Geometric Ltd has informed BSE that Geometric Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Geometric Ltd and an industry leader in developing advanced manufacturing software and cutting-edge point productivity solutions, on February 28, 2008, announced the release of its version 6.1 of “eDrawings for Pro/ENGINEER”, with support for Wildfire 4.0.

Major enhancements in this release include:

- Support for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0

- Support for Microsoft Windows Vista (32 and 64-bit)

Mike Coleman, CEO, Geometric Technologies said, “Our product development team is always agile and supports latest releases of Pro/ENGINEER immediately after the official release from PTC. Our existing customers, planning to switch to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 will find eDrawings supported on the new platform”.

eDrawings Publishers are available on Pro/ENGINEER?, CATIA V5?, NX?. Autodesk Inventor Series?, SolidEdge? and Google SketchUp?. With eDrawings Publishers you can:

- Generate ultra compact eDrawings with compression up to 95%, compared to the original CAD file.
- Share and receive feedback on product designs with review-enabled eDrawings and collaborate with unlimited number of recipients.
- Manage, track, and merge comments from different team members.
- Share design data with password protected and self-extracting eDrawings.
- Measure the geometry in part, assembly, and drawing files when dimensions are absent.
- Disable measurement feature to protect sensitive design data.
- Examine internal details of parts and assemblies with dynamic cross sectioning.
- Hide/Show/ Move components to better understand assembly structure.