News Release

October 31, 2002 – Rowse Company is announcing the immediate availability of SiteMenu Release 5. SiteMenu is an interface development toolkit used to deploy CAD standards and design automation in MicroStation and AutoCAD. SiteMenu is used by government agencies including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Aviation Administration, Florida Department of Transportation, and hundreds of AE firms worldwide.

SiteMenu offers customizable menu bars, a command spreadsheet dialog, and an integrated browser – each designed to conserve screen space while enforcing CAD standards. SiteMenu can launch commands; set drawing attributes such as level-layer, color, weight, etc; load cells, blocks, and settings components; run macros, MDLs, AutoLISP and ARX applications; and link to custom user documentation.

SiteMenu provides a highly customizable, simple and unobtrusive CAD standards interface. Menu content is managed from ASCII text files – offering a secure, modular, version-independent development platform that requires no programming. The power of SiteMenu lies in the versatility and simplicity of its interface components, resulting in maximum CAD standards compliance. Users are more productive because design automation is easier to access, while drawings are higher quality because computer-aided design standards are implemented enterprise-wide.

SiteMenu Advantages

        Offers a uniform CAD standards interface for MicroStation and AutoCAD

        Enables layering of menu components based on configuration options

        Allows concurrent editing for live, site-wide CAD standards updates

        Reads menu content from ASCII text files, easily edited and configured

        Uses less screen space than conventional dialogs and dockable menus

        Supports Documentation Links for custom user documentation

SiteMenu R5 New Features

        Supports MicroStation SE, J, and V8!

        Supports AutoCAD Release 2000-2002!

        Available for Windows NT, 98, 2000, and XP

        Works with Windows dual-screen configurations

        Includes browser events (CAD operation from browser)

        Supports AutoCAD menu macro syntax
Rowse Company is a training and software development firm, specializing in MicroStation, InRoads, and office–engineering automation. Perhaps best known for their MicroStation CAD Manager class, they are also authors of the MicroStation KnowledgeBase (an online database of MDLs, macros, tips and tricks), the first online MicroStation Proficiency Exams, and two new (commercially available) MicroStation V8 Update training manuals. Rowse Company has been serving architects, engineers, government, utilities, and manufacturers worldwide, since 1990.

To order a free evaluation copy of SiteMenu, please visit www.rowseco.com/sitemenu, email Email Contact, or call Rowse Company at 207-781-7000, or 888-781-7000 (toll-free).

SiteMenu is a registered trademark of Rowse Company. MicroStation is a registered trademark of Bentley Systems. AutoCAD is a registered trademark of AutoDesk.