NEW ENCAPTA SOFTWARE FROM VISTAGY ENRICHES THE CAD ENVIRONMENT FOR ENGINEERS

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NEW ENCAPTA SOFTWARE FROM VISTAGY ENRICHES THE CAD ENVIRONMENT FOR ENGINEERS
22 February 2001 - VISTAGY

VISTAGY, Inc., announced today the release of EnCapta software, which extends the power of sophisticated computer-aided-design (CAD) systems that engineers use to create 3D product geometry. EnCapta augments CAD software by providing engineers with tools for capturing and communicating specialized non-geometric design data that are vital for complete product definition. Engineering organizations that use CAD models as a primary source of information about products will benefit from EnCapta's complementary software tools for enriching the design environment.

VISTAGY has longtime expertise in providing specialized CAD-integrated design environments for customers such as Sikorsky Aircraft, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier Aerospace, and many other companies. EnCapta advances the technology underlying the company's well-regarded FiberSIM software, which provides engineers with a specialized environment integrated into the CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, and Unigraphics CAD systems to meet the demands of composite part design and manufacture. With EnCapta, engineers can now capture complex non-geometric design data for any specialized area of engineering and store it associatively with the CAD geometry.

"Engineers today perform under compressed design schedules in an information-intensive atmosphere," says Steven C. Luby, president and CEO of VISTAGY, Inc. "In addition to creating the product geometry, they are responsible for organizing an enormous amount of non-geometric design data that cannot be expressed or managed efficiently in the traditional CAD environment. Crucial product data resides in spreadsheets, text documents, email messages, even handwritten notes. With EnCapta, engineers now have a structured way to capture all this information, associate it with the CAD geometry, and communicate it to other applications and decision-makers throughout the enterprise. Because EnCapta presents the complete design context associated with the geometry, more-informed decisions can be made, resulting in better products going to market faster at lower cost."

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About: VISTAGY
VISTAGY, Inc., is a leading developer of engineering software that enhances commercial 3D CAD systems. VISTAGY’s specialized engineering environments enable engineers to capture and communicate complete digital product definitions within CAD, thereby increasing productivity, improving the communication of product information throughout the product’s lifecycle, and allowing better-informed decision making early in design. VISTAGY software is used throughout the world in the aerospace, automotive, marine, medical, sporting goods, and transportation interiors industries. The company also offers training and consulting services.

FiberSIM is a suite of software that turns major CAD systems into advanced tools for designing and manufacturing composite parts. The software enables engineers to create a complete digital product definition of a composite part within their 3D modeling environment. FiberSIM supports flexible design methodologies for a wide variety of materials and manufacturing processes and automatically generates design details all the way from complex ply and zone drop-offs to variable offset surfaces for mock-up and tooling. The software simulates how composite material deforms over complex curvature and generates manufacturing information including documentation, flat patterns, and data to drive downstream manufacturing equipment. FiberSIM also uses XML technology to share composites data with people and applications throughout the enterprise.

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