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NEWS & EVENTS
Press Release
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| Distribution Agreement with Avatech Solutions
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August 4, 2003 - Rockville, MD and Owings Mills,
MD - IDEAL.com has partnered with Avatech Solutions to
bring its entire line of scanning solutions to Avatech's
government, education and commercial customers. Avatech, a
leading provider of design automation and PLM solutions for
the manufacturing, building design, and engineering markets,
has been granted a US-wide authorization to provide
IDEAL/Contex large format scanners and complimentary software
as a part of their single-source solutions offerings.
"The relationship between IDEAL and Avatech will
provide significant value to customers that need to work with
scanned images in conjunction with their general design
automation needs," states Jay Magenheim, president of
IDEAL.com. "As one of the largest Autodesk integrators
worldwide, Avatech provides IDEAL with an excellent
infrastructure for marketing and supporting its scanning
solutions to the marketplace. It's this kind of partner focus
that enables IDEAL to continue developing a wide range of
large format products for our customers." |
A Full-Range Of Scanning Solutions:
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Avatech will offer the full series of large format
monochrome and color scanners by IDEAL/Contex. In addition,
they will offer complimentary software including WiseImage,
which brings scanned drawings directly into AutoCADŽ and
provides raster cleanup, CAD-style raster editing and
raster-to-vector conversion of lines, arcs, circles, text,
hatch, line styles and symbols. PlanTracer software converts
raster floor plans or 2D AutoCAD floor plans into intelligent
3D Autodesk Architectural Desktop(tm) objects automatically
and/or semi-automatically. Consistent Software develops both
PlanTracer and WiseImage products. For their government
customers, Avatech will work through IDEAL.com who is also an
authorized GSA partner for government procurement.
"Our customers are looking for affordable, scaleable
scanning solutions they can use right in their office to
convert their paper drawings into rich digital design data,"
said Debra Keith, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at
Avatech Solutions. "We are pleased to partner with IDEAL.com
because they fit these specific customer needs - affordable
scanners with a unique upgrade program to grow as our
customers' business grows and software to accurately convert
and manage this data."
Avatech and IDEAL.com will be
hosting a webcast on August 21, 2003 at 1:00 p.m. EDT to
demonstrate how converting paper drawings to digital data can
help solve challenges such as storage, document management,
downstream data use and government regulation requirements. To
reserve a seat at this informative presentation please
register at www.ideal.com/promo/avatech.asp
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About Avatech Solutions:
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| Avatech Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: AVSO.OB) is a
leading provider of design automation and PLM solutions for
the manufacturing, building design, and engineering markets.
Headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland, the company
specializes in software development, technical support,
training and consulting aimed at improving design and
documentation efficiencies and the seamless integration of
workflow processes. Avatech is one the largest integrators of
Autodesk software worldwide and a leading provider of
engineering document management solutions. The company serves
18,000 clients worldwide including the industry leaders from
Fortune 500 and Engineering News Record's Top 100 companies.
Visit www.avatechsolutions.com for more
information. |
About IDEAL.com:
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| IDEAL.com is the exclusive US distributor for
Consistent Software products and is the number one US
distributor of Contex Scanners. IDEAL.com develops, markets,
and supports a wide range of color and monochrome solutions
for large format drawings and technical documents including
operating software for scanners, intelligent raster and CAD
software document management software, and online planrooms.
For more information on PlanTracer, WiseImage or other IDEAL
products, as well as tiff images, visit www.ideal.com or
contact Kathy Magenheim at 301-468-0123 ext.1230
or contact via email at kmagenheim@ideal.com.
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