-- New Release of Granite Kernel Provides Partners with Enhanced Capabilities;
New Tools from Partners Provide Improved Development Experience --
NEEDHAM, Mass., March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the
product development company(TM), today announced that it is shipping the
newest version of its Granite interoperability software development platform.
In addition, new developer tools from Tech Soft America and Simmetrix, Inc.
provide supplementary resources for Granite licensees. (See related
announcements.) Granite facilitates interoperability among more than 40
Granite-based CAD/CAM/CAE applications, including PTC's own products. These
applications have direct, native, and associative access to the millions of
Pro/ENGINEER(R) files in existence without the need for intermediate file
conversions. In addition, Granite release 2.0 reads and writes Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire(TM) files, as well as earlier versions of Pro/ENGINEER, natively.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire is the new, breakthrough, award-winning version of
Pro/ENGINEER, PTC's market leading product design software.
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Granite facilitates the creation and exchange of feature-based solid
models using the same industrial strength algorithms and powerful
associativity mechanisms at the heart of Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/ENGINEER has long
been recognized for its proficiency at modeling complex geometry.
Independent software vendors incorporate the Granite platform into their own
products and immediately have automatic native file access to the geometry of
all other Granite-based applications. This simplifies a product development
organization's task of deploying a heterogeneous CAD environment, while
enhancing its engineers' abilities to design concurrently in a global
enterprise.
The new version of Granite provides a number of enhancements targeted to
the professional developers who are using Granite to create new applications
as well as to the developers who are focused on linking existing applications
to the PTC ecosystem. Granite release 2.0 incorporates improved utilities to
facilitate better assembly interoperability, enhancements to translation
utilities and modeling capabilities, a new mechanism to support
interoperability of metadata (i.e. designer name, density, layers, etc.), UNIX
platform support, and support for the ACIS and Parasolid kernels.
"Since the initial release of Granite, PTC has succeeded at licensing this
technology across a diverse range of software applications," said Bill
Berutti, PTC senior vice president, strategy and product marketing. "Granite
licensees have released products that facilitate offline robotic programming,
computational fluid dynamics, and reverse engineering, as well as ergonomic,
conceptual and industrial design, machining applications, and other simulation
and analysis applications. Our end user customers have access to an
increasingly wide variety of highly interoperable third party applications."
Also announced today are development tools, built and released on Granite
release 2.0, from Tech Soft America and Simmetrix Inc. Tech Soft America's
HOOPS for Granite Graphics Engine reduces development costs and time to market
for the implementation of graphics, streaming, and real-time collaboration in
Granite-based applications. A new technology vendor relationship with
Simmetrix supports the creation of new simulation applications. The Granite-
based Simmetrix component will be an application programming interface (API),
that developers will use to read Granite files into the Simmetrix GeomSim
application and then load them into their own CAE environment.
"The addition of Granite to our Simulation Modeling Suite provides our
customers with access to design geometry for simulation for the vast majority
of 3D designs created today," said Joe Walsh, vice president, Business
Development of Simmetrix. "The combination of the simulation modeling
capabilities of the Simulation Modeling Suite and the geometry access provided
through Granite will provide our customers with unprecedented capabilities to
rapidly develop simulation applications integrated within a simulation-based
design paradigm."
About PTC
PTC develops, markets, and supports software solutions that help
manufacturers win with superior products. PTC is the world's largest software
company with a total commitment to product development. The company services
more than 35,000 customers worldwide. Further information on PTC is available
at http://www.ptc.com or call 1-888-782-3776, ext. 901.
Except for the historical information contained herein, matters discussed
in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include: the acceptance of
GRANITE as a development kernel and CAD interoperability solution; the
potential for GRANITE to be used to develop products that compete with PTC
offerings, PTC's successful development and integration of the technology
necessary to offer interoperability, collaboration and modeling tools that
adequately respond to evolving development environments and customer
requirements; and PTC's effective coordination and management of joint
activities with software partners in order to deliver products, services and
support that meet those requirements, together with such other risks and
uncertainties as are detailed from time to time in reports filed by PTC with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including PTC's most recent reports on
Form 10-K and 10-Q.
PTC, The Product Development Company, GRANITE, Pro/ENGINEER, and all PTC
product names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Parametric
Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other
countries. Names of products from other vendors mentioned in this document
may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Investor Relations Contact:
Meredith Mendola
(781) 370-6151
mmendola@ptc.com
PTC Public Relations Contact:
Roberta Carlton
(781) 370-5479
rcarlton@ptc.com
SOURCE PTC
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CONTACT:
Investor Relations Contact: Meredith
Mendola, +1-781-370-6151, mmendola@ptc.com, or PTC Public
Relations Contact: Roberta Carlton, +1-781-370-5479,
rcarlton@ptc.com, both of PTC
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