solidThinking Plug In Reads SolidWorks 2009
Will be available free to solidThinking, SolidWorks users
 TROY,
MI, Dec 3, 2008 - solidThinking, developer of the globally popular
solidThinking industrial design/styling software and a SolidWorks solution
partner, today announced that it is making available a plug-in for
SolidWorks 2009. The plug-in, which solidThinking and SolidWorks users will
be able to download for free starting Dec. 5, allows for solidThinking files
to be imported directly into SolidWorks or for a SolidWorks model to be
saved as a solidThinking (.st) file.
EuroMold 2008
attendees can learn more about the plug-in and experience a demo of
solidThinking at booth B118, Halle 6.0 Dec. 3-6 at the Exhibition Fair
Ground in Frankfurt, Germany.
“As a leader in the computer-aided industrial design arena, we are
working to ensure that professionals have access to the most advanced,
flexible and time-saving software from whatever platform they are
operating,” said solidThinking Vice President of Product Strategy and
Marketing Alessandro Mazzardo. “The solidThinking plug-in helps preserve
near-seamless creativity and precision.”
With the plug-in, SolidWorks users can import a solidThinking file as a
SolidWorks part. Depending on the options selected, the system creates
surfaces and/or solid bodies. Surfaces may be knit together, or separate
sheet bodies can be created for each solidThinking surface. The user also
may choose to rotate the model so that the original Z axis becomes the Y
axis, providing the same vertical orientation as the original solidThinking
model.
Similarly, solidThinking users can open a SolidWorks model that has been
saved as a solidThinking file using the new plug-in. The SolidWorks sheet
and solid bodies are stored as solidThinking entities, and the hierarchy
given by assemblies, subassemblies and parts is translated into
solidThinking groups and subgroups.
The free plug-in will be available to users at
www.solidthinking.com.
About solidThinking, Inc.
solidThinking, Inc. develops and markets industrial design/styling
software that helps designers invent, explore and evaluate new ideas easily,
rapidly and cost-effectively, without the limitations of traditional
software. Designers use solidThinking software to create photorealistic 3D
virtual prototypes of products across the design arena, from architecture
and automobiles to electronic devices, jewelry, product packaging and
yachts. solidThinking is a wholly owned subsidiary of Troy, Mich.-based
Altair Engineering, Inc. (www.altair.com).
Altair Engineering is privately held and employs more than 1,400 in North
America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.
For more information, news and upcoming events, and to further explore
solidThinking, check out
www.solidthinking.com.
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