The world's leading 3D CAD component portals are integrated within
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, providing drag-and-drop for native formats of millions
of parts from over 400 global suppliers
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product
development company(TM), Thomas Register, the world's most comprehensive
information resource for supply-chain sourcing and purchasing, and web2CAD,
the leading provider of 3D CAD component catalog software solutions and
worldwide portal-provider, today announced the availability of the world's
largest 3D component portal with full integration into Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire.
PTC is extending its existing content partnership with Thomas Register by
incorporating the European and Japanese CAD content of web2CAD, creating the
world's largest content portal with over 400 supplier component catalogs. The
comprehensive portal provides drag-and-drop access to over 45 million CAD
models and drawings and provides localized access in English, Japanese,
German, French, Italian and Portuguese. web2CAD's integration of PTC's
GRANITE(TM) Interoperability kernel allows a Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire user to
directly drag a CAD model from the portal into an active design session
without translation.
Via the new Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire component portal, customers are now able
to get accurate, up to date CAD models from suppliers around the world, or
around the block. For users looking to spend less time on the phone or
flipping through catalogs, this has an immediate benefit.
"Adding web2CAD content to the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire portal creates an
unmatched global CAD resource. Simple downloads, powerful content and
connection to hundreds of suppliers all over the world further offer our
customers the support they need to increase engineering productivity and
achieve faster time to market," said Carsten Hochmuth, Director of the
enterprise software partner program at PTC.
Rainer Deubel, chief operating officer, web2CAD AG adds, "partnering with
the leading product development software company and creating the world's
largest 3D content library will enable more users to benefit from CAD
content."
The component portal can be found on the PTC 'Catalog Directory' at
http://catalogs.ptc.com or through the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire interface.
About Thomas Register's CADRegister.com
CADRegister.com (http://www.CADRegister.com) is an online resource provided by
Thomas Register, the world's most comprehensive information resource for
supply-chain sourcing and purchasing for more than 100 years.
CADRegister.com, the leading online industry source for CAD drawings allows
engineers, designers and architects to download and generate hundreds of
millions of CAD drawings based on user specifications. The site includes
three extensive libraries of CAD drawings and product information on
mechanical and electrical parts, plant-design components and building
products. CADRegister.com provides complete product specifications and
technical drawings that can be easily inserted into all major CAD systems in a
time-saving and error-reducing online or CD-ROM format.
About web2CAD
web2CAD provides software solutions and services enabling industrial
customers to create, collect, unify, transform and distribute technical
information out of an integrated process. To meet technical customers
demands, web2CAD offers two product lines: PowerParts is a web accessible
component catalog for mechanical 2D and 3D CAD-systems. The Catalog Creator
Suite software solution enables customers to publish digital product data as a
spare parts catalog and for support and service purposes on the Web, as CD-ROM
or printed. Additionally, web2CAD offers the leading mechanical engineering
portal to be found under http://www.web2CAD.com. Founded in 1999, web2CAD has
offices in UK, Italy, Czech Republic and Japan. In the USA, web2CAD products
are available through an exclusive partnership with Thomas Register
(http://www.cadregister.com). Headquarters of web2CAD are located in Amberg,
Germany.
About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) 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 Internet's
continued development into a viable collaboration medium and commercial
marketplace; PTC's successful development and integration of the technology
necessary to offer software solutions and related services that adequately
address product development challenges; the success of our integrated
solutions strategy initiatives including our efforts to differentiate our MCAD
offerings by targeting synergies with Windchill; and PTC's effective
coordination and management of joint activities (including sales, marketing,
development, and support) with business partners such as content hosting
service providers in order to deliver products and services 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 and its logo, Product First, The Product Development Company, Simple
Powerful Connected, Pro/ENGINEER, Wildfire, Windchill, WindchillPartsLink, 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.
Thomas Register Contacts:
Dave Bray Leila Bryner Siman
Peppercom Thomas Register
(212) 931-6164 (212) 560-1891
dbray@peppercom.com lbsiman@trpublication.com
web2CAD Contacts:
Investor Relations Contact Media Contact
Hans-Richard Mokrusch Heike Streng
web2CAD AG web2CAD AG
0049-9621-700110 0049-9621-700-330
hans-richard.mokrusch@web2cad.de heike.streng@web2cad.de
PTC Contacts:
Investor Relations Contact Public Relations Contact
Meredith Mendola Joe Gavaghan
(781) 370-6151 (781) 370-5074
mmendola@ptc.com jgavaghan@ptc.com
SOURCE PTC
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CONTACT:
Thomas Register Contacts, Dave Bray of
Peppercom, +1-212-931- 6164, dbray@peppercom.com, or Leila Bryner
Siman of Thomas Register, +1-212- 560-1891,
lbsiman@trpublication.com; or Hans-Richard Mokrusch, Investor
Relations, 0049-9621-700110, hans-richard.mokrusch@web2cad.de, or
Heike Streng, Media, 0049-9621-700-330, heike.streng@web2cad.de,
both of web2CAD AG; or Meredith Mendola, Investor Relations,
+1-781-370-6151, mmendola@ptc.com, or Joe Gavaghan, Public
Relations, +1-781-370-5074, jgavaghan@ptc.com, both of PTC
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