C3D Labs

C3D Labs belongs to the Russian CAD developer ASCON. The company is engaged in the development and sales of the geometric core of the C3D developed by ASCON.

From development in 1995 until 2012, ASCON used the C3D core exclusively for its own needs, as a component of its flagship product Compass-3D. C3D Labs was created in 2012, when ASCON decided to open the C3D kernel for licensing by third-party developers.

The C3D core can be used as 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.

Performance indicators

2020: Revenue growth of 41%

C3D Labs, a subsidiary of ASCON and a resident of Skolkovo, a developer of a geometric 3D core, grew by 41% in 2020 by revenue. For the fourth year in a row, the company earned more than half of its income in foreign markets. This was reported on January 29, 2021 by C3D Labs.

C3D Labs supplies the global market with specialized engineering software development tools: geometric kernel, geometric constraint solver, 3D graphics engine, data converters, polygon model to CAD model conversion module. Together they make up C3D Toolkit - the most complete and holistic solution for creating 3D applications, where construction accuracy and high performance are important.

In the year of the worldwide lockdown, C3D Labs continued to grow due to the high demand for development tools from Russian IT companies. Following the trend of import independence, industrial corporations are developing internal products, and private developers are switching to domestic software components.

Cooperation with TESIS has strengthened the role of C3D Labs in the Dlavit consortium, which unites the companies ASCON, NTC APM, TESIS, Eremex and ADEM. The consortium considers the geometric core of the C3D as a key component for building an import-independent end-to-end PLM complex and working with unified geometric data. Four consortium companies are already using C3D tools.

The geography of work has been preserved on the international market - these are 12 countries of the world, including USA Great Britain Sweden Italy,,,,,,. Spain Turkey Japan Korea Revenues from foreign customers accounted for 59% of revenue (excluding royalties from sales of a system in KOMPAS-3D which the core is C3D historically present). Key users include a global supplier for ON design, a player in the electronic engineers Altium market for hand-held and portable 3D- Artec 3D,scanners BIM a developer from. CYPE Spain

During the year, the development team created and improved the tools for geometric modeling, exchange and data visualization required in class M systems CAD,,,. CAE EDA BIM Added support Linux for -like. operating system Debian Most of the new products appeared at the request of customers.

Together with business indicators, the C3D Labs team is growing: mathematicians and programmers have joined it in the development groups of the kernel, solver, converters and visualization.

History

2019:53% revenue growth

On March 10, 2020, C3D Labs, a subsidiary of ASCON and a developer of a geometric 3D kernel, increased revenue by 53% in 2019. As in the previous two years, more than half of the revenue was generated by international contracts with technology companies and engineering software manufacturers.

We deliver to the global market specialized tools C3D Toolkit for engineering software development: geometric core, geometric constraint solver, 3D visualization engine, data converters, polygon model to CAD model conversion module. Our products are highly knowledge intensive, combining original mathematical algorithms and current development technologies.

Software and industrial corporations from 12 countries work with C3D Toolkit tools, including the USA, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Japan. Revenues from foreign customers accounted for 55% of revenue (excluding royalties from sales of the KOMPAS-3D system, in which C3D components are historically present).

The Consortium of Engineering Software Developers "RadioITie," uniting the companies ASCON,, NTC "APM", and ADEM, TESIS EREMEX considers the geometric core of the C3D as a key technological component for building an end-to-end PLM solution and working with unified geometric ones. In data turn, the core is developing taking into account the requirements set by the consortium to solve the problems of high-tech industries, in industries particular, aircraft and shipbuilding.

Additional surface modeling operations, creating and analyzing splines and high-smoothness surfaces, expanding double curvature surfaces onto a plane, bending and stamping sheet solids, and edge and face round views have already been implemented or will appear in C3D Toolkit.

The growth of Labs C3D is expressed not only in the dynamics of business indicators - the development team is also growing. In 2019, mathematicians and programmers joined the company in R&D centers in Kolomna and Nizhny Novgorod.

2018: Revenue growth of 54%; overseas revenue growth by 40%

C3D Labs, a subsidiary of ASCON, which produces engineering software development tools, doubled its growth rate in 2018, increasing revenue by 54%, and expanded its presence in the European and American markets. This was reported to TAdviser on March 11, 2019 at C3D Labs.

According to the company, global and Russian CAD developers, technology startups, industrial corporations from 9 countries of the world work with the Russian geometric core of the C3D. In 2018, the company has new customers in Russia, the USA, Japan, Italy, Turkey, Denmark.

In total, overseas revenues for C3D Labs grew by 40% over the year, and in general, international contracts brought the company 60% of revenue (excluding royalties from sales of a system in KOMPAS-3D which C3D components are historically present). At the same time, the main regional market for Russian the geometric core for the first time became. USA

2017

30% increase in revenue from license sales

C3D Labs, a subsidiary of ASCON and developer of the Russian commercial geometric core, published its results for 2017 on April 3, 2018. So, at the end of the year, revenue sales of C3D Toolkit development tool licenses increased by 30%.

In the revenue of C3D Labs, which came from "external" customers, revenues in foreign markets for the first time exceeded the 50% threshold and reached 65%. Most of it came from companies from the United States, and sales in India, China and South Korea also reached a noticeable share.

In total, in 2017, C3D Labs had nine new customers in Russia, the USA, India, China and Turkey. In total, 30 companies, industrial enterprises and educational institutions are users of C3D tools, as of April 2018. At the same time, the parent company ASCON is the key customer for C3D Labs.

In Russia ALL-RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS , the State Corporation Rosatom"" joined the C3D user community in 2017, which uses the core in the Prism calculation system, the developer of the first domestic end-to-end, CAD electronic engineers Delta Design "Eremex" as well as the Skolkovsky Institute of Science and Technology.

Entering the US Market, First Customers

In 2017, the geometric core of the C3D was licensed by the American company EE Boost. Oleg Zykov, director of C3D Labs, told TAdviser about this in April. The company became the first public client of C3D Labs in the United States.

EE Boost is a startup for the development of high-performance software for simulating the behavior of various waves, including acoustic, light, electromagnetic. He acquired the C3D Toolkit tool from C3D Labs, a set of basic components for building and managing a geometric model, which also includes a geometric kernel. C3D Toolkit will be used in the development of its own EE Boost software.

When simulating, we deal with large, complex geometric environments. The geometric core of the C3D fully meets our requirements. It shows the results that we expect and good performance, - says the CEO of EE Boost (Tiang Xiao Tian Xiao).

Oleg Zykov told TAdviser that 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. Both clients chose the geometric kernel for the first time, and did not replace the existing one with it, TAdviser was specified in C3D Labs.

Modeling Using the C3D Kernel

The promotion of the C3D kernel in the American market is carried out by the local company IntrinSIM, a supplier of technological components for creating engineering software. From the moment of concluding a partnership agreement with her to the first sales, about a year and a half passed. C3D Labs says this is the expected deadline.

The sales cycle of such complex software as a geometric core is very long. According to our practice, at least 1.5 years pass from first interest to purchase, - Oleg Zykov noted in a conversation with TAdviser. - There are examples of licensing 3-5 years after the first contact. When choosing components to develop their own software, vendors conduct thorough testing and analysis. Having selected such a component once, it is very difficult then to replace it.

The main difficulties of sales in the United States Oleg Zykov called TAdviser the small fame of the company and the presence of strong competitors in this market, working for a very long time. The key competing products in the American market for C3D Labs are Siemens PLM Software's Parasolid core and Spatial's (Dassault Systemes) ACIS core.

According to the CEO of C3D Labs, the company does not plan to attract more partners to work in the US market yet. C3D Labs will continue to work independently and through IntrinSIM. This is quite enough in such a narrow market as components for CAD, Oleg Zykov noted in a conversation with TAdviser.

2015: Partnership with American intrinSIM

In 2015, C3D Labs agreed to partner with the American company intrinSIM, one of the leading suppliers of technology components for creating engineering software. The company will promote the Russian core of C3D in key international markets, including the United States.

C3D Land CEO Oleg Zykov said then that cooperation with intrinSIM will help the company reach CAD developers looking for components for quickly creating 3D applications, reducing the cost of development, improving the quality and performance of their software.

He hoped that "the fame and reputation of intrinSIM in the technology components market" would allow C3D Labs to strengthen its position.

Prior to the intrinSIM partnership, C3D Labs worked with foreign customers mainly directly, without involving large international suppliers.

Licenses for the use of the Russian core C3D by that time acquired CAD developers from Sweden and South Korea. Reseller agreements were concluded with the Russian company Ledas and Korean Solar Tech (only in South Korea, China and Japan).

2014: First overseas sale, first reseller abroad

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.

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.

For more details, see the article:

• ASCON: Geometric core C3D

2013: C3D Labs becomes Skolkovo resident

In October 2013, C3D Labs became a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center with a project to commercialize the C3D geometric modeling core.

Skolkovo then noted that they had already formed a whole group of companies in the field of CAD, and the geometric core project C3D perfectly complements it, since working with geometric models is the basis of any three-dimensional application. According to Skolkovo representatives, the C3D core "has every chance of success in the world market."

Clients

Of the Russian organizations, the C3D core was licensed by the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov (RFNC-VNIIEF) and the Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E.I. Zababakhin (RFNC-VNIITF) to create their own engineering design software. Other Russian companies and scientific teams are also users of the core, including Basis-Center, LO TSNITI, Mordovian State University.

Abroad, C3D Labs has customers in South Korea, China, Sweden, and the USA.

For more information about some client stories, see the article ASCON: Geometric C3D Kernel.