Create your AutoCAD Plant 3D and CADWorx piping isometrics with ISOWorx. This tool automatically updates isometric drawing borders and renames files using Line List information from Excel workbooks or the cloud. Its integrated processors make changes to drawing files while they are transferred into stage gate directories. Line Lists and stage gate directories become your key resources for piping project management.
Boost piping asset performance further by deploying SaaS Mechanical, a cutting-edge web application that includes online microservices for line list, work orders, markups, web models, and inspections.
Features
BORDER Attribute, BOM, and WELD Tools.
ISOWorx updates drawings as you move them between stage gates. Bulk update drawing borders from an Excel line list without having to open every drawing file. Use AutoCAD tables to make maintaining Bill of Materials (BOM) and Welds (WELD) data easier and produces companion workbooks.
Companion BOM and WELD Workbooks per piping isometric drawing
Automatically create comprehensive Excel Bill of Materials (BOM) and Welding (WELD) report deliverables that exactly match tables on drawings. ISOWorx keeps Excel files identical by providing an easy-to-use interface to add, remove, and modify rows simultaneously. Repurpose BOM and WELD files as inputs to pipe fabrication processes. Collect material and weld compliance data and ISOWorx will import it to yield as-built documentation.
Manage files from Stage Gates Directories
Designers move drawings and companion files through stage gates to work on them. They are used for modification, review and approval hold points before issuing for construction.
The system if flexible enough to accommodate five stage gates were directory and stage gate names are user defined.
Rename Drawing Files
ISOWorx includes tools that will rename drawing file as they are moved between stage gates. It works for any collection of drawings. The process is simple, assemble a workbook with one column for the existing filename and another for the new name and launch the processor. Done!
SaaS Web Models
ISOWorx includes tools that extract transform and load 3D Models into SaaS Mechanical. Visualize and interact with your piping models online. through our SaaS platform, ensuring accessibility and collaboration. Add SaaS Inspector to append inspection and hold points directly to parts like welds or capturing material heat numbers, and certificates.
SaaS Web BOM Data
Access and manage BOM information on each pipe route where user can create custom views with any property from CAD models.
Check out these use cases
IsoCreate from CADWorx and AutoCAD PLANT 3D
Batching piping isometrics from CWX and P3D Projects the same way.
The ISOCREATE command launches either IsoBatch or Production Iso. Once Lines have been created by these processors, ISOWorx steps to help finish.
Everyone wants the ‘No-Touch Iso’, but everyone will admit to opening them right after they have been first created. We can’t help ourselves, we want to see the fruits of our hard work.
So, ISOWorx starts out by making drawings easy-to-open.
Stage 1 IsoOut
Bulk updating piping isometric drawing Attributes from Excel Line Lists.
Bulk Update BOM & WELD drawing tables from companion Excel workbooks
Stage 2 Work In Progress
Bulk updating piping isometric drawing Attributes & Drawings from Excel Line Lists.
Bulk Update BOM & WELD drawing tables from companion Excel workbooks
Stage 3 – Plot to PDF
Combine multi-sheet isos into one PDF file
Update BOM Tables and Excel Workbooks from ISOWorx Stage Gates
ISOWorx consumes Excel workbooks exported by CADWorx and AutoCAD PLANT 3D.
BOM and WELD worksheets can be created for each DWG file created.
Changes to BOM and WELD tables pushed to the active drawing and workbook keeping them in sync.
Weld Extraction
ISOWorx outputs Excel workbooks containing weld worksheets for every piping isometric created.
Worksheet data is inserted onto each drawing as a CAD table, effectively replacing the Isogen table.
These workbooks can be used for many purposes, but most commonly they are used to collect fabrication information.
In this way, ISOWorx can create as-built drawings because it automatically updates drawing CAD tables.
Step 1: Create an isometric drawing index worksheet
The foundation of ISOWorx is a piping isometric drawing index.
It must contain a row for every piping route, and in some cases, every piping route segment if split into spools or split across multiple sheets for drawing clarity.
The worksheet must contain mandatory ISOWorx columns like ISO_DWG_NAME and TAG.
The key to isometric drawing revision control is to have a REVISION column. This is not a mandatory column, but rather a strategic user column to control drawing revisions.
Step 2: Increment the isometric drawing revision
Nobody knows when changes are made to a piping model, except for those who make the changes or assign changes to be made.
There are probably hundreds of ways to manage change, and ISOWorx offers yet another. Regardless of the method, it still relies on someone to manage it and populate revision data for each and every isometric drawing. ISOWorx improves this situation by standardizing and streamlining the processes via an Excel drawing index or ISOWorx Index
An IFR to IFC story:
Acme Co. produced 109 isometric drawings and automatically created PDF files for review (IFR) using ISOWorx. PDF markups were collected via SOCKETWorx, and only 32 of the 109 drawings required changes. The design team got busy and made 3D model modifications to 26 of the 79 piping routes satisfying all PDF markups. The team lead incremented the revision to 1 in the ISOWorx drawing index for each of the 32 drawings associated with the 26 piping routes. Then ISOWorx is used to ISOBATCH only the 26 pipe routes and recreate the 32 revised piping isometrics. The revised drawings were reissued for review and subsequently approved as-is. Now, what does Acme Co do when they need to issue all drawings with a new status, Issued for Construction (IFC)?
Using ISOWorx, they a) incremented the revision in the ISOWorx Index for all 109 isometrics, and b) changed the STATUS attributed in the ISOWorx Index to issued IFC, and c) produced 109 IFC drawings from the Work In Progress directory.
Eliminating the need to recreate approved isometrics using Isogen, or not having to open every drawing to update the border information is how ISOWorx improves and streamlines the revision process.
