GibbsCAM 2006 Shipping to Customers

MOORPARK, CA - July 26, 2006 - Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM®, CAM software for programming CNC machine tools, announced today that GibbsCAM 2006 has started shipping to customers. Customer feedback from the GibbsCAM 2006 roll-outs that have already been held around the world have been very positive.

"GibbsCAM 2006 incorporates many, many enhancements through the entire GibbsCAM product line," comments Bill Gibbs, founder and president of Gibbs and Associates. "This is probably the most significant amount of content that has ever been shipped in a single GibbsCAM release in recent years. Together, these enhancements reassert GibbsCAM's status as the CAM industry's ease-of-use leader."

Some notable enhancements in the GibbsCAM 2006 release include:

• new graphics optimized for OpenGL provide faster more accurate images for all aspects of programming, especially solids
• new Online Help takes you to the "answer" with a single mouse click
• new User-Defined Macros allow you to automate family-of-part programming, or other repetitive task
• new Mill Tool Holder Library with CPR display and collision detection
• new Faceted Body solid type (STL)
• new Operation Manager for working with large programs efficiently
• new Multi R-Level Feature Drilling
• new Contour/Pocket Advanced Approach/Exit Move options
• new Outside-In Multi-Pass Contour Roughing
• improved Feed/Speed Optimizer for Turning
• improved Turning with form tools
• improved 4-axis Milling capabilities, with constraint curves
• improved User-Alignment of imported solids
• improved Surface Flow 3D Machining with gouge protection
• new HSM Toolpath Functions; corner filleting, on/off surfaces, circular stepover moves
• new MTM Pinch Turning
• new Solid Associativity updating for operations
• new Part Import for multi-part multi-setup programming
• updates to support the latest versions for all CAD file types

Initial shipments of GibbsCAM 2006 will go to customers in the United States and Canada, followed by shipments to international customers who use documentation in English. International shipments of GibbsCAM 2006 with localized documentation are scheduled to occur later this year.

For more information about GibbsCAM and the GibbsCAM 2006 release, or to locate your local GibbsCAM Reseller, go to www.GibbsCAM.com, call 1-800-654-9399, or email info@GibbsCAM.com.

About Gibbs and Associates and GibbsCAM

For over twenty years, Gibbs and Associates has been a leader in providing cutting edge CAD/CAM technology, while maintaining its signature ease-of-use and productivity. Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful is the guiding philosophy at Gibbs. Gibbs believes in empowering the NC programmer, machinist, and manufacturing engineer, not eliminating them. Gibbs' goal is to introduce manufacturers to new technologies and new ways of working that makes their machining easier and their businesses more profitable. To achieve this goal, Gibbs creates tools that are naturally intuitive, graphically interactive, extremely visual, associative, and just plain enjoyable to use. Gibbs provides a total quality solution with the service and support successful customers require.

The current GibbsCAM product line supports 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM. GibbsCAM also provides fully integrated manufacturing modeling capabilities that include 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface, and solid modeling. GibbsCAM has received Microsoft's "Designed for Windows XP/2000" certification. GibbsCAM's data exchange capabilities are able to access the broadest range of native and industry standard CAD data formats. GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program, is a Solid Edge Certified Select Product, and is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Product. GibbsCAM is either offered or endorsed by a number of leading worldwide control and machine tool manufacturers, including GE Fanuc, Siemens, Daewoo, Doosan, Fadal, Haas, Index, Matsuura, Mazak, Mitsubishi and Mori Seiki. Gibbs and Associates distributes its products worldwide through a network of international Resellers. For more information about Gibbs and Associates and its CAM software packages, call 1-800-654-9399, or visit the company on-line at www.GibbsCAM.com.

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Contact: Yvonne Anderson
Gibbs and Associates
(805) 523-0004 - telephone
(805) 523-0006 - fax
Yvonne.Anderson@GibbsCAM.com