CONCORD, Mass. & PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2003--

SolidWorks 2004 and Bluebeam combine to allow users to send drawing files using PDF, complementing SolidWorks 3D-enabled eDrawings collaboration tool

SolidWorks® software users will now be able to communicate 2D and 3D product designs using the most widely accepted industry standards thanks to a partnership between SolidWorks Corporation and Bluebeam Software. With Bluebeam's technology, SolidWorks users can send high-quality 2D design files via the Adobe portable document format (PDF) standard - the most popular online document distribution format - or they can use the SolidWorks eDrawings e-mail-enabled collaboration tool to send 3D design files.

SolidWorks has licensed Bluebeam's engineering productivity tools to enable designers to save and send 2D drawings via PDF directly from SolidWorks 2004. Using Bluebeam's technology, SolidWorks 2004 users will be able to send high-resolution 2D designs in PDF format to team members locally or globally without downloading any additional software.

As the global standard for document communication, PDF will allow SolidWorks users such as Doug Robinson of Optical Products Development (OPD) Corp. to share designs with a broader community because of the standard's widespread adoption. Robinson, the company's vice president of engineering and research and development, designs video monitors that project holographic images used in a wide variety of applications, including advertising, business communication, and gaming.

"I have to share designs with clients around the world all the time because we're dealing with very customized products," he said. "Using Bluebeam Pushbutton PDF for SolidWorks allows me to send precise and accurate 2D drawings directly from SolidWorks via the globally adopted standard. That eliminates time delays in product review and approval and helps us deliver the products our customers want, when they want them."

PDF's widespread use also gives product team members a full range of options for communicating design information. Product managers can e-mail images, Word files, and presentations to executives to update them on design and development. They can also share designs with sales people scattered geographically to teach them about products' specifications. Sales people can share them with prospective customers to give them an idea of what the engineers can do. This kind of communication will help product development teams work more efficiently. PDF also enables engineers to obtain feedback and approval from team members while ensuring that no one alters the design.

"Uncompromising PDF quality is essential to product design collaboration," said Richard Lee, president and CEO of Bluebeam. "SolidWorks and Bluebeam have joined together to give engineers the highest quality PDF technology so that engineers can not only create flawless PDF drawings, but can effortlessly share these drawings from their design environment. The savings to SolidWorks customers in time and money will be immense."

Beyond the basic PDF functionality that SolidWorks has incorporated into its latest release, Bluebeam Pushbutton PDF Upgrade for SolidWorks allows users to:

• produce printer-ready drawings with one mouse click;
• apply text stamps to the design that read "approved" or "needs work" to mark the stages of approval;
• embed files so that team members can reference documents associated with their drawings;
• transfer hyperlinks so team members can reference Web sites and online documents associated with their PDF drawings;
• transfer file properties as metatags so team members can run key word searches on their PDF drawings;
• apply digital signature fields to SolidWorks drawings so that team members can see who has approved the design;
• print PDF documents across all Windows® applications through the free Bluebeam PDF printer.

"Engineers need to focus on designing the best products, not on how to communicate design information," said Ilya Mirman, SolidWorks vice president of marketing. "By integrating Bluebeam's PDF technology, we're now giving engineers the option of sharing designs with the most popular standards governing 2D and 3D file sharing. Using industry standards means the process is easy, and the designs are readily accessible."

Pricing and availability

The ability to save and send PDF files using Bluebeam technology is included as part of SolidWorks 2004 core functionality. The Bluebeam Pushbutton PDF Upgrade for SolidWorks is immediately available for $99.

About Bluebeam Software

Bluebeam Software invents, develops, and commercializes software that addresses the unique needs of engineers and architects. As the trusted standard in PDF technology for architects and engineers, Bluebeam produces the highest quality and easiest to use products in the marketplace, allowing project teams to immediately improve communication and collaboration with virtually no learning curve. For more information about the company, latest news, and purchasing information, visit Bluebeam Software on the Web at www.bluebeam.com or call 626-296-2140.

About SolidWorks Corporation

SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets software for mechanical design, analysis, and product data management. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development and foster a collaborative user community. In seven years of delivering product, SolidWorks has shipped more than 268,000 total seats of software worldwide. SolidWorks has offices around the globe and sells, distributes, and supports its products through a worldwide reseller network. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).

SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2003 SolidWorks Corporation.

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CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2003-- SolidWorks Corporation today unveiled a new program to accelerate customers' design-to-manufacture process by promoting tight interoperability between SolidWorks® 3D mechanical design software and industry-leading computer aided manufacturing (CAM) products. The SolidWorks Certified CAM Product Program provides customers with a seamless line of communication between their product design software and the applications that drive manufacturing, so companies can bring products to market quickly.

The new program solves the industry-wide problem of incompatibility between a company's computer-aided design (CAD) and CAM software, which often forces engineers to manually recreate part or all of a product design in their CAM application. This slows production and delays product delivery. The SolidWorks Certified CAM Product Program ensures that customers can move their native 3D solid models from SolidWorks directly to their CAM applications to reduce the transition time between design and manufacturing.

SolidWorks has partnered with the industry's top CAM providers, who are part of the global SolidWorks Partner Program, which boasts more partners - over 500 - than any other such program in the CAD industry. The program provides additional benefits to Certified CAM Products customers, who are now eligible to join the SolidWorks Manufacturing Network, an online directory that allows companies to find SolidWorks users that provide contract design and manufacturing services. This growing network will give hundreds of thousands of SolidWorks users better access to manufacturing services around the world.

The newly announced Certified CAM Products include:

• CAMWorks(TM) from TekSoft, Inc.;
• GibbsCAM® from Gibbs and Associates;
• EdgeCAM® from Pathtrace Plc.®;
• ESPRIT from DP Technology;
• Mastercam from CNC Software, Inc.; and
• SolidCAM from SolidCAM, Ltd.

"Today's top CAM software companies are not just focusing on developing their own software, but are also investing in strong relationships with CAD companies to help customers meet tougher deadlines and manufacturing demands," said Mark Summers, CNC Software's co-founder and president. "The direct link between Mastercam and SolidWorks makes the transfer from product design to manufacturing fast and reliable so that our customers can meet these manufacturing challenges."

Certified CAM Products must meet specific criteria for compatibility and functionality in conjunction with SolidWorks software. For example, all Certified CAM Products must be able to read native SolidWorks geometry. They must also be associative with SolidWorks so that when an engineer modifies a SolidWorks-generated 3D design, the change is recognized by the CAM application. Increased associativity reduces the risk of costly and time-consuming production errors. SolidWorks will work with its partners to continually test interoperability to ensure these products deliver seamless design and manufacturing capabilities.

"Our mission is to simplify every phase of computer-aided manufacturing for our customers," said Bill Gibbs, founder and president of Gibbs and Associates. "That includes the handoff between CAD and CAM. Partnering with industry-leading 3D mechanical design vendors like SolidWorks ensures that we provide a smooth and fast path between engineering departments and the shop floor."

The SolidWorks Certified CAM Product Program will benefit companies ranging from small job shops that custom-build parts to Fortune 1000 corporations that want to streamline their entire product development system. "Accelerated product development hinges on how easy it is to translate a design into the finished product," said Brian Houle, manager of the Solution Partner Program at SolidWorks. "By partnering with the CAM industry's leading vendors, we're giving manufacturers a head start by offering an integrated environment that eliminates the interoperability issues they've wrestled with in the past. Now, by communicating with native SolidWorks data, they can transform their designs into physical products faster, and with fewer errors, than before."

About SolidWorks Corporation

SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets software for mechanical design, analysis, and product data management. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development and foster a collaborative user community. In seven years of delivering product, SolidWorks has shipped more than 268,000 total seats of software worldwide. SolidWorks has offices around the globe and sells, distributes, and supports its products through a worldwide reseller network. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).

SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2003 SolidWorks Corporation.

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CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2003-- SolidWorks Corporation today unveiled a new version of its market-leading 3D mechanical design software featuring more than 250 customer-requested enhancements, including performance that is 15 times faster than competing midrange software. By exponentially accelerating large assembly processing and automating hundreds of tedious tasks, SolidWorks® 2004 unleashes designer and engineer creativity to make better, more attractive, more marketable products in a fraction of the time competing software takes.

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For instance, powerful drawing automation enhancements let designers create production-level drawings from large assemblies faster than ever. New lightweight drawings let users create assembly drawings without loading every component into memory. By simply dragging and dropping an assembly into a drawing, a user can generate 2D views of a 10,000-piece assembly in about 10 seconds. Many systems can't even create a drawing view of such a large assembly. SolidWorks 2004 also enables design engineers for the first time to generate a single bill of materials for multiple projects with numerous parts, quantities, and configurations, a key process in accelerating a design to manufacturing. Other important new drawing automation elements include auto ballooning, hole tables, and revision tracking tables. Timesaving, productivity-enhancing capabilities like these result in products that look, work, and sell better. No other software can match SolidWorks' performance, which annotates drawings 10 times faster than competing 2D offerings - yet another compelling reason for 2D software users to migrate to 3D software.

Simon Stone, a mechanical engineer for the UK-based Mech Innovation design firm, is a SolidWorks 2004 beta customer who has worked extensively with the software's consumer product design functions, including new Deform and section view capabilities. "Users will find these capabilities extremely useful," he said. "While it used to take up to 10 seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex model, I can now view them instantaneously as I dynamically scroll and rotate the plane forward and backward through the object. The Deform tool lets me instantly give complex models sleek new contours with the minimum of effort. SolidWorks 2004 is fast, fluid, flexible, and worth every penny."

Something for every user

SolidWorks 2004 also contains new advanced features developed specifically for machine designers, mold/tool/die makers, and consumer product engineers.

Machine design

New SolidWorks welding design, drawing automation, large assembly, and COSMOSXpress(TM) analysis software enhancements benefit machine designers, who typically work on assemblies with up to 30,000 parts.

• Weldment environment: SolidWorks 2004 includes a revolutionary weldment environment that for the first time simulates how designers really work. Users can now design structures by sketching them in a part document instead of creating an assembly. Users can create weldment members from a set of predefined pipes, beams, tubes, and angle irons without configuring each weldment from scratch. SolidWorks 2004 also automates the creation of fillet weld beads, gussets, end caps, and cut lists. No other software matches this set of timesaving capabilities.
• Lightweight sub-assemblies: SolidWorks 2004 users can work on assemblies with thousands of parts through its new memory management technology. This novel approach explains why SolidWorks can accelerate large assembly design processes by as much as 15 times over competing software.
• COSMOSXpress: SolidWorks 2004 includes new features in COSMOSXpress, the only built-in analysis tool available for testing part designs quickly and easily within a 3D mechanical design system. Enhancements include a seamless integration with COSMOSWorks(TM), a standalone analysis software package for which SolidWorks is also announcing upgrades today (see related news release). Users can now perform initial analyses in COSMOSXpress and instantly switch to COSMOSWorks for higher-level analyses.

"SolidWorks has automated the mundane and tedious processes that in the past have stood between a designer's vision and what they hope to accomplish," said Joe Greco, a freelance CAD writer and analyst. "With SolidWorks 2004, designers and engineers can more quickly build creative, innovative designs that lead to brilliant new products. In addition, now they can more effectively model products and simulate entire systems, which in turn accelerates the design-to-production cycle."

Mold design

SolidWorks 2004 gives mold designers new tools to eliminate time-consuming tasks. A new core/cavity command automates the design of the two main mold parts. Users need only specify the size of the mold steel and SolidWorks does the rest. Undercut analysis saves designers time and money by automatically detecting potential problems in the mold long before production. The new shutoff surfaces command automatically locates and seals openings for core and cavity creation. A thickness analysis tool detects regions of a model that would restrict flow through the mold or weaken the finished product. New tools automatically create parting lines, parting surfaces, and efficient flash wells in a single command. No software moves mold makers from concept to mold creation more quickly.

Consumer product design

SolidWorks 2004 gives consumer product designers powerful new capabilities for creating the stylized shapes they need in fewer steps. The new Deform command, for example, lets industrial designers alter the shape of their 3D models simply by pointing, clicking, and dragging a point or curve. A user, for instance, can take a boxy telephone handset model and give it a stunning new look in seconds while preserving the original engineering intent. New surfacing capabilities provide a range of preconfigured trim options and automate the creation of draft and fillets. Loft connectors define how model profiles align, to prevent twisting.

With the new SolidWorks RealView feature, users can now create lifelike views of products in various stages of design using realistic materials and textures without leaving the design mode. Unlike competing products, RealView marries industrial designers' aesthetics with mechanical designers' functional concerns to deliver the most realistic, real-time rendering capability available within a 3D mechanical design system.

System enhancements

SolidWorks 2004 also includes a set of unique system enhancements that save time and liberate designers' creativity. For example, the new materials database lets users point and click to select material properties, including color, texture, cross hatch, and physical properties. A new Quick Tips feature walks users through common operations such as sketching, part creation, drawing, and assembly design so new users can start designing parts right away. A task scheduler automates non-design tasks, such as batch printing, data import, data export, and eDrawings publication to occur at users' convenience, such as overnight. SolidWorks can now operate in Microsoft® Windows® workstations using 3 GB of memory, allowing users to create larger designs faster than ever.

PDMWorks

SolidWorks has also enhanced its built-in product data management (PDM) software, PDMWorks(TM). New features include the ability to automatically bulk load thousands of SolidWorks or AutoCAD files - e.g., entire projects and databases - into a PDMWorks vault, complete with property and attribute mapping and configuration previews. An archive/restore command lets users archive old revisions, saving disk space and increasing performance, then recover them at any time with a point and click.

"SolidWorks 2004 is far and away our most comprehensive release ever," said Chris Garcia, SolidWorks' vice president of research and development. "We've never been able to put this much new functionality into a single release. SolidWorks 2004 embodies hundreds of customer requests for enhancements, and, as is quite apparent, our customers have spectacular ideas. These enhancements give designers and engineers a clearly defined opportunity to seize competitive advantage by spending less time on busy work and moving products more quickly to market."

SolidWorks 2004 is available immediately for purchase in 12 languages worldwide. It is available in three configurations. SolidWorks 2004 is the core modeling software in the company's 3D design product suites, SolidWorks Office and SolidWorks Office Professional.

About SolidWorks Corporation

SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets software for mechanical design, analysis, and product data management. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development and foster a collaborative user community. In seven years of delivering product, SolidWorks has shipped more than 250,000 total seats of software worldwide. SolidWorks has offices around the globe and sells, distributes, and supports its products through a worldwide reseller network. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).

SolidWorks is a registered trademark, and PDMWorks is a trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. COSMOSXpress and COSMOSWorks are trademarks of Structural Research and Analysis Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2003 SolidWorks Corporation.

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CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2003-- SolidWorks today put sophisticated design analysis within the reach of every designer with major upgrades to its COSMOS analysis applications. Enhancements to COSMOSWorks(TM), COSMOSFloWorks(TM), and COSMOSMotion(TM) make the COSMOS products the first to put advanced finite element analysis (FEA) features in an affordable package that's easy enough for designers of all skill levels to use.

Performance upgrades that enable solvers to use processor cycles more efficiently make the COSMOS family anywhere from 10 to 15 times faster than comparable analysis applications. The applications' speed and automated simplicity enable users to focus on perfecting designs with ongoing analysis throughout the design process. More than 10,000 companies currently use COSMOS products to reduce their prototyping costs and cut time-to-market by producing accurate designs faster than the competition.

COSMOSWorks 2004 enables users to test assemblies' behaviors without the complicated and time-consuming step of fully modeling component connectors - such as pins and springs - up front. COSMOSWorks 2004 also simplifies analysis with new usability features to simulate processes such as heat regulation using a thermostat with simple menu-driven commands that replace manual computations. The COSMOSFloWorks 2004 flow analysis application performs analyses on a broader spectrum of machinery and materials, such as rotating machinery and more non-Newtonian fluids. The COSMOSMotion 2004 virtual prototyping application can break assemblies down into sub-assemblies for more precise testing. New visual and reporting features enable users to extract more precise results from their analyses. Tightened integration with SolidWorks® 3D mechanical design software enables users of all three COSMOS applications to analyze designs without re-entering data and switching between applications. Today's COSMOS 2004 release coincides with SolidWorks' release of its SolidWorks 2004 mechanical design software.

More than half of the COSMOS family's upgrades came through feedback from users such as Jack Kleinfeld, P.E., of Bronx, N.Y.-based Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc. (www.kleinfeldtechnical.com). Kleinfeld, a COSMOSWorks user, asked for more sophisticated reporting tools so he could better represent results to his customers.

"I'm very pleased with SolidWorks' responsiveness. They've made the product much more usable and efficient so I can give better results to my customers," Kleinfeld said. "For example, calculating the average heat flow across a surface now takes one step using two numbers. Before it could have taken a thousand steps using a thousand numbers - if I chose to do it at all."

The ability to run such complex calculations without time-consuming manual work enables users to weave analysis into every phase of the design cycle without slowing it down. Testing frequently saves time and expense by cutting back on the use of expensive physical prototypes to determine whether a design will perform properly.

Mirroring real-life working conditions

The COSMOSWorks, COSMOSMotion, and COSMOSFloWorks 2004 applications match analysis processes to real-life work flows, eliminating repetitive data input and reducing opportunity for error. Each product also has specific enhancements in its own realm that enable designers to perform sophisticated analysis without laborious manual processes:

COSMOSWorks

COSMOSWorks 2004 simplifies assembly simulation with three new features that enable designers to model three commonly used assemblies:

 -- pin connectors that join assemblies such as mechanical arms;
-- spring connectors that provide flexible resistance in
assemblies such as shock absorbers; and
-- elastic supports such as soft beds that absorb vibrations from
machinery.

Simplified assembly simulation enables designers to analyze their designs without much of the repetitive manual work of modeling these structures. Designers no longer must model each pin, spring connector, and elastic support before performing an analysis. In COSMOSWorks 2004, designers simply enter values into a pull-down menu and the software simulates a pin, spring, or elastic support. For a mechanical arm joined by pins, for example, the designer would assign resistance properties to each pin location and run the analysis to determine how the mechanical arm would behave if the pins locked up.

In addition to its new modeling features, COSMOSWorks 2004 has also made strides in ease of use by incorporating features such as:

 -- Added heat transfer capabilities such as a new thermostat that
simulates on/off switching of a heat source based on
temperature sensors and surface-to-surface radiation heat;
-- Ability to simulate buckling due to thermal effects;
-- Single-file storage for analysis data that simplifies
management;
-- Adjustable vector plot visuals that make analyses easier to
read than one-size-fits all visuals;
-- Tighter integration with SolidWorks 2004 that eliminates
re-entering design data to perform analysis. COSMOSWorks 2004
automatically uses SolidWorks 2004 data to define the physical
properties of materials in assemblies and reads data from the
COSMOSXpress(TM) analysis embedded in SolidWorks 2004.
COSMOSWorks 2004 can also schedule analysis runs in SolidWorks
2004 task scheduler.

COSMOSFloWorks

The COSMOSFloWorks 2004 flow analysis application features automated data transfers to COSMOSWorks 2004 that enable designers to perform stuctural and flow analysis in the same simulation. This "multi-physics" capability is unique to COSMOSFloWorks 2004. The software also simulates flows in rotating machinery such as turbine blades with a new "rotating frame of reference" feature, and supports analysis of more non-Newtonian fluids, such as chocolates and molten plastics.

COSMOSMotion

New for 2004, the COSMOSMotion virtual prototyping application supports sub-assembly motion analysis. This gives users the ability to leave a sub-assembly as a rigid group of parts, or to move specific parts in a sub-assembly to test their behavior. Testing specific sub-assemblies yields more accurate results and helps users root out redundancies in their designs.

"Our goal is to make every engineer and designer into an analyst without forcing them to take specialized training or learn complicated, expensive software," said Suchit Jain, vice president for analysis products at SolidWorks Corporation. "Our COSMOS 2004 products represent the biggest stride yet toward sophisticated analysis software that's easy enough for everyone to use and economical enough to deploy widely in any organization."

Pricing and availability

COSMOSWorks 2004, COSMOSFloWorks 2004, and COSMOSMotion 2004 will be available in the third quarter of 2003. Contact a SolidWorks reseller for pricing information.

About SolidWorks Corporation

SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets software for mechanical design, analysis, and product data management. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development and foster a collaborative user community. In seven years of delivering product, SolidWorks has shipped more than 250,000 total seats of software worldwide. SolidWorks has offices around the globe and sells, distributes, and supports its products through a worldwide reseller network. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).

SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. COSMOSWorks, COSMOSFloWorks, COSMOSXpress, and COSMOSMotion are trademarks of Structural Research and Analysis Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2003 SolidWorks Corporation.

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CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 2002--SolidWorks® 2003 three-dimensional computer-aided design (3D CAD) software has won the CADENCE Magazine Editors' Choice award for advancing CAD use, SolidWorks announced today. The magazine's editors chose SolidWorks 2003, the latest version of the company's core software, because its innovation, creativity, simplicity, and ease-of-use help designers and engineers streamline design time and bring products to market quickly and efficiently.

Announced every July and December, the CADENCE Editors' Choice awards spotlight CAD-related products and services that have raised the bar for technological innovation in the previous six months. SolidWorks 2003, unveiled in September, sets the standard for 3D solid modeling by combining an intuitive Windows interface with powerful tools such as upfront analysis, design collaboration, downloadable parts via online supplier catalogs, and large assembly capabilities.

"We're constantly checking the CAD industry's pulse to see which companies are developing technologies that set the bar for other vendors to follow," said Arnie Williams, CADENCE Magazine's editor-in-chief. "These companies are continually pushing CAD technology to new heights, allowing users to work better, faster, smarter, and more economically. SolidWorks 2003 makes 3D CAD easy and affordable, so that engineers and designers at companies of any size can quickly design and make new products to satisfy market need."

CADENCE Magazine has regularly recognized SolidWorks products for contributions toward advancing CAD technology. SolidWorks Office, SolidWorks' suite of CAD products, won CADENCE Magazine's "Show Stopper" award at NDES 2002, while its eDrawings e-mail-enabled design communication tool won the same award the previous year. SolidWorks 2001Plus, SolidWorks 2001, and SolidWorks 99 also won awards from CADENCE.

"Taking the complexity out of CAD and making the modeling, assembly, and drawing process more intuitive has been a passion for SolidWorks since its inception," said Chris Garcia, vice president of research and development at SolidWorks. "Since 1993, SolidWorks Corporation has continuously refined its product line with an eye toward usability, and has developed new products to help design engineers work more quickly and efficiently so their companies can stay competitive. This award from CADENCE underscores our commitment to that goal."

About SolidWorks Corporation

SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets mechanical design software solutions. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development. In seven years of shipping product, SolidWorks has shipped more than 213,000 total seats of software worldwide. SolidWorks has offices around the globe and sells, distributes, and supports its products through a worldwide network of resellers. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).

SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2002 SolidWorks Corporation.

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CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2002-- SolidWorks Corporation today unveiled 3D ContentCentral(SM), a free online directory of downloadable, three-dimensional computer-aided design (3D CAD) parts from leading component manufacturers that will help engineers reduce design time and bring products to market faster. Users can search 3D ContentCentral to quickly find and download solid models of parts into their designs to check compatibility and ensure the accuracy of their designs. 3D ContentCentral helps participating component manufacturers attract new customers and increase revenue by encouraging thousands of design engineers to "design in" (check compatibility and subsequently purchase) their products.

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When searching for components to fit in their overall product designs, engineers have traditionally sorted through paper catalogs, interpreted 2D drawings and technical specifications, and created component models from scratch, wasting hours of design time on each component. 3D ContentCentral streamlines this process by allowing design engineers to search through a directory of leading suppliers worldwide and download supplier-certified CAD models into their designs within minutes instead of hours. Some of these suppliers include Boston Gear, BTM, DE-STA-CO Industries, Enerpac, Festo, Jergens Inc., Kaydon, Nook Industries Inc., Robohand, SMC Corporation of America, Warner Electric, and WDS.

In addition to supplier-certified CAD models, 3D ContentCentral includes a model-sharing library and user community for individual design engineers. The model-sharing library is a free resource for design engineers to share CAD models with colleagues, customers, and other community members. Design engineers can simply post a 3D CAD model to this community, providing other 3D ContentCentral users with quick access to the 3D model. Users can download models into their designs regardless of which CAD system they use.

Users can access 3D ContentCentral via the Internet or directly from a menu option within SolidWorks® software to browse supplier catalogs and product categories such as pneumatics, power transmission, or tooling to find the right product. Once they've found the right product family, they can configure, view, and download the exact product they're looking for into their designs.

A win-win solution

Global biomedical company Beckman Coulter depends on easy access to CAD models to stay competitive. Its engineers quickly find CAD models of the cylinders, actuators (used for moving products during a manufacturing process), and other pneumatics products they need to develop biomedical equipment designs on pneumatics manufacturer SMC's 3D-powered online catalog. "3D ContentCentral offers a convenient, centralized resource for finding the CAD models we need in a matter of minutes," said Sam Rizzotte, a designer at Beckman Coulter. "That's crucial in the biomedical industry where products become outdated shortly after being introduced to market. By downloading SMC components, we can evaluate multiple design configurations while decreasing anticipated time to market by more than seven percent."

3D ContentCentral gives SMC immediate exposure to a global pool of potential clients. "By incorporating our online catalog within 3D ContentCentral, more than 200,000 SolidWorks software users have direct and convenient access to the entire SMC product line," said Steve Hoffer, E-Tech group leader for SMC. "SolidWorks users represent more than 23 percent of the 36,000 registered users for our 3D-powered catalog. These users are essential to our business. More than 30 percent of our sales leads are generated from this resource. 3D ContentCentral offers an easy way to increase the exposure of our products to the SolidWorks community, which will directly impact sales."

Chris Garcia, SolidWorks Corporation's vice president of research and development, said "3D ContentCentral continues our mission of providing the mechanical design community with timesaving innovations that help get products to market faster. 3D ContentCentral provides component manufacturers with a unique opportunity to gain access to the largest and fastest-growing community of mainstream mechanical design engineers in the world."

Pricing and Availability

3D ContentCentral is free and can be accessed by going to www.3dcontentcentral.com. Suppliers who wish to be included in the 3D ContentCentral directory can obtain pricing and implementation information by contacting SolidWorks at +1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America +1-978-371-5000), or via email at info@.... Information about 3D ContentCentral and 3D PartStream.NET® is also available on the SolidWorks Web site at www.solidworks.com.

About SolidWorks Corporation

SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets mechanical design software solutions. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development. In seven years of shipping product, SolidWorks has shipped more than 213,000 total seats of software worldwide. SolidWorks has offices around the globe and sells, distributes, and supports its products through a worldwide network of resellers. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).

SolidWorks and 3D PartStream.NET are registered trademarks and 3D ContentCentral is a service mark of SolidWorks Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2002 SolidWorks Corporation.

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