CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite: Insider Blog

Intergraph CAESAR II webinar: Dynamic Piping Analysis in CAESAR II, Part 2: Harmonics

with Dave Diehl, VP Customer Experience, Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions (ICAS)

Date: January 30, 2012
Time: 10:00AM CT (click here for your local time)
Duration: 30 min.
Cost: free eSeminar

 

Cyclic loads of even small magnitude can damage piping systems and most shaking pipe is a cause for concern.  CAESAR II can be used to replicate piping response to these harmonic loads.  Once the computer model matches the physical system, the model can be confidently adjusted to de-tune the response.  The focus here is this forcing-frequency-to-natural-frequency ratio and not on evaluating a calculated fatigue stress amplitude.  This webinar will develop the CAESAR II input required for harmonic analysis and the engineering concepts involved.

Speakers bio: 

David Diehl graduated with a BSME from Lehigh University, Pensylvania, USA in 1976. Upon graduation he took a post as a Dynaflex technical support representative for Auton Computing in New York City. After four years David relocated to Houston, Texas providing mainframe-based piping system analysis services.  In 1986, he took a position at Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions (COADE, Inc.) introducing and selling CAESAR II, the worlds first PC-based pipe stress analysis package.  While at ICAS Dave earned his Professional Engineering license and currently is the product manager for CAESAR II, is the lead instructor for CAESAR II, and manages all training for ICAS.  For the last ten years Dave has participated in the B31.3 Section Committee and currently chairs the Design Task Group there.  He also serves as a Director of SPED – the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers.

CADWorx Reinstatement Program: Phase II expires December 31, 2011!

CADWorx Reinstatement Program continues, and those that missed the end of the Phase I deadlines, of up to an 80% discount off the price of CADWorx Plant Professional 2012 (plus the standard one-year maintenance), you can still save!

The Phase II of the CADWorx Reinstatement Program offers discount of up to of 70% and is good through December 31, 2011.This offer, to upgrade to CADWorx Plant Professional, also applies to existing CADWorx Plant and CADWorx/Pipe users who want to move to this full featured and comprehensive solution for intelligent 3D plant design with full AutoCAD® 2009 to 2012 compatibility.

Warning!! If you do not upgrade by the end of March 2012, you will be subject to standard upgrade fees/penalties AND andy crossgrade fees from CADworx Plant to Plant Professional AND will not be abel to upgrade CADWorx versions older than 2008!

CADWorx Plant Professional 2012 provides the industry’s most comprehensive and advanced suite of intelligent 3D plant design tools for piping, steel, equipment, HVAC, and cable trays, plus built-in ISOGEN for the automatic creation of isometric drawings. It also includes CADWorx P&ID for the creation of process and instrumentation diagrams and drawings, key deliverables for intelligent plant design.
 
For a list of the advanced features in CADWorx Plant Professional 2012 compared to earlier versions, visit http://icas.intergraph.com/content/CADWorx-Feature-Matrix.  For a comparison of CADWorx Plant and CADWorx Plant Professional features, visit http://icas.intergraph.com/content/Plant-to-Plant-Pro-comparison.
 
Phase III discount of 50% will be January through March 2012 (plus one-year maintenance in each case). For details on the CADWorx Reinstatement Program, users should contact the reseller in their region. A list is at http://www.coade.com/dealer.shtml. At the conclusion of phase III of this offer no CADWorx licences before release 2008 will be eligible for upgrade.

CADWorx Reinstatement Program Phases and Timeline:
 
Phase II: Oct - Dec, 2011 (inclusive)
70% discount + 1 year maintenance

Phase III: Jan - Mar, 2012 (inclusive)
50% discount + 1 year maintenance

Once again please note that after Phase III of this program concludes in March 2012, CADWorx versions older than 2008 will no longer be upgraded or supported.

Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Newsletter, December 2011

  

 

PV Elite 2012 has now been released - PV Elite 2012 detailed enhancement and features list can be found on the Intergraph CAS Insider Blog here.

Intergraph PV Elite Webinar - December 14 at 10AM CT: What's New in PV Elite 2012. This webinar will discuss the new features and enhancements of PV Elite 2012. Attend this webinar and learn about the new and improved features and codes added to PV Elite 2012. Register here

Intergraph CADWorx Webinar - December 15 at 10AM CT: Learn how your non-intelligent P&IDs can become Intelligent – without redrawing! Join us and learn how to breathe new life into your legacy P&IDs. We will show you 5 easy steps to make intelligent P&IDs from the basic lines, arcs, and blocks your P&IDs currently contain. Register here

CADWorx Reinstatement Program (CRP) - CADWorx Reinstatement Program continues, and those that missed the end of the Phase I September deadline, of up to an 80% discount off the price of CADWorx Plant Professional 2012 (plus the standard one-year maintenance), you can still save! Continued...

To read more, please visit ICAS Newsletter December, 2011

Intergraph Discovery Tours: Osaka and Yokohama, Japan, December 14 and 15, 2011

Intergraph will host Discovery Tour events on December 14 in Osaka and December 15, 2011 in Yokohama, Japan featuring Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional and CADWorx P&ID Professional, including demonstrations of how they integrate with Intergraph CAESAR II for pipe stress analysis and PV Elite for vessel and exchanger analysis. The presentations will show how this integration breaks down barriers between engineering and design so that both groups can share information seamlessly in a collaborative work environment, enhancing productivity for all stakeholders. Hosting the events locally will be Intergraph Japan.

To register for these events, visit http://icas.intergraph.com/forms/IDT-Japan-2011. For more information about Intergraph Japan, visit http://www.intergraph.com/global/jp/. 

For information on Intergraph CADWorx, visit http://www.intergraph.com/products/ppm/cadworx/. For information on Intergraph’s analysis products visit http://www.intergraph.com/ppm/analysis.aspx.

Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Knowledge Base Advisor Contest

Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions needs your help!

We have recently added a new Technical Support organization and have implemented a new web-based support system.  Part of that new system comprises a searchable knowledge base with technical articles on various subjects applicable to using our software.

We need more articles for our products, including CADWorx, CAESAR II, PV Elite, and TANK.  Our goal is to provide all our customers with the best technical support possible and one of the most effective ways to provide quality support is to post a vast array of knowledge base articles that will allow our customers to find answers to their questions quickly.

We are hereby announcing the ICAS Knowledge Base Advisor Contest and ask for your participation.  Submit articles explaining common questions and solutions in the use of or  modeling with our software and you could win a prize!  The contest opens now and will run through June 30, 2012 when all submissions will be judged by ICAS.

There will be one Grand Prize Winner of $2,000.00 and also winners in each product category  of $1,000.00 and $500.00.  Additionally, all winners shall receive free admission to CADWorx & Analysis University 2012 (click on link below for rules and full details).

Articles will be judged according to technical content and usefulness to our customers, with bonus points awarded to those entrants who have submitted multiple articles on different topics.  Your company name and your name will be headlined under the article title unless you want us to withhold it for any reason.

Log on to https://crmweb.intergraph.com and check the Knowledge Base there for examples of articles that we have already posted.  You may e-mail kbadvisor@intergraph.com with any questions you may have. 

Click here to submit your articles, and for full requirements and official terms and conditions.

Thank you for your participation and good luck!

Loren Brown
Director of Technical Support
Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Solutions

Intergraph CADWorx webinar, December 15: Learn how your non-intelligent P&IDs can become Intelligent – without redrawing!

with Sonia Delgadillo, Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Solutions

Date: December 15, 2011
Time: 10:00 CT  click here for your local time
Duration: 30 min
Cost: free eSeminar

View the recorded webinar here

Join us and learn how to breathe new life into your legacy P&IDs. We will show you 3 easy steps to make intelligent P&IDs from the basic lines, arcs, and blocks your P&IDs currently contain. We will share with you how you can leverage your newly created P&IDs by linking them to project databases and your 3D models. Join us and learn how you can unlock the hidden value that is locked up in your P&IDs, without having to redraw them!

What you will learn:

• How to easily convert AutoCAD blocks into intelligent symbols
• How to increase accuracy by update information from either your drawing or database
• How to save time by automating drafting functionality
• How to quickly develop reports such as line, valve and equipment lists etc.

Speaker bio: 
Sonia Delgadillo is the Senior CADWorx Applications Specialist for the CADWorx Plant Design Suite, including CADWorx Plant and P&ID Professional, CADWorx Design Review and CADWorx fieldPipe. Sonia joined the Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Solutions group in January 2009, and is responsible for product presentations, training and dealer and end-user support. She has five years experience teaching designers, engineers, owner operators and EPC firms develop AND implement best practices to improve their effectiveness.