CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite: Insider Blog

Webinar, March 19th, 12:00pm CST: Manipulating laser scans using CADWorx fieldPipe and Leica CloudWorx

with John Brinlee, COADE Inc and Joseph Lafranca, Leica Geosystems.

CADWorx FieldPipe to CAESAR II Interface Video

This is the second installment of our most popular webinar to date. Using CADWorx fieldPipe and Leica CloudWorx for AutoCAD, John Brinlee will demonstrate how easy it is to build an intelligent model from laser scan data. Leica CloudWorx provides the tools to manipulate the point cloud data set inside AutoCAD while CADWorx fieldPipe provides the tools to turn the point cloud into intelligent models. Join us as John and Joe demonstrate the power of these two tools and how they work together to improve your design efficiencies.

Speaker bios:
John Brinlee is the Sales Manager- Plant Design Solutions for COADE, Inc. A piping and structural designer using third-party applications since AutoCAD Release 10, his real-world experience in plant design is apparent during the hundreds of technical product presentations and training sessions he's performed around the world over the past 18 years. John has collaborated on numerous training manuals over the years, including the Pro-Series, AutoPLANT, and CADWorx. He was also the principal author of the Plant Design White Paper, a comparison of CADWorx 2002 and AutoPLANT 2.01, published in 2002.

Mr. Joseph J. Lafranca III is the Central US Plant Sales Executive, HDS for Leica Geosystems, Inc. Leica Geosystems develops manufactures and markets advanced hardware and software solutions for digitally measuring and modeling large, complex sites and structures with high accuracy, detail and speed. Previously, Mr. Lafranca was the Gulf Coast Regional Sales Manager for Rebis Industrial Workgroup Software. During his eleven-year tenure he was responsible for the sales and marketing of a facilities design, analysis, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance software application for the piping, process, power and chemical manufacturing industries. As the Central US Plant Sales Executive, HDS, Joe has over twenty years of plant design experience. He has demonstrated successes in developing "C"- level visions and formulating strategies as well as detailed implementation plans. He is an experienced communicator with audiences including customers, channel partners, suppliers, the investment community and employees. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Mr. Lafranca and his family reside in League City, Texas. Mr. Lafranca is available as a subject-matter expert on High Definition Laser Scanning in Construction and Process & Power industries.

 

COADE CADWorx Plant Design Suite now localized for Japanese market

 
For all of those in Japan we have some great news, COADE CADWorx Plant Design Suite is now localized for the Japanese market! This is a continuation of COADE's commitment to the Japanese market which started half a year ago with the opening of COADE's first subsidiary, COADE Japan.

The development of the Japanese version was spearheaded by COADE Japan, which was established in 2008 to expand the company’s design and engineering solutions and support the growing base of users in the region.

“We are pleased with the outstanding effort and fast turnaround COADE Japan demonstrated on this localization project, especially given that the subsidiary was established just six months ago,” explained Thomas J. Van Laan, PE, COADE president and CEO.  “We are confident our growing base of Japanese users will benefit tremendously from the efficiencies this localized solution provides,” added Van Laan, “and the timing is excellent, as CADWorx has proven to be the right plant design product for these challenging economic times, when people are looking for powerful cost effective solutions that are easy to implement and that require minimal overhead or maintenance.”

This latest move reinforces COADE's commitment to provide Japanese users with the exacting standards that COADE’s global user base has come to expect.

Vornel Walker
Marketing Manager
COADE Inc.

Hydrocarbon Engineering features PV Elite

 
Hydrocarbon Engineering January 2009

COADE announces the publication of an article on Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. (Godrej) of India that discusses the firm’s use of COADE PV Elite for vessel analysis and design on the largest single piece of equipment ever undertaken by the company, weighing in at 800 metric tons. The magazine article, titled “A Study in Contrasts,” appears in the Hydrocarbon Engineering January, 2009 issue and discusses a polypropylene reactor project designed, fabricated and shipped out of the Mumbai port as a single unit to be installed at the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation’s Ibn Zahr PP-III Project in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. 

Using PVElite, Godrej completed the massive project in record time.  Calculations were carried out by PV Elite software, which also provided the code and mechanical design calculations and inputs for fabrication drawings.  The article notes that because of PV Elite’s accuracy and speed of use, Godrej PED was able to rely on it to prepare accurate information for bids for almost any region of the globe.  
The article can be found here Hydrocarbon-Eng-Godrej-PV-Elite-200901.pdf (1133.6K)

The Hydrocarbon Magazine website is at www.hydrocarbonengineering.com

PRODUCT INDEX:

• PV Elite  

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Petrochemical  

FEATURED RESELLER:

• KLG Systel, India

Vornel Walker
Marketing Manager
COADE Inc.

Dipinder Sidhu - March 26, 1979 to February 12, 2009

   
Dipinder Sidhu
March 26, 1979 to February 12, 2009

It is with regret that I write to tell you of the loss of one of our own. Dipinder Sidhu died on February 12th, 2009 as one of the passengers of Continental flight 3407 from Newark, NJ that went down in Buffalo, NY. A memorial service was held for him last Saturday February 28, 2009.

When Dipinder joined COADE in January 2003, as an engineer and product developer for the CADWorx suite of products, he quickly and enthusiastically became one of the team. He initially provided product support by interfacing with end users and helping them become more productive. He further showed his skills by enhancing COADE's CADWorx Equipment package and later concentrating mostly on CADWorx Steel, CADWorx Plant's HVAC and ISOGEN. If you have ever used CADWorx Steel's cage ladder routine or ISOGEN CEDIT you would be familiar with the high quality of his work.

Dipinder was a bright young man that, before he joined COADE, earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of Houston. In his earlier years he also had the remarkable achievement of being recognized as the “Outstanding Mathematics Student” by North Harris Community college. To add another feather to his cap, he was also awarded the Hearst Academic Scholarship by the University of Houston for his extraordinary achievement in the field of Mathematics.  

While at COADE Dipinder decided to make a career change and in August 2008 he left COADE to attend the Drucker School of Management in Claremont, California for dual credit graduate program in Financial Engineering and a MBA. He was very popular for his friendly and helpful nature towards students of different nationalities.

Dipinder was born in Chandigarh, India but spent his childhood growing up in the West African nation of Liberia enjoying the beach, fishing, playing soccer, and watching old Disney cartoons. With his family, he loved spending time playing video games with his sister (who he never let win!), teasing his grandfather, and sneaking behind his parents' backs to stock up on supplies of soda and chocolate.

In his teen years, Dipinder enjoyed collecting comic books, whiling away hours on the internet and relentlessly teasing his youngest sister, whom he nonetheless adored. He loved caring for animals, talked endlessly about computers, and spent hours perfecting his culinary skills.

Dipinder will be remembered for the intelligent, smart, witty and ambitious young man he had become. He loved spending time with family, going to the gym, cooking exotic foods, sketching, drawing, and working on computer programs. He was a very loving son, genuinely caring brother, a loyal and great friend and a valued colleague.

He will be missed.

Thomas J. Van Laan
President/CEO
COADE Inc.

COADE PV Fabricator - Vessel and Exchanger Fabrication Deliverables Automation

    

In April COADE is to release COADE PV Fabricator^TM - a new product for the automated production of design and fabrication deliverables for pressure vessels and heat exchangers. The package leverages the bidirectional links that currently exists between COADE PV Elite - for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis and COADE CADWorx Equipment- for parametric equipment modeling.

Examples of the deliverables that will automatically be generated by PV Fabricator include 2D layout and detail drawings, BOM tables, nozzle schedules, weld details, title block, nameplate and notes plus any other annotation that may be needed.

PV Fabricator comes with powerful parametric modeling capabilities that allow for speedy and accurate development of fully editable 3D models of pressure vessels and heat exchangers. From here designers can develop complete fabrication deliverables of their pressure vessels and exchangers by using the in-built tools that have been designed to automate the detail production process. These tools allow fabrication deliverables to be produced much quicker and more accurately than conventional methods of drawing.

But it is when PV Fabricator is linked to PV Elite that the benefits of engineering and design integration really begin to emerge and additional saving are realized as PV Fabricator also has the ability to build an intelligent 3D model from PV Elite output. This removes wasted time and the introduction of mistakes that any duplication of work may be cause.

The benefit of bidirectional links between PV Fabricator and PV Elite links do not stop with the initial creation of these models. Changes from PV Elite or those made to the model are reflected in the fabrication deliverables, but unlike many packages any editing such as hidden line removal, dimensioning etc are retained and adjusted for each effected detail.

Bidirectional links also allow PV Elite analysis data or calculated information to be mapped to any user defined attributed block. When these blocks are placed in the drawing the program will then automatically plug in these values into to the block, ensuring that the most up-to-date and accurate information is always reflected in the drawings.

PV Fabricator will help vessel and exchanger manufactures to produce fabrication drawings quicker and more accurately than they have in the past and allow for improved exchange of information between engineering and design groups.

You can access the detailed PV Fabricator fact sheet in PDF format here.

To find out more please contact COADE's PV Elite / PV Fabricator sales team at +1 281-890-4566 or at sales@coade.com

Vornel Walker
Marketing Manager
COADE Inc.

 

Pump Engineer News Speaks to Thomas J. Van Laan, COADE's President/CEO

Pump Engineer News January/February 2009  'In The Spotlight' article features an interview with Thomas J. Van Laan, President and CEO of COADE Inc. In the article Van Laan outlines COADE's recipe for success and the importance of providing world class support for companies looking for sustained growth and continued customer loyalty.

Pump Engineer News January/February 2009 'In the Spotlight' article can be accessed here.

Vornel Walker
Marketing Manager
COADE Inc.