How career will be in Design Automation . Untold Opportunities in CAD and CAE domain. The future of design engineering

1. Career in Design Automation
Untold opportunities in CAD | CAE

2. You should
know about
Career in
Design
Automation
Need JOB
immediately
I want to work on
R&D
CORE Engineer
with IT Salary
Not a Technical guy,
but having problem
solving skills
Like to work on any
domain or industry
Also for the
Last Rankers

3. Parthiban
Kannan
9 Years
Lead Engineer
Schneider Electric
www.parthibankannan.com
CAD AUTOMATION CAE AUTOMATION MACHINE LEARNING &
DATA VISUALIZATION
EXTENDED REALITY
(AUGMENTED &
MIXED REALITY)
SOFTWARE, WEB &
MOBILE
DEVELOPMENT
MACHINE DESIGN -
CNC VERTICAL
MACHINING CENTERS
FINITE ELEMENT
ANALYSIS

4. 1. Design Process
2. Why Automation in Design?
3. How Automation Works?
4. Knowledge Requirements
5. Interview Experience – Job Seeker
6. Interview Experience – Recruiter
7. Competition in the JOB Market
8. Programming & Motivation
9. Hiring Industries

5. Design Process

6. Design Package
CAD | CAE | BIM
Marketing
Technical feasibility
Develop a new
design
Order Engineering
Modify Existing
Design
R&D New Product Development Product Development Engineering
80
%

7. DESIGN TOOLS

9. Why Automation?

10. Gear with Various
Size?
2D Drawing Change
3D Model Change
FEA Structural Stability Check
Assume the Internal Diameter
Can vary from 10 to 1000mm?
Do I need to model every time the
same design?

11. What’s going to happen in 10 minutes of
design? Why Automation for that?
Saved 1000 Hours / Year
6 month of 1 Design Engineer Job – can complete in 20 minutes
Electrical Busbar

12. How can you automate
new product design?
Machine Learning is the Automation
solution.
It can design and suggest you
better& optimized one in terms of
structure

13. How it Works?

14. Application Programming Interface
API
How to Control the
CAD package?
Design Tool Program

15. Design Tool API Links
S. No Design Tool API
01 Creo https://support.ptc.com/support/apiwizard.htm
02 Solid works https://help.solidworks.com/2020/English/api/sldworksapiprogguide/Welcome.htm
03 Autodesk Revit https://www.autodesk.com/developer-network/platform-technologies/revit
04 Autodesk
Inventor
https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Introduction-Inventor-API-Automation-
Where-Should-You-Start-2016
05 AutoCAD https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Introduction-AutoCAD-Softwares-NET-API-
Using-C-NET-2018
06 Blender https://docs.blender.org/api/current/index.html
07 Ansys https://storage.ansys.com/act/v191/ACTReferenceHTML/index.html
08 CATIA http://catiadoc.free.fr/online/interfaces/main.htm
Search in Google → Design Software + “ API document”

16. My 1st Interview
Experience
“ I am a JOB seeker”

17. Interview Experience
Design Engineer Vs CAD Automation Engineer
DesignEngineers
Any CAD Tools
Core Design
Casting
Machining
Fabrication
Assembly
Mechanism
Machine Elements
Gears
Belts
Springs
Ball screw
Etc.
Sub Domains
Hydraulics
Pneumatics
Electrical
CADAutomationEngineers
Any One CAD | CAE | BIM
| Graphics Tools
Any related Programming
C++ | C# | Python | etc.
Very Less Knowledge Requirement comparatively
design engineers

18. My 1st Interview
Experience
“ I am a Recruiter”

19. Common Fact
CORE professionals not
willing to learn IT Skills
IT professionals not
willing to learn CORE
Skills
300+ Core Profiles 100+ IT Profile

20. Competition

21. You’re a useful outlier to
recruiters
- Immediate JOB
- High Salary Growth
- Powerful position

22. Programming
Motivation

23. PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES

24. How long it
took to
effectively
work on it?
JAVA
30 DAYS
C#
7 DAYS
VB.NET
{NULL}
C++
30 DAYS
PYTHON
30 MIN

25. Industries Hiring
Automobile Aerospace Construction
Energy Electronics Manufacturing
Healthcare
Service
Industries

26. What else?
LITTLE PRACTICE
NEEDED
LEARNING
DEPENDENCY
WORKING
DEPENDENCY
RESEARCH MIND

27. What Next?
• Choose Design Package
• Choose the relevant programming language
• Practice Makes Perfect