Piping software

I work for a mechanical contractor that does commercial and industrial piping. We are looking at piping software to be used in layout, coordination, fabrication, and record drawings. The preference would be a product that is either Autocad based or compatible. We would want to be able to overlay our piping layouts with the drawings produced by other contractors and vice versa. (Most of them in this area use Autocad.)

Here are some of the products we are considering: CadPipe by AEC
PipeDesigner 3D by Quick Pen
CadWorx by Coade
Mech-Q by ASVIC

I would appreciate anybody's praises or cautions about any of the above products for our proposed use, as well as any other software products that we might want to consider.

Thanks
Dan Rosenberger Received on Tue Nov 02 09:00:00 2004