Capvidia Finds Spatial InterOp Translates to Success; InterOp Translators Provide Capvidia with Native CATIA Libraries

WESTMINSTER, Colo. & LUEVEN, Belgium--Jan. 1, 20067, 2006--Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systemes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company and market-leading provider of 3D components, and Capvidia, an engineering software developer, today announced the availability of interoperability solutions built by Capvidia and based on InterOp translators from Spatial.

"The native CATIA libraries from Spatial allow us to offer a direct translation to and from CATIA. We can also provide immediate upward compatibility with new CATIA releases," said Lyle Fischer, Technical Marketing Director for Capvidia.

Capvidia couples Spatial's native translation libraries for CATIA with its own proprietary healing solutions to create 3DTransVidia, a stand-alone application, and FormatWorks, which is used in conjunction with SolidWorks. By using Spatial's InterOp solutions, Capvidia offers full compatibility with the latest native versions of CATIA to its users, who are predominately in the automotive and aerospace industries, rather than outdated, reverse-engineered alternatives.

"One of InterOp's differentiators is our ability to provide native libraries in our translators," said Phil Spreier, Product Manager for Spatial's InterOp line. "Our access to these libraries ensures Capvidia's interoperability products will lead the field in quality and performance."

About Capvidia

Capvidia, a Belgium company, offers specialized data translation products and services for the automotive and aerospace industry. Both FormatWorks (the first and only SolidWorks Gold Product for CATIA translation) and 3DTransVidia provide advanced automatic repair and healing to resolve incompatibilities between different CAD systems. FormatWorks is tuned to satisfy SolidWorks' internal requirements for forming topological solids with correct model tolerance, without gaps and missing surfaces and no deformation. For more information on configurations, options and pricing, please contact www.capvidia.be or email at info@capvidia.be.

About Spatial

Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systemes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software component technologies. Spatial develops, markets, and supports best-of-breed 3D component technologies and services to address the requirements of 3D in Business-to-Business (B2B) applications. Spatial's components for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability have been adopted by some of the world's most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, Germany, France, Japan, China and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit Spatial's Web site at www.spatial.com, or contact Spatial by email at info@spatial.com or by phone at 303-544-2900.

About Dassault Systemes

As world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, the Dassault Systemes group brings value to more than 80,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systemes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire life cycle of products from conception to maintenance. Our offering includes integrated PLM solutions for product development (CATIA(R), DELMIA(R), ENOVIA(R), SMARTEAM(R)), mainstream 3D design tools (SolidWorks(R)), and 3D components (Spatial/ACIS(R)). Dassault Systemes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.

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