PRESS RELEASE: solidThinking Evolution

"solidThinking evolution"

Vicenza, March 7th 1994 - GESTEL Italia announces today that May
the 1st, 1994 will ship "solidThinking RELEASE 2", a completely
modular 3D environment running on every NEXTSTEP supporting platform
(Motorola, Intel, PA-RISC, SPARC, etc...). It will include modules
for Modelling, Animation, Import/Export and API (Application
Programming Interface).

With all the power of the first release, and even more, "solidThinking
RELEASE 2" will introduce a new charming interface (iconified
interface, drag'n'drop, multiple ortographic and perspective views,
etc...) as well as unique features.

Until that date GESTEL Italia continues to ship the powerful 3D
modeler and renderer "solidThinking MODELER" shipping in its 1.2
release for both Intel and NeXT hardware (fat binaries).

Winner of the NeXTWORLD Best of Breed Award as best application in
the "3D and CAD" category during the 93 NeXTWORLD EXPO in San
Francisco, "solidThinking MODELER" v.1.2 includes the following
features:

- DXF, TIFF, Wavefront, TDDD, OpenCAD and RIB file formats support
- Complex primitives generator with quadric, patch and NURBS support.
- Morphing.
- Motion Blur.
- Advanced 2D profile editor with Bezier curves.
- Editable 3D text.
- Multiple lofting and deformations on extruder or rotated objects.
- Editing of every surface's points by simply using the mouse.
- An extremely powerful "skin"feature" makes possible to create
  surfaces that fit across a number of cross-sectionals.
- Boolean operations of addition, subtraction and intersection.
- Advanced shading controls (shaders can be customized).
- Powerful icons based attributes library.
- Every bitmapped images can be converted into textures.
- Preview of textures.
- Object hierarchy browser.
- Unlimited number of light sources.
- Automatic generation of shadows and reflection maps.
- Unlimited output resolution.


If you aren't  a registered user of "solidThinking MODELER", please
consider this unrepeatable opportunity we offer you:

"PURCHASE THE EVALUATION COPY OF "solidThinking MODELER" 1.2 NOW,
AND SAVE UP TO 250 USD ON solidThinking RELEASE 2!"

The evaluation copy of solidThinking MODELER v.1.2 has a price of
390 USD (end user price is 1400 USD) and 200 USD for students and
Educational Institutions (academic price is 700 USD).

The offer is valid until April 15th, 1994

Prices do not include shipping charge. The above mentioned conditions
can be obtained exclusively by placing direct orders to GESTEL
Italia

Contact us for more informations, prices of "solidThinking RELEASE
2" modules and the special introductory offer for "solidThinking
RELEASE 2" reserved to registered users of "solidThinking MODELER"


GESTEL Italia srl
Attn.: Alex Mazzardo, Sales Manager
Viale dell'Oreficeria 30/P, I - 36100 VICENZA
Tel. ++39 444 964974 / Fax  ++39 444 964984
Email: info@solid.gestel.it