Cadezy: a new kid in town seeks a revolution in the CAD market by releasing yet another AutoCAD clone
A Russian company Cadezy joined the Open Design Alliance and announced a forthcoming beta-testing of DeskCAD LT.
According to the information at the company’s web-site (www.cadezy.com), Cadezy Co. was founded by enthusiasts who aspired to nothing less than revolutionizing the global CAD market. At the moment the company cannot offer its own products but their development team is working on closing the gap. The key feature of Cadezy’s CAD-products under development by Cadezy is using the web as the platform for their applications.
Nevertheless, the company intends to start business with a rather standard product – yet another AutoCAD clone on DWGdirect platform, which will be marketed as DeskCAD. It is promised that the new CAD will be compatible with AutoCAD 2009 and support Windows, Linux and Mac OS platforms and mobile devices. Cadezy website says that the product is 45% completed.
Company’s web-products are at the same stage of development:
WebShow – a tool for browsing DWG-files in the Internet,
WebCAD – a fully functional editor of DWG-files, running on Mozilla, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer web-browsers, and
WebPM – a tool for collaborative on-line work.
To implement those products Cadezy has already attracted around $1.2 million and keeps looking for investors (according to the information at the company’s website, in the six months following the launch of LT version Cadezy will need roughly the same investments in product development and marketing in view of the expected returns from selling the light version).
Dmitry Kapyshin is the General Director of Cadezy. His bio at LinkedIn says that Mr Kapyshin graduated in 1987 from Moscow State Institute of International Relations and then worked as a journalist in various international magazines and was involved in trading, production of food products and construction. In 2006 he turned to software business and founded several companies, which he still runs as the Director.
Cadezy’s Technical Director Agil Ziyatdinov graduated in 2006 from Russian State Open Technical University for Railway Transportation and has a 3-year experience in software development.
As you can see, Cadezy has everything to make a revolution in the CAD market (enthusiasm, technology, and business experience). And we will just anxiously wait for its benefits, wishing every success to the brave revolutionaries.
LEDAS made Constraints Demo Application available for all ODA members
The Open Design Alliance (ODA), a non-profit consortium of over 2,000 software developers and users committed to promoting open, industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data and CAD legacy data, works with third party component vendors to deliver direct access to a variety of additional features to members.
The list of third party components available to ODA members (ACIS from Spatial, HOOPS from TechSoft3D, Adobe-Based PDF) has been extended with the Constraints Support from LEDAS.
All ODA members can now integrate the LEDAS LGS 2D geometric constraint solver with a Teigha for .dwg files client application to provide easy access to constraint solving functionality.
A sample application demonstrating a number of constraint-related features can be found on the ODA web site. The demo implements the following functions:
Load a drawing file containing constraints, and render the drawing.
Add constraints to a drawing file.
Move geometry on the screen, when the mouse is released all geometry is updated per the constraints contained in the drawing.
Edit distance or angle parameters, causing constrained geometry to be updated automatically.
Now Ralph announced availability of a brochure he has written on the basis of his Russian impressions and notes. Special web page which presents the book in particular says the following.
The first bi-lingual research paper on the state of the mechanical computer-aided design market in Russia. In The Russian MCAD Market, you will learn insights into the following crucial topics:
History of MCAD in Russia during and after Soviet rule.
Product offerings by MCAD firms native to Russia and from abroad.
Special problems faced by Russian firms doing business with the West.
Challenges faced by Western MCAD firms running branch offices in Russia.
The content of this whitepaper was collected by upFront.eZine editor Ralph Grabowski during his 10-day tour in late 2009 of Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Novosibirsk. The tour was organized by David Levin of LEDAS and sponsored by the CAD vendors visited.
This research paper is critical to understanding the state of the MCAD software business in Russia today.
(Russian translation provided by LEDAS and nanosoft.)
Genesis of CAD/PLM in representation of the Scientist, the Manager and the Businessman.
Interview with V.E. Klimov, general director of "Productive technological systems" company
The financial analysis of the CAE technologies market in 2008.
The project "Kings and cabbage" in the field of the engineering analysis.
Part 3. Revenues of CAE market participants. Several CAE technologies trends
Autodesk Forum helps to adapt for changes
Time of efficient innovations.
Complex of ASCON solutions for mechanical engineering
SolidWorks 2010: premium-class in designing
Autodesk Inventor: seven steps of the designer
Managing distributed product development.
Part 2. The need for simplified product model data.
Part 3. Realizing the vision of collaborative product development
New functionality of version ADEM-8.3 (part II)
ADEM-VX. Methods of preproduction optimization made by design engineer
Informational decision automated support system for piecework and short-series manufacturing-to-order for mechanical engineering industry
The financial analysis of the EDA market in 2008.
The project "Kings and cabbage" in the field of the modelling in electronics
From PowerDistribution into Automation! (part II)
Crisis as the cause to strengthen company's team
To the future with CAD.
"Round table" in Moscow with Ralph Grabowski
Machinebuilders of all countries, consolidate!
The review of "Machinebuilders Day with ASCON"
For Mastercam reseller conference in Hartford the world crisis is not the hindrance
The first ever open competition event in Russia, called the "Battle Between Modern CAM-Systems", took place on December 3, 2009 between Edgecam and ADEM.
The Russian Industrial Company (a certified authorized distributor of Edgecam) that initiated the event, provided site and initial data in the form of a mathematical model, process design and manufacturing of which were in the core of competition between the two systems.
The event aroused significant interest and it was a great success. Both systems demonstrated their capabilities in programming domestic and foreign CNC machine tools. Small desktop milling machines were provided by Roland and “Leninets” Plant” Research and Development Centre. Details of the matrix were produced in full by both systems including rough and finish 3D mode. Three different tools were employed: two cylindrical and one cutter fitting. Instead of metal billets, a special material – model plastic - was used to shorten the processing time and reduce the noise.
Visitors were also able to verify the possibilities of ADEM as an integrated CAD / CAM / CAPP system. Along with CNC programming, ADEM was used for creating matrix design drawings, and technological process, comprising: a route chart, a tooling program, a tool setup sheet, a sketches chart, and for calculating the treatment time.
The ADEM Group calls to extend the initiative and invites developers and technical specialists in other systems to organize a similar show in any of the following nominations: 3D and flat modeling and design documentation, process design and shop floor documentation, creation and optimization of NC programs, knowledge update (work with paper drawings and control programs).
Russian originated company Parallels will help Autodesk users to run Windows applications on Mac OS X
Autodesk announced an agreement with Parallels to make Parallels Desktop for Mac Autodesk's preferred Mac virtualization software.
Autodesk will now support use of AutoCAD software, AutoCAD LT software, Autodesk Inventor Professional software, Autodesk 3ds Max software, Autodesk 3ds Max Design software and the Autodesk Revit software platform for building information modeling (BIM) on Mac OS X via Parallels Desktop. Autodesk added official support for these products on the Mac via Boot Camp earlier this year.
Parallels, Inc. is a privately-held virtualization technology company with offices in the USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan, China, Russia and Ukraine.
According to Expert Magazine Parallels, founded and headed by Segrey Belousov, now has 300 full-fledged developers in Moscow, 200 in Novosibirsk, and 150 technical support specialists in Novosibirsk as well. Marketing, finance, sales, and management are located in the USA.
isicad.net and isicad.ru have earlier in details reflected Ralph Grabowski’s visit to Russia (see for example 
