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Direct Dimensions and DPI Announce AFI 5000 Partnership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 31, 2007

WILMINGTON, MA, January 31, 2007.  Direct Dimensions, Inc. (DDI), a leading 3D measurement product sales and service organization, and Dimensional Photonics International, Inc. (DPI), a leading producer of high performance digital shape scanners, have formed a sales & support partnership around DPI’s AFI 5000 product line. Maryland-based DDI was established in 1995 by Michael Raphael, a recognized expert in digital shape scanning who has been a keynote speaker at numerous 3D scanning conferences in North America and around the world. Michael Raphael explains: “Over the years, DDI has undertaken and successfully completed thousands of challenging 3D applications for leading industrial manufacturing and engineering firms, including companies in aerospace, automotive and power generation industries. Our 3D imaging technologies (hardware, software and unique processes) allow us to model complex objects down to the last intricate detail. The partnership with DPI adds tremendously to our capabilities."

“DPI is very pleased to have a distribution partner with DDI’s success as a shape scanning service bureau,” says Olaf N. Krohg, Chairman and CEO of DPI.  “We look forward to a close, long-term relationship and are particularly interested in pursuing automation opportunities based on our AFI 5000 family of products.”

According to Michael Raphael, “DPI digital shape scanning systems exhibit capabilities that are absolutely critical to DDI’s current and future customers, including the ability to scan most machined or painted parts without the use of powder spray.”  He continues, “DDI is eager to apply DPI’s technology to automated manufacturing applications such as casting and sheet metal inspection.”

DPI shape scanners are based on a proprietary technology called Accordion Fringe Interferometry (AFI) developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  AFI-based scanners create digital models (CAD) of physical objects by immersing the object in patterns of light, then recording the way the patterns reflect off of the object’s surface.

About DIRECT DIMENSIONS

Direct Dimensions provides advanced three-dimensional digital imaging products, services, support, and training for the solution of 3D-related applications in the fields of design, engineering, and manufacturing; as well as art, sculpture, and architecture. Direct Dimensions specializes in the application of 3D scanning systems and the conversion of 3D digital data into high-resolution computer models. Direct Dimensions develops and markets integrated systems for the solution of these complex 3D problems. For more information, please visit http://www.directdimensions.com/.

About DPI

DPI is a leading provider of high performance digital shape scanners to global industry. DPI's scanners are plant floor capable, metrology grade and easy to use. For additional information, please visit DPI at http://www.dpi-3d.com/ or call at (978) 988-8825.

Media Contact

Olaf N. Krohg                                                                                                                   220 Ballardvale Street, Unit D
Dimensional Photonics International, Inc.                                                                  Wilmington, MA 01887-1050
(978) 988-8825                                                                                                                         marketing@dpi-3d.com

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