Elysium Inc. Licences CATIA V5 Reader/Writer Technology from Spatial Corp.
Agreement Allows Rapid Deployment of Native CATIA V5 Translators with CADporter
TORRANCE, California – June 24, 2002 - Elysium Inc., a global provider of CAD translation software, today announced that it licensed Spatial’s CATIA® V5 Reader/Writer technology.
This agreement will enable users of Elysium’s CADporter™ product to easily and rapidly translate 3D solid and surface data to-and-from CATIA V5.
“We are really pleased to make this announcement. It means we will have CATIA V5 interoperability tools available for our CADporter users within weeks,” stated Ken Tashiro, COO, Elysium Inc. “Support for CATIA V5 is critical to ensuring our global and large-scale users can achieve the productivity and efficiency levels they desire in their design and engineering processes.”
CADporter provides conversion and translation of component geometry and topology between CAD systems. This unique software technology plays a vital role in interoperability, allowing companies to effectively exchange, share a reuse data among diverse CAD applications, including CATIA, I-DEAS®, Pro/ENGINEER®, Solidworks®, Inventor®, ACIS®, SAT® and Unigraphics®.
“Spatial’s goal has remained to provide the market and our partners with the technology that meets their needs,” stated Keith Mountain, vice president of marketing, Spatial Corp. “Spatial’s CATIA V5 Reader/Writer is the only native translation technology available. This technology provides our Partners’ customers with the high performance, quality technology they demand and continues our commitment to develop strong business and technology relationships with our partners.”
About Elysium Inc.
Founded in 1984, Elysium (www.elysiuminc.com) develops, distributes and markets data translation software to enable collaborative engineering environments. Elysium has a successful track record with several major software companies including Adobe Systems, Autodesk, CoCreate, Maya Metrix, HKS, Spatial Corporation and EDS PLM.
Elysium’s CADporter and CADdoctor™ products exhibit superior 3-D geometry handling, repair and healing, management of different topology representations and the automatic healing of inconsistencies that regularly occur during the conversion of surface and solid CAD models. It allows true interoperability between ACIS-based applications, CATIA, I-DEAS, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks and Unigraphics with the industry’s highest translation success rate. It enables accurate conversion of original source data, which makes sharing information among several widely-used CAD applications an easier process. This rapid exchange facilitates improvement in designer productivity and reduces cost associated with incompatible translation tools. CADporter features the ability to read and write true native file formats.
More information: www.elysiuminc.com
CADporter and CADdoctor are trademarksof Elysium Co., Ltd. and Elysium Inc. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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Rachael Dalton-Taggart
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About Spatial
Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systèmes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris # 13065, DSY.PA,) company is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software development technologies. Spatial develops, markets, and supports best-of-breed 3D development technologies and services, to address the exponential requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and Business-to-Business (B2B) applications. Spatial’s component products for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability have been adopted by some of the world's most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit Spatial’s Web site at www.spatial.com or contact Spatial by email at info@spatial.com or by phone at 303-544-2900 or 800-767-5710.
Spatial Press Contact:
Chad Sanderson
303.544.2932
chad.sanderson@spatial.com