CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 April 2007
Product News
CADD Edge, Leading SolidWorks® Reseller, to Market SensAble Technologies FreeForm® ModelingT Solutions
SensAble Technologies, Inc . announced that it has signed CADD Edge, Inc ., of Westborough, MA, as a reseller partner for its FreeForm Modeling products throughout New York, New Jersey and the six New England states. The FreeForm Modeling systems provide product designers with a fast, creative and intuitive 3D design environment which allows them to create models that are compatible with traditional computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) solutions.
"SensAble's tools allow us to offer our clients a solution that will enhance their designers' creativity and streamline the design process. Many of our clients already own the FreeForm Modeling solution, in industries such as consumer goods, footwear, industrial design and medical - it's an easy-to-use tool that can reduce the complexity of working with scan data, both medical and consumer based origins, and offers anyone designing complex, organic designs a complementary design solution. For those companies with unique designs that necessitate the combination of organic designs with parametric modeling, this tool can provide a streamlined path from design to manufacturing," stated Tim Preston, Vice President of CADD Edge. "It's an exciting tool that extends the creativity options available to designers."
"Customers are looking for solution providers like CADD Edge, that can help them find and implement the right solutions all the way through the product design process, from the designer to the manufacturer," stated Mark Tatkow, Vice President of Sales at SensAble. "The FreeForm modeling systems are helping companies in all industries, from footwear designers to physicians, and from toy companies to home decor manufacturers -- get products to market faster and more cost-effectively. We are confident that CADD Edge's industry expertise, product line and consultative sales approach will make them a very successful reseller."
The FreeForm Modeling solutions are unique in the industry, and utilize a patented haptic interface which allows designers to feel 'digital clay,' as they model and sculpt their products in three dimensions. Designed with tools that designers and modelers find intuitive, the FreeForm systems enable users to quickly be productive and achieve greater design flexibility, especially in creating organic shapes, than with traditional CAD systems. The systems' interoperability allows it to become an integral part of a company's workflow-whether product designs are started with a sketch, a scan or an existing file and whether they are output for rapid prototyping or to a traditional CAD/CAM system for downstream engineering or manufacturing.
Thousands of consumer and industrial products are being designed with FreeForm Modeling systems worldwide. Customers include Fortune 100 companies, independent designers, international manufacturers, universities and medical and dental professionals, among others.
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