CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite: Insider Blog

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

2012-02-22T13:27:38-06:00

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

2012-02-21T10:11:40-06:00

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!

CADWorx DraftPro Video: Settings and Specs

2012-02-21T10:04:11-06:00

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

2012-02-17T09:31:56-06:00

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

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

2012-02-14T10:28:38-06:00

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

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

2012-02-13T14:13:56-06:00

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.

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

CADWorx DraftPro YouTube Video in Chinese

2012-02-08T12:25:44-06:00

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

2012-02-07T09:46:51-06:00

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

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

2012-02-07T08:32:19-06:00

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.

CADWorx Reinstatement Program continues, Phase III expires March 2012

2012-02-06T11:50:26-06:00

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.