ACTIFY SHIPS MULTIPLE LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF SPINFIRE
PROFESSIONAL™ 8.0  

New Features Available to Manufacturers World Wide Deliver Cost
Savings and Productivity Gains in Digital Design
Communication Throughout the Supply Chain

San Francisco, Calif – August 18, 2006 –Actify Inc., the global leader in digital design communication solutions, today announced that SpinFire Professional 8.0, the most advanced digital design communication tool available for the automotive, aerospace, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries, is now available in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. By adding a new language, Simplified Chinese, to the already extensive list of language versions, SpinFire Professional 8.0 allows users world wide to have instant access to complete and accurate design data, reducing design errors, lowering operating costs and shortening product development cycles.

“SpinFire Professional 8.0 was a major step forward for Actify in the implementation of its vision for digital design communication,” said David Opsahl, CEO of Actify. “This release adds native language support for German, French, Japanese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese, allowing our customers in those geographic regions to gain the benefits of the 8.0 release without requiring knowledge of English. This release also includes one new language for Actify - Simplified Chinese - to expand our customer base to China, a high-growth area for discrete manufacturing.”

Key features of SpinFire Professional 8.0 include:

• The ability to view and interact with PMI annotations and is the only product on the market that has forward-reading labels during 3D dynamic camera rotation
• Expanded Exploded Animation capability – new handle-based transformations allow for easy drag and drop user-view creation and animations
• New Application Program Interface (API) that allows 3rd party developers and end users to create plug-in applications to leverage functions and technology within SpinFire Professional for customized uses and vertical industry applications
• A new Intuitive User Interface that features a new layout, grouping, style and logic of the application user interface similar to Microsoft Office
• Enhanced Markup features for notes and dimensions added to a part or assembly, can now be placed on a surface
• Improved Analysis Capabilities for removing material and retaining material cross-section modes allowing users to choose between a full cross-section or a profile view
• Complete Part Comparisons between an original model and a second version to highlight added and/or removed material
• Save Files to U3D format for back-end archiving of design data using PDF

A free trial version of the product is available for download at www.actify.com.

About Actify Inc.
Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning global leader of digital design communication solutions with customer companies throughout the automotive, aerospace, industrial automation, and discrete manufacturing industries. The Actify Suite of Products are 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.

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