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CADWorx Video Training Series Lesson One - Getting Started

Lesson One Getting Started

Some topics covered in this lesson: You will . . . • • • • • • • • •

Set up the screen for first time use Save your “Workspace” Learn to place components Learn dimensioning procedures Set up and use the Bill of Materials Learn how to annotate components Learn how to set up Line Numbering Learn how to use the graphic labels in the system See that techniques you learn here will be useful when simple quick drawings are needed Written by Anthony W. Horn © 2011 CAD Training Technologies, LLC Houston, TX USA

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This lesson is the text portion of the video called Lesson One. This lesson covers all that you will see in the video, step-by-step. It is a written roadmap you can use to work your way through the exercise. I recommend you play the video for a while and watch the first part of it. Then pause it and do the step-by-step instructions in this lesson. You can then go back to the video and repeat the process. If you need to look at something more than once, you can always replay the video through that section. That’s the great thing about having a video to replay: you can clear up any part of the lessons that you may have questions about, and you won’t have any aspect of this course that you won’t understand. So start the first video, and after a few minutes pause it. Then do the steps that follow. Good luck – and congratulations! You’re on your way to Mastering CADWorx Plant Professional Software!

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Click the video buttons shown (Piping, Lesson One, Video One). The Video One gets you started and introduces the screen setup. When you’ve finished viewing Video One, click the Video Two button. It will get you started setting up your drawing. Start CADWorx Plant Pro by double clicking on the CADWorx icon. 1.

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Click on the “Use a Template” button

Click on the Metric.dwg and click OK.

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Starting up a drawing in CADWorx

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In this system you always use a template

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You can bring your border in at any time

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Using a template sets Units and other AutoCAD variables

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Initial Settings When you start to work with CADWorx, everything is drawn to scale. So you have to set the system for a certain size (pipe diameter) and specification. 3. 4.

Click Plant Click Setup

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You always set the size and spec

Click Size Set the Main Size to 4”. Set the Reduced Size to 6” (seems backwards but that’s what we want to do here).

8. Click OK to exit the size settings, and 9. Click Specification 10. Set the Specification to 150_M.spc

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Selecting the Spec

11. Set the Drawing Mode to 3D Solids.

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12. Click the Scale Button

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Selecting the Scale

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Inserting a Border

13. Set the Scale to be 1:20, and click OK to exit that dialog box. 14. Click the Border Button. 15. Click Predefined.

16. Click the 594x420 (Iso-A2) Border, and click OK.

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Clicking the User Name/Date/Time stamp box

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Opening the CADWorx Specview tool palette

17. Click the box for the User Name/Date/Time stamp and click OK. 18. Click OK to exit the dialog box. 19. Type: Specview You will see the information contained in the 150_M spec appear in the left area of the screen. This is the Specview tool palette, and it is where you’ll go to select items to insert into the drawing (shown in AutoCAD 2009 version).

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If you’re In AutoCAD 2009, set the Workspace first to 3D Modeling. Then (all AutoCAD versions) save your Workspace as CADWorx Specview. (If you don’t have a Workspace toolbar open, right click on any AutoCAD button, and click on Workspace).

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Saving your screen setup using the Workspace command

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Saving the Drawing

Click the Save Current As… and name it CADWorx Specview This will save all your screen settings and you can always restore them at a later time if needed. Now, let’s save the drawing and get started.

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Click Save As…. Path to the C:\CADWorx Video Training\Lessons folder. Enter the drawing name: Lesson_One

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Placing Components 26.

Click the Weld Neck Flange button.

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Right click and click Face end. Click a point to place the face of the flange in the upper right area of your drawing. Drag the mouse to the right, and click (to indicate the direction you want to flange to be placed. Zoom as needed to see the flange.

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Placing a Flange

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Viewing the flange’s data

Double click on the Flange to see the data associated with it (this is data coming from the spec).

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Click on the Reducer, Eccentric button.

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Right click on the mouse and click “Small End.” Press and drag the mouse to the right and click. The Reducer will connect automatically to the back of the flange. Type U (for flat side up orientation of the Reducer).

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Click the Pipe button.

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Press on the keyboard (the pipe will connect automatically to the reducer). Note: Always press to connect one component to the previous one. This will save a lot of trouble for you in the future, because it will help prevent connection errors between components. (A great example of this is when you connect to a gasket – it’s easy to miss!)

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Placing a Reducer

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Adding Pipe

Important! • Guaranteeing good connectivity between components

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Drag the mouse to the right (to indicate the direction) and Type: 336 (all lengths expressed in mm unless otherwise noted).

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Placing pipe

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Placing a Flange, Gasket, and Gate Valve

Note: We’re entering a length of 336 for this exercise. Later you will learn about router lines and see how to draw pipe segments in a different manner.

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Click the Weld Neck Flange button.

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Press on the keyboard (to connect automatically), drag to the right and Click.

Notice, the system placed a Gasket automatically.

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Click on the Gate Valve button.

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Press on the keyboard to connect automatically,

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Drag the mouse to the right and click. Click the direction for the valve top works as shown in the video if you are running CADWorx 2009.

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Continuing to place components

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Placing a Tee

Note: If you are not running CADWorx 2009 you will not be prompted for the valve top works. You’ll add it in during a later section of the lesson. Note: The size and shape of the valve top works will be changed in a later lesson to a standard size. 46.

Click on the Weld Neck Flange button.

47. Press on the keyboard to connect automatically 48. Drag the mouse to the right and click.

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Click on the Tee button. Note: Click on the Tee button, not the Reducing Tee button!

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Drag the mouse to the right and click (for the “run” direction). Then drag the mouse straight down (for the “branch” direction) and click.

Click on the Pipe button.

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Press on the mouse, then drag to the right and

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Type: 1800

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Placing pipe of specific lengths

Click Pipe and click on the bottom of the Tee. Drag straight down and Type: 2128 .

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Place an Elbow at the bottom of the last pipe segment. Click the Elbow button.

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Press on the keyboard, to connect automatically. Drag down with the mouse and click (to indicate the elbow corner direction). Drag to the left and click (to indicate the direction of the end of the elbow).

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Placing an Elbow

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You can Copy components in CADWorx using normal AutoCAD commands

Copy down the Flange, Gate Valve, and Flange, as shown in the video.

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63. Click Pipe. 64. Click on the end of the flange (be sure to use Osnap). 65. Drag the mouse to the left, 66. And Type: 250 . 67. Copy down the Reducer and Flange as shown.

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Copying groups of components

68. Save the drawing intermittently.

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Working in a similar fashion as you have been doing, add the remaining pipe segments and fittings.

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Use the measurements shown in the figure, when you type in the values for the lengths of the pipe segments.

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Finishing up placing the components

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Saving the file

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Adding Nozzles

Save your drawing when completed to this point.

Adding Nozzles

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Click on the Long Weldneck tool button.

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Right click on the mouse, click Length, and type 200

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Zoom in around one of the six inch flanges on the right, and using the OSNAP Endpt, click on the Gasket, then drag to the right and Click.

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Adding Gaskets and Nozzles

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Viewing the Nozzle data

Double click on the Long Weldneck you just placed, and notice the information contained in this dialog box. a. The Long annotation area shows how the item will be listed in the Bill of Materials List. b. The Tag is a field that can contain connection info (Nozzle 1 of Pump 123) or, in the case of a valve, a valve tag. All components carry weight. c. The Length field is fixed, it cannot be edited.

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Click on the “Existing” check box, and set the nozzle to “existing”. This will make it an item that will be shown on an iso, but not called out in a material list. (It’s like the nozzle “exists” on a vessel in the area, and we just want to connect to it).

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Click OK when done, and notice how the flange has changed.

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Repeat these steps and place a nozzle (Long Weldneck) on the other 6” flange.

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Near the top of the screen, in the CADWorx tool pallet:

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Setting the nozzle to be an Existing components

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Adding the 4” Gaskets and Nozzles

80. Set the Main Size to 4” (don’t worry about the Reduction size, it doesn’t matter for this step).

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Click on the Gasket button.

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Click on the left edge of one of the 4” flanges, drag the mouse to the left, and click (place a gasket on the face of one of the 4” flanges).

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Click on the Long Weld Neck flange button.

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Right click on the mouse and click Length. Type: 200 (to set the length to 200mm). Press again on the keyboard to connect automatically to the gasket. Drag the mouse to the left and Click. The Long Weld Neck flange (the Nozzle) will be placed correctly. Double click on the nozzle and set it to Existing.

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Setting the Nozzle to 8” in length, and making it “existing”, which means it will come out in the Isometric drawing, but not in the Material List

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Viewing a proper Gasket

Notice there’s a space between the Nozzle and the flange it connects to. The Gasket creates the space between them. This is how it should look.

Repeat for the other 4” flange, or copy the gasket and nozzle up to it. Your drawing should look as shown at this point.

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Adding Bolts 92. Type: Autobolt 93. Window the drawing and press 94. Bolts will be placed in the drawing (the system puts bolts for each Gasket). 95. Double click on one of the “B”s laying on a Gasket (the B’s are for “Bolts”).

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Adding Bolts to the drawing

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Viewing the Bolt Data

You can see what the system has put in for bolt information.

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Adding Olets (Drains) 96. 97.

Turn on the OSNAP, OTRACK, and POLAR buttons at the bottom of the screen. Click the Main Size area in the tool pallet. •

Setting the system to show Threaded Components

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Placing a Thredolet

98. Set the main size to 6”, and the reduction size to ¾”. 99. Zoom into the upper left area of the piping.

100. Click the Settings tab on the Specview tool pallet. 101. Click the Show Threaded checkbox.

102. Click Thredolet

103. Move the cursor right over the point where the pipe and the reducer meet, but don’t click – just hover the crosshairs right over that intersection point. 104. The OSNAP will “acquire” the point. A Drag slightly to the right (you’ll see the tool tip box appear). Note: OSNAP Nearest can interfere with Tracking.

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105. Type: 125 106. Drag the mouse toward the bottom of the drawing (in the – Y direction) and click. 107. The OLET (Thredolet) will appear, and be oriented toward the bottom of the screen.

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Placing a Pipe Nipple

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Setting the End Conditions of the Pipe Nipple

108. Pick the Nipple button.

109. Right click and Type: 100 110. Press (to connect to the OLet, the last component drawn). 111. Drag the mouse toward the lower part of the drawing and click. 112. Press (to set the ends of the nipple to threaded, threaded). 113. Double click on the Nipple. In the dialog box, you’ll see TBE (for threaded both ends).

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114. Click OK, to exit the component edit dialog box. 115. Click the threaded Gate Valve button.

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Placing a threaded Gate Valve

116. Press (to connect to the last component). 117. Drag the mouse down and click.

118. In a similar fashion place another olet, nipple, and gate valve on the pipe segment at the lower right area of the drawing.

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Put it 100 from the end of the flange. See illustration which follows.

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Placing the other branch

Your drawing will now look as shown.

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Running a Continuity Check At this point it would be good practice to run a continuity check. This insures that the components you’ve placed in the drawing are connected correctly.

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Running a Continuity Check

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Continuity Checks should be run on each line as a standard procedure

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This insures that you will produce correctly drawn piping models and drawings

To run this check: 119. 120. 121. 122. 123.

Click Plant Click Utility Click Continuity Window the drawings and press Type: 300 (to have the system show the ends of the pipe runs and branches with a 300 diameter circle). 124. Press (for the 0.0010 precision).

Your drawing should look as shown.

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Your drawing should look like the previous figure. The circles indicate that a piping run has started and stopped. They also will appear at the start points and end points of any branches (like the thredolets). If you have additional circles appearing in the middle of the runs, this indicates an incorrect gap or an overlap between components. This can be caused by not pressing , as you connect one component to the next, or not having a good OSNAP connection between components.

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Extra circles that occur during the middle of a piping run, instead of at the ends, indicate errors

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All continuity errors must be fixed before proceeding with the drawing

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A failure to fix continuity errors will cause problems in generating isometrics, and possibly give errors in material lists

These errors must be corrected before continuing on, since they will cause problems with the isometric drawing you will be generating soon. If you get extra circles, zoom into the area and take a close look. Click on the circles and light up their grips. You will either see gaps between centerlines, places where gaskets are placed incorrectly (not positioned right between flanges, but actually partly inside one of the flanges), or overlapping centerlines. All of these errors will cause an extra circle to appear in a pipe run where it is not expected. Here are some examples

Overlapping centerlines

Centerlines with gaps

Valve not placed correctly against gasket

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Line Numbering 125. Click the Line Number Setup Tool Button.

This brings up the Line Numbering System Dialog Box.

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Starting the Line Number Setup command

By default, the system uses Size-Spec as its line number. You’ll change that now, to a different line number format. Your line number will be Size-Service-Count-Spec.

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Setting up the Line sequence. 126. Click the down arrow under Category. •

Setting up the Line Numbering sequence

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127. Click on Service, and click Add.

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The category Service appears in the list. 128. Click the down arrow under category again (as shown previously) and click Count. Then click Add. 129. The Count is now added as part of the line number.

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Adding the other categories that make up the line number

130. Click in the area under Separator, and type in a dash (hyphen). 131. Click Add. 132. Click Add again (two dashes are added to the line number list).

Now, you’ll arrange the line number to be Size-Service-Count-Spec.

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133. Click on the word Service, to highlight it. Click on the Move Up button to move it up in the list, below Size.

134. Click on the word Count, and move it up to be below Service. 135. Click one of the dashes in the list, to highlight it, and move it up between Service and Count (use the illustration, or the video to see what’s being described). 136. Continue to Move up the dashes, and the Size/Service/Spec categories as needed to set up a line number list as shown. 137. Click OK when done, and Save the drawing at this point. 138. Click on the Line Number Setup tool button again to open the dialog box. 139. Click Service, and in the “Default value” area, highlight the word Service and type in LH . 140. Click Count, and change it to 1000. 141. Click OK to exit this dialog box.

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Adjusting the line number categories

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Setting the values for the fields in the line number

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Updating the Line Number in the Components 142. Type: Nba (for Line Number Assign) Note: A list of CADWorx commands that you can type in can be found by clicking Tools (pull down menu), Customize, Edit Program Parameters. The file will open in Notepad, and you can see all the commands that can be typed in. The CADWorx commands are toward the bottom of the file.

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Embedding line numbers in all the components

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Verifying the line number has been updated

143. Select everything in the drawing, and press . 144. Type: A (for “All”). This will assign the new line number to all of the components. To verify: 145. Double click one off the Gate Valves in the drawing. You’ll get a dialog box showing the new line number assigned to the valve.

Click OK to exit this dialog box.

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Annotation (Dimensions, Bill of Materials, Line Number labels, etc.) - Paper Space or Model Space? You can dimension the drawing and add labels to it either in Model Space or Paper Space, depending upon your preferences and also the job requirements. When you do 3D Modeling, you will typically use Paper Space for these tasks, since it lends itself so well to working in 3D.

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Moving the drawing over in the border area

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Selecting the Automatic Dimensioning option

In this example, you will place the dimensions and annotation in Model Space, and later you will be shown both methods. 146. Move your drawing down into the Border as shown. (Leaving room on the right for a Bill of Materials).

147. Click Plant 148. Click Dimension 149. Click Automatic

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150. Right click on the mouse and type: 675 (This sets the dimension lines 675mm away, to scale, from the objects. 151. Click a point, as shown, in the center of your pipe drawing.

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Placing dimensioning automatically

152. The dimensions will appear.

153. Erase the two dimensions/lines on the left edge of the sheet, then using grips, move the two overall dimensions out to the ends as shown.

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Running a Bill of Materials Note: This exercise will use the default BOM in CADWorx. For setting up different BOM layouts, or exporting the BOM out to a spreadsheet or database, please see the video with that section on it. 154. 155. 156. 157.

Click Plant Click Bill of Material Click Tag Click Toggle (this turns off the piece mark bubbles). •

Running a Bill of Materials

Running the Bill of Materials 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163.

Click Plant Click Bill of Material Click Run Click Cut Press (to select objects) Window the drawing and press .

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164. Click a point in the upper right corner of your border. 165. The Bill of Materials will appear.

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Viewing the Bill of Materials

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166. At this point the drawing is almost completed. 167. Click Plant, then click Graphics. 168. Click Plan

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Placing some Graphic Labels

169. A dialog appears with Head highlighted. 170. Click OK

171. Click a point on your drawing under the piping drawing to place this Plan label. 172. Drag the mouse to the right and click (for orientation), or you could also Type: 0 , to orient the label at 0 degrees. Either way is fine. 173. Type 1:20 , and the label will appear. 174. Save the drawing at this point.

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Line Number Annotation

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Placing some Graphic Labels

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Annotating (labeling a Line Number)

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175. Next you’ll add some Line Number and Component Annotation. To bring up the Line Number tool bar: 176. 177. 178. 179.

Click Plant Click Tool bars Click Line Numbers Dock the Line Numbers tool bar at the top of your screen. 180. Click the third tool button over, for Line Number Annotate.

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181. Click the pipe segment in the top center area of the drawing. 182. Click a point to place the text. 183. Drag the mouse to the right and click, or 184. Type: 0 . 185. The Line Number annotation will appear.

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Placing the line number label

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Placing a line number label in vertical

186. Place another Line Number label on the vertical segment, on the left. To tell the text to go up and down, you will need to type 90, for the rotation angle, or drag the mouse up toward the top of the screen and click. You can see this in the video.

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Component Annotation Next you’ll label a couple of the fittings. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. 192. 193. 194. 195. 196.

Click Plant Click Text Click Annotate Click Component Press (for Short Annotation). Click the 6”x4” reducer in the top left area of the drawing. Right click on the mouse and Click Leader Click a point where you want the text to start. Use the Grip on the text to drag it into position like you want it to look (see the video for how this works). 197. You can also use a Grip to move the arrowhead of the Leader where you want it to point (on the edge of the reducer).

198. Repeat for the 6”x3/4” Thredolet at the bottom left of the drawing.

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Annotating components

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The annotation text height matches the dimension text height.

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If you want to make it smaller, you will have to change the dimension text height (in Format, Dimension Style)

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You can also annotate the components without using the Leader option, and draw your own Leader later. This will give you smaller text as well

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Congratulations! This concludes the first lesson. You are well on your way to mastering CADWorx® Plant Pro software!

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Lesson Two 3D – First Look Some topics covered in this lesson: You will learn how to…. • •

Use the AutoCAD View Ribbon and Tool Bar Convert CADWorx files from 2D to 3D

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Work with the CADWorx UCS Tool Bar Model components in the Vertical Plane

Note: Valve Operators (hand wheels) will be modified to correct sizes in a later part of the lesson

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Start CADWorx, and open the Lesson_One drawing. Click File, then Save As Type: Lesson_Two (do a Save As, Lesson_Two). Erase the Border, Bill of Materials, and Dimensions Save the drawing again.

Opening the AutoCAD View Tool Bar 6.

If you’re using AutoCAD 2009, you can set your Work Space to 3D Modeling. In that Work Space you can access the various 3D Views easily (see video). 7. For 2008 and earlier versions of AutoCAD: 8. Move the cursor (pointer) over any AutoCAD (not CADWorx) tool button. 9. Right Click on the mouse. 10. A list of AutoCAD tool bars will appear. 11. Click on the View toolbar (if it dos not already have a check on it. If it has a check on it, it is already open).

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Drag and dock the toolbar in the top area of your drawing. Click on the SW Isometric tool button.

CADWorx has the capability to display its components in 2D, 3D, or Single Line graphics. When you first open the drawing, you will be viewing it in 3D. If you want to have part of the model display in one of the other modes, you can use the Settings tool bar to change it.

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Opening the Lesson One drawing

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Saving under a different name

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Using the 3D Modeling Work Space (AutoCAD 2009), or Bringing up the 3D View tool bar (AutoCAD 2008 and earlier)

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Setting the view to the South West

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Next you’ll place the Settings toolbar at the top of your screen, next to the AutoCAD View toolbar you placed there earlier. Click Plant Click Toolbars Click Settings Drag it up next to the view toolbar in the top area of your screen. From the Settings Tool bar, hold down the mouse button on the 2D button, and you’ll see the tool bar has a “fly out.” Move the pointer down to the “2D, “Single Line”, or “Solids” button and release.

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Seeing the drawing in different display modes (2D, Single Line, 3D)

Click two points to Window all the objects, and press . The components will convert to the mode you selected. Convert the model back to 3D solids. Note: The valve operators (called Top Works) are sized in this first model based on a file the system uses. As the lesson progresses, you’ll specify a different top works file so they come in as typical sizes for gate valves. Also, you’ll see how to model them manually if you are using a version of CADWorx that is 2008 or earlier.

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You’ll change the display to show the model in 2D wire frame, shaded as conceptual shading, and also as single line grapics

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Wireframe takes less system resources

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Bringing up the CADWorx UCS toolbar, which will greatly simplify 3D modeling

Click View Click Visual Styles Click Conceptual They system will shade the objects.

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Click View Click Visual Styles Click 2D Wire frame When working in 3D, it is a good rule to work in 2D Wire frame. It is less taxing on your system’s resources, and you’ll have better machine speed if you do so.

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Watch Video Two and Video Three, which discuss the Top Works feature in CADWorx. Bring in the CADWorx UCS Toolbar – Click Plant, Toolbars, UCS. Doc it at the top area of your screen. Zoom into the area near to first flange and reducer, on the left of the drawing. What you’ll do next is work in the vertical plane. The two olets, nipples and threaded gate valves were constructed earlier in the horizontal plane.

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Discussing 3D versus Isometrics

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Rotating the UCS, which rotates the crosshairs

For this exercise, you’ll erase them, and then you’ll redo them in vertical, like they would actually be if this was a suction line on a pump. 34.

Erase the two thredolets, nipples, and gate valves. What you’ll do next, is place a drain for the line. It will again consist of a thredolet, a pipe nipple, and a gate valve, but it will be placed this time in “vertical”. To place it in vertical (coming down) the crosshairs have to be flipped on edge, sort of like doing an isometric drawing. When you draw Isos, you have to flip your crosshairs into the different planes you draw in: top plane, vertical left plane, vertical right plane. The same is try in 3D modeling. You have to flip your crosshairs into the proper planes to place CADWorx components going up and down in the “Z” direction.

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The CADWorx UCS tool bar makes this easy. Using this toolbar, the “UCS” toolbar from CADWorx (not the UCS AutoCAD toolbar – they are different) it has the same look and feel as doing isometric drawings. •

Setting up the UCS to work in the vertical plane

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Setting the size and spec

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Modeling a thredolet

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Using tracking to position the thredolet along the pipe

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Look at they UCS icon in the lower left area of your screen. You are currently in the “World Coordinate System”. You can tell that by the small square where the three axes meet.

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Click the UCS Next button (see illustration above)

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Notice how your crosshairs change to work in “vertical right”, and the UCS icon changes as well. This is how you need to be set to add the drains to the lines.

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Click on the “Main Size” area in the tool pallet.

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Set the Main Size to 6”. Set the Reduction Size to ¾”.

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Click on the Thredolet button.

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Have the OSNAP, Tracking, and Polar buttons turned on. Move the crosshairs over the end of the pipe and pause them (don’t click). You need to be right over the center of the pipe, at its end. The system will “acquire” that point and you can “track” from it. (If you see a box similar to what is shown, you are tracking.)

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Tracking the thredolet down the pipe 125mm

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Placing a pipe nipple

While tracking, Type: 125 . Drag the crosshairs toward the bottom of the screen and click.

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The Thredolet will be placed 125mm from the end of the pipe, and oriented downward.

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Viewing the spec data in the nipple

Click the Nipple button.

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If you don’t see it in the list to select, make sure your Main size is set to ¾”. The system will display components based on size.

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Right click on the mouse, click Length, and Type: 100 , for a 100mm long nipple. 48. Press on the keyboard, to automatically connect the pipe nipple to the thredolet. 49. Press to set the nipple end conditions to threaded for each end.

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Note: As long as the nozzle data shows “Existing”, the color and line type display are fine. Double click on the nipple that you just placed on the drawing. You’ll see in the dialog box that it is shown as TBE (threaded both ends) in the long description part of the dialog box.

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Placing a threaded gate valve and plug

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Copying the other drain branches

Click OK to close the dialog box. Click on the Gate Valve, 800 LB, THRD button.

Press on the keyboard, and the valve will connect automatically to the pipe nipple. Drag the crosshairs down, to indicate the direction, and click.

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Copy command. Get them as shown in the next figure, all located 125mm in from the end of each pipe. Save the drawing. •

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Inserting the dimensions of the valve operators

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Bring up the Operator’s tool bar . Click Plant Click Toolbars Click Operators Dock it at the top of your screen.

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Click the OS&Y tool button on the Operator tool bar. Click a point in the middle of one of the 6” gate valves (use an OSNAP MIDPOINT if necessary). Drag the cursor up (to indicate the direction of the hand wheel). Type: 168 (for the diameter of the hand wheel).

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Type: 857 (for the length of the hand wheel). Repeat for the other 6” Gate Valves.

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Double click on one of the 6” gate valves, to bring up the Component Edit dialog box. Later, when the specs have been set up, you will probably have a valve tag automatically come into the valve’s data. For instance, when the specs have been done, a value of G33P might be put in the TAG field automatically. In this case, you haven’t modified the specs yet (probably), so the TAG field will be blank. Fill out the information in the TAG area as shown. This will give the valve a TAG value (G33P in this case).

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Adding Valve Tags

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Adding data to tell Isogen how to draw the valve operators

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Placing hand wheel information on the small drain valves

Next you’ll tell Isogen how to draw the hand wheels for the valves, if you are running CADWorx 2008 and earlier version. In CADWorx 2009, this is done automatically as the valves are modeled. 75.

Click the Isogen button at the bottom of the dialog box.

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Set the Spindle Direction to Up if it is not already set.

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Copy and paste the TAG info into the other 6” Gate Valves, and set the Spindle Direction for them as well.

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Placing Operators on the ¾” Gate Valves 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84.

Type: UCS (to return to the World Coordinate System). Click the OS&Y tool button on the Operator tool bar. Click the Midpoint on one of the ¾” Gate Valves (zoom in as necessary). Drag the mouse out away from the valve to indicate the hand wheel orientation. Type: 60 (for the hand wheel diameter). Type: 125 (for the length). Repeat for the other ¾” Gate Valves.

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Adding data for Isogen to draw the hand wheels on the drain valves

Double click on the valve, and fill out the dialog box as needed for the TAG information and the orientation of the hand wheel. The Tag will be G33P. In this example, the hand wheel will be oriented SOUTH (since it is pointing toward the bottom of the drawing). Two will be SOUTH, and two will be NORTH.

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Reviewing the finished model

Fill out the other ¾” Gate Valve TAG data as needed. Save the drawing.

This completes Lesson Two. Next up – Isometrics!

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Lesson Three Running an Isometric using Isogen

Some topics covered in this lesson: You will… • • •

See how to run an isometric using Isogen Run the iso on various borders Look at some of the Isogen options

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Open the Lesson Two drawing in CADWorx Plant Pro.

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Opening the drawing

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Telling the system to generate an Isogen Isometric drawing of the line modeled

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You should see the following Isogen Configuration dialog box. If not, see your System Administrator, or go through the Isogen Setup Video. This video is a later video in this training sequence.

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The system will generate two drawings

In this first example, you will use the Metric_Inch_A2 Style (drawing border). So select it from the list, if it is not shown. Click OK. Press (to select components). Window all the items in the drawing and press . You will get a CADWorx Isogen Results dialog box.

In this instance, the system shows it has generated two isometric drawings. It did this because if it put everything on a single isometric, the drawing would be too crowded. By making two isos, it is able to produce two drawings with a nice appearance.

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Note: If you get more than two isos generated, please see the video for possible causes. 10. 11. 12.

Click the Open Plot Files button, and take a look at the isos. Now run the isos on the A3 border, and also the A1 border. Notice how the A1 border shows all the information on a single sheet. Note: Some clients generate their isos on a A1 border, and then plot them half-sized.

Welding Information Isogen also has the ability to generate welding information on an iso. To see how this works: 13. 14. 15. 16.

Click Plant Click Accessory Click Isogen Click Isogen Out

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You can generate the isometrics using different size borders

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Click the down arrow to list the Styles and Click Sample-Final-Weld-Box Click OK Press Window everything and press . Click Open Plot Files to review the isometrics generated. Note: The sample welding border is only available in Imperial Units at this time. At this point you have been able to produce some Isogen Isometrics, providing everything has been set up for you. If you were doing production work at this time, you would probably have an administrator set up the job’s borders for you. If not, you could always erase the current border and insert your client’s border, then save the drawing in the directory needed for your job. In a later lesson, I will show you how to set up an Isogen project, so you can see how all of this is done and customize it for your particular job.

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Easily Rotate the UCS to model in different planes

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Model lines in a method similar to drawing isometrics

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Create 3D Router Lines

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Automatically place elbows and pipe segments

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Generate Clipped Views using the CADWorx Viewbox command

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Annotate and Dimension in Paper Space on a Layout

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In this lesson you will construct three lines that are connected to exchangers and a vessel. You’ll see a couple of ways these can be modeled: manual placement and using router lines. Both methods are effective, and the choice depends upon the geometry and information you have to work with. Generally speaking, a Router line is going to give you the fastest tool for constructing lines in 3D compared to other methods. First you’ll model the return lines, from the top of the exchangers going back into the vessel. 1. 2.

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Start a new drawing, using a template: Metric. Click File, Click Save As Browse to the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons folder. Save the drawing as 12-CPRA_B-1004-150_M. Click Insert, from the pull down menus in both 2009 and earlier versions. In AutoCAD 2009 there is also a button along the bottom of the screen, if you prefer.

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Click Attach Browse to your C:\CADWorx_Training\Examples folder and click on the 35-450 drawing and the Exchangers_Pair drawing (hold down the Control Key as you select them. Insert them in as Overlays and inserted at the 0,0,0 point, Scaled 1:1, and Rotated 0 as shown.

You should have them in your attached drawings list as shown. Close the XRef dialog box (click the X at the top). •

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List of attached XRefs

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You will see your two XRefs now appearing on the drawing.

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Depending upon your AutoCAD version, you can use the 2009 3D Workspace and work your 3D views directly off that. For this lesson, bring up the AutoCAD View tool bar, if it is not already on your screen (this method works with all versions of AutoCAD). To do this, you can move the mouse pointed over any AutoCAD tool button, and Right Click on the Mouse. A list of tool bars will appear, and then you select the View Tool bar (2008 version illustrated).

13. Dock the View tool bar at the top area on your screen. 14. Click on the South West Isometric View.

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Zoom into the lower left area of the drawing.

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Zooming closer to the exchangers

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Getting an overview of what’s to follow

In this lesson, you will be modeling the two lines that return from the top of the exchangers into the vertical tower.

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This will be a valuable lesson for you, because you will see a couple of different approaches to modeling these lines: placing fittings one by one, and also how to use a Router Line. The first thing to emphasize in the lesson is that modeling in 3D using CADWorx is easy. The developers of CADWorx have made 3D modeling as easy as doing a 2D Isometric drawing. Do you remember how, in doing an isometric, you flip the crosshairs from one plane to another using the F5 key on the keyboard?

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Isometrics – the traditional way to work

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It’s a short step from Isometrics to working in 3D when using CADWorx

When you pressed the F5 key your crosshairs would rotate into the top plane, or vertical left hand plane, or vertical right hand plane. Do you remember how easy that is? It’s a fast and easy way to do a pictorial drawing. Pressing the F5 Key flips the crosshairs in Isometric.

Well working with CADWorx in 3D is very similar! Modeling in 3D in CADWorx has the same look and feel as creating a 2D Isometric drawing! If you think of it like this, then 3D modeling in CADWorx is a breeze!

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Instead of the F5 key to rotate your crosshairs, CADWorx uses their own UCS Toolbar, which does a similar function. 18.

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Now you’ll bring up the CADWorx (not AutoCAD’s) UCS tool bar (2008 version illustrated)

Click Plant (at the top of the screen) Click Tool Bars Click UCS The UCS tool bar will appear. Dock it in the top area of your screen. Notice how your crosshairs are oriented. Click the UCS Next button a few times, and notice how your crosshairs rotate. It looks very similar to how crosshairs rotate when you do isometrics!

Now you’ll test this to get a feel of how this works. 25.

Click the UCS Next button until your crosshairs are in the “top” plane. In 3D, you call this the “Flat” plane.

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Switching planes in 3D seems similar to flipping the crosshairs in isometric

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In 3D, you click the UCS Next button to rotate the crosshairs (similar to hitting the F5 key on the keyboard when you did isometrics)

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Next you’ll set up your system to draw some test lines to see how this works. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Click Plant Click Setup Set the Main Size to 6”. Set the Specification to 150_M. Set the Drawing Mode to 3D.

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Pan the screen to the side, so that you are in a clear area. You will now draw a few fittings to get a good look at this.

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Make sure you have ORTHO turned on.

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Practicing some 3D

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Make sure you have ORTHO on

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Drawing a 3D pipe

Click Pipe Click a point for the start point of your pipe. Drag the mouse to the lower right direction and Type: 2500 to draw a 2500mm length of pipe.

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Placing a 3D elbow

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Modeling in the horizontal plane

Press on the keyboard to have the elbow connect automatically to the pipe you just drew. Drag down and click (for the corner). Drag to the right and click (for the elbow direction).

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Draw a 1800mm piece of pipe from the elbow toward the upper right direction.

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Now you’ll turn draw another elbow turning up in the vertical plane.

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Click on the UCS Next button on the UCS tool bar.

Now you’ll draw some components in vertical.

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Rotating the UCS easily into the “vertical right hand” plane

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Modeling in 3D has a similar look and feel to creating Isometric drawings

Your cross hairs should look as shown. If not, keep clicking the UCS Next button to get them set.

Do you see how this is going to let you draw in the vertical plane? You can see how the X Y Plane is oriented in the “vertical right hand plane” (it’s on edge going up and down, instead of “flat” like you normally see it). When you draw with the UCS tilted like this, your components will be drawn in the vertical XY Plane. 45. 46.

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Click Elbow Press on the keyboard, to have the elbow connect automatically to the last piece of pipe. Drag the mouse toward the upper right direction and click. Drag the mouse straight up and click. You’ve just drawn an elbow going up.

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Click Pipe and press on the keyboard. Drag the mouse straight up and Type: 1800mm .

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Do you see how this is just like drawing a 2D isometric, but it’s really in 3D? Modeling in CADWorx Plant Pro can get really fast and easy, once you get used to it. 51. 52.

Click the UCS Next tool button on the UCS tool bar. Set it as shown.

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Click Elbow Press Drag up for the corner and click. Drag to the lower right and click.

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Click Pipe Press on the keyboard to connect automatically to the last elbow. Drag to the lower right and Type: 2500 .

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Now let’s say you wanted to draw a valve with flanges in the second horizontal line, where it touches the elbow that’s turned up. You’ll draw a gate valve and flanges here.

First you need to get your crosshairs (UCS) reset. 61.

Click the UCS Next tool button.

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Illustrating how to model in 3D

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Click the Weld Neck Flange on the tool palette.

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Click on the end of the elbow that’s turning up. Drag toward the lower left area of the drawing and click.

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Click the Gate Valve on the tool palette.

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Press on the keyboard to connect it to the flange automatically. Drag the mouse toward the lower left area of the screen and click. Click on the Weld Neck Flange in the tool palette. Press on the keyboard, to connect it automatically to the valve. Drag to the lower left area of the screen (using Polar or Ortho) and click.

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Inserting components into a line and having the system “break out” the line as they are inserted

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So you can see that modeling in 3D in CADWorx is a matter of setting your crosshairs (UCS) in the plane you want to work, then simply placing components. There’s also a great tool which you’ll do soon called a ROUTER LINE, which together with the method you just practiced, will have you creating 3D CADWorx models very fast and efficiently. 71.

Erase the lines you just drew. It was just to illustrate how to model in 3D. Zoom back into the area near the top of the exchangers. Now you’ll model lines coming out of the top of the far exchanger.

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Getting set for modeling

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Set the Main Size to 12”. The spec should be set to 150_M. Click the Line Number setup button in the top area of the CADWorx tool palette.

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75. Your line number will look as shown. You will use CPRB for the Service, and 1004 for the count. The Insulate value will be nothing, since we don’t want to show insulation for this line.

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Setting up the line number

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Click the UCS Next button as needed to orient your crosshairs in the vertical left hand plane. Note: The Z direction is not important here unless you want to place some text in 3D in the model. The X and Y are what’s important to us here. •

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Click Gasket from the CADWorx tool palette.

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Place a gasket on the top of a nozzle (use OSNAP CENTER), and drag the mouse toward the top of the screen and click.

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Click Flange, RFWN from the CADWorx tool palette. Press on the keyboard to connect automatically, drag the mouse up toward the top of the screen, and click. Click Pipe. Press on the keyboard. Drag the mouse up, and Type: 1027 . Click Elbow and press on the keyboard.

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85. Drag the mouse up and click. 86. Drag the mouse toward the upper left area of the screen and click.

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Repeat the steps you just did on the other nozzle. Have the elbow at the top pointing toward the first elbow.

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Placing components in 3D

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Draw a piece of pipe connecting the two elbows. Then click on the Tee, in the CADWorx tool palette.

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Right click on the mouse and click Center. Pause on the end of the elbow, on the right side (don’t click). “Track” down the pipe (drag the mouse down the pipe and you will see the system “tracking), and type: 1738 . Click down the pipe for the Main Run direction. Click Straight Up for the Branch direction. Press to accept the 1738mm distance from the end of the pipe. Your drawing should appear similar to what’s shown.

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Modeling 3D components

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Inserting a Tee into the middle of a 3D pipe

Save the drawing at this point. Now you’ll need to rotate your UCS (your crosshairs) to model in vertical, and also in the “right hand” plane. Click the UCS Next button to rotate them as shown.

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Zoom into the area around the two nozzles on the side of the vessel. 100. Place a Gasket, Flange, and Elbow as shown.

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The following figure shows what you will be constructing.

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You’ll soon be modeling a line that comes up out of the Tee, and connects into the bottom of the Elbow.

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Modeling in vertical

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The bottom of this new line will be at an elevation of 7000.

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Evaluating the setup

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Inquiring about a needed distance

You’ll need to determine how far it is from the center of the Tee to the end of the Elbow on the vessel (you can just follow the steps in the video). First, you’ll determine the distance from the Tee to the Elbow. Again, watch the video and this will be easy to follow. The video shows the following steps. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106.

Click Tools Click Inquiry Click Distance Click the Endpoint or Center of the Tee. Click the Endpoint or Center of the bottom of the Elbow. Note the distance between them (see video) – it’s 4845mm. You’ll key in this distance shortly when you run a router line between them. Now you’re ready to construct the Router Line.

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107. Type: RT to start the Router Line command. If it doesn’t work on your system, you can always click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Router.

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Click the Endpoint of the top of the Tee. Right click and click Position. Right click and click BOP. Press (if prompted for size: 12”). Right click and click Elevation. Right click and click World. Type: 7000 . Drag the mouse toward the vessel (with Ortho on). Type: 4845 . Click the Endpoint of the Elbow. Right click and click Current. Press to exit. You should have a figure similar to the following.

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Using the 3D Router command

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Routing a line in 3D space, connecting to components as needed

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To add piping to the line,

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Click Plant Click Accessory Click Auto Route Click Buttweld LR Press to select Polyline, and Click the router line you just drew. The system will place pipe and elbows for you along the router line.

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126. Save the drawing at this point. 127. Zoom into the area around the elbow that’s above the Tee.

128. Make sure your UCS (your crosshairs) set to work in vertical, and place a Flange, Gate Valve, and Flange.

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129. Click the UCS Next tool button to rotate your crosshairs. They will be oriented like a “vertical left” orientation, if you were doing an isometric. Again, modeling in CADWorx is very similar.

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130. If you are running 2008 and earlier, and you don’t have the Operator’s tool bar open, Click Plant, Tool bars, Operators (skip this step if you’re using CADWorx 2009).

131. Add a hand wheel for the valve as shown. It will be 450 in diameter, and 1500 long. 132. Click Save, to save the drawing. 133. Click View, Visual Styles, Conceptual to look at your work.

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The next line will also be drawn using a Router command. Using the Router, you’ll route the centerline of the piping, and let the system fill in the elbows and piping for you. Also, when using the Router, there are many options you can use to adjust the centerline as you go. You’ll actually explore all the Router command options in the lesson that follows this one. For now, just put in the values as given in the following section. It will be another good introduction to the command, so you will get more familiar with how it works. 134. Click View, Visual Styles, 2D Wireframe. 135. Click the Line Number Setup button.

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136. Change the Service to CPRA. 137. Zoom in around the nozzles on top of the nearest exchanger. 138. Rotate the crosshairs (UCS) as shown.

139. Place a Gasket and RFWN Flange on each nozzle.

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Now you’ll start the Router Line Command. 140. Type RT . This starts the Router. IF IT DOESN’T START, click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Router. This will also start the command. Note: When you start the Router command, the system will rotate the UCS back to the World Coordinate System automatically. This is normal. 141. Using OSNAP CENTER, Click on the top of the flange on the right. 142. Right click on the mouse and click Position. 143. Right click on the mouse and click BOP (for Bottom of Pipe). 144. If the system echoes back 12”, press to accept. If it doesn’t echo back 12” go on to the next step.

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145. Right click on the mouse and click Elevation. 146. Right click on the mouse and click World. 147. Type: 4800 . This sets the bottom of pipe elevation you will be drawing to 4800. 148. Zoom in close around the other flange.

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149. Using OSNAP, click the CENTER (at the top) of the flange. 150. Press on the keyboard for Last 151. Click on the same ENDPOINT of the flange. 152. Right click on the mouse and click Current. 153. Press to exit the Router command. This just routed a line for your piping. Next you’ll tell the system to automatically place pipe and elbows. 154. 155. 156. 157.

Save the drawing. Click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Buttweld LR. Press . Click on the polyline router line you just drew.

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The system will place the elbows and pipe automatically. Now you’ll place a Tee in the line, then continue routing it using the Router command. 158. Verify your UCS (crosshairs) is as shown. If not, rotate them as needed. 159. Verify the Otrack, Osnap, and Ortho buttons are pushed in. 160. Click Tee

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161. Right click and click Center.

162. Move the crosshairs over the end of the pipe on the left (where the pipe and elbow joint). 163. Don’t Click, just hover directly over that point. 164. Drag the mouse toward the lower right (you should see it “tracking”), and 165. Type: 1738 . 166. Drag the mouse toward the lower right and click (for Main direction). 167. Drag the mouse straight up toward the top of the drawing and click (for the Branch direction). 168. Press on the keyboard to accept the distance the system prompts (it’s verifying you want to place the center of the tee at a distance of 1738).

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171. Rotate your crosshairs (rotate the UCS) as shown.

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172. Place a gasket (using OSNAP Center), WNRF Flange, and Elbow (turning down) as shown.

Now you can finish the line using a Router. Zoom back so you can see both ends of the line (the elbow you just placed, and also the tee). Now you’ll use a Router Line to finish the line. Routers let you lay out the path you would like the line to follow. You’ll see more of how this works as you proceed. 173. Type: RT (to start the Router Command). If RT doesn’t work, or if you prefer, you can also click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route. This does the same thing. 174. Click the top end point of the Tee you just placed. 175. Right click and click Position. 176. Right click and click BOP. 177. If the system echoes back 12”, press . If it doesn’t echo back 12” go on to the next step. 178. Right click and Click Elevation. 179. Press for World. 180. Type: 7000 (this will be the elevation of the bottom of the pipe.)

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181. Drag the mouse to the right and 182. Click on the bottom of the elbow, coming down off the nozzle above. 183. Right click and click Last 184. Click on the bottom of the elbow, coming down off the nozzle above again. 185. Right click and click Current. 186. Press to exit.

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Click Plant Click Accessory Click Auto Route Click Buttweld LR Press (to select the polyline) Click the polyline you just routed.

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Next you’ll set the gate valves to use a standard top works file for the valve operators, and adjust the existing gate valve’s top works. 193. Type: Topworksadd 194. Following the video, change the gate valve’s top works (operator) to a standard size. 195. After you’ve completed that, Click the Spec Editor button on the CADWorx SpecView tool palette (see illustration). If instead, you’re running CADWorx 2008 and earlier, you’ll need to: 196. Type: SPED to start the Spec Editor.

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197. Select the 150_M Spec. 198. Click on Valves, Gate in the left section of the dialog box. 199. Highlight the 2-24 inch, 150 LB Flg and click the Edit button.

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200. In the Top Works section of the dialog box, click the Select Button.

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201. Click on the Wheel_Gate_150_F_M.top data file, and

202. Click Select, OK, and OK to exit. This will set the system up to draw the valve operators (Top Works) to standard dimensions.

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203. Adjust the crosshairs (UCS) as needed (click the UCS Next button) and 204. Place the Flanges, Gate Valve, and Valve Operator in this line, like you did in the previous line. 205. Click View 206. Click Visual Styles 207. Click Conceptual 208. Save your work.

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Running Continuity Checks and Generating Isometrics 209. Click View 210. Click Visual Styles. 211. Click 2D Wireframe. You can Isolate a line (view only that line) a couple of ways. One way (demoed in the video – don’t do at this time) is to 212. 213. 214. 215. 216. 217. 218. 219.

Click Plant Click Utility Click Line Isolate Right click and click Isolate Right click and click Line Number Right click and click List Click on the line with the service of CPRA and Click OK, and the line will be shown alone on the screen. •

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220. Type: LINEVIEW The Line View tool palette will appear.

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Click Plant Click Utility Click Continuity Window the line and press

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227. Type: 1000 (for the marker diameter). 228. Press (for the precision). 229. You should see three circles, one on each end of the piping.

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If you have more than three circles, that indicates that you have bad connectivity between your components. You may have a gap, or an overlapping of components, or a gasket placed improperly. If so, you should zoom in closely to the trouble area and correct it. The first lesson has a good section on what to look for with continuity errors. 230. Erase the circles. Running an Isogen Isometric 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237.

Click Plant Click Accessory Click Isogen Click Isogen Out Choose the Metric_Inch_A2 Style and Click OK Press (to select objects).

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238. Window the line and press . 239. When the Isogen Results dialog box appears, 240. Click Open Plot Files

You should see a result similar to the following figure.

241. Save the drawing in the Lessons folder. 242. Plot the drawing for your portfolio. Run isometrics of the other line and save it. If you have any errors, correct them before proceeding. Now you’ll model the supply line. For clarity and ease, you’ll model it in its own file.

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243. Start a new drawing, using a TEMPLATE (remember you always use a template in this system). 244. Click Insert (from the pull down menus at the top) 245. Click External References (second from the bottom in the pull down list). 246. Click Attach 247. Browse to your C:\CADWorx VideoTraining\Examples folder and click on the 248. 35-450 drawing and the Exchangers_Pair drawing (hold down the Control Key as you select them.

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252. You will see your two XRefs now appearing on the drawing.

253. Click on the South West Isometric View from the View toolbar (it should already be docked in the top area of your screen).

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254. Zoom into the lower left area of the drawing.

In this section of the lesson, you will be modeling the supply line that flows from the nozzle in the bottom area of the vessel into the bottom of the exchangers. This product is then heated up in the exchangers and piped out the top of the exchangers and back into the top of the vertical vessel. 255. 256. 257. 258.

Set your size to 16” for the Main size. Set the specification to 150_M. Click the Line Number Setup button. Set the line number as shown. It will be set to 16”-CPS1050-150_M-2”H. 259. Save the drawing as 16-CPS-1050-150_M-2H.

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260. Rotate the crosshair (UCS) as shown (click the UCS Next tool button on the CADWorx Plant UCS tool bar).

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261. Place a gasket, flange, and elbow on the nozzle coming out of the bottom of the exchanger as shown.

262. Place a 300 long piece of pipe, a flange, gate valve, flange, and elbow as shown. Note: If you’re in CADWorx 2009 you will have also placed a valve operator as shown in the video at 135 degrees.

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263. Click the SE Isometric tool button on the View tool bar.

264. Repeat the previous steps on the lower nozzle on the other exchanger. Add a gasket, flange, elbow, 300mm piece of pipe.

265. Then add a flange, gate valve, flange, and elbow. 266. Save the drawing at this point as 16-CPS-1050-1502H.

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267. Click the SW Isometric tool button from the View tool bar. Next you’ll draw a router line and automate some pipes and an elbow.

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268. Type: RT 269. Click the end point on the elbow. 270. Right click and click Position. 271. Right click and click BOP. 272. If the systems prompts 16”, press . If not, go on to the next step. 273. Right click and click Elevation. 274. Right click and click World (to set the BOP elevation to a “world” value). 275. Type: 3650 Enter>. 276. Drag the mouse to the right and click on the center of the nozzle on the vertical vessel.

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277. Click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Buttweld LR. 278. Press , and 279. Click on the router line you just drew. The system will place pipe and an elbow for you.

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Draw a line from the end of the elbow (the elbow with nothing connected to it), perpendicular to the pipe above it.

280. Rotate the UCS (crosshairs) as shown.

281. Pick Tee (from the tool palette). 282. Right click and click Center. 283. Click the point where the line you just drew meets the centerline of the pipe. 284. Click along the pipe (for the run direction). Have Ortho on, and don’t Osnap off the centerline. 285. Click the lower endpoint of the line (where it meets the elbow) for the branch direction. 286. When prompted for the round off, press . The tee should appear on your model as shown.

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287.

Erase the construction line and draw a piece of pipe between the elbow and the tee. 288. In a later video, you’ll add a couple of connection Flanges, RFWN, next to the Tee, but for now leave them off.

289. Place a Gasket and a Flange (RFWN) on the end of the pipe where it joins the nozzle on the vessel. 290. Save your drawing at this point. •

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Creating some Orthographic Views 291. Go to UCS World. (Type: UCS ). 292. Click Insert, External References. 293. From the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons folder: 294. Click Attach. 295. Click on the drawing named 12-CPRA_B-1004150_M, and click OK. 296. Click Attach again. 297. From the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Examples folder: 298. Click on the drawings named the drawing Skid2 299. Click OK. 300. Click on the Plan View (from the View tool bar).

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Zoom in around the area of the skid and the vertical vessel. Save the drawing at this point.

Generating some Clipping Planes 303. 304. 305. 306.

Click Plant Click Utility Click View Click Box

You’ll see the View Creation dialog box.

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307. Click the Specify On-Screen button (where it says First Corner). 308. Click a point in your drawing as shown in the figure which follows. 309. Click the Specify On-Screen button (where it says Second Corner). 310. Click a point in your drawing for the second point as shown in the figure which follows.

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Change the View Set Name to Skid_2. 311. Change the Z Value in the dialog box for the Second Corner to be 15000 312. The X,Y locations will not match what’s shown, but will be fairly close.

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313. Set the View Type to Front. 314. Click the Add button. See the video for a good look at how this gets set up. 315. Click OK. The system will create a clipped front view. Bringing the Clipped View into Paper Space 316. 317. 318. 319. 320. 321. 322. 323. 324.

Click Plant Click Setup Click Border Click Predefined Click the ISO A0 (1189 x 841MM) border. Click the Paper Space check box. Click OK (to exit the Border dialog box). Click OK (to exit the Setup dialog box). Click OK as needed (twice) to exit the Attributes Dialog box for the border (you can also fill out some attribute information if you would like to do so, before OK’ing out).

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You will now have your drawing border inserted into Paper Space.

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Setting up some Views in Paper Space When using AutoCAD 2009, you can set up View Ports easily using the View tab of the 3D Work Space.

The other option, that works for all versions of AutoCAD is as follows. 325. Set your layer to Viewl (no matter which version of AutoCAD you are using).

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326. Open the Viewports tool bar (see instructions which follow). 327. Move the pointer over any AutoCAD tool button and Right Click on the mouse.

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328. Click on Viewports.

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329. Dock the Viewports tool bar at the top of the screen (do not dock it on the side of the screen). 330. Click the Single Viewport tool button (the second button on the Viewports toolbar). 331. Click two points to make a viewport on the screen, similar to what’s shown.

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332. Double click the mouse inside the viewport area. 333. This takes you into “Model Space”. You’ll see your crosshairs are active within the viewport. 334. Pan the drawing to the middle of the viewport. 335. Click the arrow on the side of the Viewports toolbar, and 336. Set the Scale to 1:50.

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337. Double click the mouse outside the viewport area. This returns you to Paper Space. 338. Cross through the edge of the viewport with the mouse, which will light up the Grips on the viewport. 339. Right click, and click Display Locked, Yes.

This locks the viewport and the zoom (scaling) stays locked. You can unlock it later if you want to, but this keeps the scaling fixed.

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Creating a Second Viewport 340. Click on the Single Viewport button again, and create a second viewport as shown.

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341. Double click the mouse inside the border of the second viewport (this makes it current and enters Model Space). 342. Click on the arrow on the View tool bar, and 343. Click on the View named Skid_2-Front.

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344. Pan the drawing to the middle of the viewport, and 345. Click the down arrow on the Viewports toolbar and 346. Set the Scale (zooming) to 1:50.

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Pan the drawing as shown and Double click outside the viewport to return to Paper Space. Cross through the viewport to light up the Grips, Right click and lock the viewport as you did previously (Display Locked, Yes). 351. Set your current layer to Text (or any other layer except layer Viewl). 352. Turn off layer Viewl and the layer Dim2. 353. Save the drawing at this point.

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Adding Annotation to the Drawing in Paper Space “Live” Views or “Flattened” Views? In this lesson you will annotate the orthographic views in Paper Space. This is the recommended method for producing drawings from a model. There are two options you can choose from when you create your drawings in a Layout (in Paper Space). One option is to have viewports with views of the model in them, as you have just created. These are “live” views, because if you change the model, your views will update. Also you will see how to dimension them so that the dimensions update as well, if the model changes.

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The other option is to “flatten” the views. This is the option you would choose if the client only wants flat 2D drawings as their deliverable. You will see how this option works in a later section of this chapter. 354. 355. 356. 357. 358.

Zoom into the area around the top view. Make layer CL the current layer. Type: LTScale . Type: 10 . Draw some centerlines as shown. Use OSNAP Center, Quadrant, Midpoint, etc. as needed.

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Zoom into the area around the vertical tower, 34-450 in the plan view.

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Click Plant Click Text Click Iso Text Click 0 Deg Text

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Click a point to start the text. Type: 3 (for the text height). Press (for 0 degrees rotation). Type: C EQUIPMENT . Press the spacebar three times and Type: N.0+01’-0” .

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372. Label the other centerlines with text as shown.

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373. Using the videos as a guide, label the elevations as shown in the following figure.

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Adding Dimensions in Paper Space You can use Associative Dimensions in Paper Space easily. These dimensions will all have the same height and give the proper distances, no matter what scale or zoom factor you’ve set the viewport for. 374. Type: Dimassoc . 375. Type: 2 . This sets the Dimension Associate system variable to 2. AutoCAD will know to dimension distances properly in Paper Space with this setting. You must use OSNAP on Model Objects (objects within the viewports in Model Space) for this to work properly.

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376. Using the video as a guide, add the dimensions and labels as shown.

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You can also make a 2D Representation of a 3D view. This allows you to “flatten” a 3D view into a 2D view. Sometimes clients only want to receive 2D deliverables. Experiment with this command, following the prompts if you need to utilize this feature.

Congratulations! This completes this section. You are well on your way to learning the many modeling and drawing production features in CADWorx® Plant Professional!

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Routing Lines in 3D using the Router Command

Routers are a great tool in CADWorx Plant Professional. They allow you to “route” centerlines of piping runs in 3D, and then have the system automatically place elbows and pipe segments along the routing line. The Router command also has a number of options to it which make modeling in 3D even easier. For instance, you can tell the system to route your piping using a Bottom of Pipe elevation, or you can have the system Slope the line. If you route a Rolled Offset, the system will automatically Trim the Elbows for you as well.

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This next section illustrates using the Router command, and then you will route some lines in 3D in your model. Some topics covered in this lesson: You will . . . • • • • • •

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Construct Router Lines Work with the various options in the Router command Construct rolled offsets Output these piping runs to Isogen Learn how to route lines in your 3D model Get extensive practice in routing in 3D

Start a new drawing, using the Metric template. (Remember – you always use a template in CADWorx. You can always insert your border at any time later.) Have the AutoCAD View tool bar available at the top of your screen.

Click on the SW Isometric button.

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Setting up the Sheet 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Click Plant, Click Setup. Set the Drawing Mode to 3D Solids. Set the Main Size to 6”. Set the Specification to 150_M. Click the Line Number tool button. Set the line number to have a Service of LH, and a Count of 2000.

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Starting the Router Command You can start the Router command two ways: Typing in RT Or Click through the Pull-down menus (Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Router) Note: If you make an error in typing during a Router command, simply type U , to “Undo” the segment just placed. You can correct it, and not have to start over. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Right click, and click Elevation. Type: -1500 (the router line moves 1500mm down.). So typing a positive or negative number, and pressing , locates the next point of the 3D Router line that far up or down from the current point.

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Right click, and click Slope. Right click and click Meter (for Slope per meter). Type: -100 (for a 100mm fall per meter). Drag the mouse toward the lower right and Type: 4000 .

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Drag the mouse toward the upper right direction and Type: 2000 .

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Routing a rolled offset

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Type: @3000,-2500,-2000 . Type: C (to instruct the system to move to your “current” elevation).

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This will route the line 10’ toward the upper right, 8’ toward the lower right, and 6” down in elevation.

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Right click on the mouse, and click Position. Right click and click BOP. Press if prompted for 6” size (if not prompted, proceed to the next step). Right click and click Elevation. Right click and click World. Type: 2000 (when piping is generated soon, the bottom of the pipe will be positioned at a 2000mm elevation).

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The routed centerline is completed

Drag the mouse toward the lower right direction of the screen and Type: 3000 . Press once again to exit the command.

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Placing Elbows and Pipe 36. 37. 38. 39.

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Click Plant Click Accessory Click Auto Route Click Buttweld LR

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The system places pipe and elbows automatically

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Elbows get trimmed as needed automatically

Press (for Select Polylines). Click on the router line you just drew. The system will automatically place elbows and pipe along the router line.

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Generating an Isogen Iso 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51.

Save the drawing as C\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons\Router_1. Click Plant Click Accessory Click Isogen Click Isogen Out Select the Metric_Inch_A2 border and Click OK Press (for select components) and Window the piping and press . Click the Open Plot Files button to view the iso.

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Isogen draws all the information, including labeling the elevation changes and the trimmed elbows

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Reviewing the Isogen Iso

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The beginning area shows the coordinate at the start of the iso, the change in elevation, and the sloping portion of the line.

The next section shows the rolled offset area. Note the trimmed elbow which is labeled as 55.3 degrees on the isometric.

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The isometric contains annotation for the starting coordinates, and each change in elevation

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You can also see how it labels the slope

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Here you can see how the system shows a rolled offset

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A rolled offset can be displayed a variety of ways in Isogen

Isogen has several options on how it displays the rolled offsets.

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You can see the Router command gives you many options in routing piping runs in 3D. You’ll use this method extensively in some real examples in the next section. 52.

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Save the drawing in your C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons folder as Router_Iso1. Close the drawing and you should have open your Router_1 drawing (the 3D model of the line).

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Click Plant Click Tool Bars Click Restraints This brings up the CADWorx Restraints tool bar.

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Click the Anchor restraint button and place it on the lower end of the line. 58. Right click and click UP. 59. Type: 300 (for a 300mm tall anchor). 60. Press to take the defaults for the length and description of the anchor. 61. This will tell the stress analysis system that the line is anchored at each end (for instance, being connected to a vessel nozzle on the high end, and a pump suction nozzle on the lower end).

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Click the OSNAP button at the bottom of your screen, to turn it OFF. Click the Spring Hanger button on the Restraints tool bar. Type: Mid (for Osnap Mid Point). Pick the mid point of the 2000mm pipe run that’s between the sloped portion of the line and the rolled offset portion of the line. Right click on the mouse and click Down. Type: 600 for the depth. Press to accept the defaults for the length and the description of the hanger.

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Save the drawing again at this point. Run another Isogen isometric of the line (Plant, Accessory, Isogen, Isogen Out, choose the C border).

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Save the isometric drawing at this time as Router_Iso_2.

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You can export the geometry and restraint information out to CAESAR II (see Lesson Six in piping for more information)

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Click Plant Click Accessory Click CAESAR II Click System Out

Click the Save button to save the output file out under the name given (it matches the drawing name). Press to select components (but notice the prompts – you can select by line number or from a database, if you are running the system with a database option). Window the drawing and press . Press and Click OK to exit the command. CADWorx has just built a CAESAR II file that can be read directly into CAESAR II for analysis! This file will come into CAESAR II with the geometry fully done, and nodes numbered correctly. This saves a tremendous amount of time for the stress engineers, since they can start to analyze the line without having to create all of the geometry.

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Once the stress engineers have analyzed the line, they can save the file with any changes made to it. Perhaps they added additional supports to it, or added an expansion loop. If changes were made, you could then go to the pull down menus (Plant, Accessory, CAESAR II, System In) and bring the modified line back into your model. The system would automatically update your model with the engineer’s changes.

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This bi-directional information exchange makes CADWorx and CAESAR II a very powerful combination of software to do project work. 80.

Save your line again, and close the drawing.

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Modeling Line Number 8”-LH-1011-150_M The Pump Discharge Line 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Start a new drawing, using the Metric template. Click Insert (from the pull-down menus). Click External References Click Attach Browse to the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Examples folder and Xref in the 35-Background drawing and the P-100AB drawing. Set the Xref dialog box as shown: •

Starting up a drawing in CADWorx

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Xreffing in the background and the pumps

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Now you’re set up to start the video

You’ll see the pumps and the footings as shown.

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If you hover the crosshairs over a pump nozzle you can see the size of the nozzle.

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Set up the size and spec

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Model some of the components and save your drawing

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Set the Size, Spec and Line number as shown in the video. Following the video, rotate the UCS, to set the system to model in vertical. Then model the gasket, flange, and 300 mm long pipe segment.

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Save the drawing at this point. Save it in the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons folder, under the name 8:-LH-1011-150_M. Following the video, model the next series of components – the flange, check valve, gate valve, flange, and elbow.

The video will take you through the steps of copying the components, and connecting them up. Pay close attention to the part where it talks about Osnap snapping to background objects and causing problems. That’s an important thing to remember in modeling.

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Following the video you will determine some elevations of the steel in the piperack. You will use these elevations to route the pipe into and down the piperack.

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Setting up the display to show two views simultaneously

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In the right viewport have snap set to 1”

Then you’ll set the system up into two viewports.

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Have Snap set to 50 in the right hand viewport. The videos will discuss good techniques for using the Router command in two viewports.

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Next you’ll construct the 3D routing line. Follow the steps in the video to construct it.

Then you can have the system place pipe and elbows (Click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Buttweld LR).

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Modeling the 3D Router Line

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Automatically modeling the pipe and elbows

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Zooming and viewing from the left to verify the piping is sitting correctly on top of the pipe rack

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Next you’ll model the vent in the line

You can view the routed line from the left and verify that the routed pipe is sitting on top of the beams correctly.

Next you’ll model the thredolet for the vent.

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Following the video, model the pipe nipple, gate valve and plug.

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Placing olet branches

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Adding an instrument

Next, following the videos, model the thredolet, pipe nipple, and gate valve.

Following these, you’ll place the instruments.

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Cleaning up the instrument graphics

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Isolating the line and running a continuity check

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Generating an Isogen isometric drawing of the line

You’ll model the instrument on the other pump. Then you’ll clean up the graphics for the instruments (again, follow the steps in the video).

Then you’ll generate an Isogen isometric drawing of the line. The system splits the model into two isometrics when it creates them.

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Close the isometric drawings and save your file. This finishes the exercise in modeling the pump discharge line. Next you’ll model a line coming at an angle out of the vertical vessel 35-450. •

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Reviewing the Isogen isometric

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Modeling Line 8”- LH-1012-150_M

This line comes out of the tower at a 60 degree angle, and then it drops down and goes up near the rack. At that point it will drop down to a control station, then come back up, enter the rack, and run down the rack from there. The line will have a dummy leg attached to it and it will also have to base supports under the control station.

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This line includes a dummy leg support and two base supports

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The supports will be modeled to export out to both CAESAR II and also Isogen

You’ll see how to model these so that they go out to Isogen, and also out to the CAESAR II pipe stress analysis program.

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Following the video, Xref in the 35-450_Piping piping drawing, and the 35-450_Background drawing. In the figure below, you can see the nozzles coming out of the vessel at various angles.

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The video will take you through the steps needed to align your UCS to the nozzle you’ll connect to.

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Then you’ll set your line number, and begin placing components.

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Viewing the nozzle oriented at 60 degrees

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Aligning the UCS at the proper angle

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Reviewing the components connected to the nozzle

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Setting up to work with two views – split screens

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Routing the line using two viewports

Once the components connected to the nozzle are placed, you will set up your screen to have two viewports. This makes it easier to work with the 3D router line in a model.

Following the video, start a Router command: Type: RT . Osnap to the lower end of the elbow. Right click and click on Elevation. Right click and click on World. Type: 5057 (for the centerline of the pipe). Click in the right viewport once to activate it. Verify Snap is turned on, and set to 50. If it’s displaying incorrectly, you can change it by typing ‘COORDS’, and setting it to 1.

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Drag the mouse (in the right viewport) toward the pipe rack. Again, you can review the video for the exact steps. When the Y value in your coordinates display shows 9000, click the mouse at that point.

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The finished router line

Then Right click and click Elevation. Right Click, Click World. Type: 600 . Drag the mouse to the right and Type: 2000 .

Place elbows and pipe onto the line automatically. Click Plant Click Accessory Click Auto Route Click Buttweld LR

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The system will place elbows and pipes along the routed line.

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Next, following the video, you’ll place the components fitting-to-fitting. This is an effective way to work. Use a Router line for part of the line, then put in the components as fitting make-up when it’s appropriate, then you’ll continue another Router line after that.

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Viewing the piping and elbows automatically placed

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Using the video, you’ll model the gate valves and also the bypass.

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Modeling the block valves (gate valves) and the bypass

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Starting a new Router Line from the end of the tee

Next, follow the video and construct another Router Line from the end of the tee. It will go up to the proper level and enter the pipe rack, and then it will turn up, and then turn east and route down the rack. Use the measurements as described in the video.

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Click Insert (from the pull-down menus), External References, and click on the 34-450_Piping drawing. Right click and “Unload” the Xref. This will leave the line you just created displayed by itself on the screen, but you can easily restore the XRef.

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Unloading the Xref used for the background during routing

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Placing the drain on the control station

Next, following the video, place the drain on the control station. It will involve a thredolet, pipe nipple, gate valve, and plug.

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A Tap is required at this branch to avoid errors in the isometric. Isogen will report a “disconnect” at this branch if a tap is not placed here. 29. 30. 31. 32.

Type: TAP . Click the point at the intersection of the centerlines for the olet and the reducer. The system echoes back: “Select entity:” Click the centerline of the reducer (the reducer is the object getting tapped).

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You’ll see a Tap symbol appear in your drawing.

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Next, following the video, run a Continuity Check.

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If you have good continuity, as illustrated in the video, run an Isogen isometric. If you have some problems with the continuity, make sure you fix them before generating the isometric. If you use a size Metric_Inch_A2 border, the system will generate a couple of isometrics for this line, since it has a number of components.

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In this next section you’ll place some Base Supports under the two elbows in the control station area, and you’ll also add a Dummy Leg support. First, you’ll redraw the elbows that will have supports, using a setting that places Nodes (these are AutoCAD Points) at certain points in the elbows. If you don’t know about nodes, it’s not a problem. Nodes are AutoCAD objects that AutoCAD can also draw. They are used sometimes to locate points at certain locations. You can just follow along with the video and continue working as it shows.

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Click Plant, Utility, Drawing Control.Click Node Placement. Erase the two lower elbows and redraw them. When they are redrawn, they will appear as before, and they will also have “node” (points) on the ends and at the corner.

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Redrawing the elbows with nodes included

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The Restraints tool bar is used to place hangers and supports that will export out to CAESAR II and also Isogen isometrics

Also redraw the top elbow so that it includes nodes.

Open the Restraints tool bar (click Plant, Tool bars, Restraints).

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Following the video, add a Translational restraint at the elbow. This will be used to convey information for a Dummy Leg support at this point.

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Placing a Restraint at the corner of the elbow

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Testing to see if the support information goes into Isogen

Using the video as a guide, run this area through Isogen. Just use a “crossing” and select the two pipes, the elbow, and the restraint (again, as shown in the video). You’ll see Isogen includes some information about the support.

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Viewing the support data in the BOM

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Starting the CADWorx Clash checker, which checks for interferences

Next you’ll look at how the CADWorx Clash View works. It can be used to see if you have clashes (interferences) between two pipes, where one 3D pipe is hitting another objects unexpectedly.

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Type: Clashview . This brings up the Clash View dialog box.

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Follow the video, which will illustrate how this tool works.

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Model the dummy leg as shown in the video.

Add a Tap as shown in the videos. This is required to maintain continuity when you run the line out to Isogen to create an isometric drawing.

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Modeling the dummy leg

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A Tap is required here for Isogen to work correctly

Following the video, run this corner section out again to Isogen and see what the system generates.

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Viewing the generated isometric of the dummy leg at this point

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Adding a note for the dummy leg, that will appear in the isometric

After viewing the isometric, you’ll next add a note to the dummy leg in the model that will come out in the isometric. 46.

Double click on the dummy leg. The Component Edit dialog box will appear.

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Click on the button at the bottom that says Isogen. Add a message as shown in the video.

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Run another Isogen isometric, as illustrated in the video. You’ll see the note appear in the isometric drawing.

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Viewing the note for the dummy leg in the isometric

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Displaying the points

Add information for the Base Supports Next you’ll add information into the model for the base supports under the elbows. 50.

Using the video, have the system display the points.

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Place restraints on each elbow at the nodes (corners of the elbows). Use the video as a guide.

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Placing a restraint that will represent the base supports in both Isogen and CAESAR II

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Setting up a Reference Dimension that will come out in the isometric

In this next section you’ll do a couple of things. First you’ll have Isogen draw the base support with a typical symbol. This will improve the appearance of the isometric. Then you’ll set Isogen to produce a detail drawing of the base support. This detail drawing will appear as a separate box in the isometric itself.

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Double click one of the elbows which have the base supports under them. This will bring up the Component Edit dialog box. Click on the Isogen button at the bottom of the screen. Change the support information in the dialog box as shown in the video, and in the following figure.

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The symbol that has been chosen came from one of the help files for Isogen that are included with CADWorx software. Take a look at the video which discusses these.

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Viewing some of the symbols that Isogen can draw (controlled by their SKEYs)

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Viewing the base support along with its accompanying note

After setting the SKEY and other support information as shown, run an Isogen iso. You should see something similar to the following figure.

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Generating a Detail Sketch in Isogen Next you’ll have Isogen produce a detail sketch of the base supports. 57. 58. 59.

Double click the elbow with the base support. This opens the Component Edit dialog box. Click on the Isogen button (at the bottom of the dialog box). 60. Following the video, add the information to tell Isogen where the detail sketch is located. •

Setting the detail sketch name

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Here the folder is specified that contains the detail sketches

There are a couple of additional steps needed. 61.

Using the video as a guide, open the Project Manager program. You will change some settings to set up the detail sketches.

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The previous figure shows how you specify where the detail sketches are located. Click in the dialog box and set your system up as shown in the video. Set the Detail Sketches folder to be C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Examples\ Isogen_Detail_Sketches. After it’s set, click OK. In the Project Manager, click the area next to Drawing Definition. Click Browse shows the modified Drawing Definition file, which has to be set up to bring in the detail sketches. This file is in the same folder. After setting the Drawing Definition File and clicking OK, you will be back in the Project Manager.

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The video will show you how to set the folder that contains the detail sketches’ location

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The modified Drawing Definition file

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Generating another Isogen isometric

The video shows what the modified Drawing Definition File looks like (see figure below).

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After setting up the system, run another isometric. Select just the area around the lower elbow and base support. The detail sketch will appear in the area near the bill of materials, at the top of the isometric. You should get something similar to what’s shown.

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Viewing a detail sketch produced in the isometric

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CADWorx can model all the standard small bore components

Next you’ll place a Reference Dimension from the tee to the centerline of the pipe rack. 67. 68. 69. 70.

Double click the tee (as shown in the video). The Component Edit dialog box appears. Click on the Isogen button at the bottom of the dialog box. In the Reference Dimension section, fill out the information as shown in the video.

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Generate an isometric drawing (see the video) and you can see how the system produces a reference dimension within an iso. •

Viewing the generated Reference Dimension

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Adding a note to the globe valve that will appear in the isometric

Next you’ll add a note for the globe valve (on the bypass line in the control station) that will come out in the isometric. 72. 73. 74. 75.

Double click on the globe valve. The Component Edit dialog box will appear. Click on the Isogen button. Add a note in the Message section of the dialog box as shown in the video.

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Generate an isometric drawing of the area around the globe valve. It should appear similar to what’s shown in the following figure.

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Viewing the note on the globe valve that is produced in the isometric

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Modeling Small Bore Piping Components

This next section covers modeling components that have smaller diameters. These types of components are usually threaded or socket weld components. In this lesson you’ll be completing the line shown below.

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Modeling an Elbolet in one of the return lines

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Drawing construction lines

Following the video, set the size, spec and line number as directed. Draw the construction lines as shown in the video.

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Set the line number for the one inch line as shown in the video. 79.

Following the steps in the video, place components as shown.

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Completing the model of the small bore line

Save your drawing frequently. Follow the videos to complete this line.

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Next run a continuity check.

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Checking Continuity

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The finished isometric

If you have good continuity, run an Isogen isometric.

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Lesson Six Productivity Tools

This section will cover a number of topics: • • • • • • •

Exporting a CADWorx® line into CAESAR II for analysis Generating custom components in CADWorx® Modeling Cable Trays Working with Databases in CADWorx® Checking data in the CADWorx model compared to the P&IDs Using Xrefs effectively Introduction to Sheet Sets

As these topics begin to get implemented in your work process, you will find your productivity steadily improving. Depending upon which of these you use, you should find that you start having less duplication of effort, or better communication, or less cross-checking.

Exporting and Importing back a line between CADWorx and CAESAR II CADWorx has the ability to export a line out to CAESAR II pipe stress software. The line will export out with full and correct geometry. CAESAR II can then open it up seamlessly, and the design engineer can then analyze it for code compliance. During the analysis, if the engineer modifies the geometry of the line, the changes can be imported directly back into CADWorx and the model updated. The following section illustrates how this works.

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In this example you will export out this line to CAESAR II.

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Open the drawing: 8”-LH-1012-150_M. You can find it either in the Examples folder or the Lessons folder (under C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\). Once the drawing is open, you can click: Plant, Accessory, CAESAR II, System Out

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The system will export the line out into a CAESAR II format with a .c2 file extension.

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Click Save Select the components to be exported, and press . (Note: You can isolate a line beforehand if needed using the CADWorx line isolate command). Press (you will not specify start locations). The system will proceed and write out a CAESAR II input file for you.

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Click OK to finish the export. At this point you have a completed CAESAR II input file. All the geometry of the line will be modeled correctly, and viewed quickly within CAESAR II.

To illustrate this, below is how the line looks when it is opened in CAESAR II.

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When the view is zoomed in closer in CAESAR II you can see how the nodes are numbered and the restraints (supports) are modeled.

It’s easy to see how this can impact your productivity gains in 3D CAD modeling. When you can cut out the duplication of effort for the engineer to recreate the geometry, great time and cost savings will result. As a final part of the process, if the line is modified in CAESAR II, then the file can be saved and imported directly back into CADWorx. So the geometric and design data makes the round trip seamlessly.

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Creating Custom Components CADWorx allows you to create your own special components in an easy to use procedure. In this lesson you’ll create the Flame Arrestor shown below.

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Start a new drawing (using the Metric template). Set the Main Size to 6”. Set the Specification to A10 (you should have an A10 spec from previous lessons. If not, open the 150_M spec using the spec editor and save as A10). Following the video’s measurements, place the two flanges as shown, and model the polyline as described.

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Erase the flanges on each end, but leave the polyline. Bring up the Miscellaneous tool bar, and click on the Create tool button.

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Using a CADWorx tool button to start the Create command

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Following the videos, fill out the information for your new component. Then click the two ends as shown in the video, and click on the polyline. The system will then read the polyline geometry, and produce a data file (measurement file) for you automatically. Then, all that’s left to do is add the component to the spec, so it knows where to find it to draw it.

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Following the video, add a new “User Shape” to your specification.

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After adding the Flame Arrestor to your specification, you can bring it into the drawing (the video will cover this step by step).

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This is an intelligent CADWorx object that was created without any programming. 11.

Double click on the component, and you’ll see the information embedded in it.

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The video will show connecting the flame arrestor to other CADWorx components. 12. Follow the video and connect gaskets, flanges, and piping to the flame arrestor you created.

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CADWorx will include the component in an isometric

Then send the line out to Isogen and view the results (as shown in the video). The system will generate an Isogen iso with the flame arrestor drawn and listed in the bill of materials.

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The component will be drawn as a simple rectangle in the isometric, but it will be piecemarked and listed in the bill of materials.

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Creating a non-symmetrical User Shape CADWorx also has the ability to create user shapes that are non-symmetrical. In this next section, you’ll create the shape shown in the following figure.

The video on this section will describe how this object was created using standard AutoCAD solids.

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To bring this object into CADWorx as an intelligent object:

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Click the Create button on the Miscellaneous toolbar (as shown in the video). Following the video, enter in the descriptive information for the component. Then you’ll tell the system you are going to select a block. Next you will select 3D, to bring in a 3D block. Then you will select the Reference Point (which is the insertion point). Then you’ll pick the far end of the block (at the end of the flange on the end). The block must be a “straight through” block for this to work. If there’s an offset it will come in tilted.

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Then you pick a “connection point”. In this case you pick the same two points in the same order, plus the point at the end of the top flange. The order is important. Press and Select all the objects in this 3D block. Next, you’ll add this new component to one of the specs, so you can tell the system to draw it.

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Type: SPED (this starts the spec editor). Select the A10 spec (if you don’t have this spec, you can use the 150_M spec. When the spec is opened, click User Shape in the left area of the dialog box, and click Add (see the following figure).

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When the next dialog box opens up, you click the Select button.

Click Use (for the user folder).

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Click the file you just created: Baffle_Box.Use, and click the Select button.

Exit out of the dialog boxes: Click OK, then Save, which will get you back to the drawing. Set your size to 6”, and the spec to A10 (or the spec you added the new component to).

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Next you’ll test your custom shape in CADWorx. To bring it in: 18.

Hold down the mouse button on the Create button, and release on the button it was added to (in this case button one).

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Following the video, place the custom component on the drawing.

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Place components that connect to your custom component (the baffle box) as described in the video.

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21. Then generate an Isogen isometric as shown in the video, and review the results.

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Modeling Cable Trays (HVAC) CADWorx has the ability to model cable trays. It contains a variety of shapes you can place in the model, and you can also include material information in them as well.

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Open the drawing called HVAC_Example.dwg. It’s in the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Examples folder.

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Opening the HVAC dialog box

In this drawing, you’ll place some cable tray shapes. 2.

Click Plant, HVAC, Shapes.

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The system will open the HVAC dialog box, containing a variety of shapes you can model.

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Looking at some of the available shapes

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Follow the video and select the Square Straight and fill out the data.

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Place this shape into the drawing as shown in the video.

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Filling out data for a Tee

Fill out the Tee shape information and place it into the drawing.

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Generating a Cable Tray BOM

The system also has a Bill of Materials option you can use. You should go through and test the Setup, to see the various fields you can bring into the material list.

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Working with Databases in CADWorx

CADWorx has a number of options you can use when it comes to databases. For instance, it can: • • •

Run without a database Export out intermittently to a database Run connected to a live database.

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CADWorx supports Access, Oracle, and SQL Server

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A Bill of Materials is a list for a single drawing

So these choices are typical of CADWorx – you can work the way that best suits your needs. Databases are used for several reasons: • • •

Using databases you can produce a global material list for a project that is composed of multiple drawings. You can also change descriptive information in a database, and have it update the model. Also, you can compare data in a P&ID data table to data within a 3D piping model.

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Access SQL Server Oracle

Generating a Bill of Materials A Bill of Materials is a material list for a single drawing. It can be contained in the drawing, or exported out to Excel, Htm, Mdb, or as a Txt file.

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To setup a Bill of Materials 1. 2. 3.

Click Plant Click Bill of Materials Click Setup The Bill of Materials Setup dialog box will appear.

This dialog lets you add new columns to the BOM from a list of various data items. You can set the width of the columns, the headings, their location in the BOM, etc.

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Exporting Component Data out to a Database CADWorx has the capability of exporting component information out to a database on an intermittent basis. If you don’t want to run the system with a live database, but you still want to obtain a global material list, you can use this option. This gives you a lot of flexibility. To export component information out to a database: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Click Plant Click Accessory Click Database Click Export

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Press (to select components) Type: A for all. A dialog box will appear for you to select the database type.

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Following the video, set up a database like it shows. At a later time, if you export again to the database, it will prompt you to Append/Synchronize. This allows you to update and synchronize the database with the various drawings you have in your project.

Working with a Live Database CADWorx also lets you work with a live database. A live database means that a database program is running at the same time CADWorx is running. Each time you place a component in CADWorx, it will instantly write a record for that component in the database program. This method let’s you work with the project while in the drawing, and also from within the database. You can switch back and forth if needed. For instance, you can also modify descriptive information in the database, and it will update the component information in the model when it synchronizes (you can do this with an intermittent database also).

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To Run the System with a Live Database 1. 2. 3. 4.

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Setting up a live database

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Choosing the Live Database Type and location

This brings up the Live Database Settings dialog box.

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Click the Access button, and Click the Create Table button. Choose a location on your system for the database. The location is not important in this example, since you are just seeing how this works.

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Exporting out drawing data to an external database

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You can do this for multiple drawings, and build a global material list

These steps actually just set the system up. The live database takes effect when CADWorx is restarted. It will stay in effect until it is switched off, using the same dialog box you just worked with.

Example of Exported Database This next section shows the kind of data that CADWorx puts in the database tables. In this example, you’ll export out drawing data to an external database. You can do this from multiple drawings into the same database, if needed. That way you could compile a database that contains all the material information for a number of drawings, and produce a global material list. 1.

Click Plant, Accessory, Database, Export.

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Press (to select components). Type: All (to select all the components in the drawing. You’ll then tell the system you want to make a new database since this is the first time to run this command.

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You set the type and location of the database

Later, if you’ve modified the drawing, and you want to update the database to show the changes, you will click the append/synchronize button.

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Click the Browse button and choose a location to place the database. If you have a folder on your system where you would like to place it, that’s fine. If not, you can place it in your training folder: C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons Then you click the Save button, then click OK. At that point the system will look at each component in the drawing and write out the external database.

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Start Microsoft Access and go to the database you just created (see the video as an example). If you open the Pipe table, you’ll see the data that the system has written out for the piping components.

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Viewing the database using Access

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The video will discuss the database and its contents. You can also export the steel data. To do this:

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Click Plant, Accessory, Steel, Database, Export

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Exporting drawing information out to a database

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Using the Append/Sync option

In this case, since the database exists, you will choose the Append/Sync button.

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Follow the video and send out the steel data.

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CADWorx exports out the data for the steel members, including lengths, weights, and part numbers. The following figure shows a portion of the tables (not all of the steel information is shown).

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Creating or Rebuilding a Drawing from a Database You can also rebuild an entire drawing from its database. This is another way to use database information to update or create data in the drawing. To build a drawing from a database: 1. Click Plant, Click Accessory, Click Database Import.

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Importing database information into the drawing – this generates new components or updates existing components

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You can compare data in the P&ID to the data in a piping model

If you start a new drawing, using a template, and execute this command, the system will draw piping components from the information it gets from the database. Comparing P&ID Data to the Piping Model CADWorx can compare the valves in a P&ID to the valves in the piping model, by using database tools and cross checking them. In this lesson, you’ll be comparing the valves in the P&ID sample drawing against the model example. 1.

Open the drawing called Partial_Model_Example. It’s in the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Examples\Project_Database folder.

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The portion of the piping model that will be used to compare the valves in the model to the valves in the P&ID

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The P&ID that will have its valve data compared to the piping model

As you watch the video, it will cover how the P&ID needs to be created, in order for the data tables to be linked and compared.

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The P&ID has to be drawn in CADWorx P&ID using the same specs and line numbers. Also the P&ID will need to have the “Process Assign” command run across the process lines (see the video for how this is done). 3.

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When you type PIDView in CADWorx, the system will bring up a box showing the P&ID valves and the valves in the model

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Type: PIDView . The system will add a dialog box next to the drawing showing the valve data in the P&ID and the model.

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Click on a valve in the P&ID area of the table, and it will appear in the window at the bottom of the table.

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The system will zoom into the corresponding valve in the model.

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Linking valves will allow you to check consistency between the P&ID and the model

Click on the other Gate Valve, right click and zoom to it. Once the proper valve is identified, you can link the P&ID valve to the model valve (see video for how this is done).

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You can also insert a valve from the P&ID data right into the model. 8. 9.

Click the valve you want to insert in the P&ID list. Right click, and click Insert in Model (see video for how this is done).

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You can then place the proper valve right into the model.

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Project Administration – Managing the Model

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Each discipline will have its own sub folder

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You will make extensive use of External Reference files (Xrefs)

When working on a model that is relatively complex, it is important to set up a good organizational structure. •

What you should do is set up a project folder, with each discipline having its own folder under the project folder. For instance, in this course, you will have a project folder called Area_35. Underneath it are the various discipline folders.

You could have other folders also, depending upon your project and your work process (Clearances, Buildings, Underground, etc.).

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Then you place your discipline drawings within these sub folders and you can divide the work among a number of users. Each user then works on his or her assignment, and Xrefs in other drawings as needed.

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There is a “Project Master” drawing

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CADWorx is completely scalable. There is no project size limit for a well organized design

There will be a series of “Master” drawings for each discipline. These master drawings will have all the individual drawings Xreffed into them (see video for recommendations on this).

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There will be a Project Master drawing with the discipline master drawings xreffed into it. View the video for a discussion of these topics.

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It is important to have a single model coordinator that controls these files. This way it can be managed effectively.

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There is no limit to the scalability of CADWorx projects, if they are well organized.

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Using Sheet Sets Sheet sets automate the creation of views (standard and clipped) in Paper Space viewports. Paper space views are preferred since they are “live” views. If you change the model, the view will update. This way you have no surprises. You can also annotate and dimension on the paper, with associated dimensions. Then if the model changes, the dimensions will also change.

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Sheet Sets are a great time saver in producing drawings

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CADWorx can easily create clipped views with its View Box command

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Paper Space views are “live” views. Using them, if the model changes, all your details change

The first part of the video shows View Boxes, which easily set up clipped views (these are also covered in the earlier piping lesson four, and also in the structural skid one lesson).

Watch the videos for an easy introduction to how Sheet Sets work.

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When you create these clipped views, they can be easily accessed from the View tool bar.

Using Sheet Sets, these views can be dropped into layouts (Borders) with scaling and labeling automated and made easier. The video makes use of a sample sheet set that is supplied by AutoCAD. This makes it really easy to do.

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In this example, you’ll use a sample sheet set supplied by AutoCAD

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You’ll specify which model files you want to use for your drawings

Follow the video to see how this works. You will quickly be producing scaled and labeled views for your drawing production. When you work with the Sheet Set Manager, you will set up some information about your project. This will help later because the system will build you a drawing list automatically. You’ll then tell the system the model files, which contain clipped or standard views you want to use.

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Then you’ll choose a sample layout. .

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You fill out a drawing name and number

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It’s very quick and easy after you do it a time or two

A few clicks later and you will be dropping in views with scaling and labeling. It’s a great time saver. Watch the video and it’s easy to follow all the steps.

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Editing CADWorx Specifications Some topics covered in this lesson: You will . . . • Learn how to open a sample spec and examine it • Create your own spec • Review the contents of a spec • Add and delete items to your spec • Modify descriptive information and size ranges • Add Valve Tags • Add Part Numbers (Procurement Codes) • Add new Control Valves to your spec as optional components • Add new size ranges that are not standard • Create special end conditions components • Use Keywords to create look up values in the long description (wall thicknesses) • Print out your spec for review • Update your spec in the middle of a project 1.

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Starting the CADWorx Spec Editor

Start CADWorx Plant and type SPED (or Click Plant, Accessory, Specifications, Editor). This will start the Spec Editor.

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You will see a list of all the specs that ship with CADWorx. Notice the extensive list of specs included when you purchase CADWorx. There are over 70 piping specs that are bundled into the software. Some of these are imperial specs, some are metric, and some are mixed metric (imperial bore sizes, with metric length measurements). There are also stainless steel specs, pvc, lined pipe, victaulic, FRP, Swagelok, etc. The system ships with these specs supplied, and it is very easy to add your own spec as needed. CADWorx supplies a library of components with over 60,000 components defined. Written by Anthony W. Horn © 2011 CAD Training Technologies, LLC Houston, TX USA

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Double click on the 150_M.spc You will see the following dialog box. •

Opening an existing spec

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Saving an existing spec under another name

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Exporting the spec out for review

This is the Spec Editor’s dialog box. 5. 6.

Click Save As. Type: A10 . This will save the default CADWorx 150 lb spec to a name of your choice, in this case A10.

Reviewing the Contents of a Spec

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To get a complete overview of the contents of your A10 spec Click the Export button (lower right area of the dialog box) The system will save the spec out in your choice of several different formats. In this case, Click Save (to save it as a text file, A10.txt, in the Spec folder).

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Open Notepad (Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, Notepad) and use Notepad to open the A10.txt file for review. You’ll see the following, which is a full listing of the A10 spec.

Scroll through the spec and take a look at it. This is an excellent way to note its contents. You can print this out, mark it up, and keep track of what needs modifying. Close Notepad at this time and go back to the Spec Editor. Notice that Pipe is high lighted (on the left). Click on the second pipe range listed (second down on the right).

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Reviewing a spec’s contents in Notepad or Excel

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Editing the pipe’s description in spec editor

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Adding Valve Tags

Change the description from STD to 40, and A-106 to A53 (see below). Click OK.

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Scroll down, in the left section of the dialog (components) and click on Valves, Gate.

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Working with Part Number (Procurement Codes)

Adding Part Numbers (Procurement Codes) CADWorx has the capability of inserting a part number into every component. This can be set up by clicking the Edit Codes button (lower right area of the dialog box). The system will display the default part numbers for a Gate Valve.

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The Part Numbering file in CADWorx: DBCodes.dat

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Adding a Part Number to a Gate Valve

This is a very easy system to maintain. For instance, if you wanted to update the part number for a 6” Gate Valve. 23. 24. 25.

Click 6.00 (on the right). Put in your part number (in this example Type: A2R_6_150. Click the Update button (lower right). You can see that this part number system is easy to use. Near the very top of this dialog box is the path name of the part number file, C:\ CADWorx Plant 2007\Spec\Dbcodes.dat. This is actually a text file that can be modified using this easy dialog box interface, or with a text editor. Some CADWorx users also have written automated programs that update this text file as they add new parts to their procurement purchasing system.

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These part numbers can be brought into Bill of Materials list in CADWorx drawings and Isogen. They can also be used for automating ordering items with your purchasing system. 26.

Click OK, to exit this dialog box (The Database Codes Editor).

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The Short Description is used in Component Annotation

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The Sort Sequence determines the position a component takes in the Bill of Materials

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The Index Code is a category value used in Part Numbering

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Looking at Data Files (the “measurement file”)

Looking further at the items in this dialog box: 27.

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The Short Description’s value will appear on the drawing when placed there using the Annotate Component command (covered in the first piping lesson). The Sort Sequence tells the system how to sort the items down the Bill of Materials. A zero will make it first in the BOM list. A 999 will make it last in the list. If two items have the same value, then they will be sorted alphabetically in the BOM. The Index Code is a category code for the part numbering system. It tells the system where to look in the part numbering file (dbcodes.dat) to look up a component’s part number. It would probably not be necessary to change this value.

Looking at the Data Files Also, notice near the top of this dialog box, the information about the Data File (the library file) where the measurements for this component are stored.

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Click the Open button to open the data file. This is the file that contains all the measurements needed for CADWorx to draw the Gate Valves to scale. Also, notice there is a column for the weight. CADWorx carries weights for all components.

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Data files – Contain all the data needed to draw a component

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Expanding Data Files – Adding new size ranges

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Close the file and save it. Click Save and then OK to close the spec Editor. Set your size to 36”, and click the Gate Valve tool button. Click two points to place the new 36” valve into your drawing (hit cancel if prompted for a Gasket, it could be added later). Set your size back to 6”, which you’ll be drawing later.

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Testing a 36” Gate Valve

You can then have the system use the 36” data by changing the size range in the Edit Component dialog box for the Gate Valve.

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Specs are “filters” that utilize portions of the library data files

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Testing a 36” Gate Valve

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Adding a new Control Valve to your spec

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A new type a Valve is added

Note: This is also discussed in the video. From these discussions, you can see that CADWorx has a very simple scheme for its specs and data files. All the data files are stored in the library folders (Lib_I for the Imperial measurement files). CADWorx specs are set up to use portions of these data files. The specs have a size range set in them, to use either some, or all, of the lines in the data files. In the case of the Gate Valves, the range in the spec is 2” to 24”, while the actual data file (we looked at earlier in Notepad) goes from 2” to 30”. The Lesson Four video discusses a network setup to place your specs in a read only folder. Adding a New Control Valve It’s an easy process to add a Control valve to your spec. CADWorx ships with a number of control valves in its libraries. Sometimes you will have a project that calls for more than one choice for a control valve for a particular size. When this occurs, you will need to have multiple choices in your spec. The spec will contain one of the control valves as a default choice, and the others as “optional” choices.

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First, you need to look at what’s currently in the spec.

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To do this Set your size to 3”. Set the specification to A10. Following the video, click on the Control Valve button and place one in your drawing. Double click the control valve to view the data in it, then close the component edit dialog box.

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Placing the default control valve

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Looking at the data file for the default control valve

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Type: SPED to start the spec editor (you can also click Plant, Accessory, Specifications, Editor). Following the video, open the data file for the control valve to see what the system is using.

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After viewing, follow the video and close the data file, then add a new control valve as shown in the video.

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Adding a new control valve

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Add the valve as instructed in the video, noticing how it gets specified as an “optional” component.

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Save and exit the spec as directed in the video. The video discusses how to display Optional Components using both the Specview tool palette and also using tool bars. Follow the video to see how this is done. Showing optional components using Specview:

When this is set, the optional valves appear in the list in a different color.

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Setting Specview to show optional components

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The optional control valves appear in the Specview list

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If you prefer to use tool bars, you can set the system to use optional components using the Settings tool bar. Showing optional components using tool bars:

Using this method, all the control valve choices appear listed in a dialog box.

Follow the video and bring in the control valves as directed and test them. You will find this a very powerful tool for adding great flexibility in getting you specs just the way you need them.

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Having the system show optional components

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Using optional components gives you the flexibility of adding multiple choices for your spec’s components

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Adding a Gate Valve that is Threaded on one end, and Flanged on the other. Creating Components with any combination of end types. So far, you have added regular components to your spec, but suppose you wanted to add fittings with end type combinations that are not standard. CADWorx allows you to work with components with fifteen different types of end conditions. When working with components that CADWorx draws, this option allows you to create many types of optional components.

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Next you’ll open the Help system to see the choices of End Types available

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Click Plant (from the pull down menus) Click Toolbars Click Sanitary

This brings up the Sanitary toolbar. This is the tool bar used to place these special types of components.

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Click Plant Click Help Under the Index tab Type: Sanitary This page will show the different end types that can be defined in CADWorx.

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Notice that a Type 1 end type (shown in the previous dialog box) is a Weld end type. You can also see that a Type 2 end type is a Flanged end type, and so forth.

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You can build components with different end types that are listed in the dialog box. For instance, a valve that is treaded on one end, and flanged on the other end, would have a Type 15 for the threaded end, and a Type 2 for the flanged end.

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To illustrate this, you will a valve with “special end types”. To Add a GATE Valve that is Threaded on one end, and Flanged on the other End to your spec: 52. 53.

Restart the CADWorx Spec Editor (Type: SPED ). Click on the A10 spec.

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Adding a Threaded by Flanged valve

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Using the Sanitary interface to add the valve

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Specifying a Gate Valve with Special End Types

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Click Valves, Gate (in the CADWorx 2009 version) or Click Sanitary (in the CADWorx 2008 and earlier versions) Click Add (to add a new Threaded x Flanged Gate Valve). Click Gate with Special End Types. Click OK

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Click the Optional Component Button, and Click the Template Button. Click the + next to the Lib folder (video example is in imperial, you may be using Lib_M or LIB_MM – all three work the same except you key in different lengths based on MM or inches). Scroll down the list and click the Click the San folder (for this example).

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For this example fill out some data as shown next. 65. 66. 67. 68.

Click File Click Save As Make sure it is being saved in the San Folder. Make sure the type is set to “All Files” (to keep the system from saving it as a .txt extension, which Notepad will do. We want the file type to stay as a .San extension.

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Close Notepad. In the Edit Component Dialog Box, add some information for this new valve.

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Saving the newly created file

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Filling out size ranges and short and long annotation values

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Have the Optional Component button checked. In the Short Description field, type: Gate Valve, Thrd x Flgd. In the Long Description field, Type: Gate Valve, Threaded by Flanged, Full Opening In the Tag field, Type: C40P Set the Start size to 2

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Set the End size to 2.

Click OK to close the Edit Component dialog box for the Gate Valve. Click Save, then Click OK, to close the Spec Editor. Open Windows Explorer. Look in the C:\CADWorx Plant 2007\Lib_I\San folder (or in the Lib_M or Lib_MM, whichever units you’re working in). You should see your new data file in the folder. Make sure it has a .San extension. Close Windows Explorer after verifying. Set your size to 2”. Set your Spec to A10. Click on the Specifications Option Toggle, as shown earlier. (It may already be on, depending on the order you’ve done these examples). Notice the prompt at the command line, you want to make sure it is turned on. The message will say “All components will be dialoged...”.

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Click on the Gate Valve, Threaded by Flanged, and Click OK Place it in your drawing (click two points to place it).

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Drawing connecting components to the valve

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Verifying the new valve works in Isogen

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Double click it, and look at the information that is coming from the spec. You should see the data you input previously. Click OK to close the Component Edit dialog box. Add a Gasket on one end, a Flange, and a piece of BW Pipe. On the other end, add a piece of Threaded Pipe a Threaded Elbow, and another short piece of Threaded Pipe. Run the drawing through Isogen to verify things work properly.

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Using Keywords in the Long Descriptions in the Bill of Materials Keywords allow you to put a variable value in the Bill of Materials, which can be a really nice feature. For instance, you can include the Wall Thickness of a component as part of the Long Description. When it is set up properly, the system will look up the proper wall thickness, and place it as part of the description text string in the BOM. The different keywords are: {BORE} {MAIN} {MAINACT} {RED} {REDACT} {SPEC} {MAINTHK} {REDTHK} {LENGTH} {PIPETHK} {PIPETHKRED}. Four additional keywords are also available if main and reduction sizes are needed in decimal format. These four additional keywords are: {MAINDEC} {REDDEC} {MAINACTDEC} {REDACTDEC

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The keywords {BORE}, {PIPETHK} and {PIPETHKRED} are derived from the pipe's data file in the specification instead of the component's data file where {MAINTHK} and {REDTHK} are derived from. For example, a 4" valve with the {BORE} or {PIPETHK} would get the keyword values from the 4" pipe data file as listed in the specification. A 4" valve with {MAINTHK} or {REDTHK} would get the keyword values from the valve data file as listed in the specification.

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Since fittings have the same wall thickness as the pipe, it’s easiest to use {PIPETHK} when you’re working with these. Here’s an example. 95. Start the CADWorx Spec Editor (Type: SPED ). 96. Click on the A10 spec. 97. Click on Elbows, 90 (in the left section of the dialog box) 98. Click on the 2 to 24 Elbow. 99. In the Long Description area, modify it to include the text “THK” and the {PIPETHK} keyword as shown.

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Click OK when done. Click Save (to save the spec). Click OK (to exit the spec editor). Set your size to 6”. Draw a piece of pipe, and elbow, and a piece of pipe. Double click on the elbow, to verify the Long description has a thickness value in it.

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Modifying Specifications – a Review and Summary Watch the next four videos for an overview and summary of editing specifications. You’ll see a nice step by step process of getting your specs built. It sill discuss opening an existing spec and saving under a new name.

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An easy way to see everything in your spec

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Opening a spec and saving under a new name

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Changing descriptions in the components

Then the spec gets exported out and listed for review.

Then you could start changing some of the descriptions in the components.

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You could add new size ranges – for instance, maybe you want some large pipe sizes included in your spec.

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Adding new size ranges – in this case large size pipe

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Pipe sizes up to 60” are added in this example

In this example, you’ll bring in pipe up to 60” in diameter.

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If you don’t want to bring in a whole new range of sizes, you can also add a single size or two to a data file. Also, the videos review setting up Valve Tags.

You can also add Part Numbers if you would like to include them for your purchasing system.

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You can also add optional components. Maybe you need more than one choice of control valves for a certain size range in your spec.

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Adding Optional Components (multiple choices for control valves in a certain size range)

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Part numbers can be added which can link to your purchasing system

The video also shows how to configure your specification and library on a network in a protected folder. That way, only one person can modify them.

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Changing your Spec’s Descriptive Information in the Middle of a Project If you’re working in a project, and have place any number of components using your spec, the component data in the drawings can be updated if required. Here’s what you’ll do. 106. You’ll edit the spec, and change the long description, short description, or tag fields (you can’t change the measurements in the data files, but you can change the weights and wall thickness). 107. After changing the spec, save it, either under its own name, or a different name (to keep track of the revision). 108. Then, in the drawing where you want the changes to occur. 109. Click Plant 110. Click Accessory 111. Click Specification 112. Click Change

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The data in components previously placed gets updated with new descriptions

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Press (to select components). Window the components to change and press . Click on the spec you wish to use for the changes and Click Open The data in the components will be updated to the new values in the spec.

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Lesson One Structural Steel “Modeling a Pipe Rack” In this lesson you will model a piperack and produce associated drawings from the model in Paper Space using clipped View Ports.

In the Structural module you’ll cover a number of topics: • • • • • • • • •

Modeling 3D steel members and plate Coping members for correct lengths and fitting Setting up and running a steel Bill of Materials Modeling Stairs, Handrails, and Ladders Using Frames Adding Grating to the data files Producing drawings in Paper Space using clipped views Generating a 2D representation of the 3D model Annotating and Dimensioning using associated dimensions in Paper Space

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To start this lesson, 1. 2. 3.

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For this lesson click on the button as shown

Start CADWorx Plant Professional. Click on the Open a drawing button. Open the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Examples\35_Piperack.dwg .

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Opening the 35_Piperack drawing

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Zoom in and bring up the Steel tool bar.

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Modeling 3D Steel Members 5. 6.

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Dock the Steel tool bar near the top of the screen. Click on the Wshape icon.

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Clicking a Beam tool button to model this type of member

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Setting the insertion points for the steel. This assures it will come into the model as needed

Set the dialog box as shown.

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Model the four columns as shown.

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9. Next you’ll model the beams. 10. Click the beam button again in the Steel tool bar. 11. Set up the dialog box as shown.

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Model the cross beams (bents) as shown.

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Modeling the HE 200A beams

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Coping the beams

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Click on the Cope button, and cope the beams as shown in the videos (the system prompts will give you the steps).

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14. Save your drawing at this point. 15. Next model the HE 200AA beams. 16. Click on the W Shape tool button. 17. Set the dialog box as shown.

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Coping the beams

18. Select the beams as shown in the video. 19. Click the Cope button and 20. Cope the beams as shown.

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21. Save the drawing at this point. Modeling a Base Plate 22.

Following the video, set up the Base Plate dialog box as shown.

23. Construct the base plate as shown in the video.

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Setting up the sizes for the base plate

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Copy the base plate to the other column as shown in the video. 25. Erase some of the extra members to set up the model for arraying.

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Erasing some members to set up the model for arraying

Now you’ll array the members and have them build a complete pipe rack.

27. Pick Modify and Array. Have it set for Rectangular Array. 28. Fill out the dialog box as shown.

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Select the end section (called a bent) and array it.

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Setting up the array command to model the full pipe rack

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Arraying the pipe rack bents

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Setting up the array for the connecting beams

Fill out the array dialog box for the connecting beams.

31. Select the side beams and array them as shown in the video.

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32. Save the drawing again at this point. 33. Set the view to a top view (plan view) Creating Clipped Orthogonal Views 34. Setting up clipped views for drawings in paper space. 35. Click the View Box command, following the steps in the video.

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Setting up the clipped views for the drawing in Paper Space

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Setting up the page on the layout

This will set up clipping planes and named views that you can use in your paper space view ports. 36.

Following the explanation in the video, fill out the View Box dialog box as shown.

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Click on the Layout tab (at the bottom of the screen).

Setting up a Layout (Paper Space) This will take you to the layout (paper space). 38.

Right Click on the layout tab to bring up the Page Setup Manager. 39. Following the steps in the video, set up the page as shown in the following figure.

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Following the video, set the layer to Viewl and open the View Ports tool bar.

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Next you’ll make a view port and bring in the clipped view. This view was made automatically by the View Box command you ran earlier (see the video for step-bystep instructions).

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Discussing Paper Space and View Ports

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Setting up a page in Paper Space for the drawing

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Once the view is specified, you can scale it and lock the viewport.

43. Save the drawing at this point. 44. Verify the view port is locked. Dimensioning in Paper Space 45. Type: Dimassoc . 46. Type: 2 . 47. Check the Scaling in the Model (as shown in the video). 48. Turn off Layer Steel, to make it easier to click on the centerlines for dimensioning.

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49. Use the CADWorx dimensioning tools to place dimensions on the layout (see Video Five).

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Placing a horizontal dimension across the top of the pipe rack

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Following the video, pick points and place dimensions as shown.

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51. Next you’ll annotate some elevations (see video).

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Annotating Elevations

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52. Following the steps, you’ll be able to generate the elevation label as shown.

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Annotating Steel Members 53.

As shown in the figure below (and also in Video Six), click the annotate component button.

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Annotating Components

The system will read the steel member size and generate a label for you.

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Modeling in Vertical, using the CADWorx UCS Tool Bar This video discusses constructing lines in 3D to use for structural members. To model easily in 3D, use the CADWorx UCS tool bar.

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Annotating Components

55. Follow the video to see how to construct lines in vertical (in 3D) or horizontal. Using the UCS tool bar makes it easier than it normally would be, with the same look and feel as drawing a 2D isometric.

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This concludes the lesson on modeling a pipe rack. In this lesson you’ve covered a variety of topics, including modeling components, generating clipped views in paper space, and dimensioning and annotating drawing in paper space. These topics get explored and carried further in the next lesson, which is modeling a structure.

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Lesson Two Structural Steel “Modeling a Structure” In this lesson you will model a structure. The model will include a number of new topics, and give you a good overview of working with the CADWorx structural steel module.

In this lesson you’ll cover a number of topics: • • • • • • • •

Using a Frame command Modeling 3D steel members and plate Coping members for correct lengths and fitting Modeling Stairs, Handrails, and Ladders Generating a BOM for each different level of the structure Adding Grating to the data files Producing drawings in Paper Space using clipped views Annotating and Dimensioning using associated dimensions in Paper Space

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For this lesson click on the button as shown

Start a new drawing, using a Metric Template. Using the video, click the Frame Command. Fill out the Frame dialog box as shown, and save your settings.

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Using the CADWorx Steel Frame command lets you easily generate 3D structures

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The system generates a 3D frame

The system will generate a 3D frame.

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Trim the frame up as shown.

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Trimming the frame to have centerlines for modeling

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Modeling the columns

Using the video as a guide, model the columns.

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After modeling the columns, switch to the plan view at the lower level. You can set that view easily since it’s created automatically during the Frame command (see video).

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Switching views is done easily when you use the Frame command

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Using the video as a guide, set up split views, switch to the plan view at the top level, and model the beams. This is a very productive way to model structural steel in 3D.

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Switching to the upper deck level

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Setting up split views to make modeling easier

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Modeling the beams on the lower floor level

Then you’ll switch to the lower level and model that floor level.

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Next you’ll model the diagonal bracing. The video takes you through a series of steps that make this process very workable. Got through the steps and add the braces into the model.

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Modeling diagonal bracing angles

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Adding grating information into the steel data file

10. The next step in the model is adding grating. You’ll see how to modify the plate data file and add an entry to grating. After the file is modified, you’ll add the new material into the model.

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Model the handrails for the upper and lower floor levels in this section. Follow along with the video to see how to vary the spacing and sizes, and how to change the members that make up the handrails.

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CADWorx has a lot of automation built into it for modeling handrails

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You’ll continue developing the handrails, and also add a caged ladder to the model.

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Also included in Video Eight is a section on modeling stairs. Use it as a guide as you go through the steps to model these. Notice how the dialog box has a number of variables for the sizes and members.

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CADWorx has a dialog driven interface to model stairs. You have full control over the dimensions and member choices, sizes, and orientations through this dialog box.

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Modeling a circular handrail

The next video takes you through modeling a circular handrail, composed of pipe. You’ll also look at some of the techniques used in modeling handrails. Go through the modeling process with the video step ay step.

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In this section you’ll generate clipped views to be used in Paper Space. Follow the video and set up the views.

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Using the CADWorx View Box command it’s easy to set up clipped views of the model

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You can control the piece mark call outs based on floor level

Use the video as a guide and generate material lists for each floor level.

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Module Three Isogen® - Implementation and Customization

In this lesson you will learn how to: • • • • • • •

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Set up an Isogen Main Directory Set up Isogen Project Folders Select example Borders for your isometrics Test and run Isogen for the first time on your system Set up your own border, or a client’s border Automate text updating in your own title block Adjust the drawing settings o Dimension settings o North Arrow orientation o Changing the North Arrow symbol o Continuation notes o User fonts o Part number enclosures o Rolled offset representation o Force drawing into one isometric Include Detail sketches Illustrate Restraints (supports, hangers, etc.) Modify the Bill of Materials Show Welding information Include Valve Operators, Dummy Legs, Field Welds

Note: There are many HELP Files that ship with CADWorx Plant Pro’s Isogen. Look in the CADWorx Plant 2008\Isogen folder. You’ll see several sub folders. In these sub folders will be a collection of .pdf help files. You can use these as needed for further detailed information.

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Setting up an Isogen Main Directory Folder on your system

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Starting Isogen’s Project Manager

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Project Manager controls all the Isogen settings

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Now you’ll set the main folder for all of your Isogen project drawings

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You can set the main folder on the local drive, or on the network

Click the Start button (lower left of your screen). Click Programs Click CADWorx Plant 2009 Isogen Click Project Manager Click Project Manager This starts the Isogen Project Manager Program. You should see the following dialog box.

Setting the main folder for all of your Isogen projects and isometric drawings. 6.

Click the Create New Isometric Directory button (the first button on the left, gray in color).

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Click next to the C: (in the name box), and Type: Isogen_Projects (filling out the dialog box as shown.) •

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You can create the main directory on a local drive or on a network drive

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Under the main directory (called the Isometric Directory), you can create multiple project directories

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These Project Directories are your various projects, or jobs. They can contain client borders or settings specific to each particular project

Note: If you want to create your folder on a network, click the Network button, and browse where you want your folder created. Then type Isogen_Projects (as shown in the previous step). Your folder will then be created at a network location. 9. 10. 11.

Click the OK button. Click Yes (when asked in the next dialog box). You will see the system create the Isometric Directory (this is the main level directory).

Creating a Project Directory 12.

Click the Create New Project tool button (the second button over, yellow in color).

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Fill out the New Project dialog box as shown. Name it Project_1

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This is where you select the Borders you want to use, and tell the system to output the isos as DWG files (recommended)

Highlight Metric_Inch_A1, A2, and A3 (as shown). Set the Output Format to AutoCAD DWG. 14.

Click the OK button after filling out the dialog box as shown.

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The system will create sub-folders for each of the drawing borders you selected, as shown next.

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If you’re working on a network, and you want to “deploy” the setup to various workstations, you would go through the previous steps as shown, and then follow the steps shown next. To deploy the project information to the various workstations, you would go to each workstation and start Project Manager, then a.

Click the Create New Isometric Directory button (as shown previously).

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Click the Network Button on the first dialog Select the Isometric (main level) directory by browsing across the network to it. Select the Isometric Directory you’ve created (as shown previously), and the Project Directory’s information will be shown. If you have multiple projects, that information will all come across.

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This is where you select the Borders you want to use, and tell the system to output the isos as DWG files (recommended)

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If you’re doing a network installation, you can “deploy” the project information to the various workstations

Click the folder named Metric_Inch_A2. You’ll see the following dialog box appear.

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Click the Apply button (this sets the “Metric_Inch_A2” border as the default). Click OK (for Settings Saved). Minimize the Project Manager dialog box, and Start CADWorx Plant Professional. Start a new drawing (use a template). Set the Main Size to 6”. Set the Spec to 150. Create a simple drawing with the lengths as shown.

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Notice the tabs along the top. The Drawing Control and External Data tab will be useful later

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Clicking the “Apply” button sets the “Metric_Inch_A2” border as the default border

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Creating a simple CADWorx drawing for testing

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Testing and Running Isogen 26. 27. 28. 29.

Click Plant Click Accessory Click Isogen Click Isogen Out

The system will bring up the following dialog box, showing your Isometric Directory, the Project Directory, and the Border it will use for the Iso. This screen may vary, depending upon your system setup.

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Sending a drawing out to Isogen for testing

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On this dialog box you’ll click OK for the test, but you can also select different borders here, and also different projects (if available)

30. Click OK.

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Press (to select components). Window the objects in the drawing, and Press . The system will show the following dialog box.

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Sending a drawing out to Isogen for testing

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Viewing the generated Isogen isometric

Note: If you got an error message, or a “disconnect” message, you probably did not draw the pipes and elbows touching each other. See the first video lesson in the Piping Module on how to connect components correctly. 35.

Click the Open Plot Files button to view the Isogen iso created by the system.

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Testing on an A3 Sized Border 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

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Close the Iso (click the X in the upper right corner of the drawing) and say “No”, to not save the iso. Click Plant Click Accessory Click Isogen Out Click the down arrow to choose a Style, and select the A3 Border.

Click OK Press (to select components). Window the components in the drawing and press . Click Open Plot Files to view the generated isometric, drawn on the A3 sized border. Follow the video to add components to the line and run it on different borders.

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Sending a drawing out to an A3 sized border for testing

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This will open up the drawing options that you can change to make the isometric look the way you want

After viewing, close the drawing. Options that change the drawings appearance You can look at the options for any size border. In this next example you’ll view the settings in an A2 border. All borders (Imperial, Metric, and Mixed Metric) have the same switches that can be set to make an isometric look the way you want. 46.

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Reopen Project Manager. If it is available at the bottom of your screen, click on it to bring it up for viewing. If it has been closed, click Start, Programs, CADWorx Plant 2009 Isogen, Project Manager, Project Manager. Click on the Metric_Inch_A2 style (your screen may show a list or projects different than the illustration, depending upon your system setup). Click on the tab labeled Drawing Control.

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Click on the Options File and Click Edit. This will bring up the Options Editor for the Drawing Options. •

Restarting the Project Manager program

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Clicking on the Drawing Control tab

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This will open up the drawing options that you can change to make the isometric look the way you want

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You can see there is more than one page for each of the tabs

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On page 2 there are switches to change the appearance of rolled offsets on the isometrics

The margins at the top right area of the dialog box can be changed to modify the position of the plotted iso on the page. This can be useful later when you see how to bring in your own border. Notice the figure at the lower right corner of the dialog box.

This will take you to the next page of settings. Each tab can have multiple pages of settings. 50. You can change any or all of the following settings. 51. This next section is to show you some of the many options that can be set in Isogen to change the appearance of a drawing.

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Click on the Dimensioning tab at the top of the screen. 52.

Click on the down arrow the lists the choices for dimensioning gaskets (under area with the 9 shown – this is “switch 9”.) See the figure below.

Set it to have the Gaskets Included in Component Dimensions. 54. Click on the area in the lower right of the dialog box to go to page 2. 55. Notice on this page you can tell the system you want to turn off dimensions across small branches. 56. On page three you can instruct the system to add overall dimensions. 56. Click on the Iso Style tab.

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Changing how the dimensions across gaskets are shown

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On page 2 you can suppress the dimensions across small branches

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There are several switches you could set here to change how your isometrics look.

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This area lets you change the way Part Numbers look, which way the North Arrow points, and how a Spec Break will look

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On page 2 you can change how a Rolled Offset looks

On this dialog box you could change how the • • •

Part Numbers look Which direction the North Arrow points How a Spec Break will look

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Click on the next page symbol at the lower right corner of the dialog box.

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Notice on this second page you can change how the rolled offsets will be shown (a box, with or without hatching, etc.).

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Click on the tab labeled Iso Content.

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The first page has options for changing how the coordinates on the isometrics are labeled. Click on the area at the bottom to go to page 2.

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Page 2 has switches to turn on and modify how the system can label spool pieces in the isometric. There’s also a switch to modify how the instruments are depicted. There’s a switch to turn on Valve Tags. Isogen will also label the text that is put into the TAG field on a Nozzle drawn in the Equipment Module. Also it will label any text put in the TAG field on any Long Weld Neck Flange that is set as “Existing” in a model.

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This area lets you enable Spool callouts You can modify how the Instruments are shown You can turn on Valve Tab labeling

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Isogen will label text in the TAG field on Nozzles or “existing” Long Weld Neck Flanges

Page 3 has a switch to have Insulation and Tracing appear on the isometric. There is also a switch to turn on Flow Direction Arrows over check valves on this page.

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Click on the Material List tab (at the top of the dialog box). In the lower left section of Page 1 is a place to set up the User Fonts. This is disabled by default. To set it – Click File (at the very top of the screen) and Click Exit. Save any changes, if you want to keep them. This returns you back to the main screen for Project Manager.

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Enabling User Fonts

Click the tab named External Data. Click in the blank space next to Font Information File and Click the Browse button. Click on the file named FONTSTD.FIF. Click the button labeled Open.

This will enable the User Fonts. You will need to set them in TWO places (description follows – also see video as needed). 76. 77. 78.

Click the tab labeled Drawing Control. Click (to highlight) in the space next to Options File. Click the Edit button.

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Click on the Iso Style tab (at the top). In the top left area is a place to turn on and select the User Fonts. Click in the check box, and select Ariel Unicode for the font.

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Setting User Fonts for dimensions and labels

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Setting User Fonts for the Bill of Materials

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Adding a cutting allowance for Field Fit Welds

Click on the Material List tab (at the top). At the bottom of this page is a section to turn on User Fonts. Click on the check box, and select Ariel Unicode. On this page is also a section to set up the Material List type. You will use the standard Type 2 Material List at this time. When you get to the section on the Material List later in this lesson, the different types will be discussed.

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Page 2 (on the Material List tab) has a place in the upper left area of the page to turn on/off the cut piece list. In the upper right section is an area to set cutting allowances for Field Welds. If you wanted to (you don’t have to do so now) you could have the iso include a Field Weld symbol by placing a Weld Gap component in the piping model. Once placed, you could double click the Weld Gap component to Component Edit it, and set its type to MISCL. This will produce a Field Fit Weld in the generated isometric.

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The Welding tab has settings for how Welds are displayed on the iso. See the section on Welding Information in a later part of this lesson. 86. 87. 88.

At the top of the dialog box, click File and click Save. Then click File and click Exit. Click the Apply button to save your settings. Lesson Five in the Isogen videos discusses the Project File Structure.

Bringing in your Company border or a Client border You can have Isogen use your own specific border, or a client’s border. You can also have Isogen fill out text entries within the border’s title block, or elsewhere on the drawing.

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Using your own Border

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Specifying your Border

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The border drawing you use must be saved as a 2004 dwg

A couple of important things you must do: a. You must point to the border’s location using the Project Manager. It’s in the area labeled Drawing Frame.

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b. The border you use must be saved as an AutoCAD 2004 drawing. Isogen will not work if you use a border that is an AutoCAD 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009 drawing. Using your own Border, or a Client’s Border 89. 90. 91. 92.

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Opening the border and saving it as an AutoCAD 2004 version

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Testing the border

Start regular AutoCAD. Open the drawing (in your “Examples” folder) named Client_A3_Border_0. Do a File, Save As. At the bottom of the Save As dialog box, set the Files of Type area to be an AutoCAD 2004.

93. Click Save and Click Yes when prompted to replace it. 94. Close AutoCAD.

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Assigning the new border to the Isogen Project 95.

In the Project Manager, Click in the area called Drawing Frame.

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Click Browse.

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Browse to your Examples folder and select the Client_A3_Border_0 drawing.

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Click Apply.

Setting up the new border

This instructs the system to use your border now, instead of the default border. 99.

In CADWorx Plant Pro draw a simple drawing that consists of some pipe, flanges, valve, and elbow (see the following figure).

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Creating a small test model

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Generating an iso on the new border

100. Test the border by running a simple iso using it as the drawing frame.

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Developing the Border – Filling out the Title Block Area Isogen does not use normal attributes to fill out the title block area like a regular AutoCAD drawing. Isogen uses “Positioned Text” for this function. In Project Manager – 101. Click in the Positioned Text area.

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Positioned Text – used to place text in a drawing

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Opening the Positioned Text file

102. Click the Edit button.

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This opens up the Positioned Text file that you can adjust to map the locations of pieces of text onto your border.

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Looking at the contents of the Iso_A3 sheet’s positioned text file

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Opening the Positioned Text help file

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You can Justify the text (Left, Center, Right) and you can Rotate the text as needed.

103. Close Notepad now, don’t save any changes. Note: Open the Positioned Text help file (a pdf file). It is found at C:\CADWorx Plant 2008\Isogen\Isogen_Utils\POS_Help.pdf You should print out this file, since it is only six pages and has some useful information in it. You can see from the file we opened in the previous figure that there is an item named -6. It has an X position, a Y position, a Character Width, and a Character Height. The numbers for position and height are in hundredths of a millimeter. Since Isogen was originally developed in Great Britain the values are in metric. The Positioned Text file can actually have more columns than shown above. This can be useful, because you can specify the text’s justification and rotation angle as well. Here’s an expanded version of one of the lines with the item labeled -6.

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A Justification (column 11) of 0 is Left, 1 is Center, 2 is Right. The Rotation (column 12) can be set as needed (usually 0 or 90). If you look at the following figures, you can see that the item labeled -6 is what Isogen uses to place the drawing title (it uses the pipeline name).

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Some of the fields that can be brought into your title block and drawing

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This area allows you to create User Fields that can be mapped into your drawing. You can create as many as 100 fields

The Positioned Text help file has the following information in it.

You will use this information to map some values into your title block.

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What they are calling a “User Defined Attribute Block” in the figure above is not something that comes from AutoCAD. This is Alias’ own naming, and it is used differently than attributes and blocks are used in AutoCAD.

104. In Project Manger – 105. Click the Project Name (above the Metric_Inch_A1 – this example is showing an Ansi_B sized border. All units work the same here.)

Click Project Defaults. This brings up the Project Defaults dialog box. 106. Click on the tab labeled Specification. The Specifications area of the Project Defaults

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Opening the Project defaults dialog box

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In the Specifications area are some fields you can fill out and have them get placed into your isometrics automatically

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Any values in these fields (Piping-Spec, Insulation-Spec, etc.) can be mapped into the drawing or title block. For instance the Piping-Spec would be brought in using the code of -11. You would add a line to the ANSI_B.pos file (shown in a previous figure) starting with an -11 entry. Then you would add its X and Y position, and its height. You could do the same for the other specs, like InsulationSpec, Tracing-Spec, etc. Next you’ll map in some examples to see how this works. 107. Click the Miscellaneous tab.

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The Miscellaneous tab has additional fields you can store text information in, and then have it mapped into your title block area, or anywhere on the drawing.

108. In the Revision field - Type: A. 109. In the Project Identifier field – Type: COADE 001-A25. 110. In the Batch/Area field – Type: 3400.

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111. Click on the Attributes tab. 112. Fill out the values as shown. These are User Definable fields. You can create as many as 100 fields to use for text that can be mapped into your title block. The dialog box shows 10 fields, but if you click the Append button (shown in the previous figure) you can keep adding new ones. •

The Attributes tab gives you User Defined fields you can fill out as needed and have them mapped into your title block or elsewhere on your drawing

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Setting up values to be mapped into the title block

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You can create as many as 100 text fields to map into your title block or drawing

113. Click OK when done.

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Now that the text fields (Alias calls the “attributes”) have been defined, you’ll figure out where to place them in your drawing’s title block. The first thing you need to do is come up with the coordinate positions for these pieces of text.

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Opening the border and looking at the title block area

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Scaling up the border into metric for an easy way to locate points for text placement

114. Open the :\\Examples\Client_A3_Border_0 drawing.

115. Zoom All. 116. Turn on the Layer named Points. 117. Zoom in around the Title Block area.

118. Set OSNAP to have Node turned on. Type: ID 119. Click on the node at Point 1.

120. Using an OSNAP Node, you’ll get a value of 18864, 3250.

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Repeat for the other points, and make a list. Point Number

Location

Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4 Pt 5 Pt 6 Pt 7 Pt 8 Pt 9 Pt 10 Pt 11 Pt 12 Pt 13

X = 18864 X = 18864 X = 31375 X = 31375 X = 31375 X = 28017 X = 28017 X = 35463 X = 39211 X = 39211 X = 39211 X = 39211 X = 39211

Y = 3250 Y = 1867 Y = 4409 Y = 3667 Y = 2451 Y = 1875 Y = 1465 Y = 1478 Y = 3972 Y = 3337 Y = 2702 Y = 2067 Y = 1432

121. Save the drawing and close it. Now you’ll edit the Position Text file to set up the mapping

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Getting the location of the point where a text label will be placed (mapped to)

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Locating various point locations to place text

In Project Manager, 122. Click on the Imperial_Inch_Ansi_B (or the border you’re working with). 123. Click in the area for Positioned Text.

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124. Click Edit, to open the positioned text file in notepad.

Modify the file as shown.

One comment : In this example above you mapped in a fixed date from one of the fields you set up (it’s listed as the –602 line of information). You could have used a system date if you wanted to. It would be done by using a –14 (instead of a –602 like you used). Also on the drawing options, System tab, switch 6 lets you set a date format as needed (see videos). 125. Save the file under the name. 126. Client_Border_B_at_0.pos, or Client_A3_Border_0, depending upon the border you’re working with (make sure you don’t save it as a .txt file. You’ll have to set the file type All Files).

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127. Close Notepad In Project Manager, 128. Click in the area for the Positioned Text file.

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Click Browse and select the file you just saved. Click the Apply button. Click OK Test the border by running a simple example through it.

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So you can see that Isogen allows you to fill out your title block as needed. If you wanted to use a border that had the title block running up the side of the drawing, you would use the same procedure. The only thing you’d need to do differently is have a 90 for the rotation angle in the positioned text file.

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For example , the following line would map a text string into the title block area, but rotate it at 90 degrees instead of leaving it a 0 degrees. -601 31375

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Video Seven illustrates how to have the system set up your layer colors to match the standard Isogen borders.

Lesson Seven Video One Video Two Video Three The Lesson Seven videos cover how to use and modify the different Bill of Materials Styles available with CADWorx and Isogen.

Lesson Eight Video One Video Two These videos discuss Line Numbering and how to run the Isogen Batch command. Also the graphic symbols for a floor or deck penetration, flow arrows, etc. are covered and you will see how they can be sent from the model to Isogen automatically.

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Lesson Nine Video One Video Two Video Three

In this lesson you will how to place restraints (hangers, base supports, anchors, etc.) in the model and have them come into Isogen. You’ll also see how to get Detail Sketches of a Base Support to be drawn in the isometric. Finally, this section illustrates how to get a Reference Dimension and Note to appear in an Isometric.

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Additional information (no videos associated with this section) Welding Information It is possible to have Isogen display Welding information on an isometric. It can list and number the welds in the drawing. The easiest way to see how this happens is to use one of the samples that are shipped in CADWorx (available in Imperial versions only at this time). 133. In Project Manger, Click on Project 1 •

Setting the system for welding information on isometrics

Click on the New Style button.

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134. Fill out the New Style information as shown.

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135. Click OK 136. Click Apply (Apply makes this the default border). 137. Test your results. You should have an isometric generated with welding information on it.

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Alternative Text Isogen has a text file similar to Positioned Text that is called Alternative Text. This file is used for labeling various notes that appear on the drawing. For instance, you can change the way Isogen labels the continuation notes when it breaks a drawing between multiple sheets. Currently it says CONT. ON DRG 2

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Let’s say you wanted to change the DRG over to DWG. In Project Manager, 138. Click in the area for Alternative Text.

139. Click Edit. 140. Click on the Group pull down menu (at the top of the screen). 141. Click on the Title Block group.

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Looking at the Title Block Group in the Alternative Text file

This shows all the text in this particular group that Isogen uses for labeling.

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Change DRG to DWG.

Look over the other Groups in the Alternative Text file. This file contains many labels that are open for you to change as needed. 142. Close the file (Click File, Save, and Exit) and click the Apply button. 143. You can test this by drawing a router line in CADWorx with multiple changes of direction, then running Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Buttweld LR.

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Changing the way Isogen labels “CONT ON DWG” instead of “CONT ON DRG”

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144. When you run Isogen the system will break it into multiple isometrics. You will then see that it changed the continuation notes to CONT. ON DWG .

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Viewing the change to the way Isogen labels the drawing continuation note

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Setting up Square Elbows

The Data Definition File The Project Manager also has an are where you can modify the Data Definition File (similar to the Positioned Text file). This file contains settings that affect the appearance of how Isogen draws some of its components – for instance rounded elbows or square elbows. This file also contains information on what thickness of lines it will use, and how big it will scale some of the fittings. Also, there is a section in this file for defining layers,

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Telling the System to Draw Square Elbows In Project Manager, 145. Click in the area for the Drawing Definition.

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Noting the area where Square Elbows are defined

146. Click Edit. 147. Change the word for ELBOW from ROUND to SQUARE.

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148. Save the file (make sure it keeps a .ddf extension). 149. Test it on your previous drawing and verify the iso came out with square elbows. The help file that comes in the CADWorx\Isogen\Isogen_Utils folder contains further information on this file. The help file is titled DDF_Help.pdf.

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