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Software product for joint architectural and construction design, development of load-bearing structures, internal engineering networks and technological parts of buildings and structures


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Today, when choosing a design system, many design organizations, although phone number in vietnam they choose solutions offered by Russian vendors, still do not fully understand the positioning of the selected product and the difficulties that developers face when creating and maintaining it. Even if we are talking about popular domestic BIM systems.

That is why Anton Ilyichev, product manager at CSD, conducted an interview with Deputy CEO of Renga Software Maxim Nechiporenko, during which he learned from him how the idea of ​​creating the product came about, his vision of the foreign market for similar solutions, the meaning behind the name of the BIM system, and asked many more interesting questions about the structure of the company and ways of promoting the product.

Tell us a few words about yourself and the Renga Software company.

I have been working at Renga Software since 2016, since the formation of a legal entity created by ASCON jointly with 1C. My experience in ASCON structures already totals almost 22 years. I started with implementation, training and sales in the regional office, gradually moved to work in development management and development of the construction direction. Then I moved to St. Petersburg and first worked on the development of the KOMPAS-3D application line, then worked on the LOMAN:PGS system, the successor of which was Pilot-ICE Enterprise. Somewhere in 2009, I took part in a study on the creation of a new generation automated design system, which was launched within the development departments of ASCON Group. We can say that it was then that the beginnings of the product now known as Renga appeared. Then in 2011, a project to create a new system was launched, and Ilya Maz (now he is the technical director at Renga) headed the development. In 2015, the first release of the product was released - then only the architectural part of Renga Architecture. And in 2016, 1C joined the project and the joint venture Renga Software was created.

So, the Renga product was created completely from scratch?

Yes, it is a completely independent development. It is clear that modern development always consists of components that you use to simplify your tasks. But the main component for CAD is the so-called geometric or three-dimensional kernel, it was developed in the C3D-Labs division at ASCON. Of course, we tried to understand then whether we should use a foreign component: ACIS, Parasolid, etc., since we thought that foreign developments were better than ours. We took all commercially licensed kernels for research with an eye to using them in our new-generation CAD system and eventually realized that our kernel was no worse, and began to use it.

Previously, it existed only within KOMPAS-3D. Then we separated it into an independent component for internal development within the framework of a new project, and then it began to be licensed to external developers.

Read about how a digital information model of a gas pipeline was created in the Renga BIM/TIM system.

Renga is well-known, but everyone understands something different under it. Tell us more about your product positioning: what is it, what is it for, and who is it for?

Every time I am amazed at how information is spread and distorted: someone saw something in an old review and spreads their opinion further.

Renga is a comprehensive BIM system or a tool for the comprehensive creation of a digital information model of a building. We focus on tools that allow you to work with architectural solutions, design solutions and engineering systems within a building. Yes, users can use tools to solve problems with external networks, but special functionality was not created for this.

We aim to ensure that the model is created comprehensively within the framework of established regulatory documents and BIM standards.

Renga is also designed from the start to be available for overseas markets: it supports international standards such as ISO, and the interface and help manual were localized into English right away.

Can you give examples of Renga being used abroad?

We have users in Greece, Belgium, Slovakia, Vietnam, non-commercial users in Brazil: let's see how this develops. Partners from India are also interested, but we have not received commercial users there yet. We would like to cooperate with European partners, but for obvious reasons this is currently impossible.

In general, we received confirmation that our approaches, our interfaces, our functionality are well received not only in Russia.