Archives for September 2015

ECE Design Website Updates

September 29, 2015 by Jeffrey Suffet Leave a Comment

Hello,

Over two months ago, ECE switched over to our new Consolidated Website at http://www.ecedesign.com and our new Support Desk Platform at: http://support.ecedesign.com.

Our Website houses the following:

Product Information Pages
Events Calendar: With the ability to subscribe for up-to-date information in Outlook or other mail clients.
Webinars: Our CADWorx & Analysis Webinars
Training Videos: Our CADWorx & Analysis Training Videos
Documentation: Our new documentation pages for our Worx Plugins as well soon to be released Quick Start Guides.

The Support Desk Platform houses the following which over the last few months has grown with a massive amount of content:

Instant Answers: Get solutions fast with the built-in live search feature. Simply type in an expression in the search box and it will display all relevant articles from the Knowledge Base.
FAQs: Find answers to frequently asked questions about our products and services.
Tech Notes: Find white papers and solutions to technical questions on CADWorx, CAESAR II, PV ELITE, GT STRUDL and the rest of our software lineup!
Support Tickets: Submit a support ticket to contact the ECE Support team. When you log into the ECE Support Desk, you will find a tab called “My Tickets”. Here you can find all of your previous and current tickets. In addition to that you are able to view, reply to, or close tickets directly.
Community Involvement – Many of our enthusiastic customers like to lend a hand in helping each other by answering questions. Often times this allows for a support question to be initially replied to in an even faster time frame.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the Web Portals. If you have any recommendations please let me know as we are always looking for ways to improve. I hope you like what you see and always remember…When People Talk, Great Things Happen!

CADWorx Plant Professional Training: Houston, TX, October 20-22, 2015

September 14, 2015 by Bill Vasey Leave a Comment

CADWorx Plant Professional Taining — CADWorx Plant Professional Training
Additional Resources: Webinars | Training Videos | ECE Design Online Support Desk

ECE is holding a 3 day CADWorx Plant Professional training class at our Houston Training Facility on Jones Road.

CADWorx Plant Professional Training: Houston, TX, October 20-22, 2015

The CADWorx Plant Professional classes are designed to teach the effective use and functionality of the latest CADWorx Plant software, applied to plant design work. The User will learn how to make the most of the program’s capabilities, such as quickly building and editing models in a 3D environment and generating 2D drawings and isometrics from them. The course also covers topics that, although not difficult in concept, can be time-consuming to learn on your own, such as specification management, program controls and settings. Although CADWorx Plant is easy to use, there are many methods, tricks and techniques that will improve your productivity and your ability to generate the drawings you need as efficiently as possible. This class is the best of its kind, placing a very strong focus on plant design using well-developed real-world examples.

Course Outline:

General Overview

CADWorx Plant Setup

Tools (Menu, Toolbars, Palettes & Ribbon)
CADworx Plant Setup (working environment)

CADWorx Basics

Piping Basics
Line Numbering
O-Tracking and Point Filters

3D Tools and Techniques

Routing Lines
Point and Shoot UCS
Introduction to specification modifications and custom components
BOM Export

3D Project

File Structure
External References (Xrefs)
Using Autocad 3D objects
3D Equipment
Model Piping: 3D Instruments
Model Piping: Valve Topworks
3D Steel
Optional -3D Ducts/Cable trays

Presentation Drawings

Clipped Views
Basic Sheet Set
Basic Isogen

Specifications

Optional Custom Components

Additional Topics

User Shapes (Specialty items)
Custom Pipe Supports (Graphic & CAESAR II)
Custom Top Works (Actuators, Levers & Handwheels)
Advanced Sheet Set Manager
Network Project set-up (recommended network locations for project files)
CADWorx Administration

Please call or contact us for details and pricing. Discounts available for Multiple Participants from the same company.

Thank you,
Gary Kohlbeck
ECE Design

CAESAR II Speed Tip – Archive Your Backup Folder!

September 13, 2015 by George Montgomery Leave a Comment

CAESAR will automatically save 10 copies of a file to the backup folder on your computer for the version of CAESAR II that you currently have installed. Each time you save a file, the last 10th copy is overwritten. When you run an analysis, the file is automatically saved. This backup folder is persistent – if you remove CAESAR II from your computer, the backup folder remains and does not get deleted.

Over time, the size of this folder grows to a point that you may actually have performance issues when CAESAR II accesses this directory in order to create a new backup file. Here’s a quick speed tip to archive the CAESAR II backup folder and re-establish the original installation conditions:

Open up Windows Explorer, and navigate to the following directory (For CAESAR II 2014 Installations): C:\ProgramData\Intergraph CAS\CAESAR II\7.00\
1. For CAESAR II 2013 Installations: C:\ProgramData\Intergraph CAS\CAESAR II\7.00\
2. For CAESAR II 2011 Installations: C:\ProgramData\Intergraph CAS\CAESAR II\6.00\
3. For CAESAR II 2016 Installations: C:\ProgramData\Intergraph CAS\CAESAR II\8.00\
There should be a folder called “Backup” in this directory. Create a new folder called “Archive Backup” in the same directory.
Copy the contents of “Backup” into “Archive Backup”.
Verify that the contents of “Backup” are in “Archive Backup” and then delete the contents of “Backup”
That’s it!

Make yourself a reminder to periodically move contents from “Backup” into “Archive Backup”.

Thanks,

-George

Introducing the Newest Worx Plugin: VIEWWorx

September 2, 2015 by Jeffrey Suffet Leave a Comment

VIEWWorx

Almost every company is producing layout drawings in AutoCAD Paper-Space, and most will agree that the existing production methods are generally slow and time consuming. ECE set out to improve layout drawing production and we’ve done it with VIEWWorx!

VIEWWorx is the newest ECE Worx Plug-in and it makes creating Named Views so easy every designer will want to start using them. Named Views have been in AutoCAD forever but no one uses them because they are so difficult to create and manage. Well that is not the case anymore.

Creating AutoCAD Named Views is just the tip of this iceberg!

VIEWWorx automates Paper-Space drawing production too. Do you want a separate drawing for every unique line? Do you want a separate drawing for every piping, equipment, electrical, plan? Do you want to automatically create steel detail layouts? If the answer is yes to any of this you have to see VIEWWorx in action.

What about those odd angle views? How many times have you needed a view at some angle between X and Y? That is not an issue now because VIEWWorx creates Named Views at any angle.

Now designers can easily define plan, elevation, and section views within models, or XFEFs, then simply ‘Hit The Go Button’ to produce one, two or hundreds of layout drawing automatically.

VIEWWorx: Named Views Made Easy and Much More!

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