PlanetCAD's PrescientQA Solutions Dominate French Automotive Market

    BOULDER, Colo.--April 26, 2001--PlanetCAD Inc. (AMEX:PCD):

Adoption of Quality Data Management Solutions by Two Leading French Automotive Manufacturers Reinforces PlanetCAD's Leadership Position

    PlanetCAD Inc. (AMEX:PCD), the world's leading developer of engineering application services and interoperability solutions for the manufacturing supply chain, and SPRING/CENIT, a leading reseller of CATIA and Enovia products, today announced that PSA Peugeot-Citroen and Renault Group have adopted PrescientQA(TM) as the solution of choice for enabling Quality Data Management(TM) (QDM) throughout their supply chains.
    Quality Data Management is an engineering-centric process that saves money, time and effort by improving the quality and interoperability of engineering data as it passes through the automotive supply chain. PlanetCAD products enable the rapid implementation of QDM processes for manufacturers seeking to streamline operations, costs and production time on each project.
    PSA Peugeot-Citroen and Renault Group are implementing hundreds of seats of PrescientQA within their engineering design processes to improve and maintain high-quality engineering data as it passes through the supply chain. PSA Peugeot-Citroen dominates the European automotive market with branded ranges of automotive vehicles and heavy goods vehicles. PSA Peugeot-Citroen was Europe's second-largest carmaker in 1999. Renault Group, upon its acquisition of the Nissan product line, is the world's sixth largest automotive group.
    "PlanetCAD's business is to enable manufacturers to work faster, better and cheaper, regardless of the size of the operation," stated Jim Bracking, CEO and president of PlanetCAD. "The adoption of PrescientQA throughout the French automotive industry is a true endorsement for PlanetCAD, reinforcing the importance of quality data throughout the supply chain."
    PlanetCAD's PrescientQA solutions measure, monitor and maintain engineering data quality using a series of leading-edge tools for engineering design. The products provide automated data quality checking, monitoring and improvement for computer-based design data across multiple computer-aided design (CAD) formats. Products include DesignQA(R), DriveQA(TM), GeometryQA(TM) and CertifyQA(TM).
    "SPRING/CENIT and its customers understand the critical need for higher design standards and data quality in manufacturing in order to improve efficiency and save money," said Gilles Battier, President of SPRING. "PrescientQA has proved itself to these major manufacturers through rigorous testing and benchmarking as being the leading solution for Quality Data Management."
    PSA Peugeot-Citroen selected the PrescientQA products following a detailed testing program within the organization. Renault Group has recently accomplished full implementation of the solution after a two-year pilot program within several engineering departments, using DesignQA and GeometryQA to improve design standards and geometry quality.

    About SPRING/CENIT

    CENIT is a leading reseller of CATIA and ENOVIA/VPM products by IBM, and brings a broad range of services for integration with these solutions. SPRING is CENIT's French subsidiary and also supports and sells complementary solutions including PrescientQA, for design data quality assurance, Direct NC systems such as NCSIMUL, LASERCUT and CUT4Axes, and GDT products, including ODM2 and Raft.
    CENIT is a partner of SAP for the development, supply and support of certified interfaces between SAP product lifecycle management (PLM) and CAD software products. CENIT supplies leading consulting integration services targeted at fast implementation of engineering solutions using the SAP PLM.

    About PSA Peugeot-Citroen

    PSA PEUGEOT-CITROËN manufactures two broad lines of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, which it markets in more than 140 countries around the world under two marques, Peugeot and Citroën. PSA Peugeot-Citroën, the sixth-largest car manufacturer in the world, accounts for more than 5% of the global market with 2,816,000 vehicles sold in 2000. This is a sales increase of 11.7% for 2000 and 34% over the past three years.
    The Group also encompasses an automotive equipment manufacturer, Faurecia, a transportation and logistics company, Gefco, and the Banque PSA Finance group of automotive finance companies.

    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, Colorado, and has offices in Westborough, Massachusetts, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.planetcad.com, or call 888/319-0871.

    Statements made in this news release that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by any forward-looking information. A description of risks and uncertainties attendant to PlanetCAD and its industry, and other factors which could affect PlanetCAD's financial results, are included in PlanetCAD's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, PlanetCAD's annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2000.

    PlanetCAD, 3Dshare, PrescientQA and PlanetCAD Connect are trademarks of PlanetCAD Inc. DesignQA is a registered trademark of PlanetCAD Inc. IntraVISION is a registered trademark of Spatial Corporation. All other products are trademarks of their respective owners.