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Press Releases : April 17, 2006

KUBOTEK USA TO PARTICIPATE IN COFES 2006

Marlborough, MA - April 17, 2006 - Robert Bean, chief operating officer of Kubotek USA; and members of the Kubotek USA strategy team are taking a lead role in driving discussion and thought-leadership at this year's Congress On the Future of Engineering Software (COFES) at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 20 - 23, 2006.

COFES 2006, the seventh annual COFES, brings together executives from engineering, design, development, architecture, and technology companies to discuss and explore engineering technology and its effects on business and the future. This year's invitation-only conference will feature the 'inspiration' and 'perspiration' sides of innovation through the 'Innovate Button' campaign. The conference organizers have asked: "Wouldn't it be great if there were a button we could push and innovation would just happen?" The discussion will also cover fantastic futuristic tools, showing how the inspiration side of innovation may someday be automated.

"The 'Innovate Button' is a great creative device, one that I want to carry over to discussions at COFES around CAD interoperability," said Bean. "When we talk to customers, many times we hear a request for 'a button to push' to facilitate productive use of models. COFES provides us with a unique opportunity to meet with both the leading developers of engineering technology and the users of that technology to discuss CAD interoperability and what can be done to make an 'interoperability button' a reality."

Kubotek USA will participate in COFES as an event sponsor. The company will showcase its latest developments in CAD interoperability in its technology suite. Last year, Kubotek conducted the first in a series of surveys to better understand the challenges companies are facing around CAD interoperability. Kubotek's CAD 2005 Interoperability Survey demonstrated that, although many design and manufacturing companies are focused on standardizing on a small number of tools, and CAD vendors claim to have "solved the problem" through the use of industry standard formats and direct translators, the end users are still having a great deal of difficulty sharing files. Kubotek will demonstrate how to take CAD interoperability beyond static translation to model sharing and extracting intelligence from "dumb" models with the flexibility to repurpose geometry.

About Kubotek
Kubotek USA, Inc., headquartered in Marlborough, MA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kubotek Corporation. Kubotek USA develops and manufactures KeyCreator mechanical CAD software, (formerly CADKEY), REALyze multiCAD interoperability tools, rapid prototyping and non-contact inspection systems, and offers the free Spectrum multiCAD viewer.

Visit Kubotek at: www.kubotekusa.com

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