CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite: Insider Blog

COADE User Conference 2009 - Keynote ( #CUC2009 )

The 2009 COADE User Conference kicked off yesterday with a great keynote by COADE's President and CEO, Thomas J. Van Laan. But this keynote was one with a difference, not only did Tom show very few slides, with minimum animations (no, no that was not the big change :-), he enlisted the help of COADE's John Brinlee, Sales Development Manager, COADE Plant Design Solutions and Chris Schiller, Technical Sales, COADE Plant Engineering Solutions.

Together they took only 20 minutes to demonstrate the depth of integration between COADE's plant design and engineering solutions.

Products Featured

CADWorx Plant Professional
CADWorx P&ID Professional
CADWorx Equipment
CADWorx Design Review
COADE CAESAR II
COADE PV Elite
COADE PV Fabricator

Presentation Synopsis

Attendee quote:

   'I did not know it was possible for COADE, or any other providers' solutions, to do that'

So what did they see? Tom Van Laan's team gave themselves only 20 minutes to show how COADE's solutions have been designed to seamlessly work together. 

1. It started with John Brinlee firing up a model in CADWorx Plant Professional and adding some piping and selecting a line for stress analysis and sending it for stress analysis.
2. At that point Tom Van Laan, taking the part of the stress engineer, opened the native CAESAR II file that was created by CADWorx Plant Professional for a quick review and ran the analysis in CAESAR II.
3. The line failed (duh!) and Tom inserted an expansion loop and support using the new Loop Wizard in CAESAR II. But to make sure that it would fit into the design he pulled in the CADWorx piping model into the CAESAR II session.
4. Once done the model was sent back to John where he made some minor adjustments to suit the design and it was sent back to CAESAR II for final analysis.
5. When all was OK, John produced the fabrication isometrics using ISOGEN.
6. Over on the vessel side...Chris took the model of the exchanger in the CADworx model that was created using CADWorx Equipment and performed vessel analysis in PV Elite. What to you know? the exchanger failed (duh!! - you can't make this stuff up :-). When the analysis was run Chris accepted the recommendation of placing a stiffening ring on the exchanger's shell side.
7. The changes were saved and Chris fired up PV Fabricator to produce Vessel fabrication drawings with BOMs and details.
8. Back to CADWorx Plant where John refreshed the model which now reflected the exchanger changes.
9. To finish John fired up CADWorx Design Review for model walkthrough and review.

They had 35 seconds to spare...

We will have a video up of the presentation soon, so watch this space...

I will be attending some of the classes on Wednesday, so will post some class feedback then.

Follow the conference on Twitter using hashtag #CUC2009

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

COADE CADWorx 2010 released

COADE is pleased to announce the latest release of its globally popular AutoCAD-based plant design system. COADE CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2010 features a new pipe support modeler, added import/export capabilities for steel, HVAC and ducting. Also added is the same capability currently enjoyed by CADWorx Plant Professional, that allows CADWorx Steel Professonal to build a steel model directly from an external project database.

These enhancments follow on from the success of the previous CADWorx 2009 release, which incorporated specification driven valve top works and pipe insulation capabilities. The previous release also introduced tightly integrated connectivity by allowing the sharing of P&ID and 3D plant model information through a shared project database, thereby ensuring greater levels of synchronization between the plant 3D model and P&ID.

CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2010 is compatible with AutoCAD releases 2008, 2009 and 2010 running on 32 and 64 bit systems.

The COADE Plant Design Suite includes
CADWorx Plant Professional
CADWorx P&ID Professional
CADWorx Steel Professional Plus
CADWorx Equipment
CADWorx Design Review
CADWorx Datasheets
CADWorx fieldPipe

New CADWorx Plant Professional 2010
Pipe Support Modeler (click to enlarge)

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CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2010 Major Enhancement List

All products

• Support for AutoCAD 2010,AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2008 in both 32 bit and 64 bit

CADWorx Plant Professional

  Piping

• New Pipe Support Modeler, for insertion of user defined intelligent pipe supports.

  ISOGEN

• Support for I-Configure created ISOGEN projects.
• ISOGEN Version 9.3 update.

  Steel

• New shapes: Double Angle, Z shape, Channel and Angle with Lip.
• New export CIS/2 format file (32 bit only).
• New import CIS/2 format file (32 bit only).
• Ability to create model from external live database information.

  HVAC and Cable Tray

• Added ability to export/import HVAC and tray components to external database.

COADE CADWorx Equipment

• New insulation feature.
• New ANSI flanges look-up table for Body Flange component.

CADWorx P&ID Professional

• New tools to selectively match values of database columns from components selected.
• Select database values inherited from process line during component insertion.
• Enhanced line numbering capabilities.

For more details on the latest CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2010 click here

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

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Hydrocarbon Engineering features Bilfinger Berger Services

Hydrocarbon Engineering July, 2009

This article, written by Gary Carson of Equamark, Houston, Texas, and published in the July edition of Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine, highlights the success of Bilfinger Berger Services (BBS) Pty Ltd, Australia, in their use of the COADE CADWorx Plant Design Suite.

This story covers how BBS used CADWorx to successfully complete a contract for the third phase of Sydney Australia's Botany port expansion project, which is said to be one of the largest port projects undertaken in Australia in the last 30 years. Upon completion, the US$69 million expansion will almost double the storage capacity of the site and increase annual throughput from 2100 to 3950 million litres.

Read this story and learn how BBS reduced project costs by 60% using COADE CADWorx Plant Professional, a specification driven AutoCAD based 3D Plant design solution.

Download PDF of article here (3862.8K)

PRODUCT INDEX:

• CADWorx Plant Professional
• CADWorx Steel Professional
• CADWorx Equipment

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Petrochemical

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

Petrolinvest develops plant designs in three months using CADWorx and CAESAR II

Read this month's story from the Petrolinvest Company and learn how CADWorx and CAESAR II helped Petrolinvest develop quick and accurate plant designs in only three months.

Petrolinvest d.d. (Petrolinvest), a joint venture, created in 1969 between Energoinvest Sarajevo and Technip Paris, is an engineering company with lengthy experience in the design and construction of complex industrial process plants in the balkans, Mediterranean and Middle East. Petrolinvest is located in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

"We achieved faster designs and faster isometric generation with very few mistakes. With CADWorx Plant we were able to develop plant designs in only three months."

Read the full article in US Letter format and A4 format.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• CADWorx Plant Professional
• CADWorx Steel Professional
• CADWorx Equipment Professional
• CAESAR II
• PV Elite

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Petrochemical

FEATURED RESELLER:

KLG, India

Elvira Ballard
Marketing Assistant
COADE, Inc.

COADE User Conference Drivers of Success Winners

We are pleased to announce the first place prize winners of the COADE User Conference 2009 'Drivers of Success' Competition. These companies were judged to have exhibited impressive results in the use of COADE plant design and engineering tools; CADWorx; CAESAR II; and PV Elite. As their prize COADE has awarded these winning entrants with paid conference fees for one representative, plus paid hotel accommodation and travel to and from their home cities/countries.

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Fichtner Consulting Engineers (India) Pvt. Ltd.- Chennai, INDIA

CADWorx Plant Professional helps Fichtner Consulting solve project challenges

In the design of a 300 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP), Fichtner Consulting demonstrated how a very complex, yet compact, layout could be developed with the assistance of CADWorx Plant Professional, CADWorx Design Review and CAESAR II. The company also proved the value of an accurate 3D model in producing project deliverables and transferring design knowledge and data to the field.

"CADWorx Plant 3D model enabled us to forecast potential design or construction problems during modeling phase. CADWorx Design Review helped our clients and contractors not only visualize and understand the plant model but also suggest the design changes needed well in advance. This has removed a lot of ambiguity from our plant design efforts and helped us to avoid rework." - Mr. Viswanathan Shanmugam, Assistant Chief Engineer.

Amiantit Fiberglass Industries Ltd - Dammam City, Saudi Arabia

CAESAR II helps Amiantit produce accurate FRP analysis for large piping system.

Amiantit Fiberglass is the largest manufacturer and supplier of fiberglass (FRP) pipe and fittings in Saudi Arabia. The company also produces piping designs based on its components. The featured project at the Yanbu National Petrochemical Company petrochemical complex in Yanbu city was for a sea water cooling system that included 65,000 ft of piping, and fittings, ranging from 4in to 13ft in diameter.

"Among the many positives that we experienced with COADE’s CAESAR II, were the FRP underlying theory and details provided for FRP macro level analysis, and the superb graphics user interface (GUI)." - Mr. Farrukh Shaikh, Senior Design Engineer

Ward Tank & Heat Exchanger Corporation - Charlotte, NC, USA

PV Elite helps Ward Tank improve the company's design processes.

Ward Tank and Heat Exchanger Corporation manufacturers pressure vessels and heat exchangers for the chemical, refining, water treatment and pharmaceutical industries. The company was awarded a project valued at $4.4M that consisted of two large Alloy 400 reactors with complex internals. The reactors measured  71 ft. long and 16 ft in diameter.

"PV Elite helped us eliminate inaccuracies in calculation, we benefited from its ease of use and reliability, without the need to second-guess any results." - Jon Ward, President and CEO of Ward TANK.

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We congratulate our first place prize winners.

Our runners up will each receive personalized Apple iPod Nanos.

For more on the 2009 COADE User Conference click here

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

Special CodeCalc PV Elite Upgrade Offer

COADE CodeCalc to PV Elite Upgrade Offer
Development and support of CodeCalc will end on December 31st, 2009

But there is good news, we want to make it easy for every existing COADE CodeCalc user to upgrade to COADE PV Elite, to deliver complete pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis.

So what's needed, as of Dec 31st, 2009, to be upgraded to PV Elite?

Any one of the following:

• Be current on your CodeCalc maintenance
• Renew your CodeCalc maintenance

PV Elite has all CodeCalc capabilities. So you will not lose any functionality.
How do the products stack up?  View comparison chart here

Contact us before December 31st, 2009 to find out how you can become more effective in your pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis.

For more details contact us at +1 281-890-4566 or sales@coade.com or fill in this simple form

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.