Dear CADISON user,

We are pleased to present you the latest edition of our CADISON technical newsletter.
This newsletter contains technical information on CADISON and is released on a regular basis to help you in your daily work with CADISON.

Current and next releases will be devoted to the topic: construction of pipelines with CADISON, including the following issues:

• Part 1: pipelines with slopes
• Part 2: pipelines with CADISON Auto Router, insulation and show tracing
• Part 3: marking, tank support, dynamic support
• Part 4: changes of dimensions, isometrics, reporting to Rohr2
• Part 5: revision of pipelines and isometrics

Today we are giving you some hints applicable in the work concerning the construction of slope lines, optimal use of snap function and CADISON explorer (construction lines).

The following topics are just a mouse click away:

• Construction of pipeline with CADISON 
• Possible problems of  the command "Save as"
• Possible problems of the function "Add a catalogue entry"
• Current events
• Imprint

If you have any topic suggestions from your daily work with the software that you would like to be covered in our next releases please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Happy reading!

Bets regards,

i. A. Daniela Anders
Sales Assistant

Construction of pipelines with slopes is necessary in many different sectors, like water industry or food & beverage. Very often difficult basic conditions need to be considered. Varied forms like ellipses, ovals or more seldom rectangular forms are available for the design of modern swimming pools. In order to deliver a relevant look along with high entertainment, fun and free time value for swimming pool visitors the architects are aimed at an optimal use of given space. Hence, there is a limited space left for the ethnics. The budgets for investments are nowadays small; the projects are to be realised to achieve the best result with the given resources. Considering all these factors the availability of an efficient and fast design is a crucial factor for an executing engineering firm.

Based on that we would like to show you today and in the next technical newsletters the varied opportunities how to construct pipelines with CADISON that will in their turn help you working faster and more efficient. Today’s focus is on snap functions, construction of slope lines and use of CADISON construction lines.

Construction of a pipeline 

As soon as you start constructing a pipeline and open a dialogue by using a command “pipeline” or “3D Centerline” you get the following AutoCAD command line text:

Start:Router/COnfig/FX/FY/FZ/SNap/Clear/Hsnap/<Point>:

The letters given in capital letters (e.g. C for Clear) are used to enable starting a function. By activating a certain function you will get further options available to this function:

Undo/Router/COnfig/FX/FY/FZ/FAngle/W/FDistance/A/SNap/Clear/Hsnap/SLope (%)/Slope(°)

Hint: typing "U in the command line will activate undo with no need to end the pipeline command.

The most important options are listed in this overview. 

Snap functions

Snap functions, such as fx, fy and fz are very important for the design of slope lines and help to calliper the coordinates of fixed points for the faster construction.

You can snap connection points of a target object by typing fx (fy, fz) in the AutoCAD command line.

This command defines the distance too:
fx „Enter“
Enter a point on the X-axis of the target object
Click the left mouse button to confirm
fy „Enter“
Enter a point on the Y-axis of the target object

Construction of slope lines 

In some sectors the static idle running lines are needed. The information for the required slopes is given either in ° or in % format. Depending on the case the format is converted respectively.
CADISON enables you to construct slope lines both in % and °.

For the data given in % (e.g. 2%) type „G“ in the AutoCAD command line, for the data given in ° (e.g. 2°) type “F”. From this point the coordinate data will be displayed respectively in the CADISON 3D-Designer that can easily be defined as green construction line or yellow pipeline.

CADISON construction lines 

CADISON offers the standard variety of snap points that make redundant the manual design of construction lines. In order to activate the dialogue (see picture) select menu CADISON => Settings => "Configurate CADISON Explorer” or type CO in the command line:

Undo/Router/COnfig/FX/FY/FZ/FAngle/W/FDistance/A/SNap/Clear/Hsnap/SLope (%)/Slope(°)

You can select now the displayed data in the dialogue window.

This function is useful when you need, for example, to place a pipeline parallel to the existing one. The construction lines or intersection points will appear as you move the cursor over the drawing along the pipeline end points. You can move the cursor along the green construction line, select end points and confirm by pressing the left mouse button. This allows you to get an exact copy of the original pipeline and place it, where needed.

The next releases of the Technical Newsletter will be devoted to the topics, such as router function, insulation, show tracing, marking of pipelines, etc. To complete chosen topics we will describe pipeline support, generation of isometrics, late changes in nominal size and revision of both  pipelines and isometrics.

Alternatively you can take a part in the full-day training with a focus on pipeline construction. Don’t hesitate to contact us. All information to the current training you can find here.

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You can face some problems when copying a drawing using the function “save as” in CADISON Designer of CADISON Releases up to R8.6. The revision entries of drawings can cause the incorrect results.

Hence, we advice you not to use this function in CADISON Releases up to R8.6. Alternatively you can do the following:

• Import the desired drawing in CADISON Tree
• drag it to the project or file group by pressing CTRL button
• put needed setting in the copy dialogue
• copy the drawing
• depending on the data structure carry out the corrections to the respective assignments
  (e.g. pipelines to media)

This error has been fixed for the new Release CADISON R9.

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Some problems can occur in CADISON Object Manager, precisely in catalogue context menu when working in CADISON Project-Engineer and CADISON Designer applications through the activation of functions “add a catalogue entry” or “add a specification data”.

The objects to be added to the current drawing can be placed in the template database instead of a project database.

It is easy to find these objects as in this case their "DB-Object ID" (property "P_loid" in the sheet "910-CADISON-System") starts with a template database ID.

If the drawings have such an object there is unfortunately no other way than to delete them and to add once more in the drawing.

This error has been fixed for the new Release CADISON R9.

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CADISON Training Schedule in Bad Soden/Ts.

CADISON R9 Practical Workshop 2010 , 25th February 2010, Airport Frankfurt am Main, Germany

CADISON International Conference 2010

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