Re: 3D CAD Piping Software

From: <Christopher>
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 12:59:00 EST

>This one is simply the evolution of computerized piping design as one
>designer observed it.

This is a very interesting post. I've gone through a parallel evolution with FEA and CAD. I suspect you've described the evolution of a great deal of mechanical engineering.

>The disadvantage to the designers is the complications associated with
>administering this new environment..... We are working on that part.
I daresay you have a big job ahead of you. What seems to have happened is that engineering companies apparently assume that all this computerization allows them to hire skateboarders instead of engineers--stage 4 project management with stage 2 personnel. I've run into this a lot outside of piping and pressure vessels. People who are supposedly designers without a clue about the materials and design environments they're dealing with.

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