Arlington, Texas, March 14, 2001 - Representatives of ASPire3D announced today that they won the Cadence Show Stopper Award at the National Design Engineering Show at Chicago - just one of many highlights for the company at the event. The award is given each year to exhibitors at the show that exemplify innovation, creativity, simplicity, and ease-of-use - all traits that help to move the CAD industry forward. Of the hundreds of companies exhibiting, ASPire3D was a winner along with nine other CAD companies - a list that includes CAD leaders and innovators such as SolidWorks Corporation, Autodesk and think3.

According to the editors of the magazine, Arnie Williams, Peter Sheerin and Kenneth Wong, "ASPire3D from Imagecom Corp. with its automated Web-based 2D to 3D conversion has shown the industry how a service-oriented ASP can make a significant difference in the everyday lives of CAD designers and practitioners by giving them an affordable, easy to use means of converting 2D data to 3D. At its portal sites of 2Dto3DCAD.com and 2DHealer.com, users have state-of-the art translation technology available to them and the assurance that actual human engineers will work with their data to provide "best of class" services."

Dr. Venkat Devarajan, President and CEO, Dr. Raj Ganesan, Vice President of Marketing and Mr. Walter Parker, CAD Designer for ASPire3D received the award at their booth. On receiving the award, Dr. Devarajan added, "It's a great honor to win this award given that hundreds of companies in the CAD business are exhibiting at the show. This is our first time at the show and it has been very successful. We are happy to have made some excellent contacts with customers, vendors, industry analysts and the press."

About ASPire3D

ASPire3D is an ASP portal from Imagecom, Inc., a privately held company located at Arlington, Texas. Imagecom is an e-business Application Service Provider of automated representation conversion software products and services. 2Dto3DCAD.com is powered by Imagecom's premier FlexiDesign technology and is featured on ASPire3D. For more information contact Imagecom at (817) 299-5400 or visit their website at http://www.ASPire3D.com or http://www.aspire3d.com.