Re: Piping software

NicaDan 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

  From what I can infer from their information, Mech-Q relies upon AutoCAD's solids generation.

This can be useful for smaller projects where the image is more important than the intelligence contained within the drawings.

It is apparently not quite the same thing as Cadpipe and the others which have databases associated with the graphics whereby the data can be used/exported for flow calculations, stress analysis, etc.

Mech-Q's advantage is in low price to make a cool picture in 3D.

I'm still working with my own brain to visualize, so maybe others that have more better information and understanding can correct me.

Paul Received on Thu Nov 04 03:00:00 2004