Component graphics leader, Tech Soft America, releases latest breakthrough
module

Oakland, CA - May 10, 2001 - Tech Soft America (TSA), the leading provider
of core graphics component technology to the CAD/CAM/CAE industry, announces
the immediate availability of the new HOOPS Net Server (HOOPS/Net)
component. Already in production use by leading CAD and CAE vendors,
products based on this new component will be released in the coming months

HOOPS/Net was designed to help engineering software developers address the
increasing demand for collaborative functionality within their applications.
As manufacturing organizations continue to seek the efficiencies of
real-time collaboration to help them design, test, build and market their
products, end-users are demanding collaborative functionality from the
CAD/CAM/CAE software they deploy.

According to a recent report by Jon Peddie Associates, Collaboration
Software and solutions are expect to be the fastest growing segment of the
3D CAD Software market, with a compound annual growth rate of 34.77% over
the new five years. The report also highlights that the likely winners in
the collaboration market will be companies with established customer bases
who offer collaboration in conjunction with their 3D CAD software because of
their established market share.

HOOPS/Net is a standalone component designed to help engineering software
developers add critical collaborative functionality to existing products or
develop new products based on this core technology. Major features of
HOOPS/Net include session-control management, platform and network-protocol
independence (TCP/IP or HTTP), ease of configuration and customization,
network reliability management and late join functionality. HOOPS/Net also
comes with a source-code level reference implementation, which demonstrates
a view/mark-up application, including customization extensions to the
server. HOOPS/Net is fully integrated with TSA’s HOOPS 3D Application
Framework (HOOPs/3dAF) and HOOPS Stream Toolkit (HOOPS/Stream) to further
facilitate the development of powerful 3D applications.

Bruce Jenkins, Daratech commented, "Much as the Parasolid and ACIS modeling
components fueled the explosion in value-priced solids modeling, we believe
Tech Soft's component graphics technology is poised to serve as an enabler
for the coming Web-centric collaborative applications revolution."

“HOOPS/Net will help developers of engineering software rapidly respond to
the market demand for collaborative functionality while their window of
opportunity is still open. It will allow them to either adapt their existing
application to collaborate or rapidly develop a product suitable to the
current market environment. We look forward to announcing some of the
breakthrough products currently being developed by industry leaders with
HOOPS/Net,” added Yanick Fluhmann, Co-Founder of TSA.

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. TSA develops the HOOPS 3D Application
Framework, HOOPS Streaming Toolkit and HOOPS Collaboration Toolkit, which
dramatically simplify the design, development and maintenance of
high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for PCs, UNIX
workstations, Linux, and the Web.

HOOPS 3D technology has been incorporated into over 125 commercial software
applications, from such leaders as SolidWorks, PTC, SDRC, CADKEY, Fluent,
Tecoplan, Mechanical Dynamics, SPSS, Minitab, PAM-Systems, Mintec and
Landmark Graphics.

The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California and can
be reached at http://www.hoops3d.com.

Contacts:

Melle Amade-Vice
Tech Soft America
510.434.7630  ext.214
melle@techsoftamerica.com


HOOPS is a registered trademark