PTC Offers Industrial Designers Innovative New Capabilities; Pro/CONCE

PTC Offers Industrial Designers Innovative New Capabilities; Pro/CONCEPT 3.0 Delivers Market-Leading Improvements for Product Ideation

    Business Editors/Software Writers/High-Tech Writers

    NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2005--PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company(TM), today announced the general availability of Pro/CONCEPT(TM) 3.0. Pro/CONCEPT is the PTC solution for digital product brainstorming, which greatly supports the innovation-intensive "fuzzy front end" of product development. In addition to the release of Pro/CONCEPT 3.0, PTC is also offering a special pricing incentive to new and existing customers for the Pro/ENGINEER(R) Interactive Surface Design Extension (ISDX).
    As part of PTC's industrial design solutions, Pro/CONCEPT and ISDX are particularly important to consumer product manufacturers, medical device companies, and design consultancies. ISDX provides freeform curve and surface modeling capabilities that give industrial designers complete flexibility of product design, coupled with the single-product nature of Pro/ENGINEER. Moreover, ISDX is a complementary solution that allows the user to further refine Pro/CONCEPT product ideas in Pro/ENGINEER. With Pro/CONCEPT and Pro/ENGINEER ISDX, industrial designers are able to easily develop and present eye-catching product concepts, which can be quickly refined into fully manufacturable designs.
    This latest release, Pro/CONCEPT 3.0, adds new features that now allow industrial designers to crop images, measure, and export curves via IGES. To further enhance the industrial design capabilities in Pro/CONCEPT, new geometric manipulation features were added to this release including:

--	Rounded square
--	Curve fillet
--	Curve trim
--	Pattern
--	Curves combined with cusps

    "Pro/CONCEPT is an exciting ideation tool," said Rebecca Moore, lead industrial designer, QFD Inc. "Combined with ISDX, it makes an excellent solution, allowing industrial designers to unleash their natural creativity."
    "Studies show that the more attractive a product looks, the better it sells," said Thomas Shoemaker, director product marketing, PTC. "With the release of Pro/CONCEPT 3.0 and the limited time offer for ISDX, PTC is enhancing its commitment to industrial designers by providing key capabilities that allow companies to optimize the process of designing and manufacturing more evocative products."

    About PTC

    PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software solutions to more than 35,000 companies worldwide. PTC customers include many of the world's most innovative manufacturing companies in the aerospace & defense, automotive, consumer, electronics & high technology, industrial equipment and medical products industries. PTC is included in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices.

    Except for the historical information contained herein, matters discussed in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include PTC's ability to anticipate and adequately respond to evolving requirements of industrial designers and successfully develop, integrate and support the technology necessary to deliver products and services that meet those requirements, together with such other risks and uncertainties as are detailed from time to time in reports filed by PTC with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including PTC's most recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.

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CONTACT: PTC Nicole Rowe, 781-370-6369 Corporate Communications nrowe@PTC.com or For PTC Weber Shandwick Jennifer Signorini, 617-520-7069 jsignorini@webershandwick.com

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