SolidWorks Media Meet 2011 - India

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

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

Register: http://www.cradle-cfd.com/events/seminar_form_india_2day.html 

AutoCAD 2012 for Mac - Free Trial

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Register Now: http://en-in.siemensplmevents.com/forms/nx_june_2011?stc=wwiia420000&elq=8897fff453aa41de87041330197bbbdb

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

Venue:

Hotel Raysons Regency
New Shahupuri
Kolhapur, Maharashtra

SolidWorks Simulation Seminar - Pune

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

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

“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

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. 

Bertrand Sicot Named as SolidWorks CEO

Bertrand Sicot has been named SolidWorks CEO. Sicot first joined Dassault Systems in 1997 where he was in charge of regional sales for SolidWorks in Europe. He then expanded the US SolidWorks operations from 2004 to 2007, and since 2007 has been leading the SolidWorks global sales channel.

Bertrand Sicot started his career with IBM in 1989 as sales representative, then in 1994 he joined Computervision as International Account Manager. He later served as Branch Sales Manager in Computervision till 1997.

According to Press release, Jeff Ray is appointed as Executive Vice President, Geographic Operations, and member of the Dassault Systems executive committee. In this newly created position, Ray will oversee the company’s geographies in order to empower the Dassault Systems local teams to serve customers’ and partners’ growing needs and fully exploit the market growth potential. Jeff Ray was appointed CEO of SolidWorks in 2007.