Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq:DASTY) company and market-leading provider of 3D components, today announced the R15 release of their 3D modeling and interoperability product lines.

For ACIS, R15 includes:

• Capability to offset surfaces with high curvature, small G1 discontinuities, geometric singularities, and illegal parameterization. This functionality includes advanced techniques to successfully offset surfaces that fail using standard mathematical methods.
• Extended ability to create smooth Skin and Loft surface networks from tangent input curves, leading to faster, more direct solutions for surfacing design applications.
• Major improvements in performance and capability of the Remove Faces feature.
• Support for Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition.

"R15 is specifically tailored to improve functionality and quality for the CAD, CAM, and CAE markets," said Ray Bagley, Product Manager of 3D Modeling. "We took a market-specific approach, examined current trends and demands in these critical areas and carefully answered those requirements within the modeler."

For R15, the InterOp line of translators includes:

• Updates to support translating CATIA V5 R15, CATIA V4 4.2.4, Unigraphics NX3, Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2, Solidworks 2005, Inventor 9, and Parasolid 16.1 files.
• A new InterOp Connect programming interface with easy and flexible data translation. It provides many advantages to both new and experienced application developers, such as:
• Ease of use and maintenance.
• Consistency between all InterOp data formats, allowing rapid addition of new translation formats to an application.

Connect's object-oriented interface translates between popular standard and proprietary CAD data formats, either directly from one format to another (file to file) or by reading or writing a CAD file directly into an ACIS-enabled application.

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