• Forces
• Moments
• Polycurves (a single object consisting of a chain of curves)
• Pin-in-hole constraint
• SQL database support for critical parameter management
• Support for custom tolerance reports

In addition to new features, this release also includes the following enhancements:

• Dynamic feedback (rubber-banding) while sketching
• New layout for tolerance analysis reports
• Improved content and results in tolerance analysis reports
• Concentricity constraints now included in Auto-Constrainer
• Redesigned tool palette
• Tangency flipping virtually eliminated
• Ability to create more complex regions than in previous releases
• Pan and zoom with mouse
• Ability to set number of Undos
• In-context instructions
• Consolidated option/preference settings

Enventive® V1.1.4 shipped September 21, 2007

Lancaster, Mass., September 21, 2007  Enventive Engineering, Inc., announces the release of Enventive v1.1.4. This release continues Enventive, Inc.'s commitment to regularly provide valuable software improvements to Enventive users. Release v1.1.4 includes bug fixes and the following compatibility enhancements:

Lancaster, Mass., August 20, 2007  Enventive Engineering, Inc., announces the release of Enventive v1.1.3. This release continues Enventive, Inc.'s commitment to regularly provide valuable software improvements to Enventive users. Release v1.1.3 includes bug fixes to Excel display issues and crash file reporting, as well as the following compatibility enhancements:

• Concurrent installation support. Enventive v1.1.3 can be installed concurrently with the upcoming Enventive v2.0 release. Users who plan to obtain pre-release versions of v2.0 should first upgrade to v1.1.3 to help ensure a smooth transition to v2.0.
  
  
• Excel 2007 support. Enventive v1.1.3 is now compatible with Excel 2007.

Lancaster, Mass., June 8, 2007  Enventive Engineering, Inc., announces Enventive v1.1.1, best-of-class software for preliminary design, optimization, and critical parameter analysis of mechanisms. This release is part of Enventive, Inc.'s commitment to regularly provide valuable software improvements to Enventive users.

Highlights of this release include:

Lancaster, Mass., April 12, 2007  Enventive Engineering, Inc., is proud to announce the release of Enventive® V1.1, a major enhancement release of Enventive Engineering's best-of-class software for preliminary design, optimization, and critical parameter analysis of mechanisms.

Highlights of this release include:

• Improved memory usage and performance. A significant improvement in Enventive's performance in this release will help users increase their productivity. Enventive also requires far less memory, which aids in multitasking. Enventive is now 25% faster and uses 10 times less memory than Enventive 1.0.
   
• Nested assemblies. A major enhancement in Enventive 1.1 is the ability to nest assemblies. Users can now load assemblies (files that contain instances, references to other files) as instances themselves into other components. The ability to nest assemblies helps encourage and increase component reuse, further facilitating collaborative work flows and making model construction more efficient and flexible. Various team members can work in concert on the designs for sub-assemblies, which can then be independently integrated into a more complex model.
   
• MA object conversion tool. The MA (Mechanical Advantage) object converter is an optional tool that may be purchased separately from Enventive. This conversion tool enables users to import their existing MA files quickly and easily into Enventive.
   
• Moment of inertia constraints. Enventive's new Inertia constraint adds an area moment of inertia or polar moment of inertia to a region. These constraints can be used to compute the properties of a region and drive geometry in the model.
   
• Sketch Text objects. You can now add text to sketches using the new Sketch Text tool.
   
• Mirroring sketch objects. Mirroring pastes a mirror image of cut or copied objects in the Sketch view. Mirroring is a useful time-saver for creating symmetrical objects in sketches.
   
• Numerous enhancements to existing functionality. Improvements have been made to various areas of Enventive functionality, such as constraint behavior, error handling, UI appearance, IGES file importing, default zoom and tolerance values, solver alerts, and license management. V1.1 also includes fixes for bugs and limitations that existed in previous Enventive versions.

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Enventive Engineering, Inc., is a privately held Delaware Corporation founded in 2002. Enventive provides mechanical engineering software to major corporations in the automotive, appliance, office product, and medical product industries.

Enventive is a registered trademark of Enventive Engineering, Inc.

Enventive® V1.0 shipped June 14, 2006

Lancaster, Mass., June 14, 2006  Enventive® V1.0, Enventive Engineering's best-of-class software for preliminary design, optimization, and critical parameter analysis of mechanisms, shipped June 14, 2006, running on Microsoft Windows® platforms including Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP.  Shipment of V1.0 successfully concludes an extensive beta testing program involving Fortune 500 customers in office equipment, consumer appliances, automotive, data storage, and medical equipment.

Enventive combines geometric and mathematical modeling in a powerful manner that enables users to:

• Simulate mechanism performance, including motion, forces, response times, and other critical performance parameters.
   
• Synthesize and optimize mechanisms that produce desired motion profiles, achieve desired response times, and deliver specific forces.
   
• Use equations and logic to drive and optimize mechanism models through complex cycles
   
• Record mechanism timing diagrams directly to Microsoft Office Excel®.
   
• Analyze variation across a range of motion
   
• Generate parameter analysis reports directly to Excel®
   
• Drive Enventive models and optimize critical parameter values and tolerances using the Excel® Solver add-in.
  

• Multiple Position Parameter Analysis.  This report shows the range of critical parameter variation as a mechanism moves through its range.  It shows the variation due to both nominal changes and tolerance variations.
   
• Single Parameter Analysis.  These reports are generated at single positions for individual parameters, and provide the greatest detail for individual parameters.  This report may be used to optimize nominal and tolerance values for all contributors to the analyzed parameter.
   
• Multiple Parameter Analysis.  This report summarizes all designated critical parameters and their contributors in a matrix.  Users may optimize the critical parameters by changing contributor values and tolerances directly from the report.