CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite: Insider Blog

CADWorx webinar: CADWorx 2013 (1 of 3): New Release Sneak Peek, March 8 at 10AM CT

with Sonia Delgadillo, Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Solutions

Date: March 8, 2012
Time: 10:00AM CT  click here for your local time
Duration: 30 min
Cost: free eSeminar

View recorded webinar here

Date: March 8, 2012
Time: 7:00PM CT  click here for your local time
Duration: 30 min
Cost: free eSeminar

View recorded webinar here

CADWorx 2013 webinar frequently asked questions can be found here

We invite you to attend the CADWorx 2013 webinar. During this webinar we will give an overview of the next release of the Intergraph CADWorx Plant Design Suite - CADWorx 2013. During this brief webinar we will show you how the new routing tools and self-aware components can drastically cut your design time. We will demonstrate how the new change size/change spec capabilities make for faster and more flexible edits and modifications. And, we will quickly reveal the power and accuracy that the new piping specifications and component catalogs will deliver.

CADWorx 2013 is the best CADWorx release ever, and this webinar will give you a front-seat view of how this eagerly anticipated release will boost your efficiency.

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.

Intergraph Discovery Tours: Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 6, 2012

 

Intergraph has scheduled a Discovery Tour event on March 6, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA that will feature demonstrations of Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional including methods that can increase performance by up to 30% on most projects. Demonstrations will include the modeling of equipment, steel, and piping and show how enhanced piping features and functions work together to reduce modeling times. Hosting the event locally will be ECE Design, Intergraph Global Network Partner for Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions. They will also discuss how Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional and CADWorx P&ID integrate with Intergraph CAESAR II for pipe stress analysis and PV Elite for vessel and exchanger analysis, allowing designers and engineers to share information seamlessly in a collaborative work environment, enhancing productivity for all stakeholders.

For information about the event, visit: www.ecedesign.com/cadworx_discovery_tours.
To register for the event, visit:
http://icas.intergraph.com/forms/IDT-ECE-Design-2012.  
For more information about ECE Design, visit:
www.ecedesign.com.

 

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

Plant Design at Your Fingertip!

Join the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Discovery Tour 2012, which will be held at two different locations in Scandinavia in March:

OSLO: March 27, Park Inn Airport Hotel
HELSINKI: March 29, Helsinki Airport Congress

For more information about the events, the agenda and to register, click the link: http://www.intergraph.com/global/no/events/ICASDiscoveryTour2012.aspx 

Intergraph Discovery Tours: New Orleans, Louisiana, February 28, 2012

 

Intergraph and ECE Design will be co-hosting New Orleans Discovery Tour event on February 28.

The next version of CADWorx with the Enhanced Piping being released this spring. ECE estimates that the enhanced pipe routing will reduce modeling times by at least 20%. On top of that, ECE is prepared to demonstrate how to increase performance by 30% on most projects by implementing 5 simple strategies. Come join us at the Discovery Tour so you can make your own evaluation and ask questions about all that will be new to CADWorx in the coming months and some of our Implementation strategies that leverage existing AutoCAD/CADWorx Horsepower.

Other Intergraph and ECE Design February Discovery tour location includes:

February 23 - Salt Lake City, Utah

To register for the upcoming Intergraph Discovery Tours in your area, click here.

Ignite your imagination at Hexagon 2012

Ola Rollen, president and CEO of Hexagon, invites you to attend Hexagon 2012, June 4-7, in Las Vegas. Click here to watch the video.

The conference is sure to ignite your imagination with creative solutions for your business challenges and provide the perfect opportunity for networking with peers and industry leaders from around the world.

Intergraph PP&M will offer an array of great sessions led by experts in the design, construction and operation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Learn how you can leverage Intergraph's SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise engineering solutions to boost productivity, reduce timelines and ensure data accuracy across the facility life cycle. Learn more!

Register before April 16 and save $500 with our pre-registration rate!

Register today!

CADWorx DraftPro Video: Settings and Specs

In this video you will learn how CADWorx DraftPro comes with ready-to-use specifications in metric and imperial formats and all reference data files of over 60,000 piping components with piping specifications that can be easily set.

Intergraph Discovery Tours: Corpus Christi, Texas, February 23, 2012

 

Intergraph and ECE Design will be co-hosting Corpus Christi and Salt Lake City Discovery Tour events on February 23.

The next version of CADWorx with the Enhanced Piping being released this spring. ECE estimates that the enhanced pipe routing will reduce modeling times by at least 20%. On top of that, ECE is prepared to demonstrate how to increase performance by 30% on most projects by implementing 5 simple strategies. Come join us at the Discovery Tour so you can make your own evaluation and ask questions about all that will be new to CADWorx in the coming months and some of our Implementation strategies that leverage existing AutoCAD/CADWorx Horsepower.

Other Intergraph and ECE Design February Discovery tour locations include:

February 21 - Beaumont, Texas
February 21 - Bakersfield, California
February 23 - Salt Lake City, Utah
February 28 - New Orleans Louisian

To register for the upcoming Intergraph Discovery Tours in your area, click here.

Intergraph Discovery Tours: Boston, Mass, USA February 16, 2012

 

Intergraph and ECE Design will be co-hosting Boston Discovery Tour event on February 16.

The next version of CADWorx with the Enhanced Piping being released this spring. ECE estimates that the enhanced pipe routing will reduce modeling times by at least 20%. On top of that, ECE is prepared to demonstrate how to increase performance by 30% on most projects by implementing 5 simple strategies. Come join us at the Discovery Tour so you can make your own evaluation and ask questions about all that will be new to CADWorx in the coming months and some of our Implementation strategies that leverage existing AutoCAD/CADWorx Horsepower.

Other Intergraph and ECE Design February Discovery tour locations include:

February 21 - Beaumont, Texas
February 21 - Bakersfield, California
February 23 - Corpus Christi, Texas
February 23 - Salt Lake City, Utah
February 28 - New Orleans Louisian

To register for the upcoming Intergraph Discovery Tours in your area, click here.

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training, March 5 - 7

We invite you to attend PV Elite Productivity Training from March 5-7, 2012 in Houston, TX.

Date: March 5-7, 2012
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: $1500

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training is designed to help you get the most out of the best pressure vessel and exchanger design and analysis tool on the market. Whether you are an engineer or designer focused on the initial design, fabrication, or re-rating, for either vessels, tall towers, or exchangers - this course is for you.

The instructors of these courses are experienced PV Elite developers who will give you valuable insights into, not only best practices, but also why and how codes and standards effect the final design. During this course, attendees will work on case studies using typical vessel and heat exchanger models. As an added benefit attendees will receive 2.1 CEU's for the successful completion of this course.

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

What you will learn:

• Design of internal and external pressure
• Analysis of stresses due to loads on nozzles, clips, etc.
• Flange design and analysis. 
• Nozzle design and analysis. 
• Exchanger design, including ASME (UHX) requirement 
• Vertical vessel skirt, base ring and leg and support lug design 
• Horizontal vessel saddles support design 
• Wind and seismic loads 
• Rigging analysis 
• Introduction to Fitness for Service 
• ...and much more

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

We invite you to attend PV Elite Productivity Training from March 5-7, 2012 in Houston, TX.

Date: March 5-7, 2012
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: $1500

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training is designed to help you get the most out of the best pressure vessel and exchanger design and analysis tool on the market. Whether you are an engineer or designer focused on the initial design, fabrication, or re-rating, for either vessels, tall towers, or exchangers - this course is for you.

The instructors of these courses are experienced PV Elite developers who will give you valuable insights into, not only best practices, but also why and how codes and standards effect the final design. During this course, attendees will work on case studies using typical vessel and heat exchanger models. As an added benefit attendees will receive 2.1 CEU's for the successful completion of this course.

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

What you will learn:

• Design of internal and external pressure
• Analysis of stresses due to loads on nozzles, clips, etc.
• Flange design and analysis. 
• Nozzle design and analysis. 
• Exchanger design, including ASME (UHX) requirement 
• Vertical vessel skirt, base ring and leg and support lug design 
• Horizontal vessel saddles support design 
• Wind and seismic loads 
• Rigging analysis 
• Introduction to Fitness for Service 
• ...and much more

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

We invite you to attend PV Elite Productivity Training from March 5-7, 2012 in Houston, TX.

Date: March 5-7, 2012
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: $1500

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training is designed to help you get the most out of the best pressure vessel and exchanger design and analysis tool on the market. Whether you are an engineer or designer focused on the initial design, fabrication, or re-rating, for either vessels, tall towers, or exchangers - this course is for you.

The instructors of these courses are experienced PV Elite developers who will give you valuable insights into, not only best practices, but also why and how codes and standards effect the final design. During this course, attendees will work on case studies using typical vessel and heat exchanger models. As an added benefit attendees will receive 2.1 CEU's for the successful completion of this course.

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

What you will learn:

• Design of internal and external pressure
• Analysis of stresses due to loads on nozzles, clips, etc.
• Flange design and analysis. 
• Nozzle design and analysis. 
• Exchanger design, including ASME (UHX) requirement 
• Vertical vessel skirt, base ring and leg and support lug design 
• Horizontal vessel saddles support design 
• Wind and seismic loads 
• Rigging analysis 
• Introduction to Fitness for Service 
• ...and much more

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

CADWorx DraftPro YouTube Video in Chinese

CADWorx DraftPro

智能2D配管設計軟體 概述 

This video was produced by our reseller in Taiwan - Autosoftware Technology http://www.autosoft.com.tw/

 

Intergraph Discovery Tours: Philadelphia, USA February 15, 2012

 

Intergraph and ECE Design will be co-hosting Philadephia Discovery Tour event on February 15.

The next version of CADWorx with the Enhanced Piping being released this spring. ECE estimates that the enhanced pipe routing will reduce modeling times by at least 20%. On top of that, ECE is prepared to demonstrate how to increase performance by 30% on most projects by implementing 5 simple strategies. Come join us at the Discovery Tour so you can make your own evaluation and ask questions about all that will be new to CADWorx in the coming months and some of our Implementation strategies that leverage existing AutoCAD/CADWorx Horsepower.

February 15 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Other Intergraph and ECE Design February Discovery tour locations include:

February 16 - Boston, Massachusetts
February 21 - Beaumont, Texas
February 21 - Bakersfield, California
February 23 - Corpus Christi, Texas
February 23 - Salt Lake City, Utah
February 28 - New Orleans Louisian

To register for the upcoming Intergraph Discovery Tours in your area, click here.

Intergraph PV Elite webinar: How to use PV Elite for a simple re-rate

with Ray Delaforce, Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Solutions

This webinar will introduce you to methods for re-rating a vessel in service, that has perhaps been in service for a number of years.  The current MAWP may be required, or the MAWP and/or the Design Temperature is up rated for severer service.  This webinar will address these issues as well as how to deal with individual components.

Date: February 16, 2012
Time: 10:00AM CDT   Click here for your local time
Duration: 30 min
Cost: free eSeminar

View the recorded webinar here

Speaker bio: 

Ray Delaforce

Ray joined Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Solutions group in 2003. Ray provides technical support in the PV Elite support and maintenance department. His duties include training in the use of PV Elite software both in the United States and abroad.

Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis Newsletter, February 2012

  

 

CADWorx DraftPro now released - Find out how CADWorx^® DraftPro™ can help you create 2D plant deliverables more accurately and in half the time. DraftPro is 100% free! Read more

CAESAR II Service Pack 3 - CAESAR II Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available. You can download it by submitting a form here or login to eCustomer here.

CAU Express 2012 - Based on multiple requests from our users we are happy to offer you our first CAU events for 2012 and this time we will be coming to a city close to you! CAU Express 2012 consists of in-depth training sessions on CADWorx, CAESAR II, and PV Elite, all packed into a one-day, high-powered learning experience. To review the classes and to pre-register, visit: CAU Express 2012.

CADWorx Reinstatement Program (CRP) - CRP continues, and those that missed the end of the Phase I and II 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 III of the CADWorx Reinstatement Program offers discount of up to 50% and is good through March, 2012. Read more

To read more, please visit ICAS Newsletter February, 2012

CADWorx Reinstatement Program continues, Phase III expires March 2012

CADWorx Reinstatement Program continues, and those that missed the end of the Phase II deadlines, you can still save!

The Phase III of the CADWorx Reinstatement Program offers discount of up to of 50% and is good through March 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 any crossgrade fees from CADWorx Plant to Plant Professional AND will not be able 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.
 
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 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.

CAU Express 2012: Registration is now open!

Welcome to the first CAU Express events for CADWorx, SmartPlant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite!

Based on multiple requests from our users we are happy to offer you our first CAU events for 2012 and this time we will be coming to a city close to you! CAU Express consists of in depth training sessions on CADWorx, SmartPlant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite, all packed into a one-day, high-powered learning experience, that will not only leave you well informed, but will help you become a better plant designer and engineer.

Our CADWorx, SmartPlant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite product experts will help you expand your technical knowledge and you can network and share your experience with others. Each event will be capped off with product focused Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and a networking reception.

Here are our 2012 CAU Express dates and locations:

March 2012:

Thursday, March 22 – Johannesburg
Monday, March 26 – Dubai
Wednesday, March 28 – Mumbai
Friday, March 30 – Chennai

April 2012:

Wednesday, April 25 – Yokohama
Friday, April 27 – Beijing
Monday, April 30 – Seoul
Wednesday, May 2 – Singapore

We conducted CAU Express 2012 webinar: "CAU Express 2012 - Why you should attend" on February 9th at 8.30PM. To view this webinar recording, visit: CAU Express 2012 webinar

For more information about these events, visit: CAU Express 2012

To register for these events, visit: CAU Express 2012 Registration