IronCAD Licenses HOOPS® Framework From TSA.

New free IronCAD part and assembly viewer built with HOOPS technology

Atlanta, GA and Oakland, CA – June 08, 2004 – IronCAD, the Innovative Design Collaboration Solutions Company, and Tech Soft America (TSA), the leading provider of component graphics technology to the CAD/CAM/CAE industry, today announced a licensing agreement whereby IronCAD will leverage TSA’s HOOPS 3D Application Framework to deliver their new free IronCAD viewer.

Shaun Murphy, Vice President of Marketing for IronCAD noted, "HOOPS encapsulates much of the graphics and framework that we would have had to spend time and money developing ourselves. It enabled us to quickly deliver a powerful solution to our end users for the viewing and navigation of IronCAD models and assemblies while we focused our resources on our core areas of expertise to best serve our growing and loyal customer base."

Ron Fritz, Managing Partner for TSA added, "We are gratified to know that HOOPS enabled IronCAD to move so quickly and add such value for their user community. This is precisely the promise of the HOOPS components – that you can spend your R&D time and effort where it matters most rather than reinventing the graphics and viewer technologies already available within the HOOPS libraries."

About HOOPS 3D Application Framework
HOOPS 3D Application Framework (HOOPS/3dAF) is an extensible, high-level component that dramatically simplifies the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D/3D applications for Windows, UNIX, LINUX, MAC OS X, Windows CE devices or the Web. Companies such as IronCAD, SolidWorks, PTC, MSC.Software, Autodesk/CAiCE, Bentley/Infrasoft, KubotekUSA, Proficiency, LK and over 175 others license HOOPS technology to help them build better engineering software products faster.

With HOOPS/3dAF the base infrastructure for building extremely custom, advanced performance applications is already optimally designed and built. Developers work from a high level to extend and customize the framework, taking advantage of the power of the underlying set of components and vast functionality already encapsulated within the HOOPS product set.

About IronCAD
Based in Atlanta, GA, IronCAD is a leading provider of 3D Design Productivity Solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Solutions that can be used either standalone or as complimentary collaboration solutions of a broader PLM initiative. Its flagship product IronCAD has won many industry awards for its innovative technology and leads the industry in its ease of use and design productivity. IronCAD is being used successfully by thousands of customers worldwide. For additional information, please contact IronCAD at 1-800-339-7304 or visit our website at www.ironcad.com.

About Tech Soft America
Tech Soft America (TSA) provides premier customer driven development tools, consulting and support services enabling its partners to rapidly deliver world-class technical software. TSA develops the HOOPS 3D Application Framework, HOOPS Stream Toolkit and HOOPS Net Server, all components designed to dramatically simplify the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for PCs, UNIX workstations, Linux, MAC OS X and Windows-CE based handheld devices.

HOOPS technology has been incorporated into over 175 commercial software applications, including many of the leaders in CAD/CAM and CAE software. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California and can be reached at http://www.hoops3d.com.

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