At 5:00am this morning comes news that Autodesk is licensing ISOGEN's automatic production of piping isometrics and BOMs technology from Intergraph for AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010.
Autodesk needs Intregraph so that its Plant 3D software can automatically generate isometric plans from 3D piping models.
Intergraph needs Autodesk so that, um... Well, it gets revenue from Autodesk for the long-term license agreement. (Now that it is privately owned, we have no idea how Intergraph is doing financially.) And then there is the altruistic reason, as Intergraph explains:
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Autodesk needs Intregraph so that its Plant 3D software can automatically generate isometric plans from 3D piping models.
Intergraph needs Autodesk so that, um... Well, it gets revenue from Autodesk for the long-term license agreement. (Now that it is privately owned, we have no idea how Intergraph is doing financially.) And then there is the altruistic reason, as Intergraph explains:
As Intergraph ISOGEN technology is open and interoperable, Autodesk and other Intergraph ISOGEN customers and partners will be able to more easily share information – a win-win for the industry.
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you nailed it with flair. Intergraph bought Alias a few yrs back, and Alias products dominate (monopolize?) the piping isometric market. Since Autodesk is now trying to enter this market with their Plant 3D product, they're forced to deal with Intergraph in order to licence the Alias products.
I'm also curious how Intergraph is doing. Anyone with access to Daratech data could probably piece together a reasonable estimate, at least on the plant design sales side. The fact that Intergraph is still maintaining and even enhancing their older PDS (plant design system) product line tells me that their next-gen SmartPlant 3D still has too many snags.
Posted by: Mook | Nov 11, 2009 at 09:05 AM