Manager's Note

Dear Customer

This is the final CAD Newswire of the year and what a year it has been. 

Despite the recession, our overall sales are marginally ahead of last year.  CADWorx has been a star, delivering so many savings to users at a time when they needed it most. 

We salute all our customers and thank you for your business.

We wish all our readers Season's Greetings and look forward to supporting you in 2010.

Best wishes

Paul Howard
European Sales Manager

CADWorx P&ID – Upgrade Offer

COADE has agreed to allow any customer who qualifies to receive the free CADWorx P&ID license to upgrade any or all of these licences to CADWorx P&ID Professional for only £650 (€708) per license.

Qualifying purchases: Any purchase of CADWorx Plant Professional or purchase of upgrade, maintenance & support (UMS) contract, during 1st September 2009 – 31st December 2009.

The first year's UMS will be included in the upgrade price.  The UMS contract period will begin on the date of your upgrade order.  Those customers wishing to renew CADWorx P&ID Professional maintenance after the initial contract expires may do so at the then current rate, on or before the renewal date.

Commencing 1st January 2010, the free CADWorx P&ID licenses may still be upgraded to CADWorx P&ID Professional upon payment of an upgrade fee of £970 (€1062) - still offering excellent value!

We urge you to act early to benefit from the generous saving available.

CADWorx Version 2010

Update Course

Fern are planning to schedule a number of one day courses at Fern’s training center here at our offices in Derby which will demonstrate the new features in CADWorx Version 2010. 

This will include Pipe Support modelling using the Pipe Support Modeller palette and the use of I-Configure to set up and configure ISOGEN for isometrics. 

For further information please contact Paul Howard.

CADWorx Seasonal Greetings!

Hints & Tips

Plotted Date in ISOGEN

To plot the date when using ISOGEN you will need to edit the Positioned Text (POS) file to include an entry for the date.  The Text ID No for the date record is -14.

In addition to editing the Positioned text file, you will also need to edit the Options (OPL) file to specify the required date format.  The default entry in the Options file is No Plotted Date – so a date will not be plotted even with a valid entry in the POS file.

Change Options Switch 6 to the required Date format

PV Fabricator:
  Export BOM and Nozzle Schedule

It is possible to export the Material List and/or the Nozzle schedule from PV Fabricator to a database. 
CTRL+Right-Click on the Nozzle Schedule (Or Material List) table and choose to Export to DB.

Now Export the table to any of the following formats:

• Access Database
• Excel File
• Text File
• XML file

Display full file path in CADWorx title bar

To set CADWorx to display the full path, rather than just the file name, in the title bar at the top of the Window, select Tools > Options and Check the Display Full Path in Title check box.

COADE Webinars

Leveraging CADWorx for Weld Mapping

December 10th, 2009 at 17:30 UK time.

This webinar demonstrates how to leverage CADWorx to produce weld maps, auxiliary welding details and the associated inspection forms that can be used to service most piping projects. More details about the CADWorx for weld mapping webinar here. To register for this webinar, visit the webinar registration page.

Linking files to a CADWorx P&ID or Asset tag

December 17th, 2009 at 17:30 UK time.

This webinar demonstrates how simple this linking process can be with CADWorx and Adept and how Adept offers revision control and searching capabilities based on the CADWorx. More details about this webinar here. To register for this webinar, visit the webinar registration page