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10 April 2007

Product News

ICEM Ships a New Release of its Surface Modelling Suite ICEM Shape Design R17 to Customers

ICEM Ltd. announced ICEM Shape Design (ISD) R17 is shipping worldwide.

ISD R17 provides a range of intuitive tools for the creation, validation and modification of any type of surface, from freeform surfaces to complex mechanical shapes. Developed by ICEM on the Dassault Systèmes CAA V5 software architecture it integrates seamlessly with CATIA V5 and other CAAV5-based product lifecycle management (PLM) environments. ISD R17 is available as a 'collaborative' installation where access is available to all licensed CATIA V5 products or indeed 'standalone' where no CATIA V5 software is required.

New functionality combined with over a 100 customer-driven enhancements. ICEM has worked closely with its customers to ensure it has developed new and innovative functionality. ISD R17 delivers sophisticated new functionality in geometry creation, modification and quality analysis in addition to enhancements ensuring high quality results and advanced surfacing options.

The advanced surface modeling facilities of ISD deliver solutions ranging from general surface modelling to the specialised surface design and engineering requirements of specific industry sectors, such as automotive body and interior components, aircraft exterior skins, business jet and luxury yacht interiors, consumer durable goods and complex tyre designs.

''The market is facing increasing pressures today on their design and engineering processes and need to consider innovative approaches to help reduce design cycle time and maximize design appeal. ISD offers a unique and innovative V5-based styling-to-manufacturing solution that can reduce that cycle time, by providing visibility across the enterprise from the conceptual stage to manufacturing. This improves the overall product development maximizing variant evaluation whilst minimising costs due to late changes or manufacturing issues'' states Lee Cureton, ICEM's CEO.

Comprehensive software suite .

ISD R17 offers standard configurations and add on modules to address the complete product development processes. Any one of the core configurations can act as the pre-requisite for the specialised add-on modules.

General Availability . The complete product set shipped to customers on 2nd April 2007.

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