. In addition to this being a valuable tool for the entire Parasolid Data Pipeline we hope this demonstrates how developers can quickly develop their own collaborative application using our components.” said Ron Fritz, Managing Partner for TSA.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"The Parasolid XT pipeline now connects many of the industry’s leading and most widely-used MCAD applications. We are pleased to be working with TSA to deliver Parasolid and HOOPS together, extending the XT pipeline to an even wider community," added Ken Sears, Director of the Parasolid line of business for UGS.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">About Parasolid<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Parasolid is an industry-leading component geometric modelling product with technology and innovations that power today's most advanced mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE applications. Parasolid's Extreme Modelling is a series of well-integrated, proprietary technologies that provide the ability to confidently model the most complex parts and assemblies found in any industry. In addition, Parasolid pioneered the first production implementation of a symmetric multi-processing (SMP) enabled geometric kernel that provides significantly increased performance on today's multi-processor computers. Furthermore, Parasolid delivers an interoperable Data Pipeline allowing Parasolid-based systems to share and exchange geometric data without translation using its de facto standard XT file format. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">More than 240 Parasolid-powered applications have shipped or been announced and more than 230 organizations have licensed Parasolid. In addition to its use in UGS' Unigraphics and Solid Edge products, licensees of Parasolid include Parametric Technology, SolidWorks (a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes S.A.), Bentley Systems, CADKEY, ANSYS, Mechanical Dynamics and MSC.Software. Over 720,000 end user seats have the Parasolid kernel embedded within them. For more information please visit <A href="http://www.parasolid.com/">http://www.parasolid.com/</A> on the World Wide Web.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica (PCL6)'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">About Tech Soft America<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Tech Soft America (TSA) provides premier customer-driven development tools, consulting, and support services enabling their partners to rapidly deliver world-class technical software. The HOOPS 3D Application Framework is a high-level, object-oriented development tool, which dramatically simplifies the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for Windows, Unix, Linux and the Web.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The core of HOOPS 3D Application Framework is the HOOPS 3D Graphics system, which has been integrated into over 100 commercially shipped applications in the areas of Earth Science, CAD/CAM/CAE, Scientific Visualization, GIS, and Business Graphics. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California. For more information, visit TSA’s Web site at www.hoops3d.com. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 2.9pt; tab-stops: right 7.0in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">All products identified are trademarked by their respective owners.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Viner Hand ITC"><STRONG>Melle Amade-Vice</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Business Development Group</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Tech Soft America</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1830 Embarcadero Ave; </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Suite 103</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oakland, CA 94606</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ph: 510.434.7630 x214</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>fax: 510.434.7631</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="mailto:melle@techsoftamerica.com">melle@techsoftamerica.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.hoops3d.com/">www.hoops3d.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>