Whether in the chip industry, automobile industry or high-end parts manufacturing industry, most people tend to focus on specific production equipment, such as high-precision lithography machines or machine tools.

However, in the upstream of all these physical equipment, in the design and testing links, a professional and high-performance industrial software can often directly determine the R & D speed and final quality of products. Lei Yi, founder of Beijing Digital Dafang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "digital Dafang" or "CAXA"), has a deep understanding of the importance of industrial software.

During the ten years from 1979 to 1989, Lei Yi received bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees in aerospace manufacturing from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, began to stay in the university to teach, prepared to establish Beihang School of mechanical engineering and automation, and served as the first president. His main research direction is the independent research and development of CAD / CAM industrial software. He is very keen to explore the mechanism of industry, University and research, so that it can be better applied to the field of aerospace.

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China's industrial software started relatively late, and for a long time, the software R & D was basically concentrated in Colleges and universities, and the technology was not well marketized, which caused the gap between China's industrial software and foreign brands to a certain extent.

Lei Yi told chuangyebang: "in the 1970s and 1980s, many products in the field of aviation and many complex parts on automobiles, industrial software all over the world had just started and could not achieve good design or simulation. At that time, compared with the technology of foreign software, China was not poor in many aspects. But today, the market scale occupied by foreign brand software is indeed relatively large. "

For this reason, Lei Yi founded digital Dafang in 2003 and began to launch systematic industrial software products to the market. Lei Yi's reason for leaving the teaching environment and establishing a company is: focus. "Only by focusing can we really do a good job in software products," he said

Moving from scientific research projects to market-oriented products can indeed make people break away from the shackles of the original system and devote themselves to product R & D and promotion. At the same time, the market-oriented environment is also testing the ability of entrepreneurs. Unlike a scientific research project, a market-based product must be able to satisfy the actual needs of customers, but also has enough advanced nature. At the same time, it is also facing competition from the same type of products at all times. In such an environment, it is very important to choose a good market entry point, which will affect whether the enterprise can survive well in the initial stage of establishment.

Digital Dafang first started with 2D / 3D CAD software. As one of the most basic CAD software, after decades of development, CAD software has expanded from the earliest aviation field to machinery, architecture, environment, civil engineering and other fields, and is still innovating.

Some data show that the global CAD software market reached 31.2 billion yuan in 2020, and the early 21st century of digital generous layout CAD software is also a period for China to vigorously develop domestic two-dimensional / three-dimensional CAD. The market demand and policy orientation are trying to promote the growth of domestic CAD software.

Through years of independent research and development and patent layout, digital Dafang has formed a CAD / CAM / CAE / CAPP Integrated series of products, and is still constantly updating the version. It is committed to providing more complete design, process, simulation and manufacturing data for enterprise R & D products. Taking its 2021 3D CAD software as an example, the product adds the function of part template, rapid parts import and library building, optimizes the file packaging tool and supports the associated modification of file name.