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Actify, Inc. Launches SpinFire Publisher and Viewer 2.0
New SpinFire Release Moves CAD Designs to the Web with Exceptional Ease
Chicago, IL - March 6, 2001- Actify, Inc. announced today the launch of SpinFire Publisher
and Viewer 2.0, its flagship solution for publishing mechanical designs in web-based applications. The
company will feature its new SpinFire product at the National Design Engineering Show (NDES),
McCormick Place, Chicago, IL on March 5-8, 2001. SpinFire Publisher 2.0 and SpinFire Viewer 2.0
work in tandem to accelerate the process of delivering design content to the web. SpinFire brings 3D
and 2D designs into one integrated presentation tool with a unique set of measurement and
collaboration features. Setting new ease-of-use standards in the publishing and viewing industry,
SpinFire's highly intuitive interface makes it simple to use and implement by both CAD users and
nonCAD users outside of engineering, such as marketing, sales, support and service personnel.
These departments do not have to learn or install a CAD system in order to view and publish product
designs. The free SpinFire Viewer is downloadable from the Actify web site at www.Actify.com.
SpinFire Publisher is a very powerful system in addition to its ease-of-use. Design content comes
from a variety of sources including design engineers, manufacturing partners, and suppliers. SpinFire
delivers multiple business benefits by publishing these designs to the web for internal communication,
external collaboration, catalogs, marketing applications, and sales collateral. End users can
measure, analyze, and annotate designs to see critical design details and make faster, better
decisions. Actify’s industry-leading import technologies support all major design formats including
Pro/E, Catia, Unigraphics (Parasolid), I-DEAS, Autodesk (DWG, DXF, and Inventor), SolidWorks,
Solid Edge, Parasolid, IGES, STEP, 3D Studio, G-Code, VRML, STL, and VDA.
"Moving beyond Art-to-Part, SpinFire makes ‘Art-to-Web’ immediately possible for any type of
business or collaboration. Existing designs can be added to any web-based application as easily as
publishing a photograph, without the requiring a server or CAD system,” said Mark Gisi, president and
CEO of Actify. “SpinFire was developed with an emphasis on simplicity, usability, and performance,
then enhanced with the most advanced features in the viewing and publishing marketplace."
ManufacturingQuote Inc. chose SpinFire 2.0 as their standard "publish and view" technology
for MfgQuote.com?, the leading Web service for buying and selling custom manufacturing services.
Mitch Free, president and CEO of ManufacturingQuote Inc., explained "To enable eProcurement
processes, MfgQuote.com required the most robust and intuitive viewer available. We believe
SpinFire will make 3D content widely accessible and take its place as an industry standard, just like
HTML or Microsoft Word."
David Wayne, president of EMT Software, remarked, “Before evaluating SpinFire, we never
expected it could be this easy to add visualization to our online parts library, PartsWorks.com. Actify
has provided us with a web-based solution that fits into our world rather than forcing us to adapt to
theirs. SpinFire's rich feature set allows our customers to get the best preview of the millions of 3D
parts we offer.”
New SpinFire Features Enable Users to Measure, Analyze, Cross-section and Annotate
Designs on the Web
SpinFire Publisher introduces several major innovations enabling direct publication of all major
CAD formats. SpinFire compresses large designs into a web-optimized file format optimized for high
performance web-based applications. You can also designate multiple pre-defined views to highlight
design features, with control over viewing angle, cross-section, color, transparency, and background.
Web developers can customize design presentations through parameters in their HTML or through
Javascript. SpinFire also offers a number of parameters for maximizing presentation impact. The
program can also generate 2D design previews for direct insertion into web pages.
The lightweight SpinFire Viewer browser plug-in makes viewing fast and easy with its own web-
optimized view-only format, delivering complete, accurate, and secure design information. Once a
design is displayed in the Viewer, users can rotate, pan, and zoom to quickly locate and visualize
design features. You can also spin a 3D model to gain an intuitive feel for a design, as if you were
holding the part in your hand. Cross-section capabilities allow the user to create and visualize critical
design details normally hidden from view. Grid and rulers features make it simple to visually assess
distances. The user can also take measurements on the 3D model, such as distances, radii, and hole
centers, to gauge critical design specifications. Direct annotation of designs is also now available to
facilitate collaboration and communication.
Other Actify Products
Actify's 3DView? is a very popular desktop application that enables the user to visualize,
share, measure and markup 3D CAD/CAM models without having a full featured CAD system or a
costly server. 3Dview reads native CAD formats directly. This standalone software product runs on
all the popular platforms ?Windows? 95, 98, NT, and 2000 personal computer. Users can try a full-
featured version of the software by downloading it directly from Actify's web site: www.Actify.com.
Pricing and Support
SpinFire Publisher can be ordered online, via phone or fax, or through an Authorized Actify VAR.
Pricing for SpinFire Publisher starts at $2,000 USD. SpinFire Viewer is a free downloadable software
product. Online buyers can place credit card orders using Actify's web page order form. To purchase
Actify products by phone, call (415)421-1840, or fax your order to (415)647-6506. Dealer inquiries
are welcome.
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