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Alibre Design brings bright ideas to the Dallas TEDxSMU 2010 event

Dallas, TX - Octotber 16, 2010 - Alibre, Inc., the value leader in the 3D CAD/CAM market, co-sponsored the TEDxSMU 2010 event, bringing the best ideas of today's minds together for two days of technological inspiration.

TEDxSMU & TEDxKIDS brings together ideas and interesting people from around the world and around the corner. This past Friday and Saturday in Dallas the brightest minds in areas of technology, entertainment and design gathered to bring the best ideas together to make us think.

Alibre Inc., and the J Paul Grayson Foundation helps bring this event to Dallas through sponsorship and allows presenters to have access to their award winning design software, Alibre Design. In fact one of the key presenters Nathan Huntoon, Director of the Innovation Gymnasium at Southern Methodist University, uses Alibre Design in the SkunkWorks Lab on campus with his students. Together with Austin Hodges and several other students, Huntoon designed and built a GPS controlled unmanned vehicle that is controlled via a cell phone interface.

At Fridays TEDxKIDS event inventor Mark Mankiewicz brought out his String Theory YoYos Team. Mark invented a line of professional aluminum YoYos that are designed in Alibre Design. He takes his 3D model and sends it out over the Internet to manufacturers to be made. These brightly colored Yoyos are anodized and laser engraved and sold to people all over the world for master play using advanced YoYo techniques. While Jamie Larkins and Mason McCall and Leo Qin amazed everyone with their skills, Mark spoke of how he created his business and inspired the crowd with his "can do" attitude. Mark stated, "It was a great honor to present at TEDxKIDS, I have always been a fan. I was hoping to convey a message of hope to future entrepreneurs that anything is possible and never listen to people who tell you it can't be done. If your heart follows your passion you can never fail"

About Alibre, Inc.
Alibre is the leading global provider of cost effective professional grade mechanical CAD, CAM, and PDM solutions. Founded in 1997 and based in Richardson, Texas, Alibre develops Alibre Design™ and Alibre CAM™, the fastest growing parametric CAD/CAM solution on the market. One fifth the cost of comparable software, Alibre Design offers the same core features of SolidWorks, Pro/E, Inventor, and other mid-range solid modeling packages at a cost that is affordable to any business or individual. Alibre CAM extends Alibre Design to provide integrated 2 1/2 to 5 axis CNC machining. Used by an immensely diverse user base, Alibre Design and Alibre CAM provide design and manufacturing solutions to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, consulting firms, machine shops, start-ups, hobbyists, inventors, teachers and students. Alibre products are distributed in 50 countries and in 15 languages. For more information on Alibre, or for a free trial of Alibre Design and Alibre CAM, please visit www.alibre.com.