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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!

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