From: lisap@criterion.canon.co.uk (Lisa Perrett) Subject: ANNOUNCE: Bentley selects RenderWare Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:34:40 -0000 For Immediate Release Editorial Contacts: Maria Johnson Criterion Software +44 (0) 1 483 406221 mariaj@csl.com Michelle Allard Boston Communications 617/247-1112 mallard@bcomm.com Bentley selects RenderWare to deliver real-time 3D rendering to MicroStation 95 users. Guildford, UK. March 11 1996 -- Criterion Software today announced that Bentley Systems, Inc. has licensed RenderWare to provide the real-time 3D software rendering technology for QuickVision?, the rendering accelerator for MicroStation 95. Ray Bentley, Vice President, Bentley commented "We evaluated the various cross-platform real-time 3D rendering solutions for Windows? 95 and Windows NT?, DOS and Mac and selected RenderWare as it delivers excellent performance, stability and ease of use". RenderWare's strength lies in its ability to provide real-time 3D graphics on PCs without the need for a 3D hardware graphics accelerator, thus opening up a substantial installed base of PCs as a target market for 3D applications. Furthermore, when RenderWare detects the presence of a 3D accelerator it transparently accelerates the application to even higher levels of performance, at greater resolution and color depth. With over 700 developers, RenderWare is the most widely supported 3D API for Windows 95. "MicroStation 95 is a world leading engineering product and we are delighted that Bentley has selected RenderWare to provide real-time 3D rendering for the 200,000+ MicroStation users," said Mike King, Criterion's Vice President of Marketing. Any MicroStation 95 user that works in 3D - including architects, mechanical engineers, industrial designers, civil engineers, and plant designers - will benefit from the spectacular performance of QuickVision. In fact, rendering is so fast that users can perform virtually all design and viewing operations while in rendered mode. For example, rendered designs can be dynamically rotated, edited, and assigned new materials - all in real-time and without resorting to wireframe mode. Also, animations can be built and previewed in real-time. QuickVision, the RenderWare based real-time 3D rendering accelerator for MicroStation, is available immediately and at no cost to Windows based users of MicroStation 95 and MicroStation Modeler?. It will be available on other MicroStation platforms later this year. Bentley Systems, Inc. is a world-wide leader in engineering software products, user services and overall quality. The company now serves over 200,000 professionals in building/plant engineering, GeoEngineering and mechanical engineering. Its MicroStation products are proven at over 70% of the largest US engineering firms and are the software foundation behind the engineering of well-known buildings, airports, hospitals, highways, machines, bridges and industrial plants throughout the world. Founded in 1984, Bentley has now become one of the world's fastest growing software companies. Criterion Software Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), is the leader in interactive 3D graphics software tools for personal computers. Criterion develops, markets and supports computer software products and technologies that expand the interactive 3D graphics frontiers on the desktop. The company licenses its products and technology to major developers world-wide through its offices in Guildford England and Tokyo Japan. Additional information on Criterion Software is available on the Internet at http://www.csl.com/csl For more information on Bentley or any MicroStation products, please contact the company at 1-800-BENTLEY (in the US), +1 610-458-5000 (US), +31 2356-85588 (Europe), +61 3-9699-8699 (Asia), via e-mail at jen.mcwilliams@bentley.com, or through the World Wide Web at http://www.bentley.com/. Editors Please note: RenderWare is a registered trademark of Canon Inc. MicroStation is a registered trademark; and Bentley, QuickVision, and MicroStation Modeler are trademarks of Bentley Systems, Inc. Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. [MODERATOR'S NOTE: Commercial postings are offered on this newsgroup as a public service. Their appearance here does not indicate endorsement by the moderators or by the USENET or its administrators.]