CIMMETRY SHIPS AUTOVUE 17

December 11 2002

Cimmetry Systems Inc, the global leader in Visualization and Collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets today announced the release of AutoVue 17.

There are many significant new features in AutoVue 17.

• Real-Time Collaboration - The AutoVue thin-client solution now provides online real-time Visualization & Collaboration for 2D/3D CAD, EDA & office documents. Thus users can co-view and co-markup all supported formats simultaneously over the Web.
• EDA Format Support (Layout and Schematics) - Cadence Allegro, Mentor Board Station, Allegro IPF, Mentor Neutral, Orcad, PDIF, IDF, Barco DPF...
• New 3D/2D CAD support - CATIA 5, Unigraphics NX, SolidWorks 2003, Solid Edge 12, Inventor 6, SolidDesigner 9, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)...

For the complete list of supported formats visit:
http://www.cimmetry.com/Formats.html

"AutoVue 17 is not only a great leap forward for our own product line, but is light-years ahead of anything else on the market" said Pam Petropoulos, Marketing Manager at Cimmetry Systems. "AutoVue's unique ability to provide out-of-the-box native visualization for 2D & 3D CAD, EDA and office documents, and allow for both real-time and asynchronous collaboration over any network, makes implementing AutoVue an easy choice for businesses of all sizes across a wide range of verticals."

AutoVue's real-time capabilities allow multiple users to hold synchronous collaborative review sessions on virtually any document, over an intranet, extranet or the Internet. AutoVue provides meeting control, co-viewing of a document, co-markup, and built-in chat functionality.

AutoVue allows users to view, markup and collaborate on 200 native document formats from a common UI. Available as a Windows application or a thin-client server based solution, the product allows users to access and provide feedback on critical product data, regardless of format, either locally or over a network/Internet. The AutoVue API is also available to OEM partners wishing to add visualization, markup and real-time collaboration capability to their products.

To download a fully functional evaluation version, try an online demo, or schedule a real-time collaboration meeting using AutoVue, visit http://www.cimmetry.com

About Cimmetry

Cimmetry Systems Inc. is the recognized technology pioneer and market leader in the area of Visualization and Collaboration software tools for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets.

Cimmetry's flagship product, AutoVue, is the premier enterprise-wide viewing and markup package, providing native support for more than 200 formats including 2D/3D CAD, EDA, raster, vector, hybrid, office and graphics. Users have a single point of access to their documents, regardless of format, from a single, easy-to-use interface.

AutoVue is available as a Windows desktop application as well as a thin-client version, deployable on Windows or UNIX servers. Cimmetry's viewing and markup products are strategically designed to integrate seamlessly with Document Management (DM, EDM), Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ASPs and e-business Portals, either directly or via the Web.

AutoVue is sold worldwide and available in many languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Visit Cimmetry on the Web at www.cimmetry.com