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From: SolidWorks Corporation [mailto:info@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:19 PM
To: Robert Walters
Subject: SolidWorks Corporation Receives Patent For SmartMates Technology

SolidWorks Corporation Receives Patent For SmartMates Technology

  Unique Snap-to-Fit Mating Technology Speeds Up Design Process

CONCORD, MASS. - April 18, 2001 - SolidWorks Corporation, a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use 3D CAD software for the mainstream market, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent to the company for its SmartMates technology (Mate Inferencing Patent Number 6,219,049).  SmartMates' snap-to-fit behavior enables users to locate and constrain components in a fraction of the time it takes to manually position and mate components.  While other CAD programs require up to four steps to mate parts, SolidWorks users can mate parts in only one step with SmartMates technology.

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