{"id":17,"date":"2008-08-06T03:50:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallguru.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-08-06T03:50:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:20:27","slug":"glad-am-back-to-cad-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/2008\/08\/glad-am-back-to-cad-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Glad am back to CAD World.. Crossroads of my Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: IN-Motion, a Motion and Dynamic Simulation Addin for Autodesk Inventor has been launched by us.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Crossroads\"\" Its been quite some time since I blogged. I was pretty much occupied with the Confusion I had in my mind, as I had hit a Cross-Roads of my career. After quitting my job at HeroHonda R&D, I teamed up with my mentor, Aik-Siong Koh<\/a> in US and we started off with AR-CAD<\/a> in April 2007. Since he is an expert at CAD (Motion Simulation) and he had used Smalltalk<\/a> to develop freeCAD<\/a>, I also had to learn Smalltalk to help him in further development. Our initial plan was to develop Motion Add-ons\/Add-ins or Plug-ins for various CAD software such as Autodesk Inventor<\/a>, SolidWorks<\/a>, Rhino CAD<\/a> and others. Somehow in the due course, we thought of exploring Web 2.0 using Seaside<\/a>, which is a web framework built on Smalltalk. The idea was that I could learn Smalltalk and also explore Web 2.0 as we had plans for integration of Web and CAD.<\/p>\n

We started developing Caartz<\/a> using Seaside. It took us a long time to get it out. During this period, I learnt Smalltalk, Seaside, OOP, Basic Linux Setup and Usage, various Web related configurations such as Apache, load-balancing etc. When Caartz was launched, it was just a lot of things we had learnt and we had no plans to make money out of it. Since I had gathered experience in Web domain, I completely forgot that I had to return to CAD to make Motion Add-ons.<\/p>\n

Then I helped a friend to develop a couple of websites<\/a> and took a Web Developer Job in a Bangalore based Services Startup. Though the work there involved me in whole life cycle of a project and was very challenging, I thought I was missing something there. Being a Mechanical Engineer from a reputed Engineering College<\/a> with a lot of interest in CAD, I had a feeling that I was not doing what I was supposed to do. After a couple of months in that Web Startup, I quit it and again I have teamed up with my mentor in US to develop CAD Add-ons.<\/p>\n

This time, we are very serious about our path we are going to follow to become a very known name in Motion Simulation Domain. We have completely revamped AR-CAD website<\/a> as the first step. My mentor already has Motion Simulation code in Smalltalk. I am learning VBA and .NET C# to develop an Add-in which talks to both Autodesk Inventor COM API<\/a> and our Smalltalk code. As of today, I am able to make simple VBA Add-ons for Inventor and hopefully within next 6 months, we would be ready to sell our Motion Add-ons for Inventor. Once it is done, we would then develop Motion Add-ons for other CAD software.<\/p>\n

Jist of my post is that I had come across a Crossroads a year ago and chose a road which took me to Web 2.0 domain. Somewhere down the line, I realized that I wasn’t enjoying it and came back to the crossroads and now I have chosen the road which takes me into CAD world and I am glad that I am finding it interesting and challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: IN-Motion, a Motion and Dynamic Simulation Addin for Autodesk Inventor has been launched by us. Its been quite some time since I blogged. I was pretty much occupied with the Confusion I had in my mind, as I had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[10,11,13,33,20,24],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad","category-entrepreneurship","category-personal","tag-3d-cad","tag-add-ons","tag-ar-cad","tag-cad","tag-cad-customization","tag-motion-simulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar-cad.com\/smallguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}