20/20 is an image viewer, capture and annotation application. It is also capable of creating slide shows and generating thumbnails. Open/Save GIF, JPEG, BMP, DIB, EPS, WMF, PCX, PNG, PCD, TGA, TIF, DXF, CMS, and ICO file types.

http://www.hotfreeware.com/2020/2020.htm

NetMeeting delivers a complete Internet conferencing solution for all Windows users with multi-point data conferencing, text chat, whiteboard, and file transfer, as well as point-to-point audio and video. This Windows real-time collaboration and conferencing client is also an easy to use Web phone as well as a tool for corporate productivity. Using your PC and the Internet, you can now hold face-to-face conversations with friends and family, and collaborate with co-workers around the world. This is an excellent FREE collaborative tool which can be used to share any application, including Pro/E! To learn more about NetMeeting 3, click here.

Use ICQ with NetMeeting instead of logging into ILS servers!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting

ICQ is a revolutionary, user-friendly Internet tool that informs you who's on-line at any time and enables you to contact them at will. No longer will you search in vain for friends or associates on the Net. ICQ does the searching for you, alerting you in real time when they log on. With ICQ, you can chat, send messages, files and URL's, play games, or just hang out with your fellow 'Netters' while still surfing the Net.

http://www.icq.com

Printkey® is a little FREEWARE utility for making screen captures of the desktop or active windows. You can also use the selection tool to choose a rectangular portion of the screen image to be printed, loaded and saved as BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, ICO, EMF, WMF or edited with your favorite paint program. The image can be modified like monochrome, inverted colors, more or less contrast or brightness. There are options for selecting portrait or landscape format along with many more features. Try it .... you'll love it.

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WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of Zip files and other archive and compression formats. The optional wizard interface makes unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support CAB files and for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, gzip, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. This is just a must have utility, especially when emailing those large Pro/E part files. Now you can even password protect your ZIP files with WinZip 7.0!

http://www.winzip.com

TurboZIP Express is a powerful and intuitive, easy to use solution for handling ZIP and CABinet files. You can open a Zip file, select a text or graphic file inside the Zip, view it, edit it, and then tell TurboZIP Express to automatically save it back to update the contents of the Zip archive for you - all in one action! Proprietary filters allow you to view, print, copy, edit, and launch files within TurboZIP without unzipping!

http://www.pgcc.com

EditPad is a replacement for the standard Windows NotePad. EditPad requires Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 or later to run. No additional DLLs or whatever are required. This is the most excellent freeware editor you will find! There are so many useful features that I can't list them all here, but here are a couple. EditPad sits in your system tray for easy access all the time. It also has the ability to save files in UNIX or DOS format! Just check it out and you will then ask yourself, "How did I get along without EditPad!". I'm not kidding!

http://www.jgsoft.com/editpad.shtml

Upload your web pages with WS_FTP LE -- the fastest, most powerful Windows file transfer (FTP) client available. With WS_FTP LE, you can connect to any FTP server, browse through directories and files, and transfer files in either direction — fast. This ftp utility is great for connecting to your Pro/E users to upload and download files. And best of all this is freeware!

http://www.ipswitch.com

CuteFTP is an awesome FTP utility! Because of its Explorer look & feel interface, it makes transferring files a breeze! This is a must have for those system admin types that need to maintain web sites and support Pro/E. CuteFTP allows you to set up and save your entire user community by entering workstation information required for the FTP protocol. Its like having your own phone directory for FTP!

http://www.cuteftp.com

Multidesk allows you to have 7 different environments with applications in each one. It allows for a Win95/NT environment similar to what the CDE(Common Desktop Environment) allows on Unix workstations. This one resides in your toolbar so it is always out of the way in a convienent location. This is a very practical utility for allowing multiple apps to be open at once without all the clutter! Awesome!

MS GIF Animator is an excellent FREEWARE program. You can very easily make animated GIF files and view them as well using typical VCR controls. This is a must have if you want to put your presentations in motion!

Microsoft Camcorder is a FREEWARE utility that video captures your desktop and saves the video in AVI format. It is a neat utility for creating those quick and dirty (although not TOO dirty I hope) software tutorials.

GifgIfgiF is an awesome must have utility! This baby video captures your desktop and saves the file as an animated GIF file. Great for creating software tutorials. Because its a GIF file it will play on any hardware platform without any special players or plug-ins. Just Netscape 4.0+ is required. Sorry IE fans, as of IE 4.0 these videos still are not supported. Click here for demo!

http://www.peda.com/ggg

A Smaller GIF is the compliment editing software to GifgIfgiF. A Smaller GIF is a program for reducing the size of animated GIFs without affecting their appearance in any way. It is often capable of reducing an animated GIF as most GIF programs do not maximally compress their output. A Smaller GIF also serves as a full function animated GIF viewer with your basic VCR controls to enable you to navigate frame by frame through your videos!

http://www.peda.com/smaller

Converting Pro/E solid models for use in animation packages such as 3D Studio Max. STL_UTIL can be used to convert .STL (stereolithography), .OBJ (Wavefront Object) and 3D-DXF(3DS and MAX) files. Great for marketing brochures and presentations!

http://www.f3p.com/proe/STL_UTIL.html

http://www.sgi.com/software/cosmo/player.html