Press Release

New Alibre Design Expert Package Provides Advanced Motion Simulation and CAM Capabilities

"Alibre Design Expert is an incredible value considering both its cost and convenience," said Greg Milliken, president and CEO of Alibre. "These capabilities from any other source would cost many thousands of dollars, but with Alibre Design Expert they are available at a small fraction of the price and directly from an integrated menu. We're committed to making the Alibre Design family of products the easiest path to 3D, the easiest to purchase and the easiest to learn and use."

The Alibre Design Expert package includes:

• A six month license of MSC.visualNastran Motion* for motion simulation analysis.
• A year of SprutCAM for Alibre Design, a powerful 3D milling application.
• Alibre PhotoRender Industrial Pack for generating high-quality photorealistic images with realistic surfaces and effects.
• Ninety days of Machinist ToolBox, an indispensable shop utility software.
• An always available, secure 100 MB server repository.
• Self-paced Alibre Design Video Training course on CD-ROM.
• Everything in Alibre Design Professional:
  • The Alibre Design solid modeling and 2D associative drafting application.
  • Integrated sheet metal design.
  • The Repository for integrated data management and sharing.
  • Alibre Part Library featuring millions of standard and manufacturer parts.
  • First-pass linear static finite element analysis with ALGOR DesignCheck.
  • Basic 3-axis milling and post-processors with CAM software from MecSoft.

Alibre Design Expert is priced at $1595 in the United States and Canada and may be purchased from the Alibre web site, www.alibre.com, or by calling Alibre Sales at 972-671-8492.

*MSC.visualNastran Motion is currently only available to Alibre Design Expert customers in the United States and Canada.

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