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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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SPATIAL INC. CONTACT: SPATIAL INC. PUBLIC RELATIONS CONTACT:
Rachael Dalton-Taggart, PR Director Matt Otepka, Metzger Associates
(303) 544-2986, [email protected] (303) 786-7000, [email protected]
SPATIAL INC. INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT:
Geoff High, Pfeiffer Public Relations
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PRESS RELEASE
SPATIAL ANNOUNCES ANNUAL STOCKHOLDER MEETING
BOULDER, CO: October 17, 2000. Spatial Inc. (AMEX-STY), a leading developer of
Web-hosted engineering application services and solutions and component 3D
modeling technology, today announced that its 2000 Annual Meeting of
stockholders' will be held at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time on Thursday, November 9,
2000, at the principal executive offices of Spatial located at 2520 55th Street,
Suite 200, Boulder, Colorado. The record date for determining stockholders
entitled to vote at the annual meeting was October 2, 2000.
The Board of Directors approved the following proposals to be presented to the
stockholders at the Annual Meeting:
o Approval of the sale of Spatial's component software division to
Dassault Systemes.
o Approval of the issuance of 555,556 shares of Spatial common stock to
Dassault Systemes for a purchase price of $2,000,000.
o Approval of an amendment to Article I of the Spatial's certificate of
incorporation to change the company's name from Spatial Technology Inc.
to PlanetCAD, Inc.
o Election of seven directors to serve for the ensuing year and until
their successors are elected and qualified.
o Approval of the Spatial 2000 Employee Stock Incentive Plan.
o Ratification of the selection of KPMG LLP as independent auditors of
Spatial for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.
o Transaction of any other business as may properly come before the
meeting.
Important Notice
All stockholders of Spatial are urged to read the company's proxy statement
relating to the 2000 Annual Meeting when it becomes available because it will
contain important information about the proposals described in this press
release. Spatial's definitive proxy materials will be sent to its record holders
as soon as practicable and mailing is expected to be completed on October 20,
2000. Spatial's definitive proxy materials are available free of charge at the
Securities and Exchange Commission's website (www.sec.gov). Copies of Spatial's
notice of meeting and proxy statement are available free of charge by contacting
the Office of the President at 303-544-2900.
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ABOUT SPATIAL INC.
Spatial's Component Business Division provides the world's most widely used 3D
solid modeling, visualization, and 3D data translation and healing
interoperability solutions that enhance software functionality and shorten
product time-to-market.
Spatial's flagship product, the ACIS(R) 3D modeling kernel is the de facto 3D
solid modeling standard, which dominates the CAD/CAM/CAE market worldwide. ACIS
has been adopted by more than 595 licensees and is the foundation of over 225
applications used by engineers and designers worldwide. Spatial's IntraVISION
Software Developer's Kit is an OEM version of its industry-leading commercial
IntraVISION enterprise-wide 2D/3D viewing solution offering access to view,
markup, measure and convert a variety of product data file formats. The
combination of products and services developed by Spatial allow licensees and
end users to capitalize on the improved integrity, advanced interoperability and
rapid distribution of their design data, dramatically improving time-to-market
and product development cycles across the digital manufacturing supply chain.
Spatial Inc. is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, USA and has offices in
Germany, France, Japan and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit
Spatial's Web site at http://www.spatial.com or call (303) 544-2900.
ABOUT PLANETCAD
Spatial's PlanetCAD division develops and delivers Web-hosted and
enterprise-based application services, e-commerce sites and portals for
streamlining engineering data interchange throughout the digital manufacturing
supply chain. PlanetCAD's application services include the PrescientQA
design-quality engineering software suite, which reduces costly design errors,
accelerates time-to-market, and improves the product development process;
3Dshare.com(TM) (www.3dshare.com), which provides online translation and repair
of 3D CAD models to streamline the flow of engineering data between
organizations regardless of the installed CAD systems; and Bits2PARTS.com(TM)
(www.bits2parts.com), an e-commerce service that streamlines the communication
and data transmission process between manufacturers and rapid prototyping
service bureaus across the Web. For more information, visit www.planetcad.com,
or call (888) 319-0871.
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Spatial Technology Inc., 3Dshare.com, 3Dpublish.com, Bits2Parts.com, and
PlanetCAD are trademarks. PrescientQA SAT, ACIS and IntraVISION are registered
trademarks of Spatial Technology Inc. All other products are trademarks of their
respective owners.
