- Intergraph Offers Start-up Guide for Free CADWorx DraftPro

HOUSTON, TX, Jan 17,2012
Intergraph has published a new start-up guide for CADWorx DraftPro, its new intelligent AutoCAD-based 2D plant design and layout solution that it is offering free via download. The start-up guide provides easy-to-follow directions so that users who download the software can become productive right away. To download the CADWorx DraftPro start-up guide, click here.

CADWorx DraftPro is specification driven, with hundreds of ready-to-use specifications in metric and imperial formats and over 60,000 piping components. Users can quickly and easily generate components on-the-fly as they are needed, and the built-in intelligence takes the guesswork out of placing piping components. Items easily connect and piping automatically breaks when the designer inserts components. With CADWorx DraftPro, the designer can quickly draw elevations and sections of layouts and produce accurate, customizable bills of material of the design. The software comes with multiple languages and the files can be easily adapted to any language.

Always 100% free via download, CADWorx DraftPro uses the same piping specifications as CADWorx Plant Professional and works with all supported versions of AutoCAD. If a user at some point decides to move to 3D design, the user can convert CADWorx DraftPro specifications to CADWorx Plant Professional at any time.

In conjunction with the product’s release, live CADWorx DraftPro webinars on January 26, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. CT will provide demonstrations of the software. To register for the webinars on January 26th, click here. Intergraph has also published a video overview of the software. To view the video, click here. The software was featured in an interview in the January 9th edition of upfront.eZine, a leading CAD industry online magazine. To read the article, click here.

For information on Intergraph CADWorx, click here. For information on Intergraph’s analysis products, click here.

- Exclusive: Intergraph Launches CADWorx DraftPro for AutoCAD   Users -- Free

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AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 Service Pack 1

This update will apply to all AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 software languages.

Refer to the Readme for detailed information about this update and installation instructions.

Readme

HTRI Technical Bulletin 2011

Research Work at HTRI - Reserach & Technology Center (RTC)

Work at the HTRI Research & Technology Center (RTC) continues to provide new oppurtunities for developing methods and correlations that bebefit out members and contract customers. The below links provides the status of technical operating plan projects and the operation of test units at the RTC. Descriptions of the projects in the technical operating plans for FY 2011 and FY 2012 are available in the Member Center-Governance on www.HTRI.net

ImageGrafix Signs up with SEH USB lock Server

  

USB Device Server make 8 dongles available via network. (Safe, Central, and Efficient Dongle Management)
SEH Technology, is a leading network solution vendor, has  launched myUTN-80 DongleServer, a new network solution specially designed for USB software key management. The compact device simply attaches to the network enabling access for up to eight dongles via its USB interfaces. Users operate their protected software as usual without the hassle of attaching dongles locally to their PC.
Dongles are available centrally, and with their full functional range, across the network for several users. Software licenses are always enforced by a one-to-one connection with the dongle. At the same time, they are safe from loss, damage, wear and tear, and theft. The myUTN-80 DongleServer allows for the assigning of each dongle to a different user, customer or department. A broad range of security features protects unauthorized access to the dongles. The device enables the utilization of USB license dongles in server-based computing infrastructures and virtualized environments based on VMware, Citrix XEN, and Microsoft Hyper-V, which until now has been extremely difficult if not impossible.
The myUTN-80 dongle server for Ethernet networks (10BaseT/100BaseTX) is compatible with Windows 32/64-bit versions (Windows 7, Server 2008, Vista, Server 2003, XP). Regular and free software updates, technical support, and a warranty of up to five years come with the myUTN-80 dongle server.

Work with powerful jig and fixture capabilities


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Overview

Use Jig & Fixture Design for Inventor to significantly improve your efficiency designing jigs and fixtures with Autodesk® Inventor®.
Jig & Fixture Design extends Autodesk Inventor’s native capability with an extensible library of standard jig and fixture components which are attributed to support an enhanced level of automation intelligence. Retrieve components from the library dragging and dropping them into your design environment. The components auto-locate themselves when placed and their fasteners can be auto-populated. Based on initial tests, your overall design time can be reduced by over 50%.
Jig & Fixture Design also includes authoring tools which allow you to attribute standard content readily available from component vendors and publish it to the system’s content library for reuse.
This technology preview is licensed for a limited term and for a particular territory as referenced in the End User License Agreement. The technology preview executable expires at the end of the technology preview based on a time-bomb date that has been set for March 31, 2012.

Convert meshes while working in Inventor

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Overview

The Inventor Mesh Enabler is a technology preview that enables Inventor users to work with imported Mesh data. As shipped Inventor 2012 and 2011 can import mesh data from Catia files. The Mesh Enabler adds the ability to post process the imported mesh data to convert the mesh features to Inventor Base features. The resulting Base features can then be used for further operations including drawings and measurements.

Usage:

After installing the technology preview, users can right click on one or more imported mesh features of interest, and convert them into Base features (solids, surfaces, or composites) through a new context menu command. The graphical mesh data is converted into B-Rep Model data that can be used similar to imported solids and surfaces. As part of the conversion process, the technology preview also does some simplification of the faceted data by merging multiple mesh triangles into a single face when possible. Try it with some sample files: cgr.zip (830.8K).

Autodesk “Get Current” Upgrade Program

In a fast-moving world, having the right tools is the key to staying ahead – for you and your business.
See how the latest Autodesk® releases can help take you beyond the competition and into a digital world where you can create, visualize, simulate, document, and manage virtually anything you can think of.

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Inventor Test Drive

Inventor Test Drive
	Click here to download Hands-on Test Drive Includes Tutorial Material for AutoCAD® Users (3,523 KB)
	Click here to download Inventor_2012_test_drive_windows_en (7,342 KB)

Intergraph® TANK™ analysis and design capabilities featured in June edition of Hydrocarbon    Engineering magazine

For an overview of the article and a link to download a PDF, visit:

http://coade.typepad.com/coadeinsider/2011/08/article-hydrocarbon-engineering-june-
2011-storage-tank-safety-and-standards.html


For information on Intergraph CADWorx, visit:
http://www.intergraph.com/products/ppm/cadworx/

For information on Intergraph’s analysis products visit:
http://www.intergraph.com/ppm/analysis.aspx

- Release 6.1.2.0 of the SAP PLM Integrations for AutoCAD and Inventor is now
  available

Jig and Fixture Design for Inventor Now Available

The only missing piece of the puzzle is you

Jig and Fixture Design for Inventor is our newest technology review on Autodesk labs. You can download the add-in:

Jig and Fixture Design for Inventor on Autodesk Labs

You can use Jig & Fixture Design for Inventor to improve your efficiency designing with Inventor, because the technology preview provides an extensible library of standard jig and fixture components with an enhanced level of automation intelligence. These components auto-locate and fasten themselves. If you download now, I think we'll even throw in a set of Ginsu knives.

Current Versions of Intergraph Analysis and CADWorx Products Group

CAESAR II UPDATES: Service Pack 1 (SP1) for CAESAR II 2011 (5.30)

PV Elite UPDATES: Intergraph PV Elite 2011 March Service Pack (SP1)

CADWorx® & Analysis University 2011 (CAU2011)

CADWorx® & Analysis University 2011 (CAU2011) takes place between September 19-21 in The Woodlands Waterway Marriott (Houston), Texas, USA, and offers the world’s most in-depth plant design and engineering learning experience. This user oriented event regularly attracts attendees from all over the world, and perfectly balances informative lectures, hands-on labs, end-user interaction, and constructive social activities.

CAU2011 has been expanded to include CADWorx® - Plant Design Suite, CAESAR II® - Pipe Stress Analysis, and PV Elite® - Pressure Vessel Analysis. Our newly-restructured, user-oriented curriculum offers classes geared towards both beginners and advanced users alike.

Drivers of Success Competition

Don’t miss your chance to participate in the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis University 2011 Drivers of Success Competition! If you’re an Intergraph CADWorx, CAESAR II, or PV Elite user, submit your success stories of using our products by June 30, 2011. There will be three first-place prizes, one of each for the following products: CADWorx, CAESAR II, and PV Elite, and six runners-up prizes, two runners-up per product.

First-place prizewinners will receive a complimentary trip (including roundtrip flights from anywhere in the world to Houston, TX, along with hotel and conference fees) to this year’s Intergraph CAS University 2011. Each runner-up will receive an Apple iPod. And, as a way of saying thank you for taking the time to tell us your story, every submission will receive a token of our appreciation.

http://www.cau2011.com/competition.asp

CADWorx Field Pipe

PIPENET Spray/Sprinkler - new autolayout facilities (Under Development)