Orthogen
Delivering Multi Discipline Drawing Solutions.
As project schedules and budgets continue to get shorter and tighter, automatic drawing production is a key element to increasing productivity and lowering costs. Automatic drawings generated from 3D models are created in a fraction of the time previously spent and they accurately and consistently reflect model conditions. Drawings are one of the best ways to communicate design information.
OrthoGen from 3DS Net, Inc. has been used at over 350 sites around the world during the last 16 years on thousands of projects to produce millions of drawings for all disciplines on petrochemical, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, power, offshore, mining and minerals, and shipbuilding projects.
Over the years our support team has proven to our customers that we will do whatever it takes to make automating your drawing production effort as successful and profitable as possible. Below are some useful features of OrthoGen and how it can help reduce time by producing drawings faster and easier than ever before.
There is no such thing as a 100% automated orthographic drawing. Different types of drawings allow different levels of automation. Pipe rack drawings can be as high as 90-95% automated but there are always notes, details and other annotations added to them as well as highlighting revisions between issues.
3DS is always working to automate more and more drawing functionality. OrthoGen version 9 has a new “Balancing” functionality that will allow it to handle even larger more complicated designs than OrthoGen (PDS®) can.
Spreadsheet lookup of SmartPlant Instrumentation data Automatic labeling of flow arrow Labels component sizes and bottom of pipe |
Labels sloped pipe BOP's at matchline intersections New interior white space Equipment labeling option New SDIconfig Utility simplifies management of drawing definitions |
OrthoGen - SDI (Standard Drawing Interface)
OrthoGen's interface has been expanded to allow users to select from a set of predefined drawing types. Users are able to see a preview of the output as well as descriptions and tips for each drawing type. SDI comes with predefined drawing types that cover all disciplines but it is also very flexible allowing users to customize user-defined drawings or modify the delivered ones. OrthoGen SDI also provides a group of file settings which have annotation configuration options preselected to produce various drawing types. Below is more information about SDI Config interface and the capabilities it can provide.