| Developers: | ASCON, C3D Labs (S3D Labs) |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | 13.04.2012 |
| Last Release Date: | 2021/08/26 |
| Technology: | PLM - PLM, CAD |
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The geometric core of C3D is a key component for creating design systems (CAD) and their applications, calculation systems (CAE), systems for preparing control programs for CNC machines (CAM), and modeling processes. From development in 1995 until 2012, Ascon used this core exclusively for its own needs, as a component of KOMPAS-3D CAD. In 2012, Ascon opened the C3D kernel for licensing by third-party developers. The core development and its promotion in the market is carried out by C3D Labs, a member of ASCON , which in 2013 became a resident of Skolkovo.
The solution is included in the "Unified Register of Russian Programs for Electronic Computers and Databases" Ministry of Digital Development.
2021: C3D Geometric Kernel Release for Astra Linux Common Edition
Astra Linux GC, a player in the domestic market for secure operating systems and virtualization platforms, and C3D Labs, a subsidiary of ASCON, a Russian developer of engineering Industrial softwares and construction, on August 26, 2021 announced the release of a version of the geometric C3D kernel for Astra Linux OS. According to companies, support for a domestic platform at the level of a specialized development tool (SDK) is an important step towards creating import-independent 3D engineering applications.
The geometric core is the key and most knowledge-intensive component of computer-aided design (CAD) systems: its algorithms are responsible for building, editing and converting 3D models. The product is used in the development of engineering analysis systems and calculations, simulation of physical processes, as well as for preparing programs for NC machines, processing 3D scanning results and industrial virtual reality.
Astra Linux Common Edition, under which the C3D was built and tested, became the first domestic OS with which the product works. Earlier versions for Windows, Ubuntu, Scientific, Debian, MacOS, iOS and FreeBSD were released. Thus, the cross-platform kernel architecture opens up a wide range of technology platforms for engineering software developers.
 | "Import substitution of engineering software is gaining pace. We see how large industrial enterprises launch their own developments, new companies enter the market, and established players abandon foreign components in their products. The software stack "C3D kernel + Astra Linux" opens up opportunities for developers who need to use the SDK toolkit and the operating system from the registry of domestic software, "said Oleg Zykov, director of C3D Labs. |  |
| | "Astra Linux Common Edition is positioned as a universal OS, and successfully building and testing a geometric kernel based on it C3D is an indication that our platform is truly suited to the widest range of tasks, including design. We are sincerely glad to partner with C3D Labs: cooperation between IT manufacturers allows us to actively develop domestic technologies, which, in turn, helps our clients minimize the risks associated with the use of foreign engineering software, "said Evgeny Vekshin, Product Director of Astra Linux GC. | |
As of August 2021, more than 40 companies in 14 countries use C3D software components.
2019: Geometric C3D core became part of Altium Designer 19 and Altium Nexus
On February 6, 2019, Altium announced to TAdviser the release of Altium Designer 19 with advanced 3D functionality created by the C3D Toolkit tools from the Russian company C3D Labs. In this version of the PCB CAD, there are three key components of the Toolkit C3D: the geometric core of the C3D Modeler, the C3D Solver parametric solver and the C3D Converter exchange module. Components from C3D Labs are also involved in the development of Altium Nexus, a joint PCB design solution. Read more here.
2018
Integration with APM Studio
On November 14, 2018, C3D Labs, the developer of the geometric core of C3D and ASCON, announced that NTC APM (Russia) had chosen the geometric core of C3D to develop its CAE line.
NTC APM specializes in the development of software for engineering analysis and calculations. The company will use a geometric core from C3D Labs in a product responsible for preparing 3D models for calculations. Software from NTC APM covers the whole range of strength problems, dynamics, calculations of machine parts, mechanics of continuous media, thermophysics. The geometric core of the C3D Modeler and the C3D Converter data exchange module will be used in the APM Studio module, which is responsible for preparing 3D models for finite element analysis.
In particular, with the help of C3D, it is planned to implement the conversion of models and their refinement before performing calculations. The priority is to read directly KOMPAS-3D models, as well as read STEP and other third-party formats. Obtaining 3D models of greater accuracy will improve the quality of generated finite element grids required for strength analysis of structures in APM products.
| | author '= Sergey Rozinsky, Deputy General Director for Development of NTC "APM" ' First of all, we are interested in closer integration of the products of NTC "APM" and ASCON, our partner in the consortium of engineering software developers "Dlavit," to more fully satisfy our common users. Strengthening the existing technological relationships will help us the C3D core, on which 3D modeling is based in KOMPAS-3D. | |
| | author '= Oleg Zykov, director of C3D Labs ' The creation of the Dlavit consortium activated the technological cooperation of the companies included in it, and, as a result, aroused interest in the C3D core. Following EREMEX, NTC APM calculated the economic and technological effect of licensing our components and decided to use them in development. Thus C3D one step closer to becoming a platform solution for the entire consortium. | |
The CAD vendor for NASA, Microsoft and Dell will use the kernel C3D
Altium, a developer of electronics design software solutions, has licensed the C3D Toolkit to improve 3D modeling features in its flagship Altium Designer product. TAdviser was told about this in the developer of the C3D kernel - C3D Labs in February 2018.
Altium has been operating in the market since 1985, the company's headquarters are based in the United States. Its software tools are used by more than 80,000 users worldwide, according to Altium. The company receives almost half of its revenue in the Americas.
Among them, the organizations to which Altium supplied its software - NASA, Microsoft, Dell, Siemens, are indicated on the company's website. In the case of NASA, for example, in 2007, its Lyndon Johnson Space Center chose Altium Designer for itself as the standard electronics design software.
At the expense of the C3D kernel, the company expects to expand the functionality of Altium Designer. Altium plans to use surface modeling, curve projection, collision control of 3D model elements, creating and editing large assemblies, and many others.
Oleg Zykov, director of C3D Labs, told TAdviser that a geometric core is not needed in the classical representation of electronic CAD. However, ECAD trends require the addition of functionality that used to be inherent only in mechanical CAD (MCAD). And Altium chose the C3D kernel to solve this problem.
Altium became the second public American client of C3D Labs. Earlier, 2 American startups acquired the 3D core of Russian development.
According to Zykov, as of the beginning of 2018, C3D Labs has exactly 10 foreign customers from different countries: the USA, Turkey, Korea,, China, and India Sweden Denmark. Last year, 65% of C3D Toolkit sales came from exports. The solution is also being tested by more than a dozen companies from Turkey, Great Britain the United States Hungary, China, and, Italy Russia says Oleg Zykov.
2017
Two American startups licensed the core C3D
In 2017, the geometric core of the C3D was licensed by the American startup company EE Boost. Oleg Zykov, director of C3D Labs, told TAdviser about this in March. The company became the first public client of C3D Labs in the United States. In addition to EE Boost, C3D Labs in the United States has another client whose name cannot yet be disclosed. It specializes in cloud CAD development and is also a startup.
Read more about US customers in a separate article:
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics has licensed a full set of tools C3D
In March 2017, the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E.I. Zababakhin ALL-RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS () licensed a full set of C3D Toolkit tools C3D Labs from the subsidiary company. "Ascona" The geometrical kernel of C3D will use an All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics for development of own. Engineering Calculation Software
More details - in the article at the link:
- Software for engineering calculations All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics
2015
The nuclear center will create its own software based on the Ascon 3D core
In June, ASCON reported that the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov (RFNC-VNIIEF) licensed the geometric core of the C3D, the developer is its subsidiary C3D Labs. His organization plans to use in proprietary software products designed to solve the problems of calculated modeling of physical processes.
One of these products is the Logos software package for simulation modeling on high-performance computers. Its fields of application are the aviation industry, nuclear power, rocket and space industry, automotive industry, etc.
Ascon explains that the geometric core will C3D be used both in the process of building simulation meshes of 3D models, and for performing operations to simplify, adjust and refine simulation geometry. In addition, Logos is planned to be integrated CAD Compass-3D with the development of ASCON.
Representatives of the company told TAdviser that under the terms of the license agreement with C3D Labs, RFNC-VNIIEF received the rights to develop software based on the C3D kernel for use within the organization. If a commercial product is released, C3D Labs will receive deductions from each license sold for that product. The financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. To make Logos a full-fledged commercial product and sell it independently and through partners is included in the plans of RFNC-VNIIEF.
The representative of ASCON added in a conversation with TAdviser that before the signing of the agreement with RFNC-VNIIEF, only private companies and universities, including foreign CAD developers (Sweden and South Korea), were external users of its core. RFNC-VNIIEF became the first government-owned organization to license the development of C3D Labs.
It is worth noting that the development of "ASCON" is based on an end-to-end 3D-design technology, which is part of a typical information system of the nuclear weapons complex (TIS NWC), being introduced at enterprises of this industry
Elecosoft Consultancy bought a geometric core
On May 12, 2015, it became known that Elecosoft Consultancy acquired the Compass-3D core for use in its own product intended for the design of wooden stairs[1].
The company "ASCON" sold the license for the geometric core, which serves as the basis for its products, to the Swedish IT company Elecosoft Consultancy.
Elecosoft is engaged in the creation of software solutions for construction and installation organizations. The core will be used in its flagship product, called Staircon, designed to design and produce wooden ladders - from the moment of ordering to fabrication.
Screenshot of the window of the Staircon program, 2013
Until 2012, the C3D kernel was used by Ascon only to create its own software products. Since 2012, other developers can also purchase a kernel license.
According to an Ascon statement, Elecosoft considered all cores on the market, including Parasolid (owned by Siemens PLM Software) and ACIS (owned by Spatial).
Screenshot of the Compass-3D program window, 2013
The agreement was concluded against the background of an unfavorable political situation - sanctions from the European Union against Russia and retaliatory Russian measures. The Swedes have been thinking about concluding a contract for more than six months. The companies refuse to report the amount of the transaction.
ASCON noted: the Swedish company became the sixteenth buyer of the geometric core license C3D and the first such buyer in Western Europe. The remaining customers are private companies and universities from Russia (NTP Pipeline, NIP-Informatics, GeoS Center, Basis Center, Mordovian State University), South Korea (Solar Tech) and Ukraine.
The geometric kernel is C3D intended for use in software products as a basic component. It is responsible for creating a geometric model, calculating its characteristics, the relationship of elements of the geometric model, and reading and writing the model to the main exchange formats. The core of the C3D is the basis of the flagship product "ASCON" - the three-dimensional modeling system "Compass-3D," the systems "Compass-Graphic," "Compass-Builder" and "Compass: 24" (for Android).
2014
Licensing C3D by a Korean developer
In July 2014, ASCON announced that the C3D core was licensed by the first foreign company - the South Korean developer Solar Tech. The company's flagship product, the Quick CADCAM SAM system, which has more than 3 thousand users in South Korea, will work on the basis of the C3D.
Solar Tech notes that in the new generation of Quick CADCAM, the company faces "the ambitious task of moving from 2D to 3D, for the implementation of which the Russian C3D core was chosen." According to the results of trial operation, it has shown itself to be a functional and fast component that fully suits the Solar Tech development team, the companies add.
At the time of the licensing announcement, the first prototype of the updated system was already ready and was actively demonstrated to customers. The commercial version of Quick CADCAM on the C3D core is expected to hit the market in 2014 and should be available in English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. After the start of sales of the QuickCADCAM version on the C3D kernel, Solar Tech will pay sales deductions to developers.
In addition to licensing the core, Solar Tech also acquired the status of a reseller of C3D in the markets of Korea, China and Japan. Korean specialists will sell, market and provide primary technical support to geometric core customers.
According to Oleg Zykov, CEO of C3D Labs, the Asian market is one of the key for the company, so it supported the Solar Tech initiative to represent the interests of C3D Labs in its region.
"Thenecessary marketing materials have already been prepared, joint activities have been agreed. The company's specialists have all the necessary competencies and excellent market knowledge for successful work with customers, "he adds..
In early July, a delegation of C3D Labs held a training session for Solar Tech developers and sales managers in Seoul, and also met with several potential clients - local CAD developers and university representatives.
2012
Open the kernel for third-party developers
As TAdviser explained in ASCON, for the company, providing its core to third-party developers means entering a new market. "Previously, we worked in the market of" ready-made "engineering software, and now we have entered the component market to create this software (the PLM component market)," company representatives explained to TAdviser.
According to Maxim Bogdanov, general director of ASCON, the decision to open access to technology has become a logical development of its own geometric core: "new players appear on the market who need components to develop their CAD systems. Standard 2D packages expect an inevitable transition to 3D, which requires fundamental changes to the system core or its replacement. "
According to him, the market for PLM components is changing, and there is "a place for a Russian company" on it. ASCON noted that there are several hundred CAD developers in the world and only two dozen kernel developers, and there are only 5-7 popular cores. The most famous cores on the global market are ACIS and Parasolid.
The company added that at the time of opening its own kernel for third-party developers, from Russian CAD suppliers, except for ASCON, no one supplies its own kernel in the form of a separate product. Thus, Top Systems (Top Systems) uses the Parasolid core in its T-FLEX product, ADEM is the foreign core of ACIS. NTC APM uses its core, but does not grant a license for it.
The main feature of the core of its own development in ASCON is called its monolithic. The C3D kernel combines the components necessary for the developer of application solutions: the C3D Modeler geometric modeling module, the C3D Solver parameterization module and the C3D Converter data translation module. For comparison, the Parasolid kernel is not monolithic, but uses a third-party parameterizer D-Cubed.
Potential users of the C3D kernel include developers of CAD/CAM/CAE systems and application solutions that require 3D model and 2D graphics processing. Among them are both vendor companies and divisions of large industrial companies that create software for internal needs. The first user of the C3D kernel even before the official release of the product on the market was LO TSNITI, the official distributor of the Esprit CAM system in Russia.
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