Manager's Note

Dear Client

We are delighted to advise that Genin & Garces, S.L. in Spain, and Estupe Engenharia e Projectos Unipessoal Lda, in Portugal have entered into a COADE Global Network Partner Agreement with Fern.  Both companies have provided COADE software in their respective regions for several years and have built a strong client base.  Fern will now be supporting their activities and this should add value to overall customer service. 
Enquiries through our website will be routed to the respective region and reseller site.  A new website including the new links should be active in about 10 days. 

Bill Evans (COADE Vice President Sales) and Billy Rasco (COADE Dealer Channel Manager) visited several of Fern's UK customers last week.  Messrs Evans and Rasco were very pleased to find that Fern's customers provided very positive feedback on service and product performance.

For 2009 Q1, Fern was the top selling COADE Global Network Partner in the World and we thank all our customers for making this possible.

See you next month!

Best wishes

Marijana Bicanic
Sales Manager Benelux

Hydrocarbon Processing

Hydrocarbon Processing magazine this month features an article from COADE that discusses the importance of information sharing and data integration to provide users with the correct information when and where required.  

The article describes how integrated plant design and engineering solutions allow information to be made accessible to other disciplines in either a read-only or an editable format. 

COADE Corporate Overview

COADE has announced the publication of the company’s first corporate overview brochure, developed and released in conjunction with the company’s 25th anniversary as a developer of global industry-leading plant design and engineering analysis software solutions. 

The corporate overview brochure describes the company’s global presence, industries served and support and training as well as the proven bottom-line benefits of using COADE solutions.

COADE Product Overview

COADE now have a product overview that introduces the company’s complete solutions for integrated, intelligent plant design and engineering.  A good read!

Personnel

You might have noticed we have had some additions to our Dutch team.

Mr Duncan McElrue has been seconded to the Netherlands since the beginning of May.
You can either call him on our main office number 0031 10 242 41 75 or you can email him with any support issues you might have.

Miss Shelley Ramesar has joined our team as an administrative/sales assistant. She will be helping with sending out orders or updates to customers, organizing on/offsite training and debt chasing amongst others things. Chances are that if you’ll call our office she’ll be the first person you talk to.
You can contact Shelley by email or on 0031 10 242 41 75.

Hints & Tips

User Shapes to CAESAR II

When using the CADWorx to CAESAR II bi-directional interface, CADWorx User shapes are not transferred to CAESAR II and there will be a gap in CAESAR II where the user shape was located in the model. 
To export User Shapes to CAESAR II a Rigid Element must be drawn in the CADWorx model and placed across the User Shape. 
The Rigid Element can be given the correct weight for transferring to CAESAR II.

Rigid Elements can be drawn from the CADWorx Miscellaneous toolbar

Insulation on ISOGEN Isometrics

By default the template ISOGEN styles are set to suppress insulation and tracing.  To turn this on change Option Switch 61 in the Options File or the Iso Content tab.

Use the Project Manage to select the required Style and on the Drawing Control tab within Project Manager, select the Options File variable and click the Edit button to open the correct Options file for editing.

P&ID Inline Component Data Inheritancy

When an inline component is inserted into a line when using CADWorx P&ID with a live database link, one of the hidden CADWorx fields is filled in automatically with the unique ID of the line it is placed onto.  
Using this information, a simple query can be set up to run within the database to fill in any values in the inline item with any values from the Process Line. 
For example to fill the Area in for a valve to match the line the following could be used:

UPDATE [Components-Valves], [Components-Process Lines] SET [Components-Valves].AREA_ = [Components-Process Lines]![AREA_]
WHERE (([Components-Valves]![LINE_ID_1_]=[Components-Process Lines]![ID_COUNT_]));

COADE User Conference 2009
- Update

We now have detail of the COADE User Conference Sessions.  Three days of interactive lectures and discussion groups will assist to improve your workflow efficiency and accelerate the return on investment. Please ask to be mailed a copy of the Preliminary Conference Sessions. Mail me a copy.

For 2009 will be an event not to miss and we look forward to seeing you there.