Waltham, Massachusetts-based Parametric Technology Corp, has begun shipping the five industrial design software products it recently acquired from Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp, Salt Lake City, Utah. Four of the five products have been integrated into the company’s Pro/Engineer mechanical design automation software, and have been re-packaged and re-priced. Pro/Designer, formerly known as Conceptual Design & Rendering Software or CDRS, an optional module within Pro/Engineer, provides tools that manipulate conceptual design models and goes for $12,000. Pro/CDRS the functional equivalent of Pro/Designer, but as a stand-alone product costs $25,000. The other three products extend capabilities, providing tools for photo-realistic images, the conversion of two-dimensional images into three-dimensional ones, and the animation of rendered models. Prices start from $5,000. It is up on IBM Corp and Silicon Graphics Inc workstations, and support is planned for Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co machines. Par ametric Technology claims revenues last year of $260m and just last week made a move to acquire Rasna Corp (CI No 2,674).
