PlanetCAD Selects Craig Berry as Vice President of Sales; Berry Brings 16 Years Sales Management and Strategic Experience to Operation

    BOULDER, Colo.--March 8, 2001--PlanetCAD Inc. (AMEX:PCD), the world's leading developer of engineering application services and interoperability solutions for the manufacturing supply chain, today announced that it has appointed Craig Berry as vice president of sales.
    Berry has more than 16 years of sales management experience in large organizations, including telecommunications, graphics and software companies.
    "Craig Berry brings high-level sales experience that enhances PlanetCAD's global enterprise sales strategy," said Jim Bracking, CEO and president of PlanetCAD. "In particular, his lengthy experience in developing new and existing markets, managing geographically diverse sales teams and implementing successful sales programs is valuable to us at this time."

    About PlanetCAD Inc.

    PlanetCAD develops and delivers high-quality enterprise products and application services for streamlining engineering data interchange throughout the digital manufacturing supply chain. PlanetCAD's products include the PrescientQA(TM) design-quality engineering software suite, which reduces costly design errors, accelerates time to market, and improves the product development process; 3Dshare.com(TM) (www.3dshare.com), which provides online translation and repair of 3D CAD models to streamline the flow of engineering data between organizations regardless of installed CAD systems; and IntraVISION(R), which enables viewing, markup, measuring and converting of more than 300 CAD file formats.
    PlanetCAD is headquartered in Boulder, Colo., and has offices in Westborough, Mass. and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.planetcad.com, or call 888/319-0871.

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