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India's #1 VAR for SolidWorks 'BEACON' Wins SIX Prestigious Awards at SolidWorks World 2013

2013-01-24T09:51:00.000-08:00

The New Year 2013 began with a big bang for Best Engineering Aids & Consultancies (P) Ltd., (BEACON) as they were crowned the Best SolidWorks Reseller in India by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp at the just concluded SolidWorks World 2013 event, held on January 20-23, 2013 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin in Orlando, Florida. This annual event conducted by SolidWorks has thousands of attendees, with partner pavilions showcasing hundreds of technology products that work with SolidWorks, indepth training sessions, and the grand event finale where SolidWorks Value Added Resellers (VARs) are awarded for their achievements in promoting SolidWorks solutions across the globe.

The event witnessed BEACON winning a host of other awards, other than the Best SolidWorks Reseller, which include:

Best Simulation Reseller in India

Best 3DVIA reseller in India

100% achievement in India

The most significant honor came with the announcement of the Presidents Club award, for BEACON, which made it a hat-trick of sorts, as this was the third time in a row that BEACON was winning this prestigious award. The President’s Club Award recognizes top performers among the global SolidWorks Reseller community, and who demonstrate a commitment to providing customers with a comprehensive SolidWorks Solution to their design, engineering, and manufacturing challenges.

Finally, BEACON also walked away with the award for the Highest Customer Satisfaction Rate in rest of Asia. The award validates SolidWorks customers' appreciation for BEACON's services, reaffirming its status as a No.1 Reseller for SolidWorks in India.

"I sincerely thank entire BEACON team for your contribution for achieving such distinction. We should do better in 2013..." said Varakumar Siddavattam, Director, BEACON

BEACON, India's #1 Reseller for SolidWorks 3D CAD, advances the way companies design, prototype, manufacture and manage products. Customers of this leading professional 3D CAD services and technology company include organizations from the manufacturing, product design, special purpose machines, defense and engineering services industries. As one of the India’s largest resellers of SolidWorks 3D design and engineering software, the team leverages unrivalled industry experience to help businesses design products better and quicker. Headquartered in Bangalore with offices in over 9 major cities of India, BEACON with its state-of-the-art training and infrastructure facilities, provides exceptional user training and technical support.

For more information, visit BEACON website, beacon-india.com, or call +91-80- 424-57336

PTC Tech Forum - learning more about PTC solutions

2013-01-24T01:11:00.000-08:00

It’s time again for CAD industry’s premier event "PTC Tech Forum" in India. After the grand success at Mumbai and Chennai events in 2012. This year it’s time for Bangalore and Pune designers and engineers to experience the latest PTC products LIVE.

PTC Tech forum event series is conducted worldwide with an idea to make engineers aware of PTC's breakthrough technologies like PTC Creo, Windchill, Integrity, Arbotext and Mathcad.

With Mr. Rafiq Somani and Mr. Jeffrey Wilmot at PTC R&D

“India is rapidly growing economy; we have double digit growth in last financial year ended and see increasing demand for our applications” said Mr. Jeffrey Wilmot Country Manager India during the recent conversation with him at PTC R&D office. “During the showcase events we will demonstrate how our innovative products benefit to overcome challenges faced by design engineers, both within India and on global scale. Thousands of designers and engineers in India are using PTC products to bring their projects to life.PTC Tech forum is a platform for attendees to share, collaborate, learn and explore new functionalities and embrace their love for creating innovative products" said Mr. Jeffrey Wilmot

This year PTC has scheduled events in Bangalore and Pune

Bangalore: Feb 12, 2013 at ITC Gardenia, Residency Road

Pune: Feb 14, 2013 at The Westin Pune, Koregaon Park

For more information: Visit - http://liveforum.ptc.com/

Attendees will hear from keynote speakers who use PTC products to help change the course of human history, and ultimately, acquire knowledge and inspiration that will take their projects to the next level. Automotive leaders Ashok Leyland, Nissan, and Gabriel India would be presenting their experience using PTC products to develop world class vehicles at Bangalore event.

VE Commercial Vehicles, a joint venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors Limited and bearing manufactures NEI would be presenting at Pune event.

"It’s a wonderful opportunity for existing and potential users of PTC software solutions to get a hands-on experience, learn how to leverage the latest product enhancements and use these capabilities more effectively by attaining best practice sessions" said Mr. Rafiq Somani, Country Sales Manager and AVP.

“We have invited two renowned speakers from PTC, US team. Mr. Brian Thompson, VP, Creo Product Management. He is well known speaker for PlanetPTC events worldwide. He would talk on the MCAD, Creo and Technology Road map. Another is Mr. Bill Newman, VP, PLM Solutions at PTC. To give an overview on Wildchill 10” said Mr. Jeffrey Wilmoth

Event covers more than 20 sessions to give insight of PTC’s business, vision and service advantage. The key note presentations will cover the latest solutions and capabilities and show users the way to apply them to their business. Apart from PTC Creo 2, Concept Design, Mathcad there would be sessions on PTC Windchill 10. More than 800 professionals are expected for the event this year, giving very good opportunity for attendees to expand their professionals network.

I am very excited to learn more about the PTC’s new and exciting Service Lifecycle Management solutions and various training solutions for education innovators.

So, if you are

· Design Engineer

· Designer

· Software Engineer

· Analysis Engineer

· QA Engineer

· CAD Administrator

· CAD Manager

· IS/IT Manager

· QA Manager

· Technical Author

· Technical Illustrator

· Publishing Manager

· Compliance Manager

· CAD Faculty

PTC Tech forum is for you!

*Free online registration required to attain these events, click these links to register.

Bangalore: https://www.cvent.com/events/ptc-live-tech-forum-bangalore-karnataka-february-12-2013/registration-6b44b6aa8c7149329268513f1ba38b22.aspx?r=14E1D77C-4B80-47C3-8B88-AC52F72B23F9

Pune: https://www.cvent.com/events/ptc-live-tech-forum-pune-february-14-2013/registration-d7ee27b59403430095a37cab1284c8bb.aspx?r=8D0D7E67-F8F4-4B68-93E2-9BCFDBC19232

ITC Infotech - PTC's 1st Authorised Training Partner (ATP) in India

2013-01-15T02:27:00.000-08:00

ITC Infotech, a leading global IT services and solutions company, and PTC India, a leading technology solutions company, have jointly announced that ITC Infotech is the 1^st Authorised Training Partner (ATP) for PTC in India. Under this agreement, ITC Infotech will provide to customers, high quality training services on PTC Windchill® PLM software & curriculum related to other products through In-centre and Onsite training classes. As part of the ATP program, ITC Infotech has also set up a state-of-the art training centre at its ITC Infotech park campus in Bangalore. As the exclusive ATP of PTC in India, ITC Infotech will provide the full range of training services on all PTC Windchill modules, which will help professionals enhance their careers and lead to a highly skilled pool of resources for the entire PLM industry.

Through this ATP programme, the target customer base will have access to PTC’s world class training material and methodology and course completion certification. Training will be delivered using experienced instructors approved by PTC. Certification requirements will vary according to course and are established by PTC University, based in Needham in USA. The learning solutions under the ATP programme are completely scalable, and can focus not just on the training needs of a single user but can also address diverse requirements of an enterprise.

Eduarda Camacho, VP, PTC Global Services, said, “Industry best-in-class training tools and curriculum, plus the more experienced delivery resources, are combined to bring to the market and to the organizations the right skill sets at the right time, which will ultimately lead to the right output. PTC’s award-winning Windchill^® PLM solution has high regard in the industry and with the launch of ATP program (India Chapter), PTC together with its partner ITC Infotech, aims to train & certify more and more people to make them industry-ready in this ever-growing PLM market in India. These certified resources will enable organizations to implement and adopt product development best practices. The ATP India program will surely be another milestone for the PTC University program.”

V V Rajasekhar, Sr Vice President, ITC Infotech, said, “The ATP program further consolidates our long-standing relationship with PTC. The curriculum and facilities will offer best-in-class training for individuals and corporates who wish to adopt PTC solutions and realise value from the PLM Investments.”

Best suited for End-Users, Business Administrators, System Administrators and Team Leaders, the course is designed to impart best practices of PTC PLM solution (Windchill). End-users are given a comprehensive training to use the basic and advanced features of PTC Windchill with tips and tricks so as to enhance day-to-day usage. Additionally, ITC Infotech will also be offering Adoption Training to end users.

Jeffrey Wilmot, India Country Manager, said “India continues to offer huge opportunity for PTC and today, I am very excited to launch the India chapter of the Authorized Training Partner (ATP) program along with our valued partner -- ITC Infotech. The ATP program has been a huge success in EMEA and NA regions and I know that it will be the same for India. Through this program, PTC has globally managed to meet the ever increasing demand for PTC Windchill^® certification in a professional & flexible way.”

Ashwani Maheshwari, CEO - India and APAC business, ITC Infotech, said, ”We see good demand for PLM in the emerging markets. PTC and ITC Infotech have a large client base using state of the art PTC-PLM solutions. By being an Authorized Training Partner with PTC, ITC Infotech will help existing and new clients, derive the ‘maximum value’ from their Windchill implementations”

ITC Infotech is one of the leading PLM service providers globally and has been a long–standing partner of PTC for PLM-based services. ITC Infotech has consistently delivered value at the highest quality to over 500 business organizations worldwide across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

For more information about training contact: http://www.itcinfotech.com/

Mail ID - contact.us@itcinfotech.com

Best of What’s New in SolidWorks 2013

2012-11-26T01:35:00.000-08:00

Let’s start with the enhancements that SolidWorks users appreciated or liked most during the SolidWorks Innovation Day. Out of 200+ enhancements in SolidWorks 2013, presenters at Innovation day tried to cover maximum within the given time slot during event. In this post let’s cover what influenced users most, those features which have an impacts on the day to day working of design engineers. Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp not only makes enhancements in their MCAD program but also add new tools to their data management, simulation software every year.

View Selector: Previous versions of SolidWorks already have a quick access to commonly used front, side and isometric views. This feature would add up to make users life much easier. Hitting spacebar the orientation dialog comes up, it has ‘View Selector’ option that switches the model into a wireframe cube from which standard views can be selected with various angles. The View Selector option can be turned ON/OFF by hitting button or using Ctrl+spacebar.

Center of Mass: This new feature has ability to include CG in mass properties calculations. User can see a point on the part, can add reference points. Any change in the part reflects by change in CG location accordingly. It is easy to update it at drawing and assembly level.

Quick Filter: This is a big time saver for users; it quickly filter the type of file required like part, assembly, drawing or combination. It also provides quick access to top-level assemblies.

SolidWorks Costing: This tool now calculates the cost required to manufacture a turned part.

Assembly:

Breaking All External References: It was very tedious job while working with previous releases. Now there is no need for user to go through each part killing references. The feature allows user to break all external references in an entire assembly hierarchy or subassembly at once.

Any Component as Envelope: Sometimes designers add some part of assembly for the sake of reference. But, it sometimes misleads to error in calculation of center of mass also it might start an argument between client and vendor for not delivering all the items included in drawing. In SW 2013 user can now set any part or assembly in an envelope. This is great way to exclude required components. Components are automatically excluded from BOM in drawing. New options let you adjust envelope visibility and load envelopes as lightweight or read-only.

Intersect: When working with complex models one can use this command to add and subtract materials at the same time by intersecting solids, surfaces, and/or planes. It performs multiple solid geometry interactions simultaneously.

Administration:

SolidWorks CAD Admin Dashboard: This enhancement is for CAD managers, they can now directly monitor the performance, hardware/machine configuration of SolidWorks users at a glance. It can be accessed from anywhere through the SolidWorks Customer Portal.

Parts and Features:

Varying Dimension Patterns: This tool allows users to vary dimension and locations while creating pattern. This speedy tool automatically varies spacing, length and width of the part features. Also, allows user to modify individual instances as they wish.

Sketching:

Conic Curves: Most MCAD programs use spline curves from surface modeling to draw irregular shapes. In SolidWorks 2013, it let user draw elliptical, parabolic or hyperbolic curves using Conic sketcher, that are driven by end points and rho value.

Drawings and Detailing:

Section Views: The new options in SW 2013 allow users to create production drawing faster with more consistent section views, aligned section views, and half section views on a drawing. Supports ASME, ISO, and other standards.

Simulation:

Submodeling: This feature allows user to improve the results at critical areas without having to rerun the analysis for the whole model. Refining the mesh for a selected portion of the model and rerunning the analysis for specific areas of large and complex models saves computation time.

Overall 2013 is a solid release. Stay tuned for more on SolidWorks 2013 articles!

SolidWorks Innovation Day 2013 – Explore What You Can Get From MCAD Tools!

2012-11-16T03:12:00.000-08:00

Few, days back I attended SolidWorks Innovation Day 2013 in Bangalore and Pune. This year Indian professionals were fortunate to get glimpse of SW 2013 before the US and European users, much before SolidWorks 2013 SP0 was announced. This was because of festive season ‘Diwali’.coming close.

BEACON Event Bangalore

I am attending Innovation day events since 2009. I can see that the SolidWorks user’s community in India is growing rapidly every year. Numbers of delegates are doubled each year. SolidWorks has so much to offer in form of new features, new tools, add-ons and case studies that a full day event seems to be very small to present all this stuff. Every year, I find some presenter saying that this year’s release is best ever SW version, but again next year more 200+ features comes with the next version, proving the previous year’s statement wrong. The attendees are very much surprised to see lot of development in the latest version.

I caught up one of my friend in the event, their company is using version 2011 and they are extremely happy with the package, they rarely come across a situation where they do not find any feature in SolidWorks to help them out to design a particular object. This might be because the SolidWorks takes care of every customer request they receive since last 15 years.

Innovation day event are not just to listen to what’s new in latest version but gives networking opportunity to design professionals from various industries. There are very good key note presentations by renowned industry speakers. Resellers offer hands on test drive of latest package, lot of offers on products and hardware announced during event.

Short overview on the events attended.

SolidWorks Innovation Day 2013 – Bangalore by BEACON

The key note speaker was Dr. N Ramani. He talked about the break through innovations in India. It was nice to know about the TVS Luna’s importance and world's thinnest watch by Titan. Many time when we talk about innovation the companies like apple, sony, google come in our mind and we do not think of the innovations that happened next to us in India.

TVS developed a two seater moped in house from scratch, Titan developed world’s slimmest watch, just 3.5 mm thick when Swiss watch makers find it impossible and BOSCH Bangalore developed PF pumps which are more efficient then CRDi pumps.

Mr. Subba Bangera MD Sidel India

The next, guest speaker was Mr. Subba Bangera, Managing Director, Sidel India. Sidel India is 100% subsidiary owned by Sidel SA, a group of Tetra laval. Sidel’s 26 worldwide plants use only SolidWorks to design their products. He gave an overview on how the company develops innovative packaging PET solutions for various cold drinks, beverage industry in India using SolidWorks. I never thought a bottle of ‘appy’ is designed using SolidWorks. Just amazing!

Afterwards, Mr. Ravi Varadarajan, Sr. Country Technical Manager, SolidWorks Corporation India talked on SolidWorks 2013 and Beyond. Its seventeen year journey for a company focusing on usability, reliability and user needs. He asked attendees to send the enhancement request if any and SolidWorks would take care to add requested feature in future versions. SolidWorks today have around 1,878,300 users worldwide. The number of educational users are also too large with 407 VARs and 218 users group.

Mr. Ravi Varadarajan, SolidWorks India

Now, SolidWorks is offered in many engineering colleges in India as a part of curriculum. FE to BE students are using it to do their academic projects. SolidWorks has appointed re-sellers for the educational sectors which take care of training the faculty members of colleges to teach SolidWorks in better way to students. SolidWorks has plans introduce their tools at school level, like what they did in US and Europe.

This year SolidWorks Plastics, Electrical and eDrawing for ipad are introduced. The future generation SolidWorks may be on-cloud, with powerful 3D experience, extreme modeling flexibility and more.

After break, there was technical session on SWX 2013 from Mr. Rajgopal Y G, Technical Manager, BEACON & Mr. Praveen. A, Technical Manager, BEACON

There are more than 200 enhancements in SW 13; it is not at all possible to cover all the new features in one session. But, they tried best to cover maximum. I liked previous release interoperability, Intersect feature, varying dimension pattern, CAD Administrator dashboard, costing enhancement. I will cover the most liked features in next blog post.

The BEACON’s Bangalore event has around 700 attendees witnessing the launch of SolidWorks 2013 at ITC GARDENIA .

Again of Oct 5, 2012 I attended SolidWorks VAR BEACON’s Pune event. There were more than 250 attendees present for the event. The guest speakers here was Mr. Varadharajen Lakshmanan Managing Director - Bray India & South East Asia and Mr. Govind Hublikar, Director of Engineering, Emerson Innovation Center.

BEACON Pune Event

Good to know few more enhancements in SolidWorks 2013 presented by Mr. Mubashir Ahmed, Mr. Vishal Surwade, Sr. Consultant Technical, BEACON. Mr.Joseph Jerome, CEO, BEACON has announced some big offer for Pune audience, check this video and call Mr. Ashish to know more about it.

There were very good partner presentations from Mr.Mandar Parkhi-Director-Mark Design Solutions on Design Automation with CADECplus, Inspection geni, and SolidCAM.

And on Oct 9, 2012 I attended Pelf infotech’s event in Pune. There were around 350 attendees present. Good to brush up what’s new in SolidWorks 2013. I attended this event not for knowing what’s in SolidWorks 2013 but to meet SolidWorks users, feel very happy to know their passion for the creating innovative products, learning new tools.

Pelf Infotech is also very active SW VAR in west region, with constant demand from their clients they have developed an add-in for SolidWorks called Pro Designer used to quickly create, modify and manage piping and instrumentation diagrams and process flow diagrams. Mr. Sanjay Phadake of Pelf gave very good demo of the product. The product is very useful for oil and gas, power generation, chemical, food and beverage industries.

Pelf Infotech Pune Event

Event sponsors Lenovo, AMD and 3Dconnection presentations were awesome. Breaking news I got in event was that Lenovo passes HP for Number One in PC business. Lenovo now offer certified workstations for CAD applications.

One thing I notice that the attendees present in event were not just the young professionals but also the senior old guys representing their company as directors, CEOs, partners. It was nice to see their interest levels and passion to create better products using latest technologies.

For those who missed the Innovation Day events this time can stay updated by joining SolidWorks India website http://fans.solidworks.in or join the newsletter from the VARs near to you.

Overall, Innovation days are GREAT event. The passion level amongst attendees is at its best I’ve seen in SolidWorks events. Everyone at the event liked SolidWorks 2013 enhancements. My personal opinion is that it is the best release ever!

Stay tuned….more articles on SolidWorks 2013 to come!

Visit www.dailycadcam.com for more SW 13 articles....

PTC Announces the Winners at the Channel Sales Kick Off

2012-11-05T10:47:00.001-08:00

- Aditya Infotech Limited won the Academic Partner award while Softcell Technologies Limited won the Impact partner and The Achievers club Award at The Channel Sales Kick off -

India – 5th November, 2012: During the FY13 Channel sales kick off in Boston, Massachusetts Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC®) announced Aditya Infotech Limited as their Global Academic Partner of the year and Softcell TechnologiesLimited as their India Impact Partner of the year, Softcell Technologies Limited went on to win the Achievers Club award at this annual event.

Attended by over 250 VAR, 100 PTC personnel and eminent PTC spokespeople such as Jim Heppelmann, President and CEO of PTC, Robert D Ranaldi, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Distribution at PTC, Rob Gremley, Executive Vice President, Product Development & Corporate Marketing at PTC and Anthony (Tony) DiBona, Executive Vice President, Global Support at PTC this event was a huge success.

With an objective to review FY2012 and provide outlook and direction for FY2013, the event aimed at apprising the partners from across the globe about new programs and products and also to share best practices on selling, supporting and implementing PTC Products & Enterprise Solution Services. From India, the event was attended by Adroitec Engineering Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Aditya Infotech Limited, IonIdea Enterprise Solutions Private Limited, ITC Infotech India Limited and Softcell Technologies Limited.

Commenting on this, Mr. Jeffrey W Wilmot –PTC India Country Manager said, “The increasing volatility in the business arena makes it indispensible to get acquainted to the best practices in the industry to ensure we offer premium support and service to all our customers. Channel Sales Kick Off events give our partners an opportunity to learn about the best practices in the industry. We are also very happy that our partners from India were recognized and awarded for their excellent performance. I wish them all the best and hope they will continue with their ground breaking work”

Commenting on the award Mr. Binish Parikh, VP - Software Solution Division, Aditya Infotech said “The PTC Education Business is very important for us in terms of top line and bottom line contribution, around 40% of our PTC business comes from this segment. Education business is very close to us as it helps in creating a good user base, which is very essential for us in terms of creating manpower (engineers of the future) required for our commercial customers.”

Mr. Sunil Dalal, Managing Director, Softcell Technologies said, “We are extremely proud and excited about receiving the Achievers Club award and the India Impact Partner of the Year award from PTC. These awards are a reflection of our ability to stay focused in understanding the needs of our customers and addressing them through innovative service delivery. We have made substantial investments in developing skills on products and solutions from PTC. We value our partnership with PTC and we are committed to growing our business together".

About PTC®

PTC® (Nasdaq: PMTC) enables manufacturers to achieve maximum value from their product strategies with software and services designed to optimize key business processes throughout the entire product lifecycle – from conception and design to sourcing and service. PTC®’s integral solution portfolio enables customers to unleash product innovation, improve collaboration and ensure product data integrity within engineering and across the enterprise, supply chain and service partner networks. Founded in 1985, PTC® employs over 6,000 professionals serving more than 27,000 customers worldwide. More information can be found at www.ptc.com

About Softcell Technologies Limited

Softcell Technologies Limited (Softcell) is a leading Systems Integration services company in India and specializes in sales of IT software, hardware, solutions and consulting services to corporate customers in India. Founded in 1989, Softcell is headquartered in Mumbai and has offices in Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. With an experienced workforce comprising of over 350 professionals, Softcell specializes in providing end-to-end IT solutions to corporate customers. Over 100 globally recognized software companies including IBM, Adobe, Symantec, Check Point, PTC, Fortinet, etc. partner with Softcell to sell their products and services in the Indian market. Softcell's portfolio of solutions include: Software reselling, Hardware and Networking services, IT Security services, Engineering (MCAD/PLM) Services, Testing Services and Internet Hosting services.

About Aditya Infotech Limited

We take this opportunity to introduce ourselves as a leading National Value Added Distributor in India. Through our Software Solution Division (SSD) we cater to different industry verticals such as Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Print & Publishing and Advertising, through leading companies such as: Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), BOXX, Brainstorm, Corel, Chaos Group, DDN, GenArts, Gefen, IRIS, MSC Software, Next Limit, Pixar-Renderman, SAP, Toozio, TV Logic, and Wacom.

For the manufacturing industry, we have a complete range of solution from Art to Part – DesignTM through our association with vendors as mentioned above. We have 25 offices and a reach in 100+ cities across India with our extended team of Value Added Resellers (VARs).

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India - an Integral Part of PTC's R&D Ecosystem

2012-09-24T03:02:00.000-07:00

On September 11, 2012 I got chance to visit PTC R&D center Pune, India for the press conference. This was for first time I visited PTC development center, the building was quite impressive, looks like some 3D Assembly! It was nice to see many of the media folks that I only get to see at CAD events, automotive and manufacturing expos. The purpose of this conference was not just to give an overview on PTC’s product line but aim was to introduce R&D Pune center, its activities to world.

PTC Software (India) Pvt. Ltd. Marisoft

The day started off with Jeffery W. Wilmot, Country Manager for India and Senior Vice President of product lifecycle, delivering the keynote, “PTC’s Initiatives”. The theme was:

‘Delivering product and service advantage’

As a CAD user and customer, it is always good to see the priorities and commitments of company towards customer.

Jeff was appointed as new SVP, Country Manager for India in May 2012. He works from Bangalore office. It was very good opportunity for us to interact with him to know his views on various fronts. His prior experience is with US market but looks very passionate to work in India. He sees tremendous growth potential here; and said “India has always been a major focus area for PTC”

With a focus on resolving customer problems, he gave an overview on the company’s approach in solving challenges using process expertise, technology and following customer centric engagement model.

Furthermore, he gave information on company’s global presence. Anybody reading this post would be exultant to see the global figures.

6100 employees in 30 countries around the world

1950 R&D employees

1375 service professionals

27, 000+ active customers

1,193, 000+ Windchill users

1,566,000+ total active seats

It was nice to know that 42% of R&D employees work from Pune, India and it is the biggest R&D center among the 18 global R&D locations worldwide. “Our success so far in India is indicative of the tremendous growth and opportunity that we see in the Indian design and engineering industry”, said Jeffery W. Wilmot

In last couple of years, Pune has emerged as the best choice for outsourcing R&D work for American and European corporations due to availability of English speaking educated, skilled manpower. Also, there are many small innovative companies who have created an ecosystem for research excellence.

Pune is the focal point for India's CAD, CAM and CAE activity. PTC is not only the company hosting its development center here but there are many renowned CAD vendors like Geometric Global, Autodesk, Bentley, Tata Technologies, 3dplm, Delcam, Altair, Ansys and Siemens PLM having their development centers here. Today, there are more than 5000 CAD, CAM and CAE software developers here.

“We are doing excellent business in India this year, no matter what media talks about the down economy and manufacturing sector growth” said Mr. Jeff

Mr. Venkateswaran Pazhambalacode, Jeffery W. Wilmot and Dr. Rajiv Agarwal

He concluded his presentation by giving overview on PTC’s academic initiatives and social activities.

Next to take over the stage was Mr. Venkateswaran Pazhambalacode, VP Software development.

His name was not new to me, I often heard about him from my friends working in R&D. He is very active person involved in software development activities of almost all PTC products for last 18 years. He looks after the product management, development, testing and release management teams. He joined Computer Vision in 1994 and got into PTC, when it acquired Computer Vision in Jan 1998.

It was really great feeling to know the growth story of the company in India from Mr. Venkateswaran who is with the company all these years. “Company started with 180 employees in 1998, today we have reached to 750 employees in Pune” said Mr. Venkateswaran

He gave brief intro about the software lifecycle evolution at R&D. Company has developed its own standards to make world class innovative products. “I feel very proud to tell that the products like Creo, Windchill and Arbotext are developed at our facility in Pune” said Mr.Venkateshwaran

The company has around 400 professionals for Windchill development in India. The leading automotive manufacturers and home appliances manufacturers worldwide manages their product development and business processes throughout life cycle with the Windchill certifies the quality product developed by R&D team.

42% of PTC’s total R&D professionals are Indians. In 2004 company shifted to Marisoft facility and later added Weikfield IT CITI Info Park facility in 2006. Today, 348 employees work from Marisoft and 348 from Weikfield. There is also a small team of 33 professionals working from Hyderabad.

“Our employees are biggest asset for us; we have around 100 employees with more than 10 years of experience with PTC” said Mr. Venkateswaran

Just outstanding!

Nice to know about so many employees working with a single organization for more than 10 years. Company has best talents working in R&D, it’s a gossip in CAD developers community that cracking an interview in PTC is much difficult than other CAD vendors working from India. PTC offers competitive packages along with the world class facilities and workspace.

Dr. Rajiv Agarwal, VP Software development was up next to introduce company’s social and academic activities. . He manages all the development and quality assurance activities for PTC’s Creo software product line.

It was nice to know the overwhelming response to FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge India Robotic Competition last year.

FIRST Tech challenge is really very good initiative by company. It gives students an opportunity to exhibit and sharpen their creative talent under the supervision of industry experts while providing an international platform for students who wish to contribute and excel in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Basic training on Creo, Mathcad and Windchill is given to participants to develop a working model of robot with guidance from mentors.

This year’s FIRST challenge is announced. More than 50 volunteers from PTC Pune have already registered to guide students for the forthcoming competition. Class VIII and IX School students throughout country participate in building and programming the robot. The winners here are given chance to compete at world event.

FIRST website, visit for details http://www.ptc.com/company/community/first/index.htm

PTC also, offers around fifty internship for engineering students every year. Internship period vary from 6 months to 1 year. Large percentage of interns turns to employees.

With speakers

Overall, it was a remarkable event. Building great products depends on great people. Really good to know the more about PTC’s R&D facility and happy to know about India’s contribution to CAD world!

PTC Presents Second Annual Meet 'L|E|A|P 2012' for Authorized Training Center Partners in India

2012-07-17T04:26:00.005-07:00

India – July 17, 2012 – PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) commenced the second annual ATC (Authorized Training Centre) meet, L|E|A|P 2012 in Goa today with over 175 attendees. PTC’s Authorized Training Centre (ATC) Program is an important part of the global PTC Academic Program, which delivers an affordable, world-class product development education for students and educators around the globe.
The annual three day event is a great forum for ATC owners and all the attendees as PTC will showcase its new product features during the event. By facilitating industry-recognized student trainings through a strong network of Authorized Training Centres (ATCs), PTC is working towards empowering every engineering student for a competitive global industry. L|E|A|P provides a unique opportunity to all the ATC owners to learn about best practices of successful ATCs and also interact with senior management from PTC. With the ATC partner network PTC aims to bridge the gap between opportunities and skills by bringing together the industry and engineering students using its world-class design software suite.
“Global industry exposure is extremely useful for career growth. This idea needs to be inculcated right from school days. With thousands of leading product design companies in the world, trust the opportunity is huge and we need to prepare the engineer of the future for the same. PTC Academic Program is continuously working in this direction”, said Mr. John Stuart, Senior Vice President, Global Education and Country Manager, PTC Eastern Europe S.R.L.

Eduarda Camacho, Vice President for Global Services PTC said “the power of the engineer is released through great enabling software combined with the right skills and expertise. The ATC program is designed to give the individual user the advantage they need to release their possibilities and help their career. At PTC University we believe in integrated eLearning within PTC products combined with world-class live training experiences like the type provided by the ATCs as the key to the future development of the engineers of the world”
“We are happy and proud to be a part of a global technology movement. PTC’s ATC program has witnessed tremendous growth in a short span of five years. The judicious amalgamation of content and technology enhances learning tremendously, thereby enabling the future innovators with the technical knowledge and skills to work with the leading companies across the globe”, said Mr. Rafiq Somani, Area Vice President and Country Sales Manager, PTC India.
Commenting on this Mr. Sajith Parambil, Business Head, PTC Academic Program, India & Middle East said, “With an unprecedented growth in the manufacturing industry, there has been a surge in demand for world class engineers in India. Hence it becomes indispensible to train the engineering students on award winning design software to be well equipped to embark on a global engineering career. At PTC, we believe that one of the best investments is to help youth of today to realize their dreams of becoming innovators of tomorrow.”
The PTC academic programs are committed to the future of engineering by developing potential workforce for many of the world’s leading product design companies.

About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) enables manufacturers to achieve sustained product and service advantage. The company’s technology solutions help customers transform the way they create and service products across the entire product lifecycle – from conception and design to sourcing and service. Founded in 1985, PTC employs over 6,000 professionals serving more than 27,000 businesses in rapidly-evolving, globally distributed manufacturing industries worldwide. Get more information at www.ptc.com.

An Interview with Kaustubh Nande, Manager - Marketing at ANSYS

2012-06-21T11:05:00.001-07:00

I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Kaustubh Nande, marketing manager ANSYS. In India, company has its sales headquarter in Bengaluru and offices in Pune, Noida, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai. Almost every design professional is aware of the unmatched contribution of ANSYS in the engineering simulation field. I have not seen any company in design space that has such a large product range with solutions for every industry.

ANSYS tops the vendors list in the CAE, FEA, CFD and electronics simulations markets worldwide. Company serves a wide range of industries with both high-end multiphysics applications and easy-to-use products designed to work with CAD applications such as Inventor, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Creo along with the support to a neutral file formats.

Coming back to Dr. Nande’s profile. He is working with ANSYS since two years as marketing manager. He has experience in field and corporate marketing, public relations, academia, and consulting. He holds a doctorate degree and has worked as academic associate at IIM Ahmedabad, as a teaching associate at Ohio University & as a full-time faculty at Towson University in USA. Here is the interview.

Could you please update about ANSYS engineering operations and developments in India?

Sure, we have a good presence in several industries in India. Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Oil & Gas and Energy sectors are important industries for growth in India. We serve our customers through our sales offices located across the country.

How did ANSYS manage it’s business during recession?

There's no success script for running a company in a historic downturn, we too experienced some slowdown for a while in India. However, overall we fared well and reported revenue growth in 2011.

What are your views on analysis software developed by CAD vendors?

Most CAD vendors provide CAD integrated basic simulation tools to their customers. These tools are often used by CAD engineers to do very basic simulations analysis.

ANSYS is an engineering simulations software company and we offer a comprehensive range of engineering simulation solutions. ANSYS has offered native, bidirectional integration with the most popular CAD systems for more than 12 years. One can use existing native CAD geometry directly, without translation to IGES or other intermediate geometry formats. ANSYS also provides integration into the CAD menu bar, making it simple to launch ANSYS simulation technologies directly from any CAD system.

We also provide High Performance Computing (HPC) technology for customers to do bigger, more detailed and more accurate simulations in short time using multiprocessor computers.

What are your plans for raising awareness of your products and its benefits in India?

Several activities are carried out to promote our products in the market. We conduct seminars, workshops and conferences in various cities in India. We recently concluded knowledge intensive seminars in Pune and Kolkata during April and May 2012. We had high presence from automotive, industrial equipment, mining and process industry professionals for these day-long events.

We also offer 1 to 5 days training sessions at our sales offices across country depending on the topic. One can find details about these sessions on ANSYS India website.

http://www.ansys.com/en_in/Training

We also conduct free webinars for benefit of customers periodically. Anyone interested can register to participate in these interactive online sessions.

How is the response to the webinars conducted by ANSYS India?

Very good. We conducted a series of webinar for Indian engineering professionals on the launch of ANSYS 14.0 release in Feb & March this year. The response for these virtual events was overwhelming with more 600 plus engineers benefiting from these webinars.

How is your company’s collaboration with academic institutions in India?

We have academic partnerships in place with IITs, reputed Universities and engineering colleges throughout the country. To overcome the shortage of CAE manpower, we have developed a number of creative approaches to train the next generation of engineers, such as project sponsorships, student competitions and hands-on programs.

We offer sponsorships for academic projects for engineering students by paying between Rs. 25, 000 – 50, 000 to individual or a group project. The winners are awarded certificates from ANSYS and given an opportunity to present their work at the ANSYS Annual Users Conference. The primary objective of this innovative program is to develop technology and engineering skills, improve employability in the industry as well as benefit ANSYS to enhance its collaboration with students.

We are also a key sponsor for SAE BAJA and SAE SUPRA competitions. This is in order to provide the next generation engineering students with an opportunity to gain vital practical experience by putting together an off-road and F-1 vehicle respectively and demonstrate their engineering skills in front of the top leaders and recruiters of the auto industry.

Does ANSYS have any Re-sellers for educational products?

Yes, we do have Channel Partners (Re-sellers) who sell educational products. In India they are Innovent Engineering, ATeN Systems and Technology Pvt Ltd., and Entuple Technologies.

Please update our readers on latest ANSYS v14.0?

ANSYS 14.0 provides a great number of new and advanced features that deliver solutions to amplify engineering, simulate most complex engineered products, and drive innovation with high-performance computing (HPC).

There are lots of new features in version 14.0 to deliver additional physics depth and breadth that can be scaled to meet the changing needs of users. The advances have been developed with feedback from our most innovative customers, developing a comprehensive solution for simulation driven product development.

What are ANSYS plans to expand in tier I and II cities in India?

From a sales perspective we are reaching out into these markets already. Naturally we will continue to aggressively position ANSYS in Tier I and Tier II cities in India where many medium scale industries are present and growing.

I would like to thank Dr. Nande for his time. If you have any questions for Dr. Nande or for DailyCADCAM, please write to me on sachin@dailycadcam.com and we will be glad to answer.

Sachin Nalawade
Editor
www.dailycadcam.com

CAD, CAM, CAE Application Engineers Job: - Pune, Delhi, Bangalore

2012-06-15T01:50:00.000-07:00

CAD, CAM, CAE Software Re-sellers/Partners are seeking an Application Engineers with CAD, CAM knowledge. We are looking for professionals with proven industrial experience or fresher (Engg graduates) with CAD knowledge. Deep familiarity with solid modeling in one or several commercial packages is required.

Clients: Autodesk, Siemens, PTC and SolidWorks Re-sellers

No of requirement: 10

Location: Pune, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Nasik, Chennai

Exp: Engineer with CAD, CAM, CAE knowledge

Primary Responsibilities

· Interact with customers in government, industry, and academia.
· Support the usage of CAD software by addressing technical concerns, providing guidance, advice, and modeling assistance.
· Develop and teach training classes.
· Give product demonstrations at seminars, workshops, conferences, and meetings with customers.
Qualities

· Business oriented and willing to work with customers on a daily basis.
· Genuine interest in the area of design
· Strong written and verbal communication skills
· High energy, self-motivated, quick study with flexible nature.

Offers

· A challenging opportunity to expand your knowledge and experience and to work on problems spanning all engineering fields.
· Highly creative and qualified teams with a diversity of experience.
· Great career opportunities at a quickly growing high-tech software company.
· Casual atmosphere in a spacious office

Requirements

· DME/BE Mech, Auto, Production engineering
· Experience using CAD modeling software - AutoCAD, Pro/E, Inventor, SolidWorks, SpaceClaim, CATIA, NX or other major CAD package.
· 5%-10% travel per month
If interested in above profile send me your CV on sachin@dailycadcam.com

Please mention “CV for Application Engineer Post India” in title. Also, mention the City u preferred t work.

Jeff Ray Leaving Dassault!!

2012-06-08T04:15:00.000-07:00

Read news on some website that Jeff Ray is leaving Dassault Systems and joining Ventyx, an ABB company as CEO.

He was working as executive vice president of geographic operations at DS after he served as CEO of DS SolidWorks from 2007 to 2011.

New position was specially created for him by DS after Bertrand Sicot took over as CEO of DS SolidWorks in Jan 2011.

He started working as VP geographic operations from Jan 2011, his work was to empower the Dassault Systems local teams to serve customers’ and partners’ growing needs and fully exploit the market growth potential.

I was surprised to read the news as the link given to news took me to Jeff’s LinkedIn profile. He has updated his current job profile as “CEO at Ventyx, an ABB Company” So; I tried searching for the official announcement on Dassault’s website. But, there is no official news or blog post confirming this.

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23509908&locale=en_US&trk=tyah2

It is quite surprising to see his updated profile on social media before any official announcement. You can still find Jeff’s profile in the board of directors on DS site and nothing about him on Ventyx site!

Confused!!

http://www.3ds.com/company/about-dassault-systemes/management/jeff-ray/

His tenure as CEO DS SolidWorks was very successful with record growth. It reflected through media, blogs etc, but never heard about his work as VP geographic operations in media.

Best wishes to Jeff for his new assignment.

Ventyx Website: http://www.ventyx.com/

Thanks.

No more on Facebook!

2012-06-01T11:38:00.001-07:00

On June 1, 2012 at 2.30 pm I was automatically logged out of my Facebook account. I tried to re-enter using my user name and password. And, was surprised to see the message from FB that my account is disabled

Disabled - Fake Account

I felt, very sad for losing my 2693 friends. The list includes my school friends, college friends, friends from my village, CAD professionals! Actually, it is because of FB, I was able to meet my old friends after long years. FB gave me platform to interact with them, enjoy sharing day-to-day activity, looking out what’s happening in their life and many happy moments through quick sharing!

Putting me out of FB is not so heart touching, but not able to see my friends for sometime is really sad part.

Now let me summarize what I did with the FB. I joined FB in 2010. I was impressed with the features, UI it had compared to orkut. I am working for internet based CAD media company so social networking is part of my daily life to interact/share information with my users, friends.

The worst part what FB did with me is not giving any warning before disabling my profile. The say “Severity of the violation” is high so no need to inform user.

I ask FB; please let me know the crime I did? What severe violation I did? I did not take FB as time pass site to share cartoons, marriage invitations, party invitations, did not abuse any friend, never wrote a abusing post, never commented without leaving my boundary.

Few, friends working in design field use to tell me that your FB profile is like magazine for them. I have guided many students for selecting proper career in CAD/CAM through FB.

Work I did using FB.

- Shared information related to CAD, CAM,CAE, CFD products on my profile after being permitted to do so by vendors
- Connected more than 2000 design professionals worldwide and have discussion with them on professional level
- Created “Happy CADing – Design Professionals Group” one of the biggest group for CAD engineers on FB with 1685 users at present from every reputed company like Siemens PLM, PTC, DS SolidWorks, TTL, TCE, TATA, Autodesk, Mahindra, Bajaj, etc.
- I shared CAD event related info on my group on request from vendors/ companies only
- Created “Shivajians –SSPMS Boys” group with around 500 users and brought together my school friends, which helped us in organizing annual old boys meeting.
- I was active user on every group related to CAD, CFD
- I tried my best to share info on online learning, CAD institutes, Design schools with students
- I created event invitations for CAD events, virtual events, seminars and send request only to CAD professionals
- I got large number “LIKE” clicks for my postings always
- I tried to encourage friends to share meaningful info on FB
- Never posted unauthorized commercial communication

If doing all this is CRIME according to FB than what they want me to do on their site. Should I do a TIME PASS by posting.

- Cartoons on politicians
- Lot of unnecessary images, posts
- Out of box Comments using rubbish language
- Invite friends to birthday parties, parties, movies
- Should I play Games
- Use unnecessary apps

If this is what FB expects from user. I feel happy that I am out of it! I think the ‘Program’ written to track violation found my profile different then other users! If this is to happen in future with other serious FB users. I think the network is heading towards end!

I don’t want to waste my time writing more on this topic. FB is too big as a company and I am too small to criticise them.

But, will not reopen a new account on FB again.

I am now worried that who would take care of removing unwanted posts on my ‘happy CADing’ group on FB and how they will approve new requests.

Anyway! Friends you can find me on Twitter, Linkedin with lot of updates on CAD industry.

https://twitter.com/#!/dailycadcam

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=32156492&trk=tab_pro

Thanks for reading.

Happy CADing

Sachin Nalawade

PTC Announces Winners of FIRST Tech Challenge India 2011 – 2012 Robotic Competition

2012-02-21T09:08:00.000-08:00

- The grand finale of the mentor-based program FTC India 2011 – 2012 witnessed over 100 participants from different parts of India for the Robotic Competition -

Pune – 20th February, 2012: PTC (NASDAQ: PMTC), the product development company, today extended its congratulations to the award winning team at the grand finale of FIRST® Tech Challenge India 2011 – 2012 Robotic Competition held at the Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium, Balewadi, Pune. In riposte to the call to bolster STEM education in India among the children and to build the innovators of tomorrow, PTC launched the Second Season of FIRST® Tech Challenge on June 8th2011 in Mumbai, in partnership with FIRST® and Techtronics Education. This season of FTC India culminated with the finale in Pune on 19th February 2012.

A competition like FIRST® Tech Challenge is instrumental in providing students the opportunity to exhibit and hone their creative talent under the supervision of industry experts while providing an international platform for students who wish to contribute and excel in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This year’s competition saw a significant traction from the students, academicians, noted Scientists and social Enthusiasts.

With over 10, 000 students participating from all over India the competition based on the game Bowled Over! was a huge success. The winners of this competition, Team S.M. Tech from St. Mary’s High School, Pune will now have the opportunity to travel to USA and compete with students from across the globe at the FTC World Championship in April 2012.

“We are extremely proud and happy to hold FIRST® Tech Challenge in India to help in cultivating the engineers for tomorrow, who would address the imperative demands of the future. The atmosphere at the venue was filled with enthusiasm and the diligence with which the students were working and the team spirit was commendable. With India now thriving to be a land of innovation at a global platform competitions like the FIRST® Tech Challenge will help us create budding innovators”, said Rafiq Somani, Area Vice President and Country Manager, PTC India.

“PTC is so pleased to be a Founding Partner of the FIRST® Tech Challenge in India,” said John D. Stuart, Senior VP Global Education for PTC. “As India transforms its economy to an innovation society, the Engineers of the Future get real world hands-on experience through the FTC competition. Designing, building and competing in FTC are similar to the same challenges industry meets. For example, John Deere has been a big sponsor of this event and NRB Bearings Ltd was a Founding Partner for FIRST® in India. These students learn skills that one day may transfer into working for Deere or NRB!”

Ashvin Savant, India Education Program Manager, PTC India said “FTC India 2011-12 National Robotics competition has provided the right platform for students to learn and implement the STEM-D concepts. Principals have confirmed 10-12% increase in student’s academic performance.”

“Students and Teachers were excited for building and programming the robot. They spent almost 8/10 hours daily in the final phase to fine tune the robot. More than winning, the team spirit was really great amongst the youngsters,” said Vinay Kunwar, Managing Director, Habib Animatos Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Sudhanshu Sharma, MD Techtronics Education (India) Limited, said at the event, “Techtronics Education is proud to be associated as the operational partner of the FIRST® Tech Challenge India and is committed to the core cause of learning by doing, and bring FTC to all major cities in India in the coming years with active Corporate partnership”.

Rtn. Amit Jadhav, President Rotary Club of Poona Midtown said, “at the outset let me thank PTC and the entire Education Team in India with Techtronics and Habib Animatos, who have joined hands with us to bring technology to school and unlock creative minds of young India. Next year this competition will get bigger and Rotary will be active in taking it to their Interact Schools and get them engaged.”

“Rotary District 3131 is proud to present the first of its kind, innovative ROBOTIC competition for school children. Thanks to the initiative by Rtn Amit Jadhav,President of Rotary Club of Poona Midtown and co operation from PTC. It is my earnest appeal-kindly attend in large numbers with your children and help ENGINEERING their and nations future,” said Rtn. Mohan Palesha, District Governor.

About FIRST®

Accomplished inventor Dean Kamen founded FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people. Based in Manchester, N.H., FIRST® designs accessible, innovative programs to build self-confidence, knowledge, and life skills while motivating young people to pursue opportunities in science, technology, and engineering. With support from three out of every five Fortune 500 companies and more than $12 million in college scholarships, the not-for-profit organization hosts the FIRST®® Robotics Competition (FRC® ) and FIRST®® Tech Challenge (FTC® ) for high-school students, FIRST®® LEGO® League (FLL® ) for 9 to 14-year-olds, (9 to 16-year-olds outside the U.S. and Canada) and Junior FIRST®® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL™) for 6 to 9-year-olds. Gracious Professionalism™ is a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community. To learn more about FIRST®, go to www.usFIRST®.org.

SolidWorks Media Meet 2011 - India

2011-10-03T01:00:00.000-07:00

Last week, I had an opportunity to attain the media meeting of D S SolidWorks Corp. The most exciting was to meet CEO Mr. Bertrand Sicot. The event was organized to have discussion with the Indian media representatives. I am really happy to get opportunity to attain event as an editor of DailyCADCAM along with the media representatives across India.

Mr. Bertrand Sicot

The event started with the key note presentation by Bertrand Sicot. He officially announced the launch of SolidWorks 2012. It was great to have Mr. Bertrand Sicot to unveil SolidWorks 2012 in India, it is rarely seen that CEO of CAD vendor coming India to have such a wonderful launch for their product. Such initiative would definitely have positive impact on design community in India.

He gave brief introduction about company and its products. He shared the history of company, said that ‘company was founded in 1993 and shipped first SolidWorks seat in 1995. In 1997 company was acquired by Dassault Systems’. Mr Bertrand started his career at DS SolidWorks in 1997 as the regional sales manager; he is ‘second employee’ of DS SolidWorks Europe. Company was primarily working on providing design tool to engineers with the time and through constant feedbacks from clients on their requirement to work more efficiently, making better decisions throughout the product development process have added various products to its portfolio like

• Enterprise PDM – manages and synchronizes design data, enhances collaboration
• SolidWorks Sustainability – helps to design ‘green’ products by controlling key environmental indicators: Carbon footprint, total energy consumed, impacts to air and impacts to water
• SolidWorks Simulation – Tool to perform virtual testing and analysis
• SolidWorks Flow Simulation – CFD Solution
• 3DVIA Composer – technical documentation and communication tool

The most amazing I find about SolidWorks is that it adds up to 200 to 400 new features in every release within the span of just few months for next release. The SolidWorks 2012 has 200 enhancements. Mr. Bertrand gave the overview on the new features introduced in the latest version (Would cover the top enhancements in details separately on my blog)

Visit DailyCADCAM for more articles, videos on SolidWorks 2012 enhancements - http://www.dailycadcam.com/categories/57/tutorials

While taking about SolidWorks World 2011, he remembered about Matt Lombard a renowned blogger who asked him about ‘why he is not Certified SolidWorks Professional even after having a technical background?’ So, he promised Matt that he would get it by next SolidWorks World. Really great he did it! And still few months to go for 2012 event. He told that he failed at second stage, tried again and at last got certified. He thanked Marie Planchard for guiding him for the certification. Signing own CSWP certificate as CEO might have been a wonderful moment!

Sharon Toh & CEO

Next to present was Sharon Toh, GM South Asia Region DS SolidWorks Corp. Sharon has around 25 years of experience in CAD, CAM, PLM industry. She directs the region’s growth strategies by ensuring its sales, technical, marketing and education teams.

Sharon gave an overview on the financial data, revenue by geography and milestones achieved by SolidWorks. Asia Pacific showed very positive response with USD 90.4 million revenue generated in 2010 and said ‘Indian market has showed interesting growth rate for last few years’. She explained the process of handling a customer request for new enhancements.

SolidWorks Market in India

Mr. Manoj Mehta (Country Manager, India and SAARC Operations) gave the overview on the SolidWorks market in India. SolidWorks entered India in 2002. All the activities were handled from Singapore office. In 2006 SolidWorks officially started its work in India. Today, there are 28 VARs and 17 education partners in India. At present 400 employees serve the company and team is expanding very fast.
Coming to educational market, at present 500 reputed engineering colleges are training their students on SolidWorks. Number to be noted as SolidWorks is not providing the free licenses to students still having 500 is a great respect shown to software. I have seen most IITians learning the tool, having projects using SolidWorks and Flow Simulation.

Now, if you are an engineering student and interested in learning SolidWorks, please visit CADD Center in your city. CADD Center is official training partner for SolidWorks.

SolidWorks at present has around 2500 customers across India and the list increases by 20 – 25 new customers adding every month. SolidWoks has proved to be the best option for automotive vendors, SMEs, power sector, and consumer goods moving from 2D to 3D. SolidWorks VARs find 80 percent conversion ratio for 2D customers moving on 3D platform.

It was interesting to know that the ttk Prestige and Hawkins pressure cookers are being designed using SolidWorks. Both companies have launched a wide range of products in Indian market.

The list of client is too big, but to mention few are Bharat Electronics, HMT, ACE Group, ELGI, Crompton Greaves, HNGL, THERMAX, Cethar Vesseles, Voltas, Swaraj Mazda, Tata Marcopolo Motors.

Last few months it was seen that the city buses in Pune are getting better with the time. Better looks, seating, easy access, and interiors. Today, the secret got revealed that those buses are designed and manufactured by Tata Marcopolo Motors using SolidWorks(collaboration between Tata and Marcopolo Motors Brazil)

Next to follow was Mr. Ravi Varadrajan Sr. Country Technical Manager – India & SAARC Countries. He gave brief explanation on the various enhancements in SolidWorks 2012.

Ravi Varadrajan, Sharon Toh, Bertrand Sicot, Manoj Mehta

Later there was a question answer session with media representatives. Most questions from media were on the market share in India. Mr. Bertrand did not present the figures, but said it is growing market for SolidWorks and happy with the growth in the region.

I am not happy with few media representatives, those who do not care to do their homework on ‘SolidWorks’ and just go on asking anything that comes to their mind! That may be because of lack of experience to cover technical/engineering news. Anyway!

I had opportunity, to ask few questions to CEO.

Sachin: What are your plans for AEC Industry in India?

Mr. Bertrand: We have announced SolidWorks Live Buildings, an offering for the AEC industry. We are working on it. We can’t reveal further details on the product at present.

Sachin: There are around 10,000 engineering colleges in India, you covered around 500. Do you have any plans to give away free educational licenses to reach every student?

Mr. Bertrand: We do not believe in giving away free licenses. Educational licenses are not a source of income for us and sell educational versions at very low price. We believe in quality training and taking maximum efforts to provide proper training by guiding and training faculty members of colleges and see students are benefited. Do you agree?

I said yes! Actually, I am yet to decide about. What is your opinion? But, I agree the fact that the college faculty teaching software to students must be trained. Otherwise it’s of no use.

With DS SW CEO

It was really interesting to know more about SolidWorks. Thanks for giving me opportunity to meet SolidWorks CEO.

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Cradle Announces CFD Training Seminar Series in India for Oct, Nov 2011

2011-09-18T11:21:00.000-07:00

Cradle announces CFD training seminar series in India between October and November. Cradle CFD software are one of the most popular CFD packages in Japan. By attending one of these seminars, users will learn the basic operation and advanced capabilities of the software in 2 days and help you jump start using Cradle CFD. All the attendee will get 3-month trial license. Register by September 23, 2011 and GET MAXIMUM OF 40% DISCOUNT!!

Know more about Cradle CFD software, visit www.cradle-cfd

Courses:

In addition to basic operations of each software and unique techniques, each course will focus on the following items:

SC/Tetra (unstructured FVM solver):

- Various moving elements (motion) technologies, mesh adaptation, and more

sc STREAM(structured FVM solver):

- Various functions useful for Indoor HVAC and external flow

(Humidity, solar radiation, diffusion, ventilation efficiency, power law flow profile and more)

HEAT Designer (structured FVM solver):

- Functions necessary for electronics cooling simulation

(Radiation, thermal circuit model, utilization of Gerber data)

* Please refer to the following link for details of each course agenda and for registration.

http://www.cradle-cfd.com/events/seminars.html

Schedules:

Pune

- SC/Tetra: Oct 24-25, 2011

- scSTREAM: Oct 27-28, 2011

New Delhi

- SC/Tetra: Oct 31, 2011 and Nov 1, 2011

- scSTREAM: Nov 2-3, 2011

- HEAT Designer: Nov 4-5, 2011

Bangalore

- SC/Tetra: Nov 8-9, 2011

- scSTREAM: Nov 10-11, 2011

Chennai

- SC/Tetra: Nov 14-15, 2011

- scSTREAM: Nov 16-17,2011

- HEAT Designer: Nov 18-19, 2011

TIME:

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

FEE:

$1,500 USD per person for 2 days (complementary lunches and dinner on the 1st day)

$150 USD for academia

*You will get 3-month trial license with the full support service after the seminar

DISCOUNTS (multiple discounts available):

1. Register by September 26th and get 20% off (*1)

2. Cradle CFD user under Altair HWPA gets 20% off (instead of 3-month trial license and one needs to download the program)

*1: The payment needs to be made by September 26thhttp://www.cradle-cfd.com/events/seminars.html

AutoCAD 2012 for Mac - Free Trial

2011-08-17T11:20:00.000-07:00

Finally on 8.16 Autodesk expands their Mac portfolio by releasing AutoCAD 2012 for Mac, AutoCAD LT for Mac and AutoCAD WS for Mac. It’s really big news for Mac users. AutoCAD for Mac 2012 and AutoCAD WS for Mac will be available worldwide on August 19th, 2011. Before going to buy these software on Mac App Store users can try the AutoCAD 2012 for Mac for free 30 days trial.

AutoCAD for Mac has 3D design and drafting tools. The majority of the AutoCAD 2012 features have been brought over to AutoCAD for Mac 2012, few missing features are Sheet Set support and dynamic blocks. It has an intuitive UI and supports Multi-Touch gestures. Users can share files regardless of platform with native support for DWG technology.

Features:

-Native Support for Mac OS
-3D Free-Form Design Tools
-Native Support for DWG
-Network Licensing Options
-Productivity Tools
-Rendering Tools
-Associative Array Functionality
-Parametric Drawing
-Customization Support

Free trail available for both professionals and students. Free registration required.

Download Link.http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/download/item?siteID=123112&id=17335606

Siemens PLM Connection 2011 India - An Overview

2011-08-15T23:43:00.000-07:00

I attained the Siemens PLM Connection 2011 India in Pune, one of the biggest learning and networking events in India for CAD professionals. This year the event was organized in following three cities in India.

August 9, 2011 - The Westin, Gurgaon
August 11, 2011 - Taj Residency, Bangalore
August 13, 2011- Hyatt Regency, Pune

It was full day event at Hyatt Regency. One of the things that interest me at the pavilion was the exhibition of products designed for design contest using Solid Edge ST and NX. It was nice to see the large attendees for the event, around 500 design professionals were present! This year’s tag line was “Smarter Decisions Better Products” It was enough to say that the old days of using just CAD software for product design are gone and time to think beyond CAD…i.e. PLM!

The event was divided in four sub-tracks, so as to cater the audience according to their interest. This was really good initiative in favor of audience. The four tracks were

1) Design Solutions
2) Manufacturing (Including Tooling/CAM/Digital Manufacturing)
3) Design Simulation (CAE)
4) Digital Lifecycle Management (PDM/ Collaboration/Visualization)

I thought of getting more insights about the PLM and so attained the ‘Digital Lifecycle Management’ track. When I entered the presentation on what’s new in Teamcenter 8.3 and 9.0 versions was ON. Nice to know about the enhancements in document management, visualization, project management, Stylesheets, platform extensibility services, improved installation and upgrade, system engineering, manufacturing process management and Mechatronics. The TeamCenter v9.0 is expected to be released in Feb 2012.

In May, 2011 Siemens PLM Software partnered with Cortona3D. RapidAuthor products from Corona3D would be integrated with TeamCenter 9 to improve productivity, quality and cost related to the content management and technical documentation.

There was presentation from IBM. Also, there was interesting demo by Moldex3D in Design Simulation and Design tracks.

The next presentation followed was on customization with and without coding using BMIDE and customer case study presented by Tata Motors.

Apart from knowing more about the TeamCenter. It was really an awesome event for networking, was able to meet few friends and professionals from industry, like Tata motors, Tata Technologies, DesignTech Systems, Forbes Marshell, Mahendra Engineering, Thermax and others.

For more events on Automotive, CAD, CAM, CAE, CFD and PLM in India, visit http://www.dailycadcam.com/events

An Interview with Brandon Liu, Regional Manager World Sales of CoreTech Systems (Moldex3D)

2011-08-09T04:50:00.000-07:00

Brandon Liu Regional Manager World Sales for CoreTech System Co., Ltd. Taiwan. The company provides professional CAE analysis solution "Moldex3D" series for the plastic injection molding industry. The CoreTech is company with original ideas trying to give best possible tool for the plastics injection molding industry, with the best-in-class analysis technology.

The company now has very good presence in India, and lots of efforts are taken to promote Moldex3D through various events and other channels. Last week in SolidWorks Design Validation Day 2011 in Pune, India, I got opportunity to know more about the Moldex3D and was lucky to get chance to speak Brandon Liu, Now it is my great pleasure to share with you what I found about company, and their vision. Here is the interview.

Brandon, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your company?

Sure, I am the regional manager for Moldex3D, majored in industrial design and started to work in automotive industry after graduated.

I joined CoreTech few years back, and now take care of both technical support and business development in SAARC and ASEAN region, especially India and Malaysia.

CoreTech was founded in 1995 with the vision to provide a fully integrated solution and the high quality service to meet customers' specific needs. Today, the Moldex3D line of products is sold broadly around the world and we are Asia's biggest provider of CAE simulation software for injection molding.

What is Moldex3D series?

We have developed very unique and reliable range of products under the title ‘Moldex3D’ which includes, "eXplorer" a CAD-embedded product that allows CAD users to perform quick filling analysis for designing better plastic parts.

A suite of tools called “eDesign” to simulate your part and mold design before manufacturing starts. Then, “eDesignSYNC” is an eDesign interface fully embedded in CAD software to bring a seamless workflow from design to Moldex3D simulation. And we have our advance engineering simulation tool “Solid/Shell” for in-depth analysis of the molding processes.

Which is the best selling tool from Moldex3D series?

Moldex3D eDesign is most popular and best selling tool, Moldex3D/eDesign’s automatic meshing technology generates high quality 3D mesh automatically. It is very easy for CAD users to setup analysis with just few clicks. The tool is capable identifying potential molding problems like short shots, air traps, weld lines, warpage etc. Moldex3D eDesign supports parallel computing technology to reduce analysis time and is capable of automatic report generation.

Which main stream CAD packages are supported?

Interesting that you ask this question. Moldex3D tools are fully embedded tool for mainstream CAD like Creo Parametric, SolidWorks and NX and soon be available for the other CAD software. It supports IGES, STEP and STL file format.

How do you see India as a market?

The Indian market is fascinating because it offers significant opportunities with its increased economic development and industrialization. Projects, especially in the areas of Automobile – all major brands are having their manufacturing plants in India - as well as telecommunications, water conservation, utilities, energy, agriculture equipments, toys and house hold products are all on the rise.

We also understand that each market segment is different. While we address our targeted market segments through a suite of solutions, we also believe that we may find new segments that have more critical needs to apply Moldex3D’s core technologies.

How do you serve the Indian Industry through resellers’ network?

Committed to provide the advanced technologies and solution for industrial demands, we started in India around seven years back by appointing one reseller. In 2009, we had major expansion by adding few more resellers in various parts of India. Today, our partners are with good training, service, and support facility to sustain future growth and support the customer long term.

Our team from Taiwan along with reseller’s team provides the training required by customer in specific domain. And, we also have good online tech support for our customers.

What would you like to say to DailyCADCAM users and professionals from India?

We are overwhelmed by the enthusiasm expressed by CAE specialists and future users from India. We are constantly pursuing the best performance of simulation technology. Please don’t hesitate to discuss with the Moldex3D authorized resellers and support staffs near you.

I would like to thank Brandon Liu for taking the time to answer my questions. If you have any questions on Moldex3D or DailyCADCAM, please write on the mail ids given below and we will be glad to answer.

brandonliu@moldex3d.com

sachin@dailycadcam.com - Editor DailyCADCAM

Moldex3D Website: http://www.moldex3d.com/jla/en/index.php

Join Siemens PLM Connection (Bangalore Aug 11, 2011 and Pune Aug 13, 2011) for LIVE presentation on Moldex3D.

http://www.splmconnectionindia2011.com/Agenda.htm
http://www.moldex3d.com/jla/en/index.php

Cradle’s ‘Mission India’ - Announces Live Seminars on CFD in Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi

2011-07-22T11:21:00.000-07:00

Cradle, Japan based CFD solutions Provider Company is organizing half day (4hrs) seminars in various cities in India. These half day seminars are no-charge learning events designed to educate managers about how to effectively integrate CFD into research and design engineering. The seminar includes such topics as
1. The Benefits and Limitations of CFD
2. Mistakes and Lessons Learned
3. Structured and Unstructured Solvers and Applications in Electronics, Architecture, Automotive, Turbomachinery, and more
4. Licensing and Pricing...whether you're interested in buying or not... this information is imperative for understanding the business case
Five seminars are initially being offered in following cities.

• August 2, 2011 in Pune, Maharashtra, India

• August 8, 2011 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

• August 10, 2011 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India

• August 12, 2011 in Chennai, Tamil, Nadu, India

• August 17, 2011 in New Delhi, Delhi, India

Agenda:

2:00 - 2:30 Registration
2:30 - 2:45 Company Introduction
2:45 - 3:15 Does CFD really benefit a company?
* Benefits of CFD
* Mistakes companies often make
* Limitations and/or potential of CFD
3:15 - 4:30 Introduction to Cradle CFD
* Structured solver (STREAM & HEAT
Designer
* Unstructured solver (SC/Tetra)
* Demonstration
* Advanced features (automation,
optimization, FSI, multi physics
4:30 - 4:40 Break
4:40 - 5:10 Electronics and Architectural applications
* Electronics
* Indoor
* Home HVAC, museum, shopping
center, offices, data center
* Outdoor
* Wind load, flooding, external
air flow, pollutants
5:10 - 5:40 Automotive and Machinery applications
* Automotive
* Turbomachinery
* Other
5:40 - 5:55 Business Aspects
* Licensing and Cost
* Academic Program
* Training
* Altair HWPA
5:55 - 6:00 Wrap-up

It’s good opportunity for Design/CFD professionals to learn and understand the basic concepts behind CFD with Cradle.
Locations:

Tuesday,
August 2, 2011 Pune Regus
6th Floor Tower Two, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar
Pune, Maharashtra, India
+91 20 40147800

Monday,
August 8, 2011 Hyderabad Regus
1st Floor Mid Town Plaza, Road No. 1, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
+91 40 4433 4433

Wednesday,
August 10, 2011 Bangalore Regus
Level 1, Tower B The Millenia, 1 & 2 Murphy Road, Ulsoor
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
+91 80 4022 4022

Friday,
August 12, 2011 Chennai Regus
Level 6, 10/11 Dr. Radhakrishna Salai
Chennai, Tamil, Nadu, India
+91 44 42218221

Wednesday,
August 17, 2011 New Delhi Regus
4th Floor Rectangle No.1, Behind Marriot Hotel Saket
Commercial Complex D4, Saket
New Delhi, Delhi, India
:+91 11 4051 4051

• Free registration required ---- limited seats.
• For more details on events please write to ando@cradle-cfd.com
Visit: http://www.cradle-cfd.com/events/seminars_India.html

Solid Edge Design (Image) Contest

2011-06-27T02:32:00.000-07:00

Siemens PLM India has organized the “Solid Edge Design (Image) Contest” for the Solid Edge users and design professionals. The contestants need to use Solid Edge to create design entry. The contest provides opportunity for showing your creativity, applying design techniques and displaying your innovations.

Follow the steps to send successful entry.

- Submit your rendered images/.par/.asm/.psm files designed in SE

- Mail your submission to info@solidedgedesignfest.com

- Selected submissions would be invited to demonstrate at the Solid Edge Design Fest Locations

Solid Edge Design Fest

July 12, 2011 Pune Auto Cluster

July 14, 2011 Bangalore Hotel Shereton

July 15, 2011 Gurgaon Epi Center

http://www.solidedgedesignfest.com/DesignContest.htm?stc=wwiia420000

Last date to submit entries is June 27, 2011

Mega Price: Workstations/laptops for winners at each location and Apple iPad and iPhones for runners up.

If interested and not having SolidEdge license contact: info@solidedgedesignfest.com

Hurry up! Contest closing soon!

NX - Redefining Design Productivity – Seminars, India

2011-06-09T05:10:00.000-07:00

A good initiative by Siemens PLM, they are organizing seminars in the Tier II cities in India like Kolhapur, Rajkot, Vadodara and others. It is good opportunity for design professionals from these places to experience the power of NX live! There is lot of scope for growth in these areas as lot of industrial developments coming up after efforts from Govt. to help companies to flourish in rural areas to balance growth.

Seminar Covers:

- Siemens PLM Software NX Overview

- NX Tooling & CAM

- NX CAE

- Discussion with experts

Few events from the below list are already over, but please take advantage of the remaining seminars in your area.

· Rajkot, June 7, 2011, Hotel The Grand Regency

· Chandigarh, June 8, 2011, Taj Chandigarh

· Vadodara, June 8, 2011, The Gateway Hotel

· Kolkata, June 10, 2011, The Park

· Kolhapur, June 10, 2011, Hotel Raysons Regency

· New Delhi, June 15, 2011, Crowne Plaza Today

Please join me on June, 10 Friday at Hotel Raysons Regency, Kolhapur.

Venue:

Hotel Raysons Regency
New Shahupuri
Kolhapur, Maharashtra

SolidWorks Simulation Seminar - Pune

2011-06-07T00:31:00.000-07:00

Join the SolidWorks team for a complementary seminar in Pune. This seminar will focus on utilizing the SolidWorks Simulation tool for powering your design. Also, an opportunity to know more about Mold Simulation Techniques by MOLDEX3D.

Date: June 8, 2011 Wed (9.30 am to 5.00pm)

Seminar highlights:

- Customer Case Studies showcasing how your industry peers have benefited

- Product Demo

- “By invitation only” seminars, ensure a quality audience

- Networking opportunity with SolidWorks experts and your industry peers

AGENDA

09:30 am - 10:00 am	Registration
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Welcome & Opening - Mr.Ajinkya Huddar-MD (Pelf Infotech Pvt.Ltd)
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Power Your Design With Simulation
10:45 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Simulation & Analysis.Benefits (Prof. Prashant Date .IIT Mumbai)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	SolidWorks Simulation Presentation 1 ( Mr. Rajesh Adhyapak)
12:30 am - 01:00 pm	Customer Case Study : Mr. S. M. Tambekar (Dir. Sneha Bearings)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm - 02:30 pm	SolidWorks User Community----A Forum for All CAD Users
02:30 pm - 03:00 pm	SolidWorks Simulation Presentation 2 ( Mr. Vipul Sarode)
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm	Guest Lecture on Simulation
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm	Mold Simulation Techniques - By MOLDEX3D: Mr. Brandon Liu
04:00 pm - 04:15 pm	Coffee Break
04:15 pm - 04:30 pm	Working with DELL
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm	QA, Vote of Thanks : Mr.Ajinkya Huddar-MD (Pelf Infotech Pvt.Ltd)

If interested and user of SolidWorks please contact pelf infotech for details: Phone + 91 20 2545 4612 / 2543 9405 E-mail: info@pelfinfotech.com
URL: www.pelfinfotech.com

http://www.pelfinfotech.com/dvd2011event_registration.htm

CAx Developers Meet 'GeomTech 2011 Pune' Dates Announced

2011-02-14T00:40:00.000-08:00

The GeomTech 2011 will take place in Pune on July 1 - 2, 2011 at hotel Le Meridien.

The event is a gold mine of contemporary ideas for developers and industry professionals working on CAx technologies. The GeomTech is an opportunity to learn about latest technologies, best practices and next practices in CAx application, development and testing.

The meet has tracks that will appeal to:

• CAD, CAM, CFD, CAE, CSM Students
• CAx Developers
• CAx Testing Professionals
• Research Scholars
• Business Executives from CAx Industry

Registration and sponsorship opportunities for Asia's biggest CAx Developers Meet available now. Please check following link for more details.

http://geomtech.org/sponsors-exhibitors/sponsorship-opportunity.html

Contact - Dr. Narendra Deore Organizing Secretary - GeomTech 2011
sponsorships@geomtech.org
narendra@cctech.co.in
Ph: +91 20 40098381/82
Mobile: +91-96577 07616
http://geomtech.org/

Pelf Infotech, India Wins 100% Club Award at SolidWorks World 2011 for the Outstanding Performance in Asia Pacific Region

2011-02-07T08:46:00.000-08:00

“The achievement of this prestigious award is the outcome of entire Pelf Infotech team and the enormous support from our customers” . Mr. Ajinkya Huddar (M. D. )and Mrs. Himani Huddar (Director).

Feb 7, Pune. Pelf Infotech Pvt. Ltd. (PIPL) a leading 3D solution provider company and channel partner of Dassault Systemes’ SolidWorks based at Pune won 100% Club award at SolidWorks World 2011 held in San Antonio, Texas, USA for the year 2010. This award is given for the outstanding performance in Asia Pacific region. SolidWorks is a leading 3D CAD Solution provider with over 1.5 million users worldwide. Over 500+ customers including Defence, L&T, Honeywell, etc. Are already using this technology.

Mr. Ajinkya Huddar-Managing Director (Pelf Infotech) who received the award said that this award indicates the efforts added by his team members and the enormous support from PIPL’s customers. He also added that this year they will be coming up with cloud computing based solutions and software for AEC/building constructions industry.

About PELF INFOTECH : ‘Value Added Resellers’ of Dassault Systemes for SolidWorks 3D Design, Product Data Management, Design Validation and Documentation Solutions in the Western India region.

SolidWorks 3D CAD Solutions incorporates intuitive features that help you design better products, enhance design capabilities, increase productivity, facilitate 2D to 3D transition and to reduce design time with focus on Design intent.

SolidWorks Simulation, Pelf offer comprehensive Analysis solutions for your Design Validation needs that are aimed at enhancing product optimization and reducing need of physical prototyping.

Enterprise PDM is a data management tool which helps in managing design revisions and also easy retrival of the design data.

3DVIA Composer is a documentation tool which can be used for generating User manuals , Training documents , Maintenance and production manuals in text as well as video format.

Pelf Infotech focused to provide complete solution to its customers from different verticals at one single platform.

Moldex3D : Complete solution for mould designing and analysis. It is a great tool which works on the top of SolidWorks and offers user-friendly environment for designers in Plastic Injection Moulding.

Logopress3: A solution for sheet metal stamping and die designing

Smap 3D: Piping and routing solution

CADEC: Design Automation Solution

CAMWorks: A complete CAM solution to work on top of SolidWorks. Supported by an able team of Technical Professionals, we offer CAD services along with pre and post-sales support for SolidWorks.

You can visit Pelf on http://www.pelfinfotech.com/ for further reference.

No End to Seasons Sale - CATIA Ansys for $2.2 Only

2011-01-10T09:33:00.000-08:00

I had gone to Deccan area; one of the happening places in the Pune city this weekend. I saw a roadside CD and DVD seller. The pirate! Actually, I have seen pirates selling Hindi and English movies, games CDs few times on same place. Many time in the past when Bollywood industry took objection on piracy the government started special drives to crab such pirates. However, the pirates flourish again within few weeks.

The street is famous spot for youngsters and food lovers with a lot of shopping options and hotels. Place is not famous for getting pirated software like few places in Mumbai. But this time, I was surprised to see them selling CATIA, Ansys and Pro/E software on footpath. Few years back; it was just difficult to get pirated software in Pune or any other small city in India. Mostly, locals from Mumbai use to bring the CAD software on demand from colleagues. That time only pirated AutoCAD and Pro/E were easily available within engineering students. In Mumbai also, the pirates never displayed licensed software on their table, we have to ask them for the required packages and follow them to some narrow paths and dark ways to get required software. But, selling openly on road is something shocking! I can’t think of conditions in Mumbai today.

I was not able to control my enthusiasm to know the cost of these CAD packages. So, I went to the stall and started looking for new movies. Mean while I just asked him to show me the CATIA CD hanging there. I asked him about the price of CATIA. Happy, to know that whether CATIA or AutoCAD it costs same - just Rs.100 ($ 2.2). I looked at the CDs displayed; I was not able to see NX, Solid Edge and SolidWorks. So, I asked him for Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology. He was not able to understand ‘Synchronous Technology’ so he handed me bunch of CDs from a plastic bag kept under his table. I was surprised to see every CAD package, even Rhino. SolidWorks 2007.I was happy to see that he is not having SE ST. Otherwise I would have lost my Rs 100!

I told him that I am only interested in Solid Edge, but he insisted me to go for SolidWorks instead and said it’s similar and both are from same company. I smiled looking at him and though same company may be the one which produce such pirated CDs. He then told me to write my requirement in his dairy and said that he will arrange it within 4 days. That is even faster than service from CAD resellers. I feel he would make an excellent sales executive at any CAD reseller, actually lot of vacancies now!

Walking away from the stall I started thinking of why do people pirate software? May be because they can’t afford it! Or it is easily available with pirates. I think if students are using it one can understand that they want to learn it or use it for some academic projects. CAD vendors also understand that. But, still it can’t be supported. They can go for trial versions.

I can see lot of software donations made by CAD vendors to engineering colleges and Universities. One such news I read on CAD Professors blog few days back. Microsoft and Autodesk signed an agreement with the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) to provide free software to over 10,000 engineering and architectural institutes in the country. I feel such moves from CAD vendors would definitely help to reduce software piracy at student level giving additional benefits to vendor.

Board showing guarantee given on pirated CDs

For, companies using pirated software I feel the price is main criteria to go for piracy. There are lots of excellent low cost or look-a-like 2D/3D CAD packages available now.

Few CAD vendors have also started campaign to spread fear amongst users of pirated software by sending mails to those who are their newsletter subscribers. But not able to hit real users of pirated software. I think the tendency of such users is to get software free of cost then paying even for low cost software. Such companies are not even afraid of civil and criminal law. Are they not aware about the efforts of CAD vendors in developing a CAD package?

CAD vendors are taking efforts to catch such users. One can see, Siemens PLM have taken a good initiative by providing a link on their website to report suspected piracy http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/piracy/index.shtml. So, if you feel your company or someone you know using Siemens PLM’s pirated product can report it. I don’t know how they work after they receive such complaints. I never heard about any news on catching users of pirated software.

Now, almost every company is having their offices in India, I feel CAD vendors must take combine efforts to talk to Government representative on piracy the way bollywood does after every six months. Few cities now even have cyber crime cell with trained officers who can help to raid on pirates.

Coming to best way to get pirated software is online downloads, Internet piracy. Downloading software using internet. Many portals are available to download crack versions of every CAD package. I mean sites like ‘Torrent' I don’t know how and who is going to catch whom for such sites. Even you get marine design package ‘Tribon’ for download on these sites.

Only, thing I want to appeal is say “no to piracy"

Go for using free 2D/3D CAD packages available if your company can’t afford for high investments. There are good 2D packages like DraftSight available for free download.

Will low cost 2D/3D Packages help to reduce piracy? thinking....

I am definitely going to visit pirate again this week, let’s see whether he has got Solid Edge ST or not! If yes I will report it through link provided by Siemens PLM and see what action they take to catch him. Also you can report piracy to Business Software Alliance.