CATIA V5 CAD TRANSLATION AVAILABLE FROM ELYSIUM INC
New Applications Support Rapid, Reliable Translation Between Major MCAD platforms

Southfield, MI – October 16, 2002 - Elysium Inc., a leading global provider of CAD translation software, has recently released major upgrades to its CADporter™ CAD Translation tools, for sharing data to-and-from CATIA® V5.
 
The CADporter CATIA V5 Translation tools support rapid, reliable and consistent 3D CAD data translation of parts and assemblies between CATIA, I-DEAS®, Autodesk Inventor®, ParaSolid® and Pro/ENGINEER®.
 
CADporter for CATIA V5 supports the translation of parts and product structures, and accounts for the unique requirements imposed by the native CAD systems.  For example, CADporter ensures that all curves and surfaces imported into CATIA V5 are C2-continuous. 
 
“CATIA V5 offers superior functions and features that users, designers and engineers need,” stated Abdul Shammaa, VP and CTO, Elysium Inc. “However, they still need to share the designs with other MCAD platforms, and CADporter has been carefully tuned to rapidly handle such issues - surface conflicts, tolerances and degenerate boundaries of surfaces, among others - to provide the industry’s most successful 3D data conversion rate.”
 
Elysium products support the PDQ (JAMA/JAPIA PDQ Guidelines) and VDA model quality outlines for the automotive industry. Elysium’s CADporter technology is available in per-seat and site-wide licensing as well as in the Elysium Enterprise Server – an enterprise-wide, server-based CAD translation solution for large manufacturers.
 
CADporter for CATIA V5 is now available from Elysium and its reseller network. For more information call 248-799-9800, or visit www.elysiuminc.com
 
About Elysium Inc.: Founded in 1984, Elysium (www.elysiuminc.com) bridges the gap between CAD systems and  enables collaborative engineering environments with its industry-leading CAD data translator technologies. Elysium’s CADporter and CADdoctor software products enable the translation of all geometry from one CAD system to another with the industry’s highest success rate. Elysium has successful partnerships with several major software companies including Adobe Systems, Autodesk, CoCreate, Maya Metrix, HKS, Spatial Corporation and EDS PLM. Elysium is a member of the AIAG.
 
CADporter and CADdoctor are trademarks of 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, Strategic Reach PR ,
1-720-317-9690                                                                                     
Rachael.taggart@strategicreachpr.com