Elysium Inc. Now a Spatial CAA V5 Adopter
 
 
TORRANCE, California – July 2, 2002 - Elysium Inc. (Elysium), a leading global provider of CAD translation software, announced that it has completed an agreement with Spatial Corp. (Spatial), a market leading provider of 3D development technologies, to license CAA V5.
 
This agreement will enable Elysium to develop native CATIA V5 translation technologies for use within its CADporter™ and CADdoctor™ range of translation and healing products.
 
“Customers of Elysium who are implementing collaborative engineering and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environments are the driving force behind this agreement,” commented Ken Tashiro, COO, Elysium Inc. “We consider this move as strategic to our commitment to support our global and large-scale users, and, by becoming a Spatial CAA V5 Adopter, we are ensuring that we deliver the high-quality, industry-leading quality that we are renowned for.”
 
“Spatial is dedicated to Dassault Systemes’ 3D PLM strategy and expanding the market for 3D. Our agreement with Elysium demonstrates our understanding that addressing the interoperability problem is key to realizing that vision,” said Linda Lokay, EVP of Sales & Marketing, Spatial Corp. “We are pleased that Elysium has become a Spatial CAA V5 Adopter and we look forward to working with them as they continue to develop their solution.”
 
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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 trademarks of Elysium Co., Ltd. and Elysium Inc.  All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
 
Elysium Contact:
Rachae Dalton Taggart, Strategic Reach PR
720.317.9690
Rachael.taggart@strategicreachpr.com
 
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. In addition, by offering CAA V5, the Component Application Architecture used by Dassault Systemes, Spatial is the market leading provider of 3D development technologies. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, Germany, France, Japan, and theUnited 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