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ACTIFY SHIPS EUROPEAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF SPINFIRE PROFESSIONAL™ 8.0

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

San Francisco, Calif - June 2, 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, high technology, aerospace, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries, is now available in German and French Language versions. New features allow European users instant access to complete and accurate design data, reducing design errors, lowering operating costs and shortening product development cycles.

"The new functionality in SpinFire Professional 8.0 was the direct result of increasing demand and feedback from our customers" said Chris Jones, President of Actify Inc. "With the new API in SpinFire Professional 8.0, German and French customers can customize functionality pertinent to their own internal workflow or processes, allowing them to improve their communication and collaboration across their organizations, and integrate their supply chains, with minimal deployment costs."

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

Actify's SpinFire Professional 8.0 is available in English, German, and French. A free trial version of the product is available for download at www.actify.com.

About Actify Inc.

Founded in 1996, Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning global leader of client/server CAD visualization solutions. Actify's SpinFire product line provides the lowest total cost of ownership with the highest scalability across manufacturing industries and through their supply chains. The Actify SpinFire solution is 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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