http://levindavid.blogspot.com/Associated with www.isicad.net / www.isicad.ruennoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:26:18 PSTBlogger http://www.blogger.com130125CadInRussiaAndNotOnlyhttp://feedburner.google.comhttp://levindavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/novosibirsk-it-center-for-100-high-tech.htmlLEDAShigh-techITTekhnoparkNovosibirsknoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:26:18 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-1279420525016252061 Yesterday, the Russian Federal Minister of Tele- and mass communications Igor Shchegolev inaugurated the first part of the IT Center (Tekhnopark) in Novosibirsk Scientific Center:Here is the opening procedure: the minister says: Alexey Ershov, LEDAS CEO, receives a certificate which confirms that LEDAS (one  of 100+ high tech companies) is a resident of the Tekhnopark: As soon as the minister 2012-01-27T11:26:18.445+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/sadistic-developers-and-users-interface.htmldeveloperssadismnaïve usersAppleiphoneipadmacbooknoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:06:27 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-9072698860372572661 My background, including the first steps in my professional life, is in software developing. Nevertheless, almost from the outset of my studies and carrier path (and the more so when I forever joined the community of naïve users) I always had a tendency to react badly to what I would call sadistic developers’ complexes (or – the show of muscle, or - Machismo playing in the nerds’ heads:)) that 2012-01-24T14:06:27.070+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/one-relatively-inexpensive-way-to.htmlASCONLEDASCOFES 2012COFES 2011noreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:51:08 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-7847824663980185934 A 2011-year record of a number of COFES-participants from CIS can now be overcome. Almost at New Year midnight Brad Holtz has updated a current list of participants  of the April Arizona event, now the list includes:- Three representatives of ASCON who have already visited Arizona in 2011 – CEO M. Bogdanov, head of innovation department O. Zykov, and ASCON’s key technologist V.Panchenko,- LEDAS 2012-01-01T14:51:08.736+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/russia-invests-690-000-000-rubles-into.htmlSTANKINParasolidASCON3D solid modeling kernelSiemens PLMTop Systemsnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:12:16 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-5930548077911479978 Last week, a Russian daily Izvestia published an article which announced the completion of the tender whose topic was “Building of a national 3D solid modeling kernel”. The winner is a well-known MOSCOW STATE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY "STANKIN", one of the leading technical universities in Russia and likely in Europe. (STANKIN is an abbreviation for machine-tool institute). The main comment for 2011-12-04T18:12:16.951+07:002http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/t-flex-cad-12-and-kompas-3d-v13-confirm.htmlKOMPAS-3D V13ASCONDS CATIA SketchertenlinksT-FLEX CAD 12Top Systemsisicad.netnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:08:11 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-2887755845597121075 As the editor-in-chief of isicad.ru/net, I've just received a letter (written in English!) from the marketing department of the Russian CAD/PLM company Top Systems. The attachment included an English press-release announcing T-FLEX CAD 12. I believe this 3D CAD, quite popular at the Russian/CIS market, is really globally competitive and hope this publication: "T-FLEX CAD 12 Released" helps its 2011-11-24T13:08:11.448+07:008http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/direct-modeling-and-other-top-10-topics.htmlisicadLEDASAutodeskSiemens PLMRhinodesign intentSynchronous technologydirect modelingMCADBricscadnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:17:27 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-4817160729009040178 isicad.net is a modest English version of the most popular Russian CAD/PLM web resource isicad.ru published by LedasGroup. In contrast to the Russian version which aims to cover all key news and trends of the world and Russian markets of engineering software, isicad.net briefly reflects what happens at the Russian and CIS markets and from time to time publishes English translations of some 2011-11-17T19:17:27.285+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/isicadnet-overview-of-russian-cadplm.htmlNanosoftbentleyASCONLEDASAutodeskSiemens PLMDassault SystemesTop SystemsPTCSoliWorksnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:43:37 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-6896418773844844079Here are some key topics of the overview: - After 5 years of successful work for Autodesk CIS, Alex Tasev becomes head of PTC CIS and reports outstanding results of PTC at CIS market- Dassault Systemes and Siemens PLM extend their Russian offices and demonstrate good spirit- SolidWorks is still inarticulate in Russia in spite of very much respect to its software- Top Systems emphasises its 2011-11-14T16:43:37.949+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/ledas-announced-formation-of-its.htmlKen AmannLEDASDeelip MenezesFrancis BernardOleg ShilovitskyBrad HoltzAdvisory Boardnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:33:32 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-5903990173760753878 Together with the whole LEDAS team, I am grateful to the well-known actors of the engineering software market who kindly agreed to become members of the newly formed LEDAS advisory board:Ken Amann, Executive Consultant and (previously) Director of Research at CIMdata Francis Bernard, Founder and First President of Dassault Systèmes, awarded as being the “Inventor of CATIA” Brad Holtz, President 2011-11-14T12:33:32.655+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/10/john-mccarthy-father-of-lisp-has-spent.htmlArtificial IntelligenceJohn McCarthyLISPnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:57:21 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-6424425375868348680 Two days ago died John McCarthy. Wikipedia: "He was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference and was the inventor of the Lisp programming 2011-10-25T14:57:21.881+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-is-strength-of-ledas-part-iv-today.htmlLEDASDassault SystemesCADBricsysnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:11:20 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-1903657575034961848 I continue a series of publications “What is the Strength of LEDAS” that I started in May (see the links below). Today’s notes are about just announced changes in LEDAS management.  If you wish to read our official press-release, please see the link below. Aleksey Ershov is appointed the company СЕО. Aleksey has outstanding abilities in several fields, and therefore he can be confidently called 2011-10-19T13:11:20.163+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/10/francis-bernard-dassault-systemes-catia.htmlCATIADassault SystemesParisFrancis BernardESI-Groupnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:11:23 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-8281179902585768969 This is not my first mention of my luck: to have a privilege to meet quite regularly with Francis. Obviously, the man who founded DS, was its first CEO, invented CATIA, so energetically  promoted PLM, and much more, can give a lot of wise recommendations on how to develop one's business related to engineering software. And he can tell you many interesting things not only about CAD.      Recently2011-10-15T15:11:23.210+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/10/ledas-enhances-its-key-business-in.htmlLEDASRalph GrabowskiDassault Systemessoftware developmentoutsourcingDeelip MenezesLGSBricsysnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:52:52 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-3274518790492522434 Here is some part of my motivations for selling LEDAS technologies.  Here is a link to the official press-release of today. Here you can see how Erik de Keyser and I signed the Agreement: Yesterday night, Erik and I were explaining to Deelip Menezes and Ralph Grabowski some details and mutual advantages. This obviously means that soon you will likely read some weighty opinions from the bloggers:2011-10-05T20:52:52.636+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/10/arnold-van-der-weide-president-of-open.htmlRalph GrabowskiDeelip MenezesBricsysODAGraphic Speaksnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:52:34 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-1878109006045942658Arnold van der Weide, President of Open Design Alliance, Ralph Grabowski, The Blogger and CAD Guru, David Levin, LEDAS, Randall Newton, GraphicSpeak: Deelip Menezes (The Blogger, CAD Guru, and capitalist) arrived: Today, Brussels is excited by two key topics (Left - Bricsys conference, right - Sex and City ): For more information, see #bricsys2011 on Twitter. 2011-10-04T15:52:34.850+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/10/providing-geometric-solvers-be-it.htmlLEDASSiemens PLMDCMDassault SystemesSolidWorksLGSUGSD-Cubednoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:30:58 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-1245094622602717393 23 years after D-Cubed has released the first ever commercial geometric constraint solver (2D DCM), its current owner Siemens PLM Software published, practically for the first time, more or less full statistics on this part of its business (see a link below). D-Cubed is a company founded by an outstanding mathematician John Owen. It seems natural that this happened  in Cambridge - one of the 2011-10-04T11:30:58.698+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-december-2010-within-agenda-of-cofes.htmlCOFESAutodesk CIS ForumIsraelAutoCAD WSnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:59:01 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-2414421139630203347In December 2010, within the agenda of COFES-Israel, I had a chance to visit an Israeli office of the company Visual Tao whose product became globally known as AutoCAD WS after Visual Tao had been in 2009 acquired by Autodesk. In my Russian blog I published a lot of pictures from that visit because I found the office and its spirit as very much impressive.  This post is intended to attract your  2011-09-30T19:59:01.511+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-thoughts-on-industrial-design-in.htmlindustrial designYekaterinburgSolidWorksUralsBoschRussianoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:56:30 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-291101529323251281 My nephew, Ilya Vostrov, is a graduate from the architectural academy in Yekaterinburg, a one million industrial city in the Urals region. Ilya has specialized in industrial design, had his practice in England, did a diploma in Munich at Bosch GmbH, fruitfully participated in several international contests, and is currently designing instruments for the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant. He 2011-09-26T14:56:30.057+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/today-in-russia-is-actually-cad-day.htmlKOMPAS 3DASCONAutodeskCADnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:11:31 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-7380438109356393113 In particular Autodesk CIS Forum in Moscow and Day of Machine Constructors of ASCON have just been opened. The events are reported by well-known bloggers: @olegshilovitsky olegshilovitsky  #aforum Autodesk director in CIS Alexey Ryzhov is talking about mobile Internet and cloud just from the beginning. @cadovod  #denmash #ASCON ... Today ASCON holds its event simultaniously in 22+ cities of 2011-09-21T14:11:31.184+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/six-main-implementations-of-direct.htmlDSLEDASAutodeskSPLMSpaceClaimSynchronous technologyPTCCreoDirectInventor FusionCATIALive Shapenoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:22:31 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-360497791378080029 On Sept, 22 at Autodesk Forum in Moscow, Dmitry Ushakov, LEDAS CEO, will deliver an invited talk “Who and Why Needs Direct Modeling?”.     Dmitry was an ideologist and initiator of the LEDAS project on direct modeling, he proposed an original approach to DM, called Variational DM, with emphasis on keeping design intent, see links below. By today, LEDAS has made a considerable progress in 2011-09-20T17:22:31.645+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/bentley-systems-starts-modernization-of.htmlRM Bridgebridge designBentley SystemsBrIMnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:28:03 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-2417225420223981034 Today in Moscow, the Russian Bentley office holds a seminar on the company’s solutions in bridge design and construction. Several presentations will overview well known Bentley’s products and solutions RM Bridge (an integrated package looking like CAD/CAE/ for bridges) and BrIM (Bridge Information Modelling, something close to BIM).  The key speaker of the seminar is Vanja Samec – Global Sales 2011-09-13T16:28:03.720+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/siemens-plm-doubles-staff-of-its-office.htmlASCONSiemens PLM SoftwareAutodeskDassault SystemesVelocity SeriesSolid Edgenoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:38:06 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-2713616473170922159 In my recent isicad.ru editorial I wrote: “Some observers noted that during several months, SPLM Russia has been intensively publishing ads for job. According to some rumors, the Moscow office has today about 70 employees…”. Thanks to a mini-interview with Olga Akulova, Marketing Director Eastern Europe at Siemens PLM Software, I could transform these rumors into facts. Olga, they say your 2011-09-12T16:38:06.019+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/ascon-and-utac-launch-qibox-integrated.htmlPDMASCONUTACQiBoxCADautomotiveRenault-NissanPLMANPQPnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:15:04 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-121579353899972334 Today ASCON announced launching an integrated solution for control of pre-production in automotive industry according to ISO/TS 16949 standard. The solution called QiBox (quality-in-box) has been developed in cooperation with a French consulting company UTAC known as an auditor of quality control systems at Renault-Nissan. QiBox is announced as oriented for "improving the work of component 2011-09-02T20:15:04.998+07:001http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/09/ascon-to-distribute-full-scale-3d-cad.htmlKOMPAS 3DASCONKOMPAS 3D HomeCADnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:19:15 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-6422906493427880755 Today, ASCON, a leading Russian CAD vendor announced that its powerful 3D CAD KOMPAS-3D V13 will be distributed under the name KOMPAS-3D Home for 1490 RUR ($50).  This version has absolutely no restrictions but is not permitted for commercial use. The license is valid for 1 year and can be prolonged.   The key point is that distribution (which will be started in October) of the Home version will2011-09-01T21:19:15.381+07:003http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/08/thanks-to-ds-and-siemens-russian-plm.htmlSiemens PLM SoftwareCATIASolidWorksDassault SystèmesNXTeamCenterPLMMAKS 2011ENOVIAnoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:13:15 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-8559256767004594956 DS and SPLM are always competing in the Russian aircraft industry however in this August the companies marketing activity seems to become record-breaking. One of the reasons is a traditional biennial Aviation&Space salon MAKS  held  about 10 days ago near Moscow. Within two weeks isicad.ru received from DS and SPLM five (5) press-releases: two of them described effective participation of DS in 2011-08-29T15:13:15.619+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-cofes-today-ascon-knows-answer.htmlKOMPAS 3DisicadASCONLEDASCOFESLightworksCOFES 2011Brad Holtznoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:58:14 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-1344305304711641788 Look at the passage from a recent press-release  of Lightworks: SHEFFIELD, UK (9 August 2011) - Lightworks, the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, has today announced their partnership with ASCON, a developer and integrator of professional CAD/AEC/PLM solutions.   ASCON, one of the first CAD developers within the Russian 2011-08-14T15:58:14.038+07:000http://levindavid.blogspot.com/2011/08/autodesk-and-ascon-to-hold-their.htmlASCONAutodesknoreply@blogger.com (David Levin)Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:51:09 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17211357068338603.post-2964404189361318981 ASCON, the largest Russian CAD provider annonced today that its MCAD forum, assocoated with The Day-of-Machine-Constructor, will be held in twenty five CIS cities on 21 of September. Earlier, September 21 and 22 were announced by Autodesk-CIS as the days of its traditional Forum "Technologies of Design" which tend to be more and more look like AU. ASCON sources claim that this is a coincidence.2011-08-05T21:51:09.313+07:000