CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 January 2012
Product News
Intergraph® Releases CADWorx® DraftPro™ Free Intelligent 2D Drafting
Intergraph® has released its newest product, Intergraph CADWorx® DraftPro™, an intelligent AutoCAD®-based plant design package, and is offering it free to the plant design and engineering community (www.cadworxdraftpro.com). Built on the company’s CADWorx Plant Professional package, which offers full 3D intelligent plant design, live collaborative database links, automatic isometrics and on-the-fly collision checking, CADWorx DraftPro enables designers to efficiently create intelligent, specification-driven 2D plant and piping plans, sections and elevations, with full bill of materials capabilities.
CADWorx DraftPro shares the same piping specifications as CADWorx Plant Professional, providing access to more than 60,000 parametrically driven components delivered via hundreds of piping specifications, which are easily modifiable via an intuitive specification editor. Users of CADWorx DraftPro can easily upgrade to CADWorx Plant Professional by migrating or carrying over their existing piping specifications.
Figures shared by Autodesk®, the developers of AutoCAD, state that between 500,000 and 1 million seats of AutoCAD are currently used in the plant creation space. A recent Intergraph survey of plant design users indicated that, apart from P&IDs, 91 percent of them use AutoCAD as their main 2D plant design platform. Also, only 27 percent of respondents used any intelligent tools to deliver their 2D deliverables.
“For 2D plant users the choice has typically been between unintelligent 2D design and intelligent 3D modeling,” said Rick Allen, senior vice president, Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions. “The release of CADWorx DraftPro lets us empower 2D AutoCAD users, projects and work groups, with technology that we have had for a while, but was always tied to our 3D offering. By releasing this capability, at no charge, we introduce users to the power of intelligent plant design and provide them with a natural upgrade path to 3D when they are ready.”
Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process Power & Marine president, said, “Since the acquisition of the CADWorx product line by Intergraph in 2010, sales of CADWorx have risen to record numbers, proving its value in the market place. CADWorx is an effective AutoCAD-based plant design solution completing billions of dollars of successful projects. The release of CADWorx DraftPro reinforces our commitment to all levels of the plant creation, operations and maintenance sectors of the industries that Intergraph serves.”
The Intergraph CADWorx Plant Design Suite for process plant design offers intelligent drawing-to-database connectivity, advanced levels of design automation and easy-to-use design tools. Because of these distinct advantages, EPC firms and owner operators in the process, power, water treatment, pharmaceutical, food and beverage and semiconductor industries have rapidly adopted the plant design solution.
Information on Intergraph CADWorx DraftPro and downloads can be found at www.cadworxdraftpro.com.
Information on Intergraph’s CADWorx products can be found at www.intergraph.com/cadworx.
Information on Intergraph’s analysis solutions can be found at www.intergraph.com/ppm/analysis.
For large process, power, marine and offshore projects, Intergraph also offers SmartPlant® and SmartMarine® Enterprises, integrated solutions suites that provides full design, construction, materials and engineering data management capabilities needed for the creation, safe operation and maintenance of facilities, and for capital Project Life Cycle Management (cPLM).
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