Aftercad Patent Pending on Revolutionary 3D Cloud Computing Technology

Vancouver B.C. - Sept 1st, 2009 - Aftercad Software is pleased to announce our official USPTO patent pending status on our revolutionary 3D cloud computing technology - "Aftercad 3D Live"

"We are very excited to see our work enter this phase of the patent process in the US. Having recently been validated by a widely recognized publication like Backbone Magazine, seeing the uptake from lead clients and partners and the immediate response from users - this is a game changer" said Chris Boothroyd, CEO of Aftercad. "Our goal to make 3D interactive, real time and easy to collaborate with has become official. We can now make 3D publishing as easy as Youtube(tm) and 3D collaboration as ubiquitous as Google Docs".

The Aftercad 3D Live technology is the first major step towards a viable cloud computing model for 3D on the web. Previously 3D models had to be created by a design application, moved from designer to client and viewed with a proprietary viewer. This traditional workflow has prevented 3D publishing and collaboration from participating in the new web 2.0 environment. In much the same way that Google has liberated data from the old expensive desktop apps with Search, Youtube(tm) and Google Apps, this is the same democratization for 3D data that needed to happen. Now users can view and collaborate on a 3D asset with nothing more than a browser.

"3D assets have become much bigger, more intricate and more sensitive. Nobody wants to send these things flying around out there any more. Nobody wants to wait for it to load and nobody wants yet another viewer plugin to install. What if I wanted to make a note or a change, would I have to send it around to everyone again? That would add unnecessary time and cost" said Boothroyd. By centralizing the 3D model serverside out in the cloud, 3D publishers gain the immediate benefits of prerendering, asset delivery optimization, speed, access control and most importantly the ability to actually collaborate on the 3D asset with annotations, changes and updates. "Aftercad 3D Live uses our special technologies to achieve this in real time - in the comfort of your own browser."

The applications of Aftercad 3D Live across the entire 3D user spectrum is mind boggling: games, architecture, engineering, building information modeling (BIM), medicine, infrastructure, government, situational analysis, local search, augmented reality - the list is massive. The 3D Live technology enables the 3D asset to change in response to users and automated updates and disseminate those changes to all participants. This new method of 3D collaboration represents fulfillment of the 'One Story for Everyone' dream in digital prototyping and BIM where all stakeholders have one reference of a 3D asset and not endless revisions and versions which are hard to keep track of and introduce error.

"This is a brand new development and Aftercad is the first. This technology will open up new verticals of communication where individuals have easy access and interactivity with real time 3D from wherever they are. Coupled with the momentum of efforts like Collada and Google O3D, this is an exciting development in the democratization of 3D. If this changes your 3D perspective on things and you have some ideas you'd like to chase, check out Renderjam.com which leverages this new approach. Give us a shot and we'll bring your 3D assets to life" concludes Boothroyd.

About Aftercad Software

Aftercad is a leading provider of innovative products and solutions that enable the viewing and publishing of complex 3D data sets over the web. Aftercad allows organizations to publish, share, annotate and manage 3D CAD data for Digital Prototyping, Manufacturing, Building Information Modeling and Infrastructure Planning.

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