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May 19, 2009

Fishbowl Solutions® Announces Support for AutoDesk® Inventor® with their Bulk Loading Application

linkLoader™ for Windchill® PDMLink® Automates File Loading to Improve PDMLink Implementation Schedules, Budgets and Return on Investment

Minneapolis, MN — Fishbowl Solutions, a leading technology consulting and software development firm supplying solutions to the manufacturing industry, announced support for AutoDesk Inventor files with their linkLoader for Windchill® PDMLink™ solution.

Manually importing 3D CAD data, like AutoDesk Inventor, into PTC’s Windchill PDMLink from a file system is time consuming and diverts valuable resources away from engineering work. linkLoader automates this manual process allowing customers to import data faster, while accurately mapping metadata.

A leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food processing and air transportation industries worked with Fishbowl Solutions to help develop the Inventor functionality. Loading AutoDesk Inventor files during their PDMLink implementation was a manual process, taking multiple times longer than Pro/ENGINEER files. Fishbowl’s linkLoader solution automated this manual process and helped their implementation to stay on track.