PLANO, Texas, July 3, 2007 – UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced the availability of Parasolid® version 19.0 (V19.0) software, the latest release of its PLM industry-leading geometric modeling component software.
Parasolid V19.0 is fully supported on Windows Vista™ operating system and delivers extended support for key functions in modeling, editing, blending and rendering. The addition of new capabilities, which include enhancements to sheet extension and trimming, blend construction and regeneration, and surface and tessellation quality, mean that users of Parasolid-based systems can look forward to greater automation of workflows in model construction, editing, interoperability and downstream processing. Also included in V19.0 are new options for configuring and monitoring the results of rendering and validation operations to further improve application performance and ease of implementation.
To help the next generation of innovators accelerate their Parasolid-based developments, Parasolid V19.0 ships with an enhanced set of developer support tools including Parasolid Workshop.Net, a new support application that employs the latest Microsoft® technologies to demonstrate best practice guidelines for developing Parasolid-based systems. Delivered with full source code and documentation, Parasolid Workshop.Net also includes an extensible suite of utilities for viewing and interrogating Parasolid model (XT) data, and provides an easy-to-use plug-in mechanism for prototyping Parasolid-based functionality.
“Parasolid V19.0 demonstrates our enduring commitment to customer satisfaction with improvements in functional robustness, performance and ease of implementation,” said Chuck Grindstaff, executive vice president of Products for UGS PLM Software. “Our experience in supporting a global community of Parasolid-based innovators leaves no doubt that continuous improvement in these mission-critical areas makes Parasolid the world’s most trusted foundation for demanding 3D applications.”
Also announced today is Version 10.0 of Parasolid’s interoperability toolkit suite, including Parasolid Bodyshop, a Parasolid-based toolkit that repairs, optimizes and validates 3D models, and translator toolkits for several popular CAD formats. In this latest release Parasolid Bodyshop is delivered with updated UNIX platform support, and enhancements in geometry simplification and output preprocessing, with improvements in efficiency, robustness and performance.
About
Parasolid
Parasolid is a key software product in the UGS PLM
Components suite of solutions, providing the geometric modeling
foundation for many of the world’s leading computer-aided
design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE)
applications. UGS PLM Software develops Parasolid, uses it
throughout its extensive portfolio of product development
applications, and licenses it to independent software vendors
(ISVs) and end-user organizations to provide a consistent,
world-class 3D modeling platform for the PLM industry.
About UGS PLM
Software
UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives
(A&D), is a leading global provider of product lifecycle
management (PLM) software and services with 4.4 million licensed
seats and 47,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano,
Texas, UGS PLM Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a
world where organizations and their partners collaborate through
global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and
services. For more information on UGS PLM Software products
and services, visit www.siemens.com/ugs.
About Siemens Automation and Drives
The Siemens Automation and Drives Group (A&D), Nuremberg,
Germany, is the leading manufacturer in this field worldwide.
Products supplied by A&D include standard products for the
manufacturing and process industries and for the electrical
installation industry as well as system solutions, for example for
machine tools, and solutions for whole industries such as the
automation of entire automobile factories or chemical plants.
Supplementing this range of products and services, A&D also
offers software for linking production and management (horizontal
and vertical IT integration) and for optimizing production
processes. A&D employs 70,600 people worldwide and in fiscal
year 2006 (to September 30) earned a group profit of €1.572
billion on sales of €12.848 billion and orders of
€14.108 billion, according to U.S. GAAP. Further information
about A&D is available in the Internet at www.siemens.com/automation.
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of Siemens AG. UGS and Parasolid are trademarks or registered
trademarks of UGS Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States
and in other countries. Microsoft and Windows Vista are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation or its
subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries.
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