With the announcement of Imagecom's 2Dto3DCAD.com on www.ASPire3D.com we spoke with Raj Ganesan, the head developer of Imagecom's FlexiDesign software, which serves as the basis for the conversion. The web site provides an ASP location to convert legacy 2D CAD drawings to feature-based parametric 3D models on a pay-per-use basis. Users upload 2D drawing in either the standard DXF or DWG format and are e-mailed that the conversion is complete. 3D models can be in the native Mechanical Desktop 4.0/5.0 or Inventor 2.0/3.0 formats, with more output formats to be added soon. The results can be inspected, and if acceptable paid for immediately. To save money, users can be optionally directed on how to clean up their drawings first. Ganesan was reluctant to announce pricing because it turns out that only 70% or less of the models can be converted automatically. ImageCom's staff will perform this cleanup manually, where necessary. He finally admitted that pricing might be an average of $50 per drawing.