KollabNet brings SolidMap capabilities to SolidWorks users

SolidMap enables SolidWorks users to visualize complex relationships between SolidWorks files and models

Lancaster, PA April 4, 2007 — KollabNet today announced that their SolidMap software has received the Solution Partner status with SolidWorks. SolidMap supports SolidWorks® 3D CAD software with new capabilities for enabling users to visualize relationships that exist in part and assembly files on a highly intuitive graphical map. Visualization of the feature, part, and file interdependencies dramatically reduces the time required to understand how a model is built which, in turn, enables users to much more efficiently edit models and completely eliminates the need for users to rebuild models prior to being able to edit them.

As a SolidWorks SOLUTION PARTNER KollabNet’s SolidMap represents significant value to both the organization as well as the individual users

At the organizational level, SolidMap provides:

Overall productivity improvement through more efficient visualization of the complex relationships that exist within a SolidWorks file.

Increased collaboration among SolidWorks users by enabling users to more easily understand how a model was built.

For individuals, SolidMap enables users to:

Understand models in significantly less time in order to complete necessary edits.

More efficiently pinpoint and fix rebuild errors

More easily share models with colleagues

These benefits are realized due to the unique way that SolidMap reads and displays relationships between SolidWorks files, assembly components, and part features. SolidMap reads and displays the following five types of relationships:

SolidWorks 2007 features a host of unique capabilities to help companies design better products more quickly. The software includes more than 200 customer-requested enhancements and significant innovations that break new ground in engineering efficiency. These innovations include SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology (“SWIFT”) which is the first CAD technology to put expert-level techniques for 3D CAD’s most challenging design operations in the hands of every user.

“Developed by engineers for engineers, SolidWorks is the world’s most widely used 3D CAD software system,” said SolidWorks Director of Marketing and Alliances Efrat Ravid. “Combining it with SolidMap gives engineers the tools they need to do their jobs faster and better by enabling them to visualize and understand complex relationships that exist between SolidWorks files and models.”

“KollabNet has a proven history of delivering solutions to the problems that engineers face every day,” said KollabNet CEO Igal Kaptsan. “SolidMap is our newest solution designed to dramatically improve the productivity of SolidWorks users. Achieving Solution Partner status with this product validates that this product provides real value.”

KollabNet, Inc., is all about increasing manufacturer profitability. The KollabNet Suite of tools is intended to capture and visualize company know-how, capture and manage requirements, predict impact of change, and to provide behavioral links between existing engineering tools. Working with leading large and mid-size manufacturers, KollabNet automates portions of their design process never before addressed by software. For a demo and more information, please visit www.kollabnet.com, or call 717-560-9580.

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