Alibre, FreeDesign Bundle Design Expert, FreeDimension
 RICHARDSON, Texas,
March 9, 2007 - Alibre, Inc., and FreeDesign, Inc, jointly announced the
bundle release of Alibre Design Expert and FreeDimension. The double
software package combines Alibre’s most advanced parametric solid modeler
with FreeDesign’s revolutionary new method for 3D surface creation. Both
applications have earned a reputation for easy accessibility and powerful
functionality at a highly affordable price. The bundle, which retails for
$1595 in North America, represents the most advanced 3D design capabilities
available in the price range.
The combination of the two technologies allows even novice users to
create virtually any organic shape with FreeDimension’s intuitive and
easy-to-learn controls. Curved 3D surfaces from FreeDimension can then be
readily passed to Alibre’s solid modeling environment. Surface creations may
then be directly combined with solid mechanical parts and assemblies,
plotted as detailed 2D drawings, rendered with 3D effects, or exported to
common manufacturing and document formats. The power to create mechanical
designs incorporating complex organic shapes was once only available to an
elite group of design professionals. The bundle makes these capabilities
accessible to literally anyone.
“FreeDesign and Alibre are breaking down the final barriers to pervasive
3D,” said Greg Milliken, CEO of Alibre, Inc. “Never before has free-form
design and parametric CAD been available at this price point. Free Design
and Alibre have a common vision of making great 3D design software available
to all. This bundle is perfect for marine design, mold making, jewelry and
consumer products -- anything that requires organic shapes, precise
mechanical components, or the combination of the two.”
Free Design’s free-form modeler is only one of the many new additions in
Alibre Design Expert 9.2, which becomes available worldwide in late March.
As Alibre’s top of the line of solid modeling offerings, Expert 9.2 gives a
full array of design features that handle all aspects of product
development: conceptualization, presentation, and output to production.
FreeDesign’s patented N-Sided Surfacing (NSS) technology represents a
revolutionary method of surface generation and control. NSS frees the user
from the restrictions of 4-sided surfaces prevalent with NURBS and Bezier
methods.
“FreeDimension’s NSS is radical in its simplicity,” says Dick Sowar, CEO
of FreeDesign. “It used to be that curves and surfaces were the most
troublesome aspect in CAD. In FreeDimension, surfaces simply flow between
whatever curves are necessary to define shape, and curves are so easily
manipulated, that even a child can use it. FreeDimension frees the
imagination, and Alibre Design is the easy, practical way to get those
creations into manufacturable form.”
About Alibre
Alibre Inc. develops and markets Alibre Design™, the fastest growing
parametric 3D solid modeling software for mechanical design and
manufacturing. One-fifth the cost of comparable software, Alibre Design
delivers quick ROI, ease-of-use, rich functionality and unique real-time
support, and is enabling small and medium-sized businesses and workgroups to
put 3D CAD on every engineer's desk, similar to utilities like Word or
Excel. Alibre also delivers Alibre Design Xpress, the industry's only true
3D parametric modeler available free of charge. Alibre Design is available
in thirteen languages and distributed worldwide. Founded in 1997, Alibre
Inc. is privately funded and based in Richardson, Texas. For more
information and for a free trial of Alibre Design, please visit
www.alibre.com.
About FreeDesign, Inc.
FreeDesign’s breakthrough NSS 3D surfacing technology forms the
foundation of a revolutionary new modeling tool, FreeDimension.
FreeDimension allows for unprecedented freedom and intuition in 3D curve
manipulation for initial concept designs. Organic and ergonomic surfaces,
traditionally the most difficult to model in CAD, can now be spontaneously
generated without advanced modeling skills. The patent-pending
N-Sided-Surfacing represents a new generation of 3D surface modeling that
enables fast, flexible 3D surface modeling that proves easily superior over
NURBS- and Bezier-based systems.
FreeDesign is based in Longmont, Colorado. A free 30-day trial of
FreeDimension is available for downloaded at
www.freedesign-inc.com.
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