CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 November 2005
Product News
Actify Announces Nine Updates to 2D & 3D Importers
Actify Inc. announced that it has released nine updated 2D and 3D importers to help enterprises better communicate digital designs throughout the enterprise and supply chain. The updated importers are developed by Actify to support new and/or upgraded versions of leading CAD systems as they become available. Actify CAD importers allow information and knowledge workers to access native CAD files without the use of a CAD system. Importers open and read files from all major CAD systems, allowing SpinFire Professional or Actify Publisher to publish all major CAD files into Actify's compact and secure .3D file format, which then can be accessed through SpinFire for Microsoft Office, and Actify's free SpinFire Reader products.
Actify's nine updated importers include the following:
• ACIS
• CATIA V5 R15 (2D/3D)
• CATIA V4
• I-DEAS Native
• SolidEdge
• SolidWorks 2006
• STEP
• Unigraphics 3D & 2D
• VRML
Actify's .3D file format makes sharing designs much faster and safer than exchanging CAD files. The .3D files can be less than 10% of original CAD file sizes, allowing for secure distribution of files to those who do not have access to the native CAD applications and for design projects embedding the 3D files into the Microsoft Office applications with SpinFire for Microsoft Office.
Actify's full suite of products are designed to enable easy and secure access, communication and distribution of multiple 2D/3D CAD file formats, and related documents through global enterprises and supply chains, without requiring access to native CAD systems. This allows for paperless distribution of complex design data so companies will realize cost savings and productivity gains in product design, procurement, quoting and estimation, manufacturing, sales, marketing and support.
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