For more information, visit
http://www. More than 1,250 CAD managers and users provided valid responses. Manufacturing engineers need to modify designs based on
what machine tools are available at the time."
Kubotek's CAD Interoperability Survey demonstrates that, although many
design and manufacturing companies are focused on standardizing on a small
number of tools, and CAD vendors claim to have "solved the problem" through
the use of industry standard formats and direct translators, the end users are
still having difficulty sharing files.

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Kubotek Spectrum is a convenient way to review design data stored in the
most common and current engineering file formats, without the danger of
changing the data in any way.

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"Virtual Services' depth of automotive knowledge adds tremendous strength to
the i. In addition, our companies share
similar cultures and together can provide the highest level of customer
satisfaction in the automotive industry.

All trademarks, trade names and service marks referenced herein belong to
their respective companies. "The reality is that CAD
files need to be leveraged and shared by everyone in the design and
manufacturing cycle. A multi-CAD engineering tool, Spectrum provides an easy
way for engineering and non-engineering professionals to access engineering
and design data, improving inter-departmental communications flow and helping
manufacturers speed products to market.

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For more information, please visit
http://www.
Industrial engineers need access to the files for in-process assembly and
fabrication drawings.

One way that some designers are coping is through the use of CAD viewers.

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The result is a solution that can help
engineers test conceptual designs at the earliest stages of the
product development cycle providing the benefit of discovering design
flaws early in the process thus improving quality, time to market, and
reducing large downstream manufacturing costs.
Additional enhancements in FloWizard V2 are compressible flow
physics, heat exchanger models, and new post-processing features
including iso-surfaces, arbitrary plane cuts, and point probes. Virtual
Services and Cadpo are currently collaborating on content to offer the
i.

About Cadpo
CAD Potential, Inc.get.
Kubotek USA recently introduced the Kubotek Spectrum(TM), a free downloadable
software solution designed to provide convenient access to design data stored
in all the most commonly used computer-aided design (CAD) formats, including:
Pro/ENGINEER, UG, CATIA, SolidWorks, Inventor, KeyCreator, CADKEY, AutoCAD,
IGES, STEP and more .

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"Where CFD has been traditionally restricted to high fidelity
complex modeling, FloWizard now also brings fluid and airflow
simulation to all stages in the product design process," said Paul
Bemis, Vice President of Marketing at Fluent. FloWizard
makes this possible.
FloWizard has been adopted in industrial corporations worldwide as
the CFD standard in their design departments . Fluent's software is
used for simulation, visualization, and analysis of fluid flow, heat
and mass transfer, and chemical reactions.
The companies said that providing automotive curriculum and learning
content for CATIA, Unigraphics and Teamcenter gives OEMs and suppliers more
flexible and cost-effective training that can be delivered on-demand as
needed. and Microsoft Corp. Established in 1988, Cadpo is a privately owned company,
headquartered in Westminster, Colorado with international offices in Japan,
Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

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Using
Fluent's software, product development , design and research engineers
build virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and
existing designs, allowing them to improve design quality while
reducing cost and speeding time to market.it Engineering Knowledge system.virtualautomotive.

Kubotek USA: 'CAD Interoperability Problem Still Exists'

Unfortunately, the proliferation of different,
proprietary CAD formats has added a new level of complexity and has created an
additional roadblock to productivity.

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Virtual Services Cadpo Announce Strategic Partnership to Offer Cost- Effective Productivity-Enhancing Automotive MCAD/PLM Training

get. "Combining our
automotive expertise with the knowledge management and delivery strength of
Cadpo's i. implements
process improvements and new technologies that accelerate the product
development process, increase engineering efficiency, improve product quality
and reduce cost. CAD vendors often describe this
sharing as "interoperability" and claim to support the process through
industry standards like STEP and IGES or direct translators.
* Almost half (46 percent) of the survey respondents need to use 3 or
more different CAD tools per month.
Kubotek Spectrum is derived from the Kubotek KeyCreator product.
KeyCreator blends surface, solid and wireframe modeling, allowing for easy
model modification and editing functionality to support rapid manufacturing.

Contact:
Gloria Martel Roberta Carlton
Kubotek USA SparkSource
(508) 229-2020 (781) 274-6061 x210
rcarlton@sparksource.

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FloWizard V2 builds on the success of the product's 2004 debut,
furthering Fluent's goal of bringing the power of computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) to a wider engineering audience. FloWizard V2 combines
the ease of use of a wizard interface with the powerful FLUENT 6. "By introducing testing
earlier in the product design process, FloWizard is breaking the
'design, build, test' cycle that still permeates the engineering
culture--in an ideal world testing should be done throughout the
product design process.
FloWizard V2 is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2005.it Knowledge Management system
as its strategic platform for delivering engineering knowledge to its clients
both in the classroom and over the web for self-paced learning.it program will enable us to serve our customers in a whole new
way. -- 2005 CAD Interoperability Survey Offers Comprehensive View of
Interoperability Issues Across the Design and Manufacturing

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.com
Kubotek, KeyCreator, and CADKEY are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Kubotek Corporation.

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Fluent Previews FloWizard V2 at NDES; Leading Provider of Fluid Simulation Technologies Breaks ''Design Build Test'' Product Development Cycle with Early-Sta

Additional new
CAD file import formats are CATIA V5, NASTRAN, PATRAN, and ANSYS ,
ensuring compatibility with all major CAE software.

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FloWizard V2 introduces several new features , including support
for Fluent's RSolve computing service, which allows FloWizard
calculations to be run remotely on Fluent's large parallel computing
cluster from anywhere in the world.com

About Fluent

Fluent is the world's largest provider of computational fluid
dynamics (CFD ) software and consulting services.com .

About Kubotek
Kubotek USA, Inc.

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Break-through features of FloWizard V1 included
"guide me" features; collaboration; automatic geometry clean up and
meshing; flow volume extraction; a fully automated CFD model setup and
solution process; and automated post-processing, data extraction and
report generation.
Key data points from the Kubotek CAD Interoperability Survey include:

* More than eighty percent of the respondents indicated that they re-use
data and model components from a previous model (either their own or
someone else's) when constructing models.kubotekusa.

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Fluent's corporate
headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, with offices
in Belgium, England, France, Germany, India , Italy, China, Japan and
Sweden. Its CFD software is also available around the world through
joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia,
Brazil, China, Taiwan, the Czech Republic , Middle East, and most
European countries."

About Virtual Services
Headquartered in Madison Heights, Mich.

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CFD can actually be an extremely helpful tool
for validating design concepts before they're committed to. FloWizard's unique interface was created based on extensive
usability studies at major corporations. It aims to make the use of
CFD amongst designers just as easy and common as CAD software is
today. By simulating a
product's fluid flow characteristics earlier in the design process,
FloWizard users need fewer physical prototypes, identify optimum
designs sooner, and increase the efficiency of their design and
engineering process.
Virtual Services provides engineering solutions and support services to
suppliers of BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai,
Nissan and Toyota. The company provides engineering solutions and support
services to auto suppliers of BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors,
Honda, Hyundai, Nissan and Toyota. The survey was designed to find out
how widespread the issues around CAD interoperability are and the depth of the
problem. The
rapidly expanding KeyCreator product line includes multidimensional design and
drafting, NC programming and the company's unique geometry-based foundation
with localized feature editing and sophisticated deformation techniques. Kubotek USA develops and manufactures
KeyCreator software (formerly CADKEY) and is also responsible for sales,
marketing, distribution and support for the Americas. All other brand and product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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) or
visit the FloWizard website for your local contact: www.get. Virtual Services specializes in the
automotive industry and offers automotive OEMs and their supply base a
comprehensive total service solution including CAD and PDM technology, on-site
implementation services, consulting , system administration services, technical
training and continuous support., Kubotek(R) USA today unveiled
the results of the 2005 CAD Interoperability Survey, the company's study of
the design and manufacturing marketplace., headquartered in Marlborough, MA, is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Kubotek Corporation.

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For information on product configuration and pricing please contact a
Fluent sales representative (Phone: (603) 643-2600 in the U.

, Hewlett-
Packard Co.

This category is also appropriate for CAD association or organization web sites or member directories.

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, the
worldwide leader in computational fluid dynamics, will preview
FloWizard V2 for audiences at the National Design Show, NDES, in
Chicago, part of National Manufacturing Week in the U.
First released in 2004, FloWizard is Fluent's revolutionary,
general-purpose computational fluid dynamics software for design
engineers.

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The preview
will be held on Tuesday, March 8th in room N126 of the show's North
Hall.
FloWizard V2 also offers CAD integration features that will
benefit ProEngineer, UniGraphics, SolidWorks, and Solid Edge users. This
extends the range of problems that can be analyzed by designers. It is a vital part of the
computer-aided engineering (CAE) process for companies around the
world and is deployed in nearly every manufacturing industry. and
Cadpo announced today a strategic partnership to provide automotive MCAD/PLM
(mechanical computer-aided design/product lifecycle management) training to
OEMs and suppliers in Michigan.
"Virtual Services and Cadpo are able to provide an unprecedented level of
support to the automotive industry in many geographies around the world," said
D., Virtual Services, Inc. However,
converting a CAD file to a different format does not capture all the
information that an engineer needs to do the job. Available as a download, the professional grade
viewer, which has a Windows interface, can be easily mastered by non-
engineering professionals working in the marketing, sales, executive , and
support or service departments.

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fluid simulation engine. Cadpo provides engineering knowledge through i.get.get. An
executive summary is available online at:
http://www.
* Over three -quarters (77 percent) of respondents said they receive half
or fewer of their external CAD models in their preferred format.

Visit Kubotek at: http://www.

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This Web-based access to Fluent's
remote simulation facility brings supercomputer performance to the
design engineer's desktop, freeing up her workstation for other tasks., Virtual Services, Inc.get. The company is an authorized business
partner of IBM, Dassault Systemes, UGS, Sun Microsystems, Inc.it(R) is the only multi-application e-learning system in the MCAD/PLM
industry.

com/products/spectrum_CP
Engineers who design products or manufacturing equipment based on models
created by others need to be able to efficiently share their files.
Kubotek Spectrum is immediately available for free download at:
http://www.

This category is for companies that provide CAD (Computer Aided Design ) services.

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FLUENT(R) is a registered trademark of Fluent Inc. Mark Ratliff, president and CEO, Virtual Services. Cadpo's
i.cadpo.kubotekusa.
* Only 6 percent of the respondents always received models from other
companies in their preferred tool's format.

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Virtual Services has adopted Cadpo's i.it CATIA V5 Automotive Edition, which will be available March 1, 2005 . ("Cadpo") empowers people through engineering
knowledge with e-learning, training, and services offering expertise in CATIA,
NX/Unigraphics, SolidWorks, Teamcenter Engineering, and others.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
National Manufacturing Week 2005

LEBANON, N.
Designs created using these tools can now be read directly without
translation to intermediate, generic CAD file formats.
"CAD was supposed to make life easier for designers and engineers," stated
Robert Bean, chief operating officer, Kubotek USA.
* Only 30 percent of the respondents consistently received CAD models
from their co-workers in their preferred tool's format.

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----Fluent Inc . MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich."
"This is a very important partnership," said Kevin Noe, president , Cadpo.com .kubotekusa.

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S. The companies' combined programs will impact
the automotive industry with lower cost e-learning and blended learning
offerings, as well as productivity-enhancing best practice training.it(R)
-- the only multi-application e-learning system in the MCAD/PLM market.com

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