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Autodesk Building digital dreams

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DQI Bureau
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As India moves on the fast track to becoming a major international business

destination, there is considerable activity in the infrastructure development

space. Capitalising on this opportunity is digital design and content companies

like Autodesk: planning to increase headcount in India from 80 to 200, over the

next three years.

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Autodesk has recognised the business potential in cities such as Ahmedabad,

Kolkata, Chandigarh, Pune and Coimbatore and is working on expanding its

reseller network into these geographies.

"It is important to remember that building and construction is a complex

business. Customers are demanding project completions in shorter time frames and

the builders are committing to time frames of nine months or less, from concept

to completion. Solution sets that deliver visualisation and parametric modeling

help reduce time and errors while enabling all participating groups to talk to

each other in real time and have access to the most up to date drawings and

data. These benefits lead to significant cost savings to both the customers and

the various groups engaged in the entire construction process," says Andre

Pravaz, vice-president with Autodesk, South Asia Pasific.

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Some of the products the company has developed for the building industry

are:

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Autodesk AutoCAD Revit Series: Autodesk® Revit® 7 and AutoCAD® 2005

give customers a powerful parametric building modeler with the widely used 2D

software program. It gives architecture and interior design firms a competitive

business advantage while leveraging their existing investment in AutoCAD,

AutoCAD-based workflows and personnel trained in the use of AutoCAD software.

Autodesk Revit: Building industry professionals don't have to deal

with tedious documentation coordination because the software does it.

Autodesk Architectural Desktop: Designed specifically for architects and

built on AutoCAD® software, Autodesk® Architectural Desktop offers efficiency

and immediate productivity, flexibility in implementation and use and versatile

file-based collaboration.

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AutoCAD: It is the design and drafting software that

allows one to create a single drawing efficiently and deliver an entire set of

coordinated drawings.

High in India



Autodesk has a few success stories in India and a prominent one would be the use
of its solutions in the National Highway Development Project. The extended team

at NHAI needed a solution that would not only address their needs but be easy to

deploy and quick to master by both their team and their associates.

"The NHAI, its consultants and contractors have been

using Autodesk solutions since 1997. They include AutoCAD, Autodesk Map and

Autodesk MapGuide," informs Pravaz. Its solutions were also used for live

data transmission during two key phases on the NHDP: the Delhi to Kotputli

stretch on National Highway 8 connecting Delhi and Jaipur and a part of National

Highway 2, near Kanpur, connecting Delhi and Kolkata.

Goutam Das

in Bangalore

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