No more on Facebook!

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.

1. -          Shared information related to CAD, CAM,CAE, CFD products on my profile after being permitted to do so by vendors
2. -          Connected more than 2000 design professionals worldwide and have discussion with them on professional level
3. -          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.
4. -          I shared CAD event related info on my group on request from vendors/ companies only
5. -          Created “Shivajians –SSPMS Boys” group with around 500 users and brought together my school friends, which helped us in organizing annual old boys meeting.
6. -          I was active user on every group related to CAD, CFD
7. -          I tried my best to share info on online learning, CAD institutes, Design schools with students
8. -          I created event invitations for CAD events, virtual events, seminars and send request only to CAD professionals
9. -          I got large number “LIKE” clicks for my postings always
10. -          I tried to encourage friends to share meaningful info on FB
11. - 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.

1. -          Cartoons on politicians
2. -          Lot of unnecessary images, posts
3. -          Out of box Comments using rubbish language
4. -          Invite friends to birthday parties, parties, movies
5. -          Should I play Games
6. -          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

-      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

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