CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

11 February 2009

Product News

Announcing Alibre Translate; New Product Offers Broad Suite for Import and Export of Most Popular CAD Files

Alibre, Inc. announced Alibre Translate, a new product which adds an extensive set of import and export filters to the popular Alibre Design product line. Alibre Translate contains the following filters:

1.  SolidWorks Export

2.  Pro Engineer Import

3.  Inventor Import

4.  Parasolid Import

5.  Parasolid Export

6.  Solid Edge Import

7.  CATIA V5 Import

"Alibre has had many requests for direct file support for SolidWorks, Inventor, Pro Engineer, Solid Edge, and CATIA," says J. Paul Grayson, Alibre Chairman and CEO. "While our prior support of industry standard neutral file formats gave us excellent compatibility, this new set of import and export filters greatly improves our customers' ability to work with their clients and downstream and upstream partners."

Mr. Grayson added, "We are especially excited to offer SolidWorks file export. Many companies that use SolidWorks require their subcontractors to submit designs in .sldprt and .sldasm formats. We understands the business requirements of our users and their need to seamlessly work with and collaborate using whatever file format is being used in their current situation. This is no longer a challenge for our clients."

Alibre Design is the most affordable 3D parametric CAD program on the market and typically costs less than 1/5 of a seat of SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, or Pro Engineer. Alibre Design already includes support for most industry standard file formats including STEP, IGES, DXF, DWG, SAT, Rhino 3DM, STL, and various image formats.

Alibre Translate is built on the Alibre Design 11.2 platform. Alibre Translate and Alibre Design 11.2 are expected to ship in early March. Alibre Translate has a suggested retail price of $499. Alibre Design Version 11.2 is available to all Alibre Design customers on active maintenance.

For more information on Alibre, or for a free trial of Alibre Design, please visit http://www.alibre.com.

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