Updated CAD News from Russia

From the current issue of the Russian-language isicad.net digital magazine, we learn these news items of interest:

• Bentley Systems recently sold 120 licenses for $500,000 to Russian design companies specializing in nuclear-energy construction. Bentley is intensively investing in Russian localization and by 2012 plans to increase its income in Russia by 3-5 times.

• Nanosoft known mainly as a sensational "legitimate CAD-for-free" vendor of Nanocad software, suddenly announced "a traditional" way to get their key software NanoCAD Mechanics 2.0: for 25,000 rubles (approx. $800). "The end of a nano fairy tale?" asks a Russian blogger.

• SpaceClaim and Russian engineering company AXIS agree to distribute SpaceClaim products in Russia. In particular, all Russian universities can get academic versions of SpaceClaim Engineer 2009 with an unrestricted number of licenses. 

Source in Russian only (English summaries by David Levin).

Comments

[Jon Banquer]

I hope that AXIS is hugely successful with getting SpaceClaim into Russian universities. Russian students need to see for themselves how much more enjoyable a good interactive user interface is and how much more productive they can be in many part modeling situations when all the restrictions that a history based modeler forces on a user are lifted.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
www.jonbanquer.wordpress.com