Plant Design Program Compatible With AutoCAD 2012

Intergraph’s CADWorx 2012 plant design suite is now compatible with AutoCAD 2012. CADWorx 2012 builds on the latest capabilities and adds performance-enhancing features. CADWorx Plant Professional includes a new discontinuity palette for showing component discontinuities and overlaps in the model, with full reporting capabilities. An improved pipe support module provides greater flexibility in the placement of pipe supports and extends bills of material capabilities to pipe support subassemblies. HVAC and cable tray enhancements include additional manufacturers’ catalogs and live database links to components. Improved steel capabilities allow the creation of steel plate from any single-line shape and provide enhanced CIS/2 import for improved integration with Intergraph FrameWorks. The CADWorx Plant Professional equipment module includes a new center of gravity calculator for modeling equipment and for vessels and exchangers. Designers can also add stiffening rings internally and orient rings around their primary axes. In addition to live database capabilities, CADWorx P&ID Professional now offers direct data export to Microsoft Excel. CADWorx fieldPipe and CADWorx fieldPipe Professional are now offered as add-on modules to CADWorx Plant Professional, allowing for more flexible implementation options for the creation of on-site and in-house plant as-built deliverables.