Getting Started Faster
        VX QuickShapes, a comprehensive set of primitive 3D shape commands, are a simple yet very useful addition to VX Version 9 for design modeling. With VX QuickShapes, users produce fast, accurate parametric shapes without having to initially define a base sketch. Industrial Designers can use QuickShapes to quickly define and explore ideas at the concept stage, developing the best of these into more detailed models at any time, as required. Mechanical engineers can swiftly put together the building blocks of a structure or mechanism, considering component assembly layout and build, and part interaction without the unnecessary detail, which at times can be a time-consuming burden in the early stages of design. Volumes, positioning dimensions and overall containment sizes can be explored in concept studies and to get to the answers of "what if" questions quickly and easily with QuickShapes.

        Bob Fischer, VX vice president, sales and marketing said, "VX QuickShapes is simple yet powerful functionality. With QuickShapes, users can quickly develop the essential layout of a product or go completely from beginning to end in a fraction of the time it normally takes. Additionally, VX QuickShapes are very helpful in getting users new to 3D modeling started."

        Joe Greco, author of numerous CAD articles and President of the CAD Society, experimented with the commands at the recent National Design Engineering Show in Chicago and commented in Cadalyst magazine's NDES 2004 Roundup, "I had the chance to play with the 3D primitives [VX QuickShapes] now included with the system and found them fast and intuitive".

About VX Corporation
        VX Corporation is a pioneering developer of advanced, integrated CAD/CAM solutions for engineers and industrial designers. Using VX's design-through-manufacturing solutions, companies can speed time-to-market, increase profitability and gain a sustainable competitive advantage - made possible by new breakthroughs in technology, price and performance. Unlike conventional CAD/CAM systems, VX technology is built on an exclusive, high-performance VX engine that delivers sophisticated 3D hybrid modeling capabilities and provides interoperability with emerging process management and engineering tools. Some of the worlds leading manufacturers rely on VX software to power the design, engineering and manufacturing of innovative products.

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For further information, contact:
Vince Mecurio + 001 321 309 1008
VX Corporation
vjm@vx.com
www.vx.com
                                                                                       
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