Hello,

One area where customers are continuously pushing ECE is for more Training Video Content.  Whether its CADWorx, CAESAR II, PV Elite, Leica or BricsCAD, we have requests coming in every month.  I’m here to say – keep the ideas coming!

Training Video Suggestions Welcome!

We will do our best to schedule the video production and get them out as quick as possible.  Below is the latest batch of recently posted Training/Webinar Videos on our website:

1. CADWorx 2016: Specification Editor – Import/Export Functionality
2. CADWorx 2016: Isogen Updates
3. CADWorx 2016: Setup Profile Updates
4. CAESAR II Training Duplicating Recurring Elements
5. PV Elite: Introduction to the PV Elite User Interface
6. Leica Cyclone – Unifying Scans
7. Leica JetStream – Overview

Please take a look and let us know!

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!

 

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

Hello,

Over the past few months, ECE Design has be overhauling, consolidating and updating our Websites to provide an improved user experience.  Inclusive of the overhaul was our brand new ECE Support Desk we rolled out a few weeks back.  In the last few days, we have reached our goal of consolidation and over the next week we will refine some of the details.

The final piece of the consolidation plan was to bring together our cadworxblog.com website with our ecedesign.com website and I am happy to say this was completed yesterday!

As it stands, http://www.ecedesign.com is our main and only domain moving forward.  We hope the Website Design is “pleasing to the eye” and the changes make it easier to find information!

The www.ecedesign.com website is broken up into the following areas:

• Product Webpages – Inclusive of all the CADWorx & Analysis Pages with detailed descriptions of the software, brochures along with supporting overview videos.
• Support, Training and Services Webpages – Inclusive of the all the Services ECE provides.
• Blog – ECE provides announcements regarding the CADWorx & Analysis Solutions along with tips, tricks and insights for maximizing your productivity.
• Event Calendar – ECE maintains a calendar of upcoming CADWorx & Analysis Events including our upcoming training schedule along with our Free Webinars and Workshop.  The Event Calendar has a subscribe function that enables you to bring the calendar directly into Outlook or Google Calendar.
• Webinars & Training Videos – Through the Membership component of our website, ECE provides access to our Webinar & Training Videos.  Access to Webinar Recordings is provided to all registered users.  At this time, access to Training Videos is provided to ECE Customers Only.
• ECE Support Desk – The NEW ECE Support Desk is now located at the web address http://support.ecedesign.com.  The web portal allow customers to submit technical support requests, find CADWorx & Analysis technical information and query other customers using the CADWorx & Analysis Community Forums. This web portal allows the following:
  • 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.

If you have any recommendations please let us know as we are always looking for new ways to share our CADWorx & Analysis knowledge.  I hope you like what you see and always remember…

When People Talk, Great Things Happen!