Drawing Module, Import-Export

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1 Drawing Module, Import-Export construction modelling systems

2 Save Time & Money In the engineering & design business one of the biggest issues is man-hours. How to get work done quickly and flawlessly is the name of the game. Working with a host of different programs for Finite element analysis, structural design, steel detailing, concrete detailing and other disciplines complicates the issue. Passing data from one program to the other becomes messy and usually a lot of vital information is lost in the process. COMOSYS is perhaps the only software in the market which provides advanced finite element analysis, design and detailing capabilities without switching programs. With its intelligent object oriented design it provides the platform for superfast modelling and the production of drawings. Intelligent connections adjust automatically when design revisions are made and updated drawings are available at the press of a button. construction modelling systems

3 New Generation Construction Modelling Technology Integrated 3D modeling environment of COMOSYS does not only combine analysis, design and detailing stages in single environment but also enables shop drawings to be produced automatically. Once the 3D model is ready, 2D drawings such as plans, sections, elevations, material lists can be created with a touch of a button. When a revision is made to 3D model, changes are automatically reflected in 2D drawings. In short, integrated modeling environment of COMOSYS saves you many man-hours while increasing the quality of work. All in One Solution Finite Element Analysis Design Steel Detailing Formwork Detailing Rebar Detailing Cable Tray & Raceways Mechanical Design & Detailing Integration with other Programs GA & Detail Drawings Imagine and Build! Cable Drawing Trays Module, & Raceways Import-Export Modelling 1

4 Standalone COMOSYS offers a completely standalone drawing module which doesn t require the user to install any AutoCAD or Microstation for it to work. Thus a major portion of the CAD related investment is saved making the cost benefit ratio of investing in COMOSYS even more attractive. Adding Views Drawings produced in COMOSYS do not need to be drawn as done in classical programs. On the contrary once the model is complete all the user needs to do is to define Windows looking into the model and COMOSYS does the rest. Once the view angle and depth of view and other filters have been defined COMOSYS produces the flattened 2D view automatically saving enormous amounts of time. Furthermore this view is now linked to the model and any changes occurring there are automatically reflected in the drawings as well. Many drawings like steel shop drawings, single part drawings and rebar drawings of template based concrete elements are produced entirely automatically while in General arrangement drawings the user is required to enter the dimensions and annotations manually. However here too the user can benefit for semi-automatic functionality. 2

5 Taking Sections Sections can directly be taken from views already existing on the drawing. This greatly facilitates the insertion and definition of new views into the drawing. The views thus created are not only intelligently connected to the model but they are also intelligently connected to the section symbols. If the user moves the section symbol the sectional view it is associated with also updates itself. 3 Filters All drawing views can be filtered in order to see exactly what the user wants to see on the drawing. Filters can be object type based, or ID based, or group based or based on other properties of elements like their materials, disciplines etc. Spatial filters limiting the spatial scope of the view can also be applied. Furthermore when multidisciplinary drawings are created and the user wants to emphasize a particular discipline without completely erasing the others COMOSYS provides very elegant options to quickly gray out unwanted material.

6 Dimensions COMOSYS offers a full range of dimensioning commands like horizontal, vertical, aligned and angular dimensioning. These dimensions are intelligent objects and do not need to be redefined according to changing scales as in many CAD programs. This saves an enormous amount of time. Once the actual size in mm of the dimension is set the user can change the scales of the view as many times as he wants and the dimensions automatically adjust. Special dimension options are available for dimensioning levels in plan and levels in section. Frame, Plate, Bolt and weld Annotations 4 Many fields are available for Frame, plate, bolt and weld type element annotations. COMOSYS automatically finds the best location for the annotation in such a way that it doesn t interfere with other elements of the drawing or other annotations. This means that hardly any time is lost in re-touching the drawings to make them more readable. Most programs require the user to place the annotations manually and if automatic annotation is used most annotations end up on top of each other which is highly undesirable. COMOSYS solves this problem by using advanced place finding algorithms.

7 Rebar Annotations Five different styles of rebar dimensioning/annotating are available in COMOSYS. Rebars need to be dimensioned/annotated in different ways in plan views and differently in sectional views. Furthermore rebars appearing as dots (sectionally) in sectional views are annotated differently as compared to rebars appearing as lines. Stirrups and cross ties etc. have their own unique way of being dimensioned and annotated. COMOSYS provides specialized commands for all these situations. These annotations too like other annotations in COMOSYS are self locating and find places for themselves in a way that two annotations don t end up on top of each other. Material Take Off 5 Material take off commands are available inside the drawing module and the user can place material take off tables anywhere on the drawing. In many cases these tables are produced and placed automatically by the program thereby eliminating any time loss.

8 Insertion Of Special Cad Details COMOSYS gives the user the ability to insert special CAD details which may have been too cumbersome to model. Such blocks can be directly called into the COMOSYS drawing module and automatically adjust themselves according to the scale of the view. A man imported into a 1/50 view will be scaled to 1/50 and if the view scale is changed this inserted block too will adjust. Such details can also be inserted into the drawings on a 1:1 scale outside of any view. 6 Adding Notes And Other Cad Objects It is possible in COMOSYS to add text, notes and tables to the drawings. Standard notes which the designer repeatedly uses or which need minor modifications each time can be read from text files. Furthermore drawing objects like lines, polylines, rectangles, polygons, circles etc. can be drawn directly into the drawings. However this almost never required since all the actual drawing is directly coming from the model anyway but it is good to know that the capability exists. The user can also draw revision cloud symbols very easily.

9 Export To Popular Cad Formats Since the customer may not have a license of COMOSYS he may want us to deliver the drawing in AutoCAD format. COMOSYS directly exports its drawings in a way which is readable by AutoCAD. Furthermore such drawings are very well organized and different layers are used for the various objects thereby allowing the user to easily make any modifications to the drawing if needed. Drawing Manager All drawings produced in COMOSYS are accessible via the Drawings Manager. Drawings Manager allows you to store thousands of drawings of different types under the same model, to create new drawings, to delete or to clone existing ones. Using advanced filtering options of the manager, you can quickly and easily find the drawings you want from thousands of drawings. These filtering options are as listed below: * Filter by drawing name * Filter by drawing s dimensions * Filter by drawing type (discipline) * Filter by open/closed status * Filter by marks in the drawings * Filter by various flags that can be assigned to drawings In addition to these, Drawing Manager also provides batch operations. You can plot or update multiple drawings with a single command or you can freeze your drawings so that they are not affected by changes in the model. If you want to export multiple drawings to DXF files with batch operations, that is also possible. 7

10 Automatically Produced Drawings * Steel Shop drawings (Assembly drawings) (Both Separate and Multi format) * Steel single part drawings * Concrete rebar template drawings * Tank detail drawings Are produced completely automatically by COMOSYS at the press of a button. All the user needs to do is save the drawing production parameters once and all workers can then use these settings again and again in different projects. Furthermore COMOSYS allows the user to save different drawing settings for different assembly marks. For instance the user may want the column drawings to be of a different scale than other drawings. This feature saves time as the production of drawings can be done in one go rather than group by group. The speed of drawing production is of the order of a few hundred drawings in less than an hour so once the model is finished it basically means that the drawings have also been completed. Multi drawings are also created very efficiently and COMOSYS directly uses advanced space optimization techniques to make sure the multi drawing is not too sparse. 8

11 9 Manually Produced Drawings * Steel General Arrangement drawings * Concrete Formwork drawings Etc. have to be produced manually. However this should not be confused with classical 2D drawing production. Even here the user can produce up to drawings in a single day using the extremely efficient tools provided inside the drawing module. Automatic dimensioning and annotation of views is also available.

12 Model and Data Transfer COMOSYS supports many different file formats for importing and exporting data and can transfer data to and from popular CAD and engineering software. Structural Analysis COMOSYS provides following data exchange options for structural analysis: * SAP2000: You can export finite element model of the structures you modelled in COMOSYS to SAP2000. Every object that contains structural analysis information such as frame elements, plate and shell elements, springs, rigid diaphragms and other types of constraints, all kinds of loads can be exported. * SAFE: Column support reactions can be exported to SAFE as superstructure loads to be used in foundation analysis. * Additionally, finite element models from Staad.Pro analysis software and column support reactions from Probina Orion column forces file can be imported to COMOSYS. 10

13 Geometric Information Geometric information represents 2 or 3 dimensional shape data. In this context, all kinds of 2 dimensional drawing entities (including text) and 3 dimensional model objects can be exported from COMOSYS to other CAD software or from these software to COMOSYS using following data exchange file formats: * For exporting data from COMOSYS to other CAD software: - DXF: 2 or 3 dimensional geometric information can be written into a file in DXF format. As being one of the most popular data formats for geometric information, DXF export option allows you to export COMOSYS models to virtually any CAD software (AutoCAD, BrixCAD, Solids Works, etc.) It is also possible to export 2D drawings (i.e. engineering drawings and shop drawings). - STL: This file format is used for 3D solid models. Using this file format, you can export data to various CAD/CAM programs such as SolidWorks or CATIA. - CEF (COMOSYS Export File): This file format is COMOSYS own data exchange format. In addition to 3D geometry data, extra information about various disciplines and objects are included. Using CEF, you can export COMOSYS models to VIMASYS, which is a BIM software. (CEF fformat is also used for exporting 3D geometric data to AVEVA PDMS. See PDMS section for detailed information.) 11

14 12 * For importing data from other CAD software in to COMOSYS: - DXF: Using this format, you can import 2D drawings and 3D models into a COMOSYS model from AutoCAD or almost any other CAD software. Additionally, 2D drawings can also be imported into COMOSYS shop drawing files. - DWG: For some 3D object types that are not exported in open format by AutoCAD, COMOSYS also allows you to import DWG files into COMOSYS models. - STL: Used for importing 3D models (such as equipment models) from 3D solid modeling software. - CEF: You can import models from VIMASYS into COMOSYS using this file format. (This file format is also supported by AVEVA PDMS. See PDMS section for detailed information.) Structural Steel Some data exchange formats for structural steel model carries extra information such as material grade, profile name and type, weld and bolt information. Therefore, it is possible to import and export models without data loss between software supporting these data exchange formats. * SDNF: 3D steel models along with steel related data can be exchanged between COMOSYS and steel detailing and/ or modeling software (e.g. TEKLA Structures or Autodesk Revit). This exchange is bidirectional. That is, you import into or export from COMOSYS. Piping Piping discipline objects such as pipes, flanges, valves, etc. can be imported from Bently AutoPLANT and Intergraph CADWorx software into COMOSYS models using PXF and PMF data formats, respectively. * CEF: Using this file format, objects that belong to structural steel discipline can be exchange between COMOSYS and AVEVA PDMS. See PDMS section for more detailed information. Other Steel Detailing Software COMOSYS

15 Data Exchange with PDMS COMOSYS provides advanced data exchange capabilities for exporting to and importing from AVEVA PDMS, which has become de-facto standard software in plant design and management industry. 13 CEF: Data exchange between PDMS and COMOSYS is done using COMOSYS own data exchange format CEF. This is accomplished with the help of a specially developed extension module that plugs into PDMS. Intelligent Objects: Many different types of objects are supported for data exchange between COMOSYS and PDMS. What is important; however, is that: these objects do not only contain 3D geometry information but also carry additional information related to structural, mechanical, or electrical equipment that they represent. As a result of this, objects do not loose functionality when copied from one software to another. For instance, when a cable tray object is exported from PDMS to COMOSYS, it is steel represented as a cable tray object, and retains related object parameters. This intelligent data exchange includes following class of objects: * Structural steel members: Objects that belong to structural steel discipline, such as profiles, plates, bolts, welds. * Piping members: Objects that belong to piping discipline such as pipes, flanges, elbows, valves. * Cable trays and raceways. Simple trays, T connections, vertical and horizontal elbows, etc. * Various mechanical equipment

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