Dear Dan,
When you do get your recommendations please consider the following:
- What you want to eventually end up with - your deliverables.
- What steps are needed to create those deliverables.
- What is the cost of the tools needed to create those deliverables.
- Initial costs - software, support and training.
- Ongoing costs - adminstration, maintenance and updates.
- Define all of the above and THEN get a presentaion that addresses
the above points and if you can...
- Try it out and prove that it can produce what you need and is
as 'good' and the vendor claims (and oh yes they will claim that it
does it all!)
In all the main thing to focus on is what you get paid for:
!!!DELIVERABLES!!! and...
how cheap and easily you can produce them now and for the long haul.
You'll get a great demo from most vendors but if you always have in
mind what you need to produce to make money and how easily it will
be to intergrate such a solution you will be well ahead of many that
look at (and buy) Plant Design software.
Good luck
Vornel Walker
- In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, "NicaDan" <drosenberger@f...>
wrote:
>
>
> 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 09:59:00 2004