CAD/CAM Software offers CNC programming solution.

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Offering CAD/CAM solution for SolidWorks®, CAMWorks® 2012 combines ability to build full assemblies, including Hardinge workholding, tooling, and rotary products, with power of machine simulation to deliver optimal Hardinge solid-based CNC programming solution. Software employs automatic feature recognition with knowledge-based machining to create fully associative tool paths that update automatically to design changes at push of button, cutting CNC programming time from hours to minutes.



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CAMWorks Debuts at the Hardinge Machine Technology Show 2012



Scottsdale, Arizona, - Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Global Engineering Services and Offshore Product Development (OPD) solutions and technologies, will demonstrate the latest version of its solid-based CNC programming solution, CAMWorks® 2012 at Hardinge Machine Technology Show (HMTS 2012), at Hardinge Headquarters, Elmira, New York from June 6-7, 2012.

The new functionalities of CAMWorks 2012 uses one of the world's best automatic feature recognition (AFR) and knowledge-based machining (KBM) to generate CNC programs automatically, thereby reducing programming time from hours to minutes or even seconds for the entire line of Hardinge CNC lathes and machining centers.

CAMWorks 2012 is the premier CAD/CAM solution for SolidWorks® and combines the ability to build full assemblies including Hardinge workholding, tooling, and rotary products with the power of machine simulation, to provide the ultimate Hardinge programming solution.

"The combination of CAMWorks and SolidWorks® provides the world's foremost CAD/CAM solution for the Hardinge line of CNC machines. Only CAMWorks employs the best automatic feature recognition with knowledge based machining to create fully associative tool-paths that update automatically to design changes at the push of a button. CAMWorks is by far the world's fastest, most powerful, and easiest to use CNC programming solution ever developed for Hardinge customers," said Don Dorsey, CAMWorks Channel Sales Manager - North and South America.

In addition to being able to error free post processors for most of Hardinge CNC lathes and machining centers, Geometric supplies various modules of CAMWorks specifically designed to provide the ideal CNC programming solution. It also provides custom software programming services and API (Application Programming Interface) development to help Hardinge customers fully automate the CNC programming of families of parts.

About Hardinge

Hardinge is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of machine tools, specializing in SUPER-PRECISION® and precision CNC Lathes, high performance Machining Centers, high-end cylindrical and jig Grinding Machines, and technologically advanced Workholding & Rotary Products. The Company's products are distributed to most of the industrialized markets around the world with approximately 75% of its sales outside of North America. Hardinge has a very diverse international customer base and serves a wide variety of end-user markets. This customer base includes metalworking manufacturers which make parts for a variety of industries, as well as a wide range of end users in the aerospace, agricultural, transportation, basic consumer goods, communications and electronics, construction, defense, energy, pharmaceutical and medical equipment, and recreation industries, among others. The Company has manufacturing operations in Switzerland, Taiwan, the United States, China and the United Kingdom. Hardinge's common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol, 'HDNG.' For more information, please visit www.hardinge.com.

About Geometric

Geometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services and Digital Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Geometric was incorporated in 1994 and is listed on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges. The company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 8.08 billion (US Dollars 167.51 million) for the year ended March 2012. It employs over 4500 people across 12 global delivery locations in the US, France, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for engineering operations. The company's operations are also ISO 27001:2005 certified.

Geometric's Geometry Technology Solutions (GTS) business unit develops cutting-edge point productivity solutions that enhance design and improve manufacturing operations. The end-user products from Geometric include CAMWorks®, eDrawings® Publisher, DFMPro®, GeomCaliper®, 3DPaintBrush(TM), CAMWorksXpress® and Glovius®. The key technologies from Geometric are NestLib®, Feature Recognition (FR), GeomDiff and 3DSearchIT®. Geometric licenses these technologies to OEM partners and also designs and implements customized process solutions using these technologies for industrial customers.

For further details about Geometric's GTS business unit, please visit http://www.geometricglobal.com/products

CAMWorks, DFMPro, GeomCaliper, 3DPaintBrush, NestLib, Feature Recognition, GeomDiff and 3DSearchIT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Geometric Limited. The copyright/ trademarks of all products referenced herein are held by their respective companies.

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