CADISON 3D Designer is a complete plant design suite with 3D modeling features which allows the users to build plant layouts, pipeline routing, HVAC duct routing, equipment modeling, steel layouts, Isometric drawing creation and report generation. This 3D Plant Design Software also provides various extremely helpful and time saving wizards (design assistants) such as ‘Tank Assistant’, ‘Nozzle Assistant’ for creating 3D vessels and tanks. CADISON 3D Designer also integrates with pipe support modeler and steel layout modules to quickly add secondary supports and create steel layouts. It also enable users to import Autodesk Inventor part or assembly into CADISON environment through Inventor interface and continue pipe routing by automatically creating nozzle and flange as connection points. CADISON 3D plant design tool is an integrated database driven software which automatically generates isometric drawings from 3D models using ISOGEN.

To truly improve piping design productivity, the software should provide the capability to interactively lay out the piping systems directly in the 3D computer model. This allows the piping designer to sit at the graphics workstation, viewing the 3D model, and directly add new piping or modify existing piping. In M4 PLANT, 3D piping is designed on the basis of project-specific pipeline classes. The program contains extensive libraries of catalogue components, which aids the consistent and error-free design of complete piping systems. Automatic consistency and collision testing increases the overall design quality of the piping design. Pipe spec 'samples' are delivered with the software. These can be directly used or modified according to individual requirements. Using Smap3D Piping Generating 3D pipe systems. A user draws and defines the required pipe system route as a path with 3D lines (basic functions in the CAD system). The Smap3D piping engine analyses the line segments.

Specification driven, integrated 3D Plant design & Equipment Engineering Software:

• CADISON 3D Designer is a rule-based design module for 3D design layout of a plant with optimum space planning. It allows users to build a fully detailed model of all piping systems, HVAC duct routing and equipment layouts based on component catalogs and engineering specifications (materials, media, etc.)
• CADISON object oriented technology and single database allows real integration between disciplines. For example the data generated during the process planning and entered in to P&ID’s and Project Engineer can be used in 3D designer for further engineering. This also helps in real time updates and effective change management
• CADISON 3D Designer integration with various modules, wizards and interfaces (such as pipe support modeler, steel layout and pipe stress analysis software) creates comprehensive 3D plant design environment for all the major plant disciplines thereby improving productivity of all users
• CADISON 3D Plant model automatically generates piping General Arrangement drawings, isometric drawings and accurate bill of quantities, part list, reports, etc.
• CADISON provides interfaces with industry standard CAE software’s – CAESER II & ROHR2 for quick and accurate analysis of piping system
• It allows 3D interference / clash checking (in Navisworks) and configurable rule based quality control tool ‘Logic Analyzer’ identify errors and inconsistencies across the design
• Integrated Report Generator enables users to generate various types of reports (valve lists, equipment lists, measurement lists, etc.)

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Effective Space Planning and Equipment layouts with CADISON 3D Designer:

• Equipment layouts can be planned by accessing existing models from equipment suppliers. CADISON 3D Designer imports models through CAD interfaces such as Inventor (.sat), native AutoCAD (.dwg) or Solidworks for layout design
• CADISON intelligently creates additional objects such as nozzle and flange to use as connection points to continue pipe routing
• Users can create accurate 3D design of process equipment and skid units with all attribute data behind for accurate documentation/reports
• Users can also take equipment or pipeline data/information from P&ID or Plant structure through simple Drag & Drop and insert them in 3D model for further engineering
• It’s easy to use design assistant helps user to create and place equipments such as 3D tank and vessels. It include intelligent connection points with associated items (viz. piping, nozzle, instruments and electrical systems) for complete pipeline planning
• CADISON 3D designer integrates with Catalog Manager (Matpipe) for 3D parametric catalog components (gaskets, flanges, pumps, etc.). Designers select, place and auto-route components for quick 3D model creation
• 3D model created can be used for creating pipeline plans and isometric drawings simultaneously. Users can automatically extract General arrangement drawings, bill of quantity and also do connectivity or clash checks
• CADISON Equipment Simplifier (powered by CADfix) enables users to reduce the file size of imported equipment models, giving our users more manageable equipment models for integration with the CADISON plant design solution. Users can continue with plant design in CADISON independent of the CAD system used by their manufacturing departments

Equipment Modeling with bi-directional Inventor interface

• 3D parts from Autodesk Inventor can be imported to CADISON 3D Designer
• CADISON intelligently creates additional objects such as nozzle and flange to use as connection points to continue pipe routing
• Complex assemblies can be quickly and easily converted into CADISON
• Connection type 'pipe with flange' is supported
• Provides facility to import, validate & modify the invalid connection points of the imported model
• 'CADISON export' Inventor plug-in is available for suppliers using the Inventor Environment
• Built-in intelligence to verify association between object, XML file and SAT file exported from Inventor
• Search feature is available to display the list of all existing Inventor imported objects in a drawing
• The update function simplifies handling in CADISON 3D updates in Inventor original model
• Exports Inventor iProperties to CADISON Objects

Standard Pipe Support and Secondary Supports Library

• A wizard for pipe support allows a user to create different types of predefined supports during the data entry stage (for e.g. offset, orientation and industry validations)
• Supports created using ‘Create Support’ wizard are constructible and erectable.
• Auto-linking to standard support helps easy identification of associated secondary support in the isometric drawing
• Automatic Hookup drawing feature helps in generating production drawings of a selected type of support.
• It also enables the users to create non-standard pipe supports manually using steel profiles (beam/columns). This also enable to convert a standard pipe support to custom pipe support by adding/removing the required/unwanted profiles from the standard pipe-supports created using 'Assistant for Pipe-Support' wizard
• The CADISON report function 'support list' is available to the users

Automatic 2D Extractions (GA Drawings, Isometrics) form 3D Model:

• CADSION supports industrial standard ISOGEN to create isometrics. All pipelines designed in 3D Designer can be automatically transformed into fabrication isometrics in one single operation
• Users can deliver 3D pipeline image (real view) of the pipe in isometric view for construction site; beneficial during erection of complex pipelines
• CADISON provides flexibility to the users to customize isometric views/templates as per the requirement
• Simultaneous creation of isometrics and Piping General Arrangement drawings.
• Equipment layouts & construction drawings (with Vessel details, Nozzle orientation, etc.)
• Easy drag and drop of ‘Section View’ from CADSION tree in to paper space helps to create multiple sections for viewing 3D model in 2D view.
• Easy insertion of system generated symbols (pipe end cut, insulation and flow direction) for better visualization of GA drawings

Features

Auto routing for Efficient Space Planning

Custom Assembly of Steel Objects

Design Assistants for Equipment Modeling

Automatic Isometrics Creation with ISOGEN

Clash Detection

Integrated Report Generator

• CADISON Autorouter

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• Tank and Nozzles Assistant

  Rapid and easy placement of tanks, pipe sections and intelligent pipe nozzles. Further requirements like sectional views, elevations and Isometric drawings are generated automatically

• Custom Assembly of Steel Objects

  Add on menu in Inventor will assist the users in exporting Inventor part or assembly file into SAT and XML format. The interface has a provision to define connection points on planar face of any shape in Inventor as well as in CADISON import wizard. This gives a user the ability to import objects with / without the connection points.

• Automatic Isometrics Creation with ISOGEN

  CADISON supports the recognized industrial standard ISOGEN and provides isometrics in this format. It is possible to transform all pipelines designed by CADISON 3D Designer into fabrication isometric in one operation.

• Collision Tests

  CADISON supports the visualization & clash detection tool Navisworks. This tool makes it easy to detect possible planning errors at any time and at an early stage so that project implementation is not jeopardized.

• Integrated Report Generator

  CADISON 3D Designer have built-in configurable report generator for automatic extractions of reports, BOM, etc. For example, flange and pipeline lists or even selective material evaluation documents can be prepared for individual construction stages.

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