SofTech Inc. (Tewksbury, MA), a provider of design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions, and Cimmetry Systems (Cambrige, MA), a provider of visualization and collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets, have announced a partnership. SofTech will license Cimmetry's AutoVue visualization and collaboration technology for its ProductCenter product lifecycle management (PLM) solution.
Integration of the visualization technology will extend the collaboration capabilities of the PLM, enhancing the solution's document management, design integration, configuration control, change management and enterprise integration capabilities for optimizing product development. The PLM users will gain capabilities to view, markup and collaborate in real-time on native product data of virtually any type, including: 3-D CAD parts and assemblies, 2-D CAD drawings, EDA PCB/IC layouts and schematics, scanned and raster documents, vector files, office documents and graphics.
AutoVue allows users to view, markup and collaborate in real time on over 200 native formats including: CATIA, Pro/Engineer, Unigraphics, SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, JT, AutoCAD, MicroStation, Mechanical Desktop, Cadence Allegro, Mentor Board Station, Orcad, PADS, Microsoft Office, Visio, PDF and TIFF. It is available as a Windows desktop application or a thin-client server based solution.
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