ESApro

Plant Design
Piping 3D / 2D Isometric Sketches Head Loss Check Stress Analysis Materials take-off

The all comprehensive solution for Plant Design

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The all comprehensive solution for Plant Design

ESApro

Plant Design
PIPING 2D MTO

ESApro Plant Design

ESApro Plant Design is a set of integrated applications for the physical design of industrial facilities. The various modules support the team throughout the project development, from the lay-out drawing-up to the generation of bill of materials and isometric sketches, to fluid flow and stress analysis. Used in the industry of oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, pulp, power generation and water treatment, ESApro Plant Design is suitable for the design of plants of whatsoever dimension and it is indicated for both a single designer and wide project teams:
based on the AutoCAD graphical engine, the industrial standard in CAD graphically powerful, easy to use and immediate in the set-up of new projects multi-user structure for concurrent engineering sharing of project data with Process & Instrumentation applications data architecture open to the most popular relational DBMS (Access, SQL Server, Oracle) wholly customizable environment
DATABASE
ISOMETRICS

PIPING 3D

HEAD LOSS

STRESS ANALYSIS

Piping spec driven operations

The ESApro Plant Design family applications share the centralized data base, which contains thousands of piping component tables compliant with the most popular standards (ASME, DIN, ISO, UNI, BS, BPE etc.). The various programs get the dimensional and descriptive data from the mentioned data base for the graphic modelling, the bill of materials generation and the computation. The Spec Manager, shared among the various programs, allows the system supervisor to create the Piping Classes choosing, among all the typologies and dimensions available in the data base, the subset that fits the design criteria. The piping specs defined in such way drive and control the user throughout the whole project development.

Thanks to ESApro Piping 3D, even if the user is minimally experienced in the tridimensional environment, soon will become proficient. Wide parametric library of piping components The program provides hundreds of parametric graphic functions capable of generating the component 3D model getting the dimensional data from the centralized data base. Equipment ESApro Piping 3D, besides having a parametric library of pumps, vessels, heat exchangers and other devices available, is planned for importing user equipment modelled with AutoCAD or with external programs. Supports Suitable functions allows the insertion into the model of pipe supports withdrawn from a rich library of standards. The program automatically provides: support list export of the supports into the isometric sketches export of the supports into the interface file towards the stress analysis program HVAC and electrical raceways These modules manage the components related to the venting, heating, air conditioning ducts and to the electrical trays, allowing the creation of an all comprehensive multidisciplinar model. Routing and fit to fit assembly functions, parallel to the ones for the piping arrangement, make the operations of modeling and path optimization easy, quick and precise.

PIPING

Piping 3D
Maximum speed and precision in 3D plant modeling ESApro Piping 3D makes the tridimensional plant modeling very fast and guarantees at the same time accuracy in the graphic representation and absolute geometric precision. Powerful tools for the routing of the pipelines. Automatic dressing of the line with pipes and fittings according to the piping class. Absolute precision in the placement of components upon the line by means of suitable functions for hooking on and referring to the snap points of the pipeline or of the already existing components. Fit to fit assembly of components without need of a preexisting line. Possibility of editing the characteristics (ND, class etc.) and the geometry of a pipeline with automatic rebuilding of all components.

Steel structures By this additional library the plant model may be completed with pipe-racks, basements, ladders, footpaths and the other necessary steel structures. Wide customization possibility The graphic representation of the components is that universally used in plant engineering. Whenever in need of different or more detailed shapes, the user may create his own 3D objects that, once inserted into the library, will be dealt like as native ESApro components. Interference detection The program detects possible interferences of the piping components within themselves and with equipment, steels, HVAC ducts, cable trays and, in general, whatsoever entity existing inside the operating environment. The interference check may be maintained on line while modeling or carried on later all over the whole plant. Bill of materials A versatile tool enables the operator to define formats for customized bills of whichever complexity. The output may be directed to ASCII, Excel and Access standard file for further processing or for interfacing with other procedures.

Automatic extraction of isometric sketches Once built the 3D model, a powerful procedure allows to automatically generate all the sketches of the plant, complete with dimensions and bills of materials, and to archive, manage and revise them. By default one sketch per line is created, otherwise, on discretion of the user, lines may be grouped together or splitted into spools. In the ESApro Isometrics environment all the tools needed for making aesthetical retouchings and for inserting notes are available while the link to the model is still maintained. Rendering and Walk through Modelling operations can be made directly in shade mode, which is a very useful tool for the analysis of particularly crowded areas of the plant. Furthermore, for presentation purposes, the model may undergo a very sophisticated rendering process in order to get photorealistic effects of strong visual impact, create animations and produce short film cuts (using Autodesk Architectural Desktop).

Automatic drawing views The automatic drawing views, marked out by extreme versatility and very detailed, are one of the ESApro strength spot: automatic generation of orthographic views and cross sections aided system for dimensioning the bidimensional views possibility of creating shaded views that, besides having a strong aesthetical impact, guarantee high definition and readability for very complex drawings also. automatic updating of drawing views as a consequence of model modifications.

ISOMETRICO
Isometric sketches
This program is extremely helpful for drawing isometric sketches in the AutoCAD environment even when the tridimensional model of the plant, from which the isometric sketches would be automatically derived, is not available. Powerful commands for sketch drawing up The rich library of graphic symbols and the powerful commands make the sketch development easy, quick and accurate: the drawing up of isometric lines is very accessible through an intuitive system for the reference planes management; while inserting the component is attracted to the line, falls into place and automatically cuts it; while dynamically positioning the component upon the line, the user may interactively change the insertion point, the flux sense and the rotation around the axis; the representation scale of the components may be changed for drawing aesthetics or clearness purposes; in the dimensioning operation the program automatically puts the dimension line into the correct isometric plane and contemporarily computes the pipes length; suitable functions make easy inserting notes into the drawing with the most common formats (leader with circle, rectangular box etc.) User customizable environment User may adapt the whole graphic environment to his own needs: graphic symbols title blocks lines and components color layers, text styles for dimension lines and BOM Piping spec controlled operation At the time of the insertion on the line, each symbol picks up its own specific data from the centralized data base, through the current piping class. This mechanism protects the user from mistakes and the consistency between data and graphics is guaranteed. Automatic generation of bill of materials Once finished the sketch, a suitable function provides the marking of the sketch components with a badge that allows to locate them in the BOM appearing on the drawing in table format. The program offers various options such as the

cutting list, the welding list, the surface computation for painting and insulation and the BOM with prefabrication components divided from those for construction. BOMs may be extracted also for the whole project and may be redirected to file in Excel, Access or ASCII format for further processing or for interfacing with other procedures. Retouch of automatic sketches This program is used for making aesthetic retouches and annotations to the sketches obtained automatically provided that the tridimensional model of the plant is available.

Head Loss Check

This optional module performs the head loss computation in a complex network as a part of the plant tridimensional model. It is enough for the user to specify the fluid path on the 3D model and the program picks up the sequence of the components constituting the network and then generates a worksheet. Such worksheet is prefilled with geometrical data which are deduced from the 3D model, and with resistance coefficients or equivalent lengths drawn from the central data base. Once entered the missing data (pressure and flow rate at the start point, fluid characteristics etc.) computation may start. The used algorithms agrees with the "Ashrae Handbook Fundamentals".

Stress Analysis

Starting from the 3D model, this program generates the neutral file that, imported in Algor Pipe Plus , allows to perform the stress analysis avoiding the tiresome and time consuming operation of manually entering the geometry and other descriptive data. The user only needs to select the pipelines to be submitted to structural analysis, then the model scanning process starts in order to extract plant nodes and component characteristic data for generating the required neutral file. The analysis is easily performed importing the file into Pipe Plus and adding the load conditions and the constrains.

The all comprehensive solution for Plant Design

PIPING

ESApro

Plant Design

Piping 2D

For those not used to 3D environments, ESApro Piping 2D represents an effective tool for plant layouts drawing. Even the user not so skilled in AutoCAD soon will become proficient with the aid of Piping 2D powerful functions: automatic line dressing with pipes and bents parametric generation of the plant components in every dimension and every view component insertion with automatic allignement and pipe cutting Piping 2D is very helpful, in particular, for modifying preexisting bidimensional drawings available in standard DWG format.

MTO
Material Take-off
Estimate of material requirements
This program is made for the preliminary estimate of material requirements. It drives the operations of components data entry and automatically generates the material take-off within an environment perfectly integrated with the other modules. Piping Spec driven system ESApro Material Take-Off shares the Specs Generation module and the central data base with the other modules. Once defined a line and the related piping class and ND, the user can dispose of only those components provided by the piping class with the possibility of choosing items and entering the required quantity into the project data base. Customizable lists Once fed the data base, lists may be generated with the same very versatile mechanism implemented in the other modules. The Excel or Access format output enables the user to produce documents fully compliant with every company standard.
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