The CADWorx Plant Design Suite from Hexagon is an integrated, complete software series for plant design that provides: intelligent drawing and database connectivity; advanced levels of automation; easy-to-use drafting tools; and bi-directional links with the company’s Analysis Solutions.
CADWorx and Analysis Solutions help clients across the world to improve efficiency and lower costs, says the company.
One example of CADWorx in action took place recently when Mercury Engineering, an Irish engineering services provider, was contracted to upgrade an existing process plant. Mercury Engineering determined that it would be necessary to use laser scanning.
CADWorx Plant Professional in combination with Leica CloudWorx was used to manipulate the piping route to match the scanned as-built positions of the new tie-ins and to accurately design them.
As the building was being erected, it was laser scanned, and the new point clouds were integrated with CADWorx Plant Professional.
Benefits for Mercury Engineering included: schedule certainty due to ability to track progress better; accurate as-built data inside the CAD environment; and reduced labour onsite due to the ability to generate high-quality isometrics.
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