SOCKETWorx, the ECE Plant Plugins, and mechanical teams can lift and shift piping projects into easy-to-use web pages.
Standard engineering and design methods, procedures, data, and documents merge into SOCKETWorx default deployments, where they enhance quality assurance, project management, change control, and mechanical integrity.
Information is consolidated into Data Worksheets with familiar data entry, filtering, sorting, and colorizing controls. Default reporting and revisioning methods enforce consistent file naming conventions, ensuring your engineering procedures are consistently followed and sustainable.
Optionally, AutoCAD Plant 3D (P3D) and CADWorx projects connect to SQL, and with easy SQL database integration, SOCKETWorx ensures smooth synchronization between your CAD tools and this collaborative project platform when deployed.
Whether self-hosted or as a service, SOCKETWorx provides complete control over your CAD content to track progress, changes, and revisions across team members wherever Worx Plant plugs are deployed.
Default methods empower engineers and designers to produce high-quality deliverables from 3D models consistently. From piping and electrical specifications to every model-related detail, SOCKETWorx ensures precision and efficiency in every project. It is your ultimate CAD project management solution—built to streamline your workflow and maximize productivity.
Discover how Worx Plugin integrations can lift CAD system information and deliverables into an easy-to-use website: YourSite.socketworx.com.
ECE is ushering in a new era of engineering and design by seamlessly integrating SOCKETWorx with AutoCAD Plant 3D and CADWorx.
MV Publisher is the Controlling Worx Plugin, and once active, it enables its processors within BUBBLEWorx, ISOWorx, MTOWorx, and all the others to unleash their contributions to SOCKETWorx.
MV Publisher is the primary interface for uploading 3D models and asset information to SOCKETWorx. This AutoCAD plugin transfers 3D model snapshots into web-compatible graphic and data files. SOCKETWorx is a comprehensive platform for navigating 3D models, gathering information on parts, searching for Bill of Materials (BOMs) in bulk, and becoming the foundation for Mechanical Integrity programs.
Key Features:
One-click 3D Model Exporter:
LINKWorx 3D Model transfers can not be any simpler. Click on a button to launch the processor, which will work on the active model. Models can comprise AutoCAD XREFernces, and LINKWorx will extract models from them. This enables seamless integration with SOCKETWorx, where composite models can be easily navigated so anyone with a web browser can interact with complex 3D designs.
No-Click BOM Exported:
Included in the one-click button is a processor that extracts piping component information. SOCKETWorx displays Model Bills of Material (BOM), allowing users to perform queries with easy filtering controls. The BOM includes the geospatial coordinates that SOCKETWorx automatically geotags to support searching for modeled components and assets.
Propagate Layering Conventions:
LINKWorx retains AutoCAD layer and color properties, ensuring that any standardization is propagated to SOCKETWorx, where users can set visibility against them. Maintaining AutoCAD layering conventions is how AutoCAD groups anything modeled, and many best practices, methods, and procedures exist around them. Propagating them into SOCKETWorx 3D Viewer controls happens by default.
This way, SOCKETWorx users can filter against them and have control over visibility.
SaaS POI Inspector:
When deployed, points of interest (POI) can be seamlessly added to 3D models, and inspection records can be accumulated against these points. LINKWorx ensures that all CAD components have surfaces to which points-of-interest can be added.
Benefits:
- Seamless 3D Design Integration: SaaS Mechanical integrates AutoCAD Plant 3D and CADWorx 3D models seamlessly, providing users with a centralized platform for navigation, information retrieval, and efficient design management.
- User-Friendly Interface: The intuitive interface allows users to navigate 3D models effortlessly, hover over parts for information, and perform bulk searches for related BOMs, fostering a collaborative and efficient design environment.
- Preservation of Design Integrity: LINKWorx retains AutoCAD layer and color properties, allowing users to filter against them and preserving the original design integrity throughout the visualization process.
- Bulk Point-of-Interest Placement: Deploy SaaS POI Inspector and benefit from the geospatial locators and target assets to add points of interest in bulk. Start accumulating inspection records against 3D models today.
LINKWorx is not a 3D design tool; it’s a comprehensive solution redefining how people interact with and manage 3D models. It simply funnels CAD content into SOCKETWorx web pages.
SaaS Mechanical includes SPECWorx. This software as a service has been harnessing piping specifications for ten years to inspect their quality, populate parts catalogs, make them available worldwide, and manage change.
Core utilities like extracting, transforming, and loading CADWorx piping specifications into AutoCAD PLANT 3D specifications save countless hours when using both applications or migrating between them.
User controls and all information is accessible on two easy-to-use SPECWorx web pages. This is where mechanical and electrical part specification data becomes searchable engineering content for people and applications like MTOWorx.
Key Features:
SPECWorx Processors:
SPECWorx processors are the backbone of SaaS Mechanical, transforming piping specifications from AutoCAD Plant 3D and CADWorx models into easily searchable content. These processors inspect parts and part families for errors and offer the unique ability to convert CADWorx pipe specs into AutoCAD Plant 3D pipe specs, providing unprecedented flexibility in design workflows.
SaaS Parts Catalog:
The SaaS Parts Catalog acts as a centralized repository for all piping components. SPECWorx processors seamlessly transfer data into this catalog, allowing users to efficiently manage and organize a comprehensive library of parts and part families. This catalog is valuable for quick and accurate access to all components permitted by industry and corporate piping classes.
MTOWorx Integration:
MTOWorx takes integration to the next level by seamlessly connecting with the SaaS Parts Catalog. It inspects all components within 3D models, appending reports with item lookup data and unit pricing. This integration empowers users to generate detailed cost estimates, providing a holistic view of project expenses.
Benefits:
- Streamlined Piping Design: SaaS Mechanical simplifies piping design by processing AutoCAD Plant 3D and CADWorx models, ensuring compatibility and interoperability between different CAD platforms.
- SPECWorx Flexibility: SPECWorx processors offer unparalleled flexibility by transforming and converting piping specifications between CADWorx and AutoCAD Plant 3D, streamlining design workflows, and minimizing manual adjustments.
- Centralized Parts Catalog: The SaaS Parts Catalog is a centralized hub for piping components, promoting efficiency, standardization, and quick access to standardized parts and part families.
- Cost Estimation Precision: MTOWorx integration enhances project management by inspecting components, appending reports with item lookup data, and incorporating unit pricing to generate accurate and detailed cost estimates.
SaaS Mechanical is not just a design tool; it’s a comprehensive solution that transforms the piping design landscape. From SPECWorx processors providing unprecedented flexibility to MTOWorx ensuring precise cost estimates, this platform is engineered to elevate efficiency and accuracy in every facet of piping design projects. Embrace the future of intelligent, interconnected, and cost-effective piping design with SaaS Mechanical.
You can capture piping and electrical material snapshots on-demand from AutoCAD® Plant 3D and CADWorx® models from any CAD workstation worldwide.
Upload Bills of Material (BOM) extractions using all the reporting capabilities of MTOWorx. SOCKETWorx stores extractions with default metadata as SOCKETWorx SnapShots. These material take-offs satisfy project reporting requirements and can be repurposed within procedures like reporting model changes.
When SPECWorx is deployed, and its SaaS Parts Catalog is fed with permissible piping components from corporate piping classes, MTOWorx can inspect all inserted 3D parts from P3D or CWx piping specifications.
Key Features:
MTOWorx Integration:
MTOWorx seamlessly reads piping models from AutoCAD P3D and CADWorx to generate reports, take material snapshots, and bulk edit part properties. Integration with the SaaS Parts Catalog provides advanced capabilities for inspecting components within 3D piping, conduit, and cable tray models. MTOWorx enhances material management deliverables by appending reports with SaaS Part Catalog data like unit pricing, alternative long descriptions, or unique markers, ensuring accurate and comprehensive documentation for every project.
3D Model Snapshots:
MTOWorx extends its integration capabilities by storing 3D model snapshots within SOCKETWorx. These snapshots are invaluable references for comparison reporting during various project lifecycle stages. Its most common use case is to compare an active model to them and report the increases, decreases, additions, and subtractions. Other use cases include weekly production monitoring, percent complete milestones, and change notifications.
Cost Estimation:
Leveraging MTOWorx’s integration with the SaaS Parts Catalog, users can generate detailed cost estimates by appending reports with unit pricing information. This intelligent feature streamlines the estimation process, providing project managers and stakeholders valuable insights into budgeting and resource allocation.
Benefits:
- Quality Assurance: MTOWorx compares parts within 3D models with SaaS Part Catalogs and automatically finds discrepancies.
- Parts Catalog Lookups: A centralized repository of piping components ensures consistency and efficiency in component selection across different projects. Appending part catalog lookup data columns to MTOWorx reports to satisfy informational use cases such as alternative descriptions, part numbers, and commodity codes.
- Accurate Cost Estimates: MTOWorx integration with the SaaS Parts Catalog facilitates the generation of accurate cost estimates, providing critical insights into project budgeting.
- Intelligent 3D Model Monitoring: The storage of 3D model snapshots allows for intelligent and efficient project monitoring, supporting weekly production checks, milestone tracking, and change notifications.
SOCKETWorx as a service, or on-premises, redefines piping design by combining the power of SPECWorx and MTOWorx integration for robust quality control, reporting, revisioning, and change control procedures. Embrace a new era of efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration in piping projects with SaaS Mechanical—your key to seamless and error-free piping design.
You can bulk update piping isometric border information directly from SOCKETWorx Line Lists anywhere in the world.
The transition from your existing Excel Line List to SaaS Mechanical takes minutes. SWx Mech Piping Line List is the default Engineering Data Worksheet that takes control of data and integrates with ISOWorx. Unleash the piping isometric status dashboard widgets to monitor Isometric production and other piping design points of interest.
This collaborative platform encourages engineers and piping designers to work together, offering visibility into pipe route engineering and design, specifically isometric drawing production status.
SaaS Mechanical Line List is a central hub for efficiently identifying and resolving discrepancies between Line List records and 3D model Line Tags within AutoCAD Plant 3D and CADWorx Plant designs. It also becomes the source of truth for populating data within piping isometric borders between configurable stage gates.
Key Features:
Global Facility and Project Line Lists:
SaaS Mechanical eliminates the need to manage piping isometric line lists in Excel, providing a web-based alternative that promotes collaboration, real-time visibility, and truth sources.
ISOWorx Integration:
The seamless integration with ISOWorx brings a new efficiency level to isometric management.
It simplifies mapping border attributes to project Line Lists and populates them throughout project lifecycles. ISOWorx processors inspect Line Tags within 3D models, identify discrepancies, and offer piping isometric file management tools to sync related piping isometric companion files like Excel bills of material (_BOM) and weld logs (_WELD), ensuring smooth and error-free progress through project stages.
Post-Processing Drawings from Line Lists.
ISOWorx processors go to work post-piping isometric drawing creation by automating the advancement of all related files through up to 4 project stage gates. This includes updating drawing file attributes, BOM tables, WELD tables, renaming files, and managing file movements between stage gate directories.
Revision Control and Publishing:
The default methods account for revision control mechanisms, ensuring that Line Lists and isometric drawings are always up to date. Publishing to PDF file options to PDF files to memorialize revisions and promote markups using the SOCKETWorx PDF Viewer.
Use the built-in PDF Viewer to add markups and populate markup cards to track them through resolution.
Benefits:
- Collaborative Efficiency: SaaS Mechanical fosters collaboration between engineers and piping designers, reducing silos and offering real-time visibility into isometric drawing production status.
- Automated Discrepancy Resolution: The platform’s Line List efficiently identifies and resolves discrepancies between records and 3D models, minimizing errors and ensuring design accuracy.
- Effortless Drawing Attribute Updates: ISOWorx processors automate the progression of isometric drawings through different stage gates, seamlessly updating attributes and file names.
- Comprehensive Revision Control: The platform ensures comprehensive revision control, and publishing options to PDF files enable a review and markup process that can be tied to SaaS Work Orders. Ultimately, the Completed stage gate provides a finalized record of design deliverables.
SaaS Mechanical modernizes piping design and transforms the entire isometric management process. By integrating with ISOWorx, the platform delivers an efficient, collaborative, and error-minimizing solution, ensuring accurate and traceable design documentation throughout every project stage. Embrace the future of intelligent piping design with SaaS Mechanical.
Automatically insert SOCKETWorx hyperlinks to any components bubbled on AutoCAD PLANT 3D SQL projects. When hyperlinked drawings are published to PDF files, the links open the SOCKETWorx PDF Viewer and display the component properties in the Data Forms. Whether bubbling is inserted on P3D ortho views or any other, it will add hyperlinks so you can navigate to component Engineering Item and LineGroup information.
