RE: Piping software

From: <Dan>
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 07:23:00 EST

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Subject: [PipingDesign] Digest Number 1328

From our perspective as a mechanical contractor, accurate fabrication and installation is the most important feature in piping software. It also needs to be compatible with plain Autocad, ie to be able to view our drawings without use of a viewer or object enabler. In space coordination, we need to be able to do overlays with other drawings.

The tie-in to engineering capabilities, stress analysis is a plus, but not

critical, since the engineering is normally done by others.  Learning curve
is important, and I really don't know how to sort that out.  Every salesman
will say that their product is intuitive and easy to learn.  An accurate,

flexible and reasonably thorough parts database is also important.

As for a pretty picture, that might be nice for a presentation, but is not the main prioirty. It would be a plus if a software could be drawn as symbols (the gate valve being two triangles) and then toggle over to a pictorial (where the gate valve is a scaled representation complete with stem and handwheel.)

Any comments would be appreciated.

Dan Rosenberger Received on Mon Nov 08 07:23:00 2004