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2 February 2007

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KollabNet Debuts SolidMap at SolidWorks World 2007

KollabNet, Inc. is debuting its new productivity tool called SolidMap which enables SolidWorks users to visualize relationships that exist in part and assembly files on a highly intuitive graphical map.

Visualization of the feature, part, and file interdependencies reduces the time required to understand how a model is built which, in turn, enables users to much more efficiently edit models and completely eliminates the need for users to rebuild models prior to being able to edit them.

SolidMap represents significant value to both the organization as well as the individual user.

At the organizational level, SolidMap provides:

•  Overall productivity improvement through more efficient visualization of the complex relationships that exist within a SolidWorks file.

•  Increased collaboration among SolidWorks users by enabling users to more easily understand how a model was built.

For individuals, SolidMap enables users to:

•  Understand models in significantly less time in order to complete necessary edits

•  More efficiently pinpoint and fix rebuild errors

•  More easily share models with colleagues

These benefits are realized due to the unique way that SolidMap reads and displays relationships between SolidWorks files, assembly components, and part features. SolidMap reads and displays the following four types of relationships:

SolidWorks files that reference each other

SolidMap enables users to view an assembly model in the context of an interactive block diagram. The user can view "where used" and "reference" relationships that already exist between parts and subassemblies within an assembly file.

Assembly components (mate relationships)

SolidMap enables users to view mates between components in an assembly through a unique block diagram.

Part features (Parent/Child relationships)

SolidMap enables users to view existing parent/child relationships that exist within SolidWorks part and assembly files in the context of a block diagram.

Feature detail dependencies

SolidMap enables users to understand existing dependencies between features and/or sketches within a part through a unique block diagram.

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