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Hardware:
Setch
Design uses a Leica
Geosystems TCRA703 TotalStation
to provide single point laser scanning of existing, on-site piping
systems and support structures.
Capability:
This
amazing piece of equipment is a high precision survey instrument
connected to a powerful field Laptop, driving Leica
fieldPro &
Coade CADWorx fieldPipe -
AutoCAD based, specialist software - to produce an accurate 3D model.
Equipment, pipe-work, pipe supports, cable trays and ducting can all be
modelled on site.
Safety:
In
most cases this can be done from a
safe vantage point, wherever
there is one or two good views of the target (often from the ground).
This negates the need to
climb ladders or scaffold for hard to access plant.
No more
leaning through
a handrail and stretching out with a tape measure…
Productivity:
Because
there is no need to get ’hands on’ with the
plant, there is no need to
factor in a plant isolation & shut down
to measure in ‘no-go’ areas—especially
significant if cool-down is also a factor…
Accuracy:
Pipe-work
can be fabricated in the workshop with the full confidence of
knowing that it will
dimensionally match the existing onsite installation.
The equipment provides three dimensional data of an accuracy not
achievable through traditional methods.
Site welds
to finish an insert or tie-in
become a thing of the past as
the fabrication can be scanned in the workshop and matched to the site
model to check the final fit.
Flexibility:
As
well as replacing existing pipe-work our design team can utilise
scanned data in designing new plant and
equipment.—
tie-ins can also be accurately
located for new plant and equipment.
Non-pipe
structures are also well within
the scope of the scanner, with pipe supports and building structure an
easy inclusion. Any
existing industrial structure can
be measured and modelled.
Output:
The
software is intelligent and
specification driven,
producing
3D solid models of the pipe-work with fully automatic generation of
isometric fabrication and workshop drawings.
Intelligence??...
Any 3D modelling software can produce 3D ‘solids’.
All components start out as one of these ‘dumb’
solids. Providing ‘intelligence’ to the item means
attaching to the solid a series of attributes that can be recognised by
a database.
Intelligent
software uses a database of stored components, (whether they are spec
derived pipe fittings or regulation steel sections) to build the model.
The software then provides the ability to simply and quickly produce
accurate workshop drawings with full
cutting lists
and ‘Bills of Material’
– a long tedious process when done manually. So there is a
time saving involved – and time means money…
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