Actify, Inc. and TTF Enter
into Strategic Partnership
Partnership Will Provide Enhanced
and Additional CAD Importers For Actify Customers
Lyon, France and San Francisco, CA— March 2, 2004— Actify
Inc., the leader in client-server design visualization and collaboration
solutions for the high technology, automotive, industrial automation
and discrete manufacturing industries, and TTF, a leader in CAD
data interoperability libraries and multi CAD Digital Mock up solutions,
today announced that the two companies have entered into a long
term strategic partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, TTF
Foundations, CAD importing technology, will be available for Actify's
SpinFire 2004 entire family of products.
Under the terms of the agreement, Actify users will be able to
use TTF's technology to import 3D data formats from any native
CAD system for conversion into Actify's .3D format, making
file access five to ten times faster than previously available.
This also ensures the quality and integrity of the original CAD
data is maintained, despite the complexity or size of the original
CAD file. Through this technology, the ability to compress and
maintain geometry will allow Actify customers to not only open
and distribute files quicker but to compress files much smaller
while ensuring their designs are being accurately communicated
throughout the enterprise and supply chain. In addition, Actify
will add an updated Catia V5 importer, CADDS 4 and 5, and .prc,
TTF's Project Reviewer intelligent compressed file format,
as well as updating several existing supported CAD formats.
The
Actify SpinFire 2004 product line supports files created in any
CAD file format converting them, into .3D, a world-renowned
CAD visualization file format for communicating digital design
data beyond the engineering department to knowledge workers.
"Our partnership with TTF will ensure that Actify customers
can communicate complex 2D and 3D design data knowing that the
integrity of the data has been
preserved," said Randy Ochs, president and CEO of Actify. "TTF's
superior technology will help Actify customers to realize increased cost savings
and productivity gains."
"We are very proud to have been chosen by Actify as
they are a worldwide leader in the digital design communications
business," said Jean Luc
Brocard, president, Services, TTF SA. "We look forward to developing
our relationship by cross fertilizing our networks in geographies like Japan,
US and Europe. Once
again, TTF demonstrates its leadership in providing best in class tools."
SpinFire
Professional 2004 provides powerful 3D and 2D CAD visualization
capabilities, without requiring a CAD system, in a secure and user-friendly
format. SpinFire
Professional 2004 enables access, communication and distribution of multiple
CAD formats throughout the enterprise and supply chain, allowing companies
to realize cost savings and productivity gains in product design, procurement,
quoting
and estimation, manufacturing sales, marketing and support.
TTF develops, markets
and supports best-in-class solutions for CAD data interoperability,
multi-CAD digital mock-up and collaborative engineering solutions. Products
and services are targeted at the automotive, aerospace, machinery and consumer
products
industries.
About Actify Inc.
Founded in 1996, Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning
global leader of client/server CAD visualization solutions. Actify's
SpinFire product line provides the lowest total cost of ownership
with the highest scalability
across manufacturing industries and through their supply
chains. The Actify SpinFire solution is sold through authorized distributors
and Value Added
Resellers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Actify is headquartered
in San Francisco,
California. For more information please visit www.actify.com or call 415.227.3800.
About
TTF
Trade and Technologies France SA (TTF) develops and markets solutions for
CAD model
interoperability (native translators with history tree) and digital mock-up
(Project ReviewerTM for Collaborative Engineering). TTF enjoys a worldwide
presence in
the automotive, aerospace, machinery and consumer goods industries. Among
its references are Renault, Valeo, Legrand, Konsberg, Ansys, Dassault Systèmes,
Cimatron Ltd., DP Technology, Sescoi, PTC, Messier,… who can also rely
on TTF high quality services such as installation, maintenance, training
and specific software development. More information on TTF is available at: www.ttf-group.com.
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