Pune, India, Jan 16, 2017: – Machining Software Pvt. Ltd. is pleased to announce Beta release of OnCreate3D, world’s first full cloud CAM centric app. OnCreate3D helps you create NC Files in 3 easy steps. Import CAD file, Create Toolpaths and Download NC File.

OnCreate3D is the first full cloud 3D CAM app. It runs in a web browser and on any mobile device. Simply import a CAD File and choose a project type such as Mill, Lathe or SheetMetal. Many file formats such as STL / IGES / STEP are supported.

Create Operations to cut the part. Mill 3D supports Pocket,  Contour, Parallel, Radial, Pencil and many more operations. Mill 2D supports Pocket, Contour, Rest Area operations. Lathe supports Turning, Facing, Grooving and many more operations. Mill 2D & Lathe will be introduced soon. You can simulate the operations to check for gouges, spikes, undercutting etc.

Create NC File for all operations by providing basic information about the controller options. That’s it. You are ready to take NC File to your controller.

Please visit www.OnCreate3D.com to know more about the app. Sign-up to create your account on our portal and start using it for FREE. You can collaborate with others by sharing your parts and Toolpaths. They can just download NC Files you have already created. Simply invite them to OnCreate3D and share your permissions.

About Machining Software Pvt. Ltd:

Machining Software Pvt. Ltd. Is based in Pune, India, It is self funded Startup that strives to live by its motto Dream, Deploy and Enjoy. Dream Simple, Elegant and Affordable products for customers, Deploy it with latest technologies and Enjoy satisfaction, profits out of it along with customers.

OnCreate3D team consists of CAD/CAM industry experts with experience of over 25 years in CAD modeling and CAM processing algorithms, Quality and User experience experts and Web Technology experts. Team members constantly work on making OnCreate3D more and more user friendly and productive.

• Siemens technology to support Local Motors’ leadership in 3D-printed cars
• Local Motors Labs program to leverage Siemens’ digital twin expertise
• Companies share vision of digitalization in product design and production

Siemens and Local Motors have formed a new partnership which is intended to help advance the future of manufacturing by optimizing the development and large-scale 3D printing of cars. The partnership combines the power of Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software technology with Local Motors’ leadership in co-created and 3D-printed vehicles – a process called direct digital manufacturing (DDM). With a shared vision for the future of product development, Local Motors plans to enhance productivity in its innovative Local Motors (LM) Labs program by leveraging Siemens’ expertise in creating “digital twins”, while Siemens expects to further enhance its digital enterprise software suite to support the latest advances in additive manufacturing and 3D printing.

“We have been partners with Siemens since 2011, and today’s announcement takes that partnership to the next level by enabling our community of co-creators to innovate even faster,” said Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors. “We developed the world’s first co-created vehicle and 3D-printed car, and now our LM Labs program is providing the world’s makers with a way – both online and offline – to create new technologies to advance the future of transportation. Open to anyone, LM Labs helps brilliant minds create new technologies the world needs. While our primary focus is on developing vehicles, LM Labs is a place where the community can advance any technology.”

Siemens’ Solid Edge® software, a mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) application, has been in use at Local Motors for several years and has been crucial in facilitating its co-creation model. Using Siemens’ exclusive synchronous technology, Local Motors is able to seamlessly import into Solid Edge non-native CAD models from design collaborators around the world, and then use Solid Edge to easily edit these models.

This new partnership expands the use of Solid Edge and adds Siemens’ NX software and its Fibersim portfolio to all Local Motors facilities around the world. NX, a comprehensive computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering simulation (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution and Fibersim, a portfolio of software for composites engineering, are both leading solutions in the global manufacturing industry with a high concentration in the automotive sector. By expanding its use of Siemens’ digital enterprise software suite, Local Motors and its community of co-creators can leverage digital twins to increase productivity and quality in product design and DDM.

DDM and digital twins save time, reduce costs and increase quality by integrating and streamlining the design and production processes. The DDM process, which takes advantage of additive manufacturing technologies including 3D printing, produces parts directly from 3D models. DDM helps eliminate the need for tooling, removes time lag between design and production, and simplifies redesign. Siemens’ digital twin software technology links design and production by enabling the creation of virtual models that accurately represent the form, function and performance of a product and its production system. These high fidelity digital twins enable engineers to test the functionality of the products and manufacturing processes in the virtual world in order to predict and optimize performance in the physical world.

“By focusing on initiatives like Industrie 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things, big data analytics, cloud computing and much more, Siemens leads the way in advancing the future of manufacturing, said Dr. Helmuth Ludwig – Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, Siemens PLM Software. “As part of this leadership, we recognize the growing importance of additive manufacturing and 3D printing for the global manufacturing industry. That is why we are delighted to partner with innovative companies like Local Motors who are leading the way for large-scale 3D printing. By working closely together, we can help advance this technology so that all manufacturers can better realize innovation.”

Local Motors plans to open three new facilities this year, all of which will feature LM Labs. Siemens PLM Software plans to be a sponsor of all three LM Labs. A lab space plus a showroom and demonstration facility is scheduled to open near Washington DC in National Harbor, Maryland this summer. The National Harbor opening is slated to be followed by the debut of a lab facility in Berlin and a full-scale DDM microfactory in Knoxville, Tennessee later this year. The microfactory in Knoxville will serve as the main Local Motors facility for the development and construction of 3D-printed vehicles.

Local Motors is a technology company that designs, builds, and sells vehicles. From bytes-to-bits, the Local Motors platform combines global co-creation with local micro-manufacturing to bring hardware innovations, like the world’s first 3D-printed car, to market at unprecedented speed. Discover more at www.localmotors.com and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daioWlkH7ZI .

• NX, Teamcenter used at German auto supplier’s Electrical Drives division
• Siemens software replaces legacy system as part of unified Bosch strategy
• Bosch introducing digital collaboration across product development

March 17, 2016: Siemens’ integrated suite of computer aided design (CAD), product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions are replacing the legacy system of German automotive supplier Bosch in its Electrical Drives division. Starting in summer 2016, Siemens NX software and Teamcenter® software will serve as the common development platform for the division’s global operations. Bosch has been using CAD/PDM/PLM software from Siemens in other business units for several years. Its decision to expand into the Electrical Drives division is part of its strategic plan to consolidate its diversified tool landscape with a unified methodology for modelling, design and collaboration. The volume of the deal will not be disclosed.

Bosch’s decision for Siemens software aligns with its goal to optimize the value chain of the Electric Drives division with a modular toolkit-concept. This will also be the basis for digital collaboration between different departments across the product development process. The increased standardization and new functionalities will help Bosch realize scale effects more specifically. The digital end-to-end process Bosch is deploying will enable faster innovation, accelerated time-to-market and broader support for the Industry 4.0 strategy, which will secure and extend competitive advantages for the Stuttgart based automotive supplier.

“Siemens PLM Software believes that the increasingly complex products today’s automotive suppliers offer require a systems-driven approach to product development that combines systems engineering with an integrated product definition,” said Urban August, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Siemens PLM Software, Germany. “To facilitate systems-driven product development (SDPD), Siemens PLM Software provides product line engineering capabilities, a consistent process-enabled framework for mechatronic engineering, advanced modeling and simulation, an intuitive user experience and an open PLM environment.”

NX, Siemens’ integrated 3D computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution, will be used to establish and optimize an integrated product development environment. Additionally, utilization of Teamcenter, Siemens’ comprehensive digital lifecycle management solution, provides a fast and easy method for instantly accessing relevant information for rapid evaluation, decision making and re-use of proven best practices. The solutions provide a platform for a broad range of development tasks, from various actuating drives for window lifts, seat adjusters, sliding roofs, steering column adjustment and lift gate drives to motors for anti-lock breaking and electronic stability control systems, fan modules and coolant pumps for motor cooling systems, front and rear wiper systems as well as drive motors for e-scooters and e-bikes.

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 375,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2015). According to preliminary figures, the company generated sales of more than 70 billion euros in 2015. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 60 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. In 2015, Bosch applied for some 5,400 patents worldwide. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.” For more information, visit www.bosch.com.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) software, systems and services with over nine million licensed seats and more than 77,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with its customers to provide industry software solutions that help companies everywhere achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by making real the innovations that matter. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.

Courtesy: DailyCADCAM.com

Delcam India is currently seeking driven and highly motivated individuals or companies that are passionate about selling advanced CAD/CAM/CAI software solutions, to sign-up as Delcam resellers in the Punjab, Chandigarh, New Delhi & NCR, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, North-East, West Bengal, Odisha, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan regions.

India is among the fastest growing countries in the Asia Pacific region in the manufacturing domain, with a consequent rise in demand for CAD/CAM/CAI software.

In order to expand its reach in the above locations, Delcam India is looking to partner with prospective resellers to bring their acclaimed CAD/CAM/CAI solutions to the manufacturing industries in these regions.

Vineet Seth, Delcam’s Director for South Asia and Middle East said “While we have a network of direct offices in the country, we feel that there is a lot of potential in the market to add more partners to help us increase our geographic presence and reach into the manufacturing ecosystem across the country, leveraging on the strengths of our partners and resellers. With the Make-In-India campaign, the country is set to see a new wave of entrepreneurs plus expanded business horizons of existing organisations and we wish to take every measure to address their software and solutions requirements. With the right channel sales partners, we are certain that we can deliver our solutions even more effectively. I would therefore like to invite interested parties to get in touch with us.”

Delcam’s CAD/CAM/CAI software has helped thousands of companies around the world to meet complex and often unique requirements. Delcam’s Advanced Manufacturing Solutions provide essential tools to help manufacturing companies meet successfully their customers’ demands for high quality and rapid delivery. Fully-integrated design and manufacturing means that new part designs can be converted rapidly into manufacturing data for the machining of components directly or for the manufacture of tooling for mass production. Delcam’s software solutions are used by over 50,000 companies across the world in the Aerospace, Automotive, Toolmaking, Packaging, Footwear, Woodworking, Jewellery & Healthcare domains, amongst others.

Delcam’s business in India has expanded significantly since the establishment of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Delcam India, in the country in 2000. Since then, Delcam India has grown from its initial staff of three to more than 100 employees. In addition to the Pune headquarters, Delcam India operates successful regional offices around the country, to support its growing customer base of more than 2,500 customers.

To learn more about becoming a Delcam reseller in India, please write to resellers-dindia@delcam.com

Diego, can you tell us a bit about yourself?
Sure, I am Diego d’Udekem Director of Sales and Operations at FFT – MSC Software Company, after doing my Masters in Electro-mechanics 2004 started working with Altran. Later in April 2005 joined FFT as Support & Project Engineer, and then I passed through Head of Engineering and Support. From February 2013, I am appointed as Director of Sales and Operations.

It is my pleasure to work with FFT since last 10 years, it is great experience to work with such a professional, active and creative group and all the activity related to sales and operations worldwide for constantly developing company.

Please tell us about FFT and its acquisition by MSC Software?
FFT was founded in 1998 by Jean-Pierre Coyette and Jean-Louis Migeot is a Belgium based company providing acoustics and NVH simulation software solutions for the automotive, aerospace and other industries.

In 2011, MSC Software acquired FFT. Bringing FFT together with MSC’s existing NVH solution family in MSC Nastran, positioned MSC as a powerhouse to deliver robust acoustics and NVH solutions to customers worldwide. Even after acquisition the FFT’s sales, support, and R&D departments remained unchanged working with the same staff. Being part of MSC group has helped us to cater larger customer base, enhanced our solutions, added value and offer related services in more regions.

What are the products offered by FFT?
FFT’s offers ACTRAN – the finite element software for acoustic, vibro-acoustic and aero-acoustic modeling. It is one of the best and most complete acoustic simulation tools available; it provides rich elements, material models, boundary conditions, solution schemes and high-performance solvers to users to solve their complex acoustic problems accurately.

ACTRAN is widely used in automotive, aerospace, audio, advance materials, telecom, IT, defense, energy and other industries worldwide. Along with the software we also offer a wide range of services including on-site and off-site consulting, training, technology transfer and contract research.

We also offer integrated Actran for Nastran solution that gives our users advanced features for mixing the best of both worlds and few specialized solutions like ACTRAN TM for turbo machinery, ACTRAN DGM for modeling noise propagation in complex flows and ACTRAN VI pre and post-processor for ACTRAN Suite.

We have released Actran Version 15 in Oct 2014 with lots of new features added; also take care of the customer requests for the requirement of particular features in every release.

How is Actran’s market in India, what is your strategy to establish it among the major CAE systems in India?
We’ve already had few customers from Automotive, Aerospace sector in India and received a lot of positive feedback from various companies and Government organizations. We are conducting seminars at various places in India to make people aware about our product, discuss a wide range of applications and show them how it can help them to make better products and improve the acoustic performance of their design.

We have our distributor in India and have great support from MSC Software India team to promote Actran in existing and new customers.

You can see in today’s event in Pune, as expected we got a good number of serious designers from various sectors looking for improving acoustic performance of their product, they liked our product, they are ready to try it and we are looking forward to serve them and support their success with our software.

How you take care of generating trained resources required to work on such specialized tools?
We conduct training programs for working professionals and corporate on request, conduct seminars, demos and hands-on workshops worldwide. Free Field Technologies regularly organizes training on each and every Actran module. Training may be arranged in FFT premises or at the customer’s site. Both standard and custom trainings are available. FFT also regularly organizes introductory courses on acoustics and other seminars on acoustic CAE.

We are offering Actran Student Edition to students and educators along with the supporting materials and online tutorials. We conduct live webinars, provide on -demand webinars on various topics and real industrial applications to educate our user community.

Any message to design professionals and DailyCADCAM users in India?
In India, we have seen our Actran community growing tremendously over the last several months. I appeal users from Automotive, aerospace, electronics, ship- building, defense sector to try Actran software suite for acoustic, vibro-acoustic and aero-acoustic modeling. Let us know the challenges faced in analyzing and enhancing the acoustic behavior of your products.

By Sachin Sachin R Nalawade, Editor, DailyCADCAM

Intosite is Free mobile application for iOS (iPad), it is designed to solve complex manufacturing & finding right information challenges. It improves manufacturing engineering and operations, access information and share knowledge.

It is complement to Intosite in Tecnomatix® software – Check http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/tecnomatix/intosite/index.shtml

This mobile app is a location-aware application that displays product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing information from Intosite on the shop floor. It enables users to access information from Intosite when they are on the shop floor or at an outdoor facility, as well as upload information to Intosite. The information is presented based on the user’s location.

Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0A1yBIFBvA

Details – http://blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/blog/tag/ipad-app/

Updated Version Released: Aug 08, 2014
Version: 1.3.1
Size: 35.1 MB
Download from the Apple App Store – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/intosite/id894224248?mt=8

Tell me something about yourself
I have been with PTC for over a year now, in my role I oversee the PTC’s overall business in India and am responsible for strategic growth, leading key partner relationships and strategic customer focus. I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining PTC I was a Senior Director – Technology Sales at Oracle and also held senior positions at IBM and LG Soft.

How was your 1 year experience working with the CAD industry?
My experience so far has been great! My vision for PTC is to reach out to manufacturing companies and product developing companies in India and help them achieve sustained product and service advantage through PTC’s world-class CAD, PLM and SLM Solutions across the entire product lifecycle. The introduction of Creo 3.0, Smart Connected Products and application of Internet of Things has helped us achieve this goal.

I look forward to drive PTC’s growth in India through strategic sales and better customer relations.

PTC is in a space that allows for intense competition from other players, what is PTC really bringing on board to its customers and partners?
PTC is the pioneer in product lifecycle management in India. PTC India has been successfully selling , implementing and supporting various products like Creo, Windchill , Servigistics and Arbortext and now Creo 3.0 – SLM products directly and through SSP (Strategic service Partners ) like ITC, TCS etc. We have been encouraging our partners to imbibe Enterprise consulting using our Service Advantage program to drive value based selling to Enterprises. The customer gets a complete solution either directly from PTC or through partners from Consulting, product positioning, implementing and getting the solution advantage – meeting/exceeding customer expectations.

Apart from this consulting and implementation, we also provide high end training to adopt our e-learning tools supported by trainers in precision learning programs. PTC University Academy program supports this initiative and many customers are enjoying the benefit in getting full advantage of the product through this knowledge.

With lots of productivity enhancements in Creo 3.0, like improved Multi-CAD Data Handling Capabilities, do you think it would be a greater success than previous versions?
Yes, it will be a greater success than previous versions. We expect all our customers to adapt to Creo 3.0 in the coming years. With PTC Cry 3.0, PTC introduced new Unite technology, which significantly enhances the ability to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo. It also empowers innovation through more powerful; seamlessly integrated concept design tools, ensuring efforts undertaken in concept design can be fully reused in the detailed design process. Key productivity enhancements within the release further add to customers’ ability to focus on higher levels of innovation and product quality.

Also, we will continue to deliver on their strategy. PTC’s ground breaking Unite technology addresses the data and process-related challenges of CAD consolidation. Unite technology in PTC Creo 3.0 enables CAD data of varying formats to be used directly in the PTC Creo Parametric, Creo Direct, Creo Simulate, and Creo Options Modeler apps. As a result, this release enables significant efficiencies to be achieved when consolidating multiple CAD systems onto PTC Creo, as well as when collaborating with others using different CAD tools.These efficiencies enable improvements in on-time delivery; product quality and desirability by allowing design teams to spend more time innovating and less time on non-value add tasks such as recreating design intent and redundant file management

What you think about the companies that are still working on Pro/E Wildfire? Is there any communication gap that prevented them to switch to latest versions? What steps are taken to make these companies aware about Creo capabilities?
Many PTC users, for various reasons, stay with an older version. They are happy with the capabilities of Pro/E and have trained man power giving optimum results. But, many customers have upgraded to Creo since its launched. PTC Creo is much powerful, reliable and easy to use modeling tool that helps user to optimize productivity across a full range of mechanical design tasks.

We are conducting various events, webinars to educate and train our customers on the latest tools. Also, offering them the e-learning packages with over 6,000 hours of online training courses available at their fingertips.

How the IoT ( Internet of Things) is Transforming the Meaning of Product development. Help us understand the benefits of this and what impact would this have on the Indian customers?
Manufacturing companies are looking at innovative methods to meet and exceed customer expectations. Traditionally the products manufactured are related to only hardware, but at present software, as it evolved, began delivering a variety of utilities, and software and service have started generating a larger proportion of a product’s value.

Manufacturing companies are now looking at Internet of Things (IoT) to provide new services by connecting to the internet and companies. By 2025, economic impact of IoT worldwide is expected to be at least US $ 2.7 trillion and more than 80% of the manufacturing companies are expected to use IoT applications.

Indian manufacturing companies, particularly exporting will gain substantially because of adoption of IoT platform in the international market

PTC is the company that developed the first parametric, feature-based 3D CAD tool, and has started offering a new set of services by combining existing solutions with IoT.

In the IoT space, PTC offers ThingWorx Platform and design, specifically to leverage the internet world of People, Systems and Things. ThingWorx is the 1st Application Platform for the Internet of Things, enables users to Develop, Run, Iterate and Innovate Internet of Things Application 10 x faster. ThingWorx platform consists of a suite of tools and features to help an organization to quickly create connected applications. The Suite includes:

1. ThingWorx Composer (End to End Application modeling Environment)- makes it easy to model all things required for a connected application.

2. Codeless Mashup builder – Drag and drop application builder, reduces development time. These are some of many differentiators from other companies

Do you see high growth in PTC product sales after the launch of Make in India campaign, as PTC has a high presence in SPM manufacturers, OEMs, machine tools, etc.
Growth is inevitable from the Make in India campaign, both owing to the growth in domestic demand for Indian manufactured goods as much as the growth in exports. For example, amongst the automotive OEM, the country is emerging to be the 4thlargest commercial vehicle consumers in the world. This essentially entails expansion in capacity and thus, the need for technology from vendors such as PTC applied across the product life cycle.

How is PTC Windchill market in India? How has the response been from Indian companies for PTC’s PLM Solutions?
Within today’s highly competitive, geographically dispersed design and manufacturing environments, effectively managing product content has never been more important. The consequences of using outdated versions, losing files or failing to properly incorporate engineering changes can be severe, resulting in revenue and profitability declines as well as market share erosion.

PTC Windchill is the central repository for all product information. PTC Windchill remembers the entire history for every piece of product related content such as CAD models, documents, technical illustrations, embedded software, calculations and requirement specifications as well as the relationships between content. And, search tools within PTC Windchill to help you quickly find the information you need.

India is a very important market for PTC. We have customers in India who have invested in our flagship 3D product, Pro E for the past 20 years. Like any other Industry, Manufacturing Industry particularly Automobile Industry faces a lot of competition, both from domestic and international companies. Most of the companies look for reducing their manufacturing cost and India is no different. PTC has products in CAD, Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and now platform for Internet of Things (IoT) to meet customer expectations. In the last three decades, PTC has grown from a CAD company to a software product and service solution provider for Manufacturing companies and many Indian companies are using PTC products for meeting their industry transformation.

How are you doing things differently in India, given the unique requirements of the market?
As I said India is a very important market for us and we have witnessed tremendous growth in India over the years. We try to deliver our best service to all our customers to ensure their satisfaction with our products and services. That is the reason why we launched core 3.0 in India as well. The main advantage of Creo 3.0 is the Unite technology, which significantly enhances the ability to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo. PTC Creo 3.0 also empowers innovation through more powerful; seamlessly integrated concept design tools, ensuring efforts undertaken in concept design can be fully reused in the detailed design process. Key productivity enhancements within the release further add to customers’ ability to focus on higher levels of innovation and product quality.

The Unite technology that is being offered with our new product has truly integrated concept design tools, and continued emphasis on day-day productivity gains, this new release empowers our customers to bring greater efficiency to their product development process. We aim to deliver maximum customer satisfaction through our new products and service and we believe Creo 3.0 could do the best for the same.

What are your views on Direct modeling software, PTC Creo Direct? Why parametric modeling is still preferred choice in the Industry?
PTC Creo Direct is a stand-alone app that enables casual CAD users to create new geometry or modify any existing 3D CAD design, regardless of file format. Direct interaction with the geometry makes it easy for anyone to learn and use. That’s why it’s the ideal tool for people in concept design, analysis and manufacturing ― or for anyone else who’s new to 3D CAD or uses it infrequently. Because working with PTC Creo Direct is quick, flexible and intuitive, it’s ideally suited for tasks such as generating proposals, defining the initial design for tooling fixtures or capturing design input from customers in the field. By enabling better collaboration with your extended team, the software encourages innovation and enables your company to respond better to changing customer needs.

Direct modeling software is the best service to achieve faster design cycles by enabling more users to access and use 3D CAD data, including third-party design components. It has features like editing work with direct cut-and paste, push-and-pull and drag-and-drop technique and also to explore concepts and variations using a direct 3D CAD approach.

Parametric modeling revolutionized the approach to solid modeling. Engineers could build intelligence into models so that when a change was made, all the affected features would automatically update, saving time by avoiding manual and tedious updates to every little thing that changed. The convenience and features that parametric modelling provides makes it the preferred choice among customers.

With increased demand for simulation technology among Indian enterprises? How do you plan to tap the Indian market?
India is a growing market for us and we have a huge customer base here, we have been supporting customers for the past two decades. We have grown as a CAD company to a complete product and service advantage company, providing solution in CAD, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), PLM (Product Life Cycle Management), and now IoT (Internet of Things) i.e., from manufacturing a product -from the design stage to retiring the product, we have solutions.

We are reaching out to our existing and new customers through our partners, and direct sales team and offering our complete suite of products so that they are able to use the same and take advantage of the technology to improve their product lifecycle roadmap.

Also, we have a huge focus in training and creating well trained resources in India, in order to meet the trained technical resources with enhanced knowledge by using PTC products. We have more than 100 Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) and more than 1000 colleges across India who uses PTC products as part of their training curriculum using PTC’s Global Standard Curriculum and training methodologies.

Could you talk about key focus areas for PTC’ India R&D center?
PTC has been re-engineering its traditional products, upgrading the developed ones keeping in the mind aspects like collaboration, cloud, mobility, sharing and communication. Our development teams in Pune, India is contributing significantly to its new business model.

Anything that you would tell design professionals about PTC Live Tech Forum 2015?
PTC Live Tech Forum 2015, the annual event being hosted by PTC for many years is one of the most unique and awaited technology events in India,PTC Tech Forum brings together PTC solutions experts and best-in-class industry presenters to exhibit their latest technology updates, present real-world best practices, and showcase how to use PTC solutions more effectively.

The event is a great platform to gain insight into PTC’s technology strategy and vision, learn best practices from peer companies leveraging PTC solutions. We would also like to showcase our offerings in Smart Connected Products and Internet of Things (IoT) to the participants and to educate them about its advantages.

The event unveils after 2 years in 2015 and we are bringing this event to 2 cities in India; Pune and Chennai during April.

Anything that you would like to highlight, related to India/Asia market.
India is emerging and is often coined in the term of the BRIC nations. As one of the leading economists of our times Ruchir Sharma suggests in his book, Breakout Nations – India’s growth story is to sustain and be realized despite the many external challenges. Manufacturing is a core contributor to India’s economic progress, and thus in the next decade or so Indian manufacturing outfits are not only going to improve the ‘process’ side of manufacturing but also “innovation”. PTC as leading technology providers for manufacturers will be playing a major role in the India’s growth story, and we at PTC India are very excited to witness the transformation in Indian manufacturing that will unfold with time.

Thanks Mr. Subash Nambiar for your time for the discussion. Hope our reader find it interesting to read this article. If you have any question, please write on the mail id given below and we will be glad to answer.

Graebert GmbH has released ARES Commander 2015 with following new commands, features and system variables:
New Commands:

CustomPaperSize. Manages custom paper sizes for built-in printers (PDF, PNG, JPG, SVG, or DWF).
DiscardDuplicates.

Removes duplicate or overlapping entities from the drawing.

EditTableCell. Inserts, deletes, merges, or resizes cells, rows, and columns in Tables ExplodeBlockX. Explodes Blocks and converts BlockAttribute values to SimpleNotes. Migration.

Migrates profiles, preferences, file location settings, and UI customizations from a previous version of the software.

• PowerTrim.

Trims multiple, adjacent entities by dragging the pointer across each entity. Extends or trims two entities where they intersect at a virtual corner.

• QuickModify.

Copies, moves, rotates, and scales entities in one operation.

• StackOptions. Sets the alignment and size for stacked text in annotations.

New Features:

• Dimension palette.

Appears when you insert or select a Dimension so you can change the properties and formatting of Dimension text.

• Paragraph Options dialog box.

Sets paragraph alignment, line spacing, indents, and tab stops for Notes.

• Note Formatting ruler. Sets paragraph indents and tab stops for Notes.

• Stack Properties dialog box. Controls the text, alignment position, relative scale, and type of stacked text to represent fractions and tolerances.
• AutoStack Defaults dialog box.

Sets defaults to automatically stack text that represents fractions and tolerances in annotations.

• Dynamic Block Grips. Modifies Dynamic Block references using grips. You can insert Dynamic Blocks and use them in drawings (although you cannot create them with the software).
• Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon Customization.

Creates and modifies quick access toolbars, ribbon tabs and panels.
New System Variables:

BTMARKDISPLAY. Toggles the display of value set increment markers in Dynamic Blocks.
GRIPDYNCOLOR. Controls the fill color of user-defined grips of Dynamic Blocks.
TABLEINDICATOR.. Toggles the display of the display of row numbers and column letters when editing Table cells in-place.
TABLETOOLBAR. Controls the display of the Edit Table pop-up toolbar to assist editing Table cells in-place.
TSPACEFAC. Sets the line spacing distance specified as a text height factor for Notes.
TSPACETYPE. Sets the type of line spacing used within Notes.
I am sure you will find these Commands, Features and System Variables very useful. Feel free to post your experience and queries.

You can download the ARES Commander edition from http://www.graebert.com/en/index.php?option=com_productselect&view=downloads

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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is becoming more and more important in product development. In order to take advantage of PLM, Core Tech System (Moldex3D) is going to release a new solution with PLM-integrated technology, providing more data for design validation and optimal tooling development. With the value-added PLM-integrated technology, not only the management of simulation models and analysis results becomes easier, the product quality and reliability can be largely enhanced.

Though plastics have clear advantages with regards to weight reduction, lower cost and better quality, simulating its manufacturing processes and performance behaviors poses a significant challenge in terms of technology, turn-around time and reliability. All too often, part manufacturability and quality issues are identified only during the manufacturing phase, which leads to high cost and delays in product revision. However, by changing the part design, one can easily resolve 70% of manufacturing issues effectively. Thus, understanding how plastic fills the product in the early stage can not only avoid possible manufacturing defect, but also reduce cost for trying to improve the outcome by modifying the moldbase.

Moldex3D eDesignSYNC for NX, an integrated flow simulation tool with NX, combines Teamcenter, a Siemens PLM system, with Moldex3D technology. This integration enables users to easily detect possible manufacturing defects in their initial design, allowing users to simulate and visualize how plastic is injected to fabricate a plastic part and share valuable simulation data through the product cycle. By keeping the simulation data on Teamcenter, designers, engineers and tool makers can better adjust their tasks with more reliable information. For example, designers will know what kind of design will affect the fabrication and make design changes accordingly; engineers can predict the structural weaknesses caused by the manufacturing processes; tool makers are able to design cooling systems that compensate all the hot spots in the moldbase. Moreover, the data stored in the PLM system can be valuable for part revisions.

The integration allows users to import optimized designs, injection molding analyses into the PLM system simply by saving the files in the working folder. It also empowers product design organizations to evaluate and avoid manufacturing issues earlier as the part is evolving. It combines advanced numerical simulation methods with industrial best practices (gate location, runners, etc.) to guide CAD designers in assessing potential manufacturing issues. Real-time feedback on these problems allows multiple product and process configurations to be rapidly evaluated for system-level optimization and reduce costly engineering changes. This method produces enterprise-level harmony and tangible benefits.

Additionally, eDesignSYNC for NX saves designers’ valuable time in preparing for simulations and validating their design alternatives with intuitive injection molding simulations in NX environment. With eDesignSYNC for NX, users can complete the simulation workflow from component modeling to results displaying in the same NX window, enhancing streamlined integration between Moldex3D and NX.

With the support for slicing and clipping functions, users can visualize analysis results in various directions and better realize quality variations of injection molded plastics. Also, the informative indicator tools will guide users to perform early design optimization more efficiently.

Moldex3D eDesignSYNC and Teamcenter together creates an optimized relationship between product design, simulation and manufacturing processes. By managing simulation data on Teamcenter, users will realize the vertical coordination across different expertises, from design to manufacturing. This will reduce both time to market and revision costs. Moldex3D eDesignSYNC for NX along with Teamcenter is the best solution for solving critical mold design issues and molding problems and the most efficient tool for product life management.

About CoreTech System (Moldex3D) Co., Ltd.
CoreTech System Co., Ltd. (Moldex3D) has been providing the professional CAE analysis solution “Moldex” series for the plastic injection molding industry since 1995, and the current product “Moldex3D” is marketed and supported worldwide. Committed to providing advanced technologies and solutions for industrial demands, CoreTech System has extended its worldwide sales and service network to provide local, immediate, and professional services. CoreTech System provides innovative simulation software to help customers troubleshoot from product design to development, optimize design patterns, shorten time-to-market, and maximize product return on investment (ROI). More information about Moldex3D can be found at www.moldex3d.com.