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CADWorx2013Speciifications!
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AnthonyW.H
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TableofContents
Video 8
Modifying the Catalog
Modifying for Enhanced Mode
Video 9
Creating a new Spec
Adding Components to Spec
Video 10
Testing the Spec
Viewing in Enhanced Mode
Video 1
Setting the Configuration
Creating a Company Catalog
Video 11
Creating a Branch Table
Adding Branch Components
Checking the Catalog
Video 2
Modifying the Size Table
Viewing the other Tables
Importing Legacy Data Files
Video 12
Testing the Branch Table
Video 3
Creating a New Data File
A New Top works file
Video 13
An in-line User Shape
Testing in CADWorx & Isogen
Video 4
Valve with Special End Types
Video 14
3D non-sym User Shape
Testing in CADWorx & Isogen
Video 5
Creating a New Project
Importing Legacy Specs
Video 15
Automating Long Desc
Adding to the Catalog
Video 6
Modifying Component Info
Thickness in Long Desc.
Adding Top works in a Spec
Testing Results
Video 16
Automating Long Desc
Using Data Tables and Fields
Video 17
Automating Long Desc
The Cut and Paste Document
Video 7
Adding Valves to the Spec
Testing Results
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1 In the videos that fo
1.
ollow, we'll be working
g with the new
CADWo
orx catalog
g and specifications exxplorer. The
e way we
work witth the data files and co
omponent information has
changed
d significantly in this ne
ew version. In the passt, CADWorrx
used librraries comp
posed of text files for its compone
ent
informattion.
2 When we
2.
w look at what
w
we use
ed before, we
w had thre
ee main
folders. We had the
e Library_I, the Libraryy_M, and th
he
Library_
_MM. Thes
se folders ea
ach contain
n subfolderss for the
differentt pressure ratings,
r
like
e the 150 orr the 300. If I doubleclick on 150, we ca
an see that in these follders are th
he data filess
that carrried all the measureme
ent data forr the compo
onents.
3 If I doub
3.
ble-click one
e of these files, we can
n see this iss where all
the mea
asurement data
d
was lo
ocated. It's really a texxt file. It had
an open
ning and clo
osing parentheses, and
d it had varrious
columnss that conta
ained the da
ata. Once we
w got used
d to working
with thesse, it was a simple ma
atter to add to them or modify
them as needed. We
W built ourr specs, using a spec editor
e
to
work witth parts of these
t
data files
f
as nee
eded, and we
w modified
d
our desccriptions to suit our pa
articular spe
ec. This worrked well fo
or
a numbe
er of years.
4 The new
4.
w way is sim
milar, but things are mo
ore highly organized.
o
The new
w catalogs, which used
d to be the Library_I or the other
library fo
olders, are collections of tables now. We'll have
h
a size
e
table; we
e'll have a material
m
tab
ble, and so forth. Because we're
now goin
ng to be wo
orking with tables, we can combin
ne fields
from the
ese tables in
nto our spe
ecs with mo
ore options; we'll have
more fle
exibility than
n we had be
efore.
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5 With the
5.
e new syste
em, we'll be able to cre
eate compo
onents with
differentt conditions
s very easilyy, which wa
as somethin
ng that wass
really qu
uite involved
d when we were workking with the
e older
version. The new version
v
also
o contains a branch tab
ble. This
will add additional controls
c
to how our projects get modeled
m
byy
our designers.
7 I have to
7.
o Windows Explorer opened, and
d I'm in the CADWorx
folder. Here
H
is the Plant folde
er. If I doub
ble-click Pllant and I
look, now
w we don't see the Lib
brary_I or other
o
libraryy folders.
We do have
h
a spec
c folder, tho
ough, so I'm
m going to doubled
click tha
at one, and we'll take a look at itss contents.
8 What we
8.
e have now
w are some sample cattalogs. We
e see a
collectio
on of specifiic catalogs,, as well as a sample_
_inch catalo
og
and a sa
ample_inch
h project. So
o now the new
n
data sttructure, the
e
new wayy we're goin
ng to put to
ogether our component
specifica
ations is go
oing to inclu
ude projectss.
1 You can
10.
n also start the spec ed
ditor from within
w
CADW
Worx. If we
e
went to CADWorx and
a you loo
ok on the CADWorx
C
P
Plant
I tab,
there's a button th
hat will sta
art the spec
c editor. So
S you can
start it frrom within the
t folder, the
t way we just did, orr you can
also starrt it from within CADW
Worx itself. One option
n or one
advantage of doing
g it the way we just sho
owed you, where
w
you
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double-cclick CADW
WorxSpecEd
ditor.exe is it allows yo
ou to run th
he
spec editor as a sta
andalone application. So you could copy
these file
es over to machines
m
w
where
peop
ple might wo
ork on
specifica
ations but don't
d
necessarily do de
esign work.
1 What we're
11.
w
going to
t do first iss set up ourr new catalog. A
catalog in this syste
em is a colllection of ta
ables that are
a the
source files
f
for all of
o the comp
ponents. In
n the past, itt would be
similar to
o working with
w library_
_M or librarry_I. We ca
an use the
sample catalogs if we
w choose, but if we start
s
adding
g or
ng it, well changing
c
the
e source ca
atalogs. It'ss better to
modifyin
make ou
ur own copiies, and the
en keep the
e ones that ship with
the syste
em separatte.
1 Click th
12.
his top buttton and se
elect new catalog. Th
here are
several types
t
of ca
atalogs: a company
c
ca
atalog, an in
ndustry
catalog, or a globall catalog.
1 Next we
14.
ell tell the system
s
whe
ere our source-file is lo
ocated. If
we go to
o this box with
w dots in it and click,, we can ch
hoose one of
o
the samples that sh
hip with the
e system. For
F this exa
ample, I'm
going to use the Sample_Me
etric_Inch. Why don't you do the
e
ng example
e, and then later you can
c do the
same for this startin
one you like?
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1 The cata
16.
alog can be
e saved in different
d
loccations, if yo
ou want to
locate it in a specific folder. Ill save this example in
n the defaullt
nd click OK
K. It's essen
ntially a blank catalog at this poin
nt.
folder an
1 If I double-click th
17.
he data tab
bles, there's nothing down
d
in
them. The
T sample catalog tha
at I used for my source
e is down at
a
the botto
om of the screen. It's shown as the
t base ca
atalog here.
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2 Ill come
22.
e down and click the plus
p
next to
t data tables. The
differentt componen
nt types are
e all listed. Holding down the
shift key
y, Ill click the first and last one
e listed, wh
hich will
select alll of them.
2 Then ho
23.
olding dow
wn the left button
b
of the mouse,, Ill drag
these up to the co
ompany ca
atalog and release. They'll
T
be
copied from
f
the sample catalo
og into the company
c
catalog. If I
hit the plus next to data tabless in the com
mpany catallog, I can
see thatt all the info
ormation is in there. So
o why don't you get it tto
this poin
nt, and then
n we'll continue from here?
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1 In the prrevious vide
1.
eo we creatted our new
w catalog. Now lets
see how
w it's organiz
zed. This is a list of ta
ables that contain
c
all
the inforrmation nee
eded to desscribe the components
c
s and to
build wo
orking specifications.
2 Looking at these, we
2.
w have a size
s
table; we
w have a material,
m
e, thickness
s, end type
e, and data tables. I'm going to
schedule
click the
e plus nex
xt to the sizze table, an
nd I'll double click
Size, an
nd the table opens.
5 Click th
5.
he plus nex
xt to the ma
aterial tablle. Double
e click MAT
T
and it op
pens the lis
st of materia
als that are available fo
or our
components. We can
c see diffferent kindss of specificcations,
grades, compositio
ons, and densities. We
e can see how
h
these
are appllied to vario
ous types of componen
nts.
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7 Scrolling
7.
g down, you
u can see this list is ve
ery extensivve. Here's a
typical entry,
e
an A5
53 Grade B. The denssities are go
oing to be
used later, along with
w the thickkness table
e, to calcula
ate the
o compone
ents.
weight of
8 Next, we
8.
ell take a lo
ook at the schedule
s
table. Double click
SCH to open it. Sh
hown are th
he various schedules
s
t
that
are
included
d in this cata
alog. You can
c alwayss add to the
ese if you
like.
1 Go to sc
10.
chedule 40
0 columns and expan
nd it. The wall
w
thicknesss on a one-inch sched
dule 40 is 3.38.
3
That'ss the value
listed in millimeters
s. If you're working
w
in imperial, yo
ou'll have a
e is going to
o contain all the
decimal inch value. This table
c
s. The
thicknesss information needed for these components
system has
h the ability to map these thickkness value
es into the
long desscriptions; there's
t
an easy
e
processs to make that
happen.
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1 Click th
13.
he plus nex
xt to gate valve,
v
and we'll
w see the different
gate valvves that are
e included in this catalog.
1 To bring
16.
g in a legacy
y file, we ne
eed to do a few steps.. Scroll up
to the to
op, and we can see th
he name off the catalo
og. If I putt
the poin
nter on tha
at and rightt click, I ha
ave an optio
on here to
import le
egacy data from files. So you do the same, and the
system will
w display a dialog bo
ox for us.
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1 By defau
18.
ult, the systtem will takke you to yo
our current location on
your new
west versio
on of CADW
Worx, probably in the spec folder.
Click on
n the C: drive, and we
ell find the folder or file we want
to bring in.
1 If you ha
19.
ave a previo
ous version
n of CADWo
orx on yourr machine
you could go to the
e CADWorxx 2012 or CADWorx 20
010 folder
(whatever version you
y might have).
h
If yo
ou don't havve a
previouss version off CADWorxx on your machine, Ive
e included
the file youll
y
need in this video
o in the dow
wnload filess. Theres a
button called
c
Less
son Files on the webp
page where this video is
being played. You can click itt to downloa
ad the files youll need
d
in these exercises.
2 In my ca
20.
ase, I'm go
oing to go back to CA
ADWorx 20
012, since I
have pre
evious vers
sions loaded
d on my ma
achine. I'll double
click tha
at, and I'll go
g to Plantt and doub
ble click it. I'll go to
Library_
_M, becaus
se that's the
e format I'm
m using, and
d I'll go to
the 150..
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2 Clicking By Colum
22.
mn Name displays som
me column names. If
you clickk By Colum
mn Count you'll
y
see th
hose. We can
c bring it
in by eith
her one.
2 Click B
23.
By Column
n Count. Iff you double click the
e file name
e,
the data
a file will ope
en and you
u can see th
he details. This is a
gate valvve that goe
es from 18 up
u to 48 incches. So th
his will workk
great forr what we need.
n
2 Another thing to do
26.
o is click on
n the View Log File button,
b
and
d
you'll se
ee a record of the different converrsions that you've done
to bring in legacy data
d
into your catalog. This is som
mething you
can print out later to have a re
ecord of you
ur work.
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1 We're making
1.
m
good
d progress. In the prevvious video
o, we
imported
d a legacy file,
f
a file fro
om CADWo
orx 2012 orr 2010 that
could drraw large ga
ate valves. We saw how
h
to go ab
bout
importing informatio
on into the 2013 syste
em from spe
ecs and
er versions.
from datta files that were creatted in earlie
4 Lets loo
4.
ok at flange
es. Ill expa
and the type
es of Flang
ges, and
click on
n the plus next
n
to Fla
ange Weld Neck, and then Ill
double click on th
he FLG_W_
_150. This opens up the
t data file
e.
6 Well clo
6.
ose this forr now. Nexxt were going to build some data
files from
m scratch. We'll be ad
dding a cou
uple of valve
es. Scroll
down to
o Valves an
nd click the
e plus nextt to that to expand
e
it.
Scroll down
d
to Ga
ate Valve and
a click on
n the plus next to thatt.
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7 Hover th
7.
he pointer on Gate Valve
V
and then
t
right click
c
and we
w
can add
d a data tab
ble. The sysstem will brring up a dia
alog box for
us, and we can beg
gin to fill this out. So what
w
we'll ca
all this one is
_CMPT_15
50. This will be a data file for a co
ompact
GAT_F_
flanged gate valve,, 150 pound
d rating.
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1 Our data
12.
a file for is ready
r
for filling out. Click
C
in the box
underne
eath the hu
ub OD diam
meter and we'll
w put in some
values. We're goin
ng to use 34
42, and the
e one underr that will be
e
406. Th
he one unde
er that will be
b 482. Th
hen we'll go
o over to th
he
right forr the lengths, and we
e'll enter 29
92, 330, and
d 358.
Finally fo
or the weig
ght, click in
n the field for
f that and enter 281,
399, and
d 562. This
s will complete the dim
mensional in
nformation
for the valves.
v
1 Now clic
13.
ck the X to
o close it, and
a save itt. The syste
em has a
small ind
dicator next to the nam
me, but thatt will disapp
pear once
the proje
ect or the catalog is sa
aved and re
eopened. We
W now
have the
e measurem
ment data in
n here to drraw this. Next
N
well
add som
me top work
ks for this va
alve.
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1 The nam
15.
me for the top works file will be
WHEEL
L_GAT_CM
MPT_150_M
M.
1 Now clo
18.
ose this by clicking th
he X, and save
s
it. This is ready
to work now. We have
h
one more
m
valve to
o add, but let's
l
save itt
for the next
n
video. Get this infformation fiilled in as we
w showed,,
and then
n we'll continue on afte
er that.
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Fo
our
1 In this viideo, we're going to co
1.
ontinue add
ding a seco
ond valve.
This valvve will have
e different end
e types on
o each end
d. This valvve
will be th
hreaded on
n one end and
a flanged on the othe
er end.
2 Were in
2.
n the spec editor. Click the plu
us next to the
t data
tables, scroll
s
dow
wn to valves
s and click
k the plus next
n
to it to
expand the list. Click the plu
us next to gate
g
valves
s and that
will expa
and. When
n we look att the data files, we can
n see our
previouss valve (GA
AT_F_CMPT
T_150).
3 If your display
3.
d
has a small gra
aphic next to
o the valve we
previoussly entered,, its usuallyy not a prob
blem. To cllear it, you
can closse and reop
pen the spe
ec editor. Another
A
wayy is to go
ahead and
a right clic
ck on this, and
a go to Properties.
P
Under
Properties, add inittials or yourr name und
der the "Cre
eated by"
and "Edited by" fiellds. If you then
t
close the Propertties dialog iti
should clear
c
the ex
xclamation point
p
graph
hic.
4 Now we
4.
e'll add the second vallve. I'm goiing to rightt click on
Gate Va
alve, and I'm
m going to add a data
a table. This is going to
t
be a gatte valve tha
at has special end type
es. Push down the ca
ap
lock keyy and type GAT_THD_
G
_x_FLG. It's a gate va
alve
threaded
d on one en
nd and flanged on the other.
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5 We nee
5.
ed to have a size table
e available next. If you don't see
e
it, click the
t down arrrow and just select sizze. We're only
o
going to
do one entry
e
for this example.. Click the
e box with the
t dot dot
dot, and
d we'll set itt for two inc
ches. Clic
ck OK once
e thats done
e.
6 This va
6.
alve will ha
ave differen
nt starting and endin
ng
conditio
ons. On the previous valve we had
h that boxx checked,
since we
e had flanged on both ends. But for this valve, for the
starting
g end click the down arrow and look for a threaded
t
gate valvve.
7 Scroll down
7.
d
and lo
ook for "thre
eaded." Th
hen look forr a gate
valve. The
T one listted is "threa
aded gate", and it's go
ot an 800
pound ra
ating (THRD_GAT_T_
_C_800).
8 Well do something
8.
g similar forr the other end
e conditio
on. Look fo
or
"flanged
d gate", so scroll
s
down to "flang
ge," and loo
ok for GAT
T.
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9 Listed iss the FLG_ gat_f_150. The part number iss optional but
9.
enter 00
056. The de
escription will be GA
ATE VALVE
E, THD x
FLG. Once
O
finishe
ed, click OK
K.
1 Click th
11.
he X in the corner
c
of th
he dialog bo
ox to close this and
click Ye
es to save it.
i
1 The grap
12.
phic next to
o the new file appears. Right clicck here, and
d
go to Properties. Enter
E
your initials here. In my casse, I'll put
AH, and
d I'll do the in the lowerr field, then close it.
1 Open th
14.
he Sample Inch catalog. Next, click on th
he new
catalog you
y just completed (C
Company1.cmp). When it
reopenss, everything
g will come
e in clean. Go
G to Data Tables,
and clic
ck the plus, and come
e down to Valves.
V
Exp
pand the
Gate va
alves and you can see
e now that the work we
e just
completed is there.. So saving and reope
ening the ca
atalog will
clear notification sy
ymbols like we just had
d.
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15. The next videos will cover working with specifications. We'll
bring in some legacy specs, and we'll add some records to
them. We'll also use these data files we just completed and
well add them into a spec for use.
16. We've got a few more things to cover, but we're making good
progress!
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Five
1 In the prrevious vide
1.
eos, we've been workiing with the
e catalogs.
We set up
u a compa
any catalog
g, and we organized so
ome tables.
So we have
h
a lot off data that we
w can beg
gin to work with. Whatt
we're go
oing to do now
n
is organ
nize that da
ata in specifications.
After tha
at the specs
s can be ussed to mode
el compone
ents in
CADWo
orx.
2 The Spe
2.
ec Editor is
s running. You
Y can cliick the butto
on on the
Ribbon to
t start it, or
o you can go
g in the follder and do
ouble click
the .exe file to startt it.
3 Click th
3.
he top butto
on in the sp
pec editor and
a select "New
project.." Projects are collectiions of specs. Its how
w theyre
organize
ed in the ne
ew version. Leave the
e name as Project1, or
o
you can add your own
o
name if you like. The system
m requires a
source catalog.
c
Click the box
x with thre
ee dots in it
i to
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8 Next are
8.
e some optiions for setting up a lo
ong descripttion format
or a partt number fo
ormat. One
e option is to
o select certain fields
out of th
he tables, and the system will actu
ually put these togethe
er
into a string for you
u as a long description
n.
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1 Click th
13.
he box with
h the 3 dots
s in it to bro
owse. Brow
wse to you
ur
old CAD
DWorx fold
der (if you have
h
one). On my ma
achine heres
a CADW
Worx 2012 version.
v
If you
y have old specs elsewhere on
n
your sysstem you ca
an browse to
t them and
d import the
em.
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1 Select the
15.
t A10_M
M spec, and
d click Ope
en.
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1 Import the
17.
t A10, B10, and C1
10 spec. You
Y can imp
port them
from the
e CADWorx
x_Lesson_F
Files\Speciffications folder, or if yo
ou
have some on yourr system yo
ou want to import in, yo
ou can
select th
hem. I'll imp
port the B10_M and th
he C10_M specs.
s
You
u
can also
o bring in an
ny of the old
d sample specs as we
ell, if you
have access to the
em. (Note: In the Spe
ec folder in
n your
ersion you
u can also import datta from any
y of the
latest ve
catalogs
s, projects
s, and spec
cs in the fo
older. Thes
se are new
w
versions of the leg
gacy specs found in earlier verrsions of
CADWo
orx)
1 Complette things as
18.
s shown to this point, and well continue
c
after
that.
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Six
1 Now let's modify th
1.
he spec. I'm
m going to double
d
click
k the
A10_M, and it will open
o
in the
e editor. I'll get a list off
here is a de
etail screen
n in the lowe
er
components displaying, and th
half of th
he screen. This will fill out as I se
elect a com
mponent.
3 I'm going
3.
g to click on
o the 2 to 24. When I click it, it starts filling
g
out the bottom
b
partt of the scre
een with spec informattion.
4 If I scroll up and lo
4.
ook, I'm go
oing to chan
nge some th
hings. I'm
going to change th
he descripttion. Whatt I'll do is I want
w
this to
o
say Schedule 40 in
n this particular spec, so
s I'm going
g to just
CH 40." An
nd then to make
m
this co
ome out, I'm
m going to
type "SC
come ovver here and select fo
or the sched
dule, 40 forr that. If I
click on another on
ne of these boxes, it'll set
s that.
5 So that part
5.
p is set. Let's say now
n
that I wanted
w
the description
n
to say PIPE,
P
SCH4
40, SMLS, ASTM
A
A106
6 GR B, and then also
o,
whateve
er thickness
s it was.
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6.
w
this Spec
S
Editorr gets reallyy nice, beca
ause there
are thing
gs we can do
d on a com
mponent-byy-componen
nt basis.
What I can
c do unde
er this long
g descriptio
on area, I can
c click
this box
x with 3 do
ots to do a special
s
form
mat for this component.
If I click that, what I'll be able to
t do is clic
ck the dow
wn arrow
and go find
f
a thick
kness table
e. There arre different fields and
values in
n that table
e.
7 What I want
7.
w
to do is take the main
m
thick
kness and just have it
included
d automatic
cally as partt of my desccription. So
o I'll click
this arro
ow, and it'lll come over to the righ
ht in the dia
alog box.
Now myy description
n is going to
o have this typed part first, then a
comma, and then the thicknesss value at the end.
9 Now we
9.
e can see how
h
the desscription willl read. Latter well tesst
this. Cliick Apply to
t save thesse changess.
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1 Let's do a couple th
10.
hings with the
t valves now.
n
I'm go
oing to click
k
the minus to close
e the pipin
ng informattion, and I'll click the
xt to valve
es. Scroll down, and we'll
w find th
he flanged
plus nex
gate vallves.
1 Select the
11.
t gate va
alve, 150 po
ound flang
ged. The in
nformation
fills out in
i the details at the bo
ottom, and we
w want to make some
e
changess here.
1 Here are
14.
e the size ra
anges. If you
y wanted to modify the
t size
ranges, you could come
c
in and check on
n or check off
o some of
oxes. Depe
ending on what
w
the da
ata file is, it'll show it.
these bo
I'm going
g to click ap
pply to take
e these cha
anges.
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1 So why don't we ge
15.
et it to here, and what we'll do in a moment is
test this.
1 OK. We
16.
e've modifie
ed our specc. Go up here to the main
m
button
n
on the Spec
S
Edito
or and click
k Save. Thiis will save all the
changess that we ha
ave made to this pointt.
1 Click Se
18.
etup and cllick the spe
ec/size. Click Browse, and
select our
o projectt.
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2 You can
23.
n see that th
his is very powerful,
p
be
ecause you
u can bring
in all kin
nds of inform
mation from
m the data fiiles, and au
utomate
building a long des
scription with a number of optionss. You can
umber in a similar
s
fash
hion. This new
n
spec
also builld a part nu
format gives
g
us a lo
ot more verrsatility than
n we had be
efore.
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2 Double
25.
e clicking the valve shows the valve
v
tag was included
d
as well.
2 So everyything is wo
26.
orking like it should he
ere. Make sure
s
you've
got it to here, and then
t
we'll go on after this.
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1 In this viideo, we're going to ad
1.
dd some ga
ate valves into the
system. I'm in the spec edito
or; we have
e our Projec
ct_1 open,
and I'll double-clic
d
ck on the A10_M
A
speccification. We're
W
going
g
to add tw
wo valves in
nto this spe
ec. So if I put
p the pointer over
the worrd valves and
a right-cllick, I can click
c
on Ad
dd. The
bottom area
a
of the screen ope
ens and is now
n
availab
ble to add a
new valvve.
2 The type
2.
e of valve we'll
w add is a gate valvve, so click the down
arrow and
a find ga
ate. In the data
d
table, click
c
the do
own arrow to
t
find the gate valve well be adding. In an earlier vide
eo, we mad
de
two new
w valve data
a files. We made a compact expa
anding gate
e
valve, an
nd we made a threade
ed by flange
ed gate valve.
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4 Let's spe
4.
ecify the top works forr this valve. Looking at
a the
available
e entries, we'll
w set the
e top works
s to be the
e one that
we crea
ated. Scroll down and find that. Itt's the whee
el gate
compactt (WHEEL_
_GATE_CM
MPT_150_F
F_M.top), so
s that has
now bee
en added.
6 Next, we
6.
e'll add the other valve
e. Scroll back up to valves,
v
and
d
right-cliick on valv
ves. Then click
c
add, and the sysstem will
open up
p another dialog box to
o fill out.
7 Scroll down
7.
d
and select
s
gate
e valves.
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8 This one
8.
e will be the
e threaded by flanged
d gate valv
ve that we
created earlier. Sc
croll down to
o the data file
f and select it.
When its selected,, the system
m will show its set for a two-inch
size. Th
he values in
n the dialog
g box are filled out and
d everything
g
looks go
ood.
9 This valvve is an op
9.
ptional com
mponent ass well. Leavve the top
works ou
ut on this valve for now
w. For des
scription ty
ype GATE
VALVE,, THREADE
ED BY FLA
ANGED. Fo
or the tag use
u G38T.
1 Next we
11.
ell add a co
ouple of con
ntrol valves, so we can
n illustrate
how to do
d that. Sc
croll up and
d look for control
c
vallves. Lookk
under fla
anged, then
n control va
alve, 150-po
ound flange
ed. If we
look across, there is
i a CNT_F
F_A_150 da
ata file whicch contains
the valve
es measurrements. This is the sttandard con
ntrol valve
included
d in the spe
ecification. Scroll up to
t valves, where
w
you
can righ
ht-click on Valves, an
nd click Ad
dd.
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1 Click th
13.
he down arrow. The CONTROL_
C
_F_A appe
ears in the
list. No other ones
s rated at 15
50 are listed
d. Well ad
dd some data
file to ou
ur catalogue
e, which will then let us
u bring them into this
spec.
1 Click th
14.
he top butto
on and clic
ck Save. This
T
saves the
t project.
1 Now, we
15.
ell open ou
ur catalog. Click on th
he top buttton, and
click ope
en. Actually, we can come
c
over in
i the list if its
displaye
ed and click
k on it. Clic
ck on the Company_1
C
1 catalog. If
you nam
med yours differently
d
e
earlier
click that one.
1 The cata
16.
alogue is op
pen, expand the Data Tables. Th
his area of
the specc editor scre
een works for
f brining in
i data filess from olderr
versionss. It gives us
u a couple
e of ways to
o import datta. We can
n
bring in legacy data
a from an earlier
e
spec or, from a data file tha
at
e elsewhere
e on our sysstem.
we have
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1 Click Im
17.
mport From
m Data File
e, and this brings
b
up a dialog boxx
for addin
ng files to bring
b
in.
1
18.
Click Add
A
Files.
1 The dire
19.
ectory we're
e looking in is a legacyy version off CADWorx,
which on
n my machine is CADW
Worx 2012. Yours could be a
2010 or a 2009 or whatever.
w
If you don'tt have one of these,
rememb
ber we inclu
uded the da
ata files in th
he group off files you
downloa
aded earlierr (the CADW
Worx_Lesson_Files fo
older).
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2 And then
22.
n if I click on
o one of the files, I'll be
b given op
ptions for
importing. Click on the control valve button
b
and click
Import, and the system will brring it in to your catalo
og. Do thatt
h of these control valves. Now
w we have some new
for each
data files that can be
b added to
o our speciffication.
2 Save th
23.
he catalog and reope
en the Project1 project. The
system prompts
p
if we
w want to update the
e project fro
om the base
e
catalogss. Click Ye
es and then
n double-c
click the A1
10 spec.
2 Scroll down
24.
d
to Va
alves and right-click
r
o Valves. Click Add
on
d.
2 Click th
25.
he down arrow for Typ
pe and sele
ect Controll Valve. Fo
or
the Data
a Table you
u will see different valvve data filess available..
Hover ovver these and
a you can
n see there is a Fisherr Type A, a
Fisher Type
T
E, and
d a Fisher Type
T
K.
2 Click on
26.
n the Type E control valve
v
and a dialog boxx appears.
The valu
ues are com
ming from th
he data file.
2 We havve an option
27.
n to add a top
t
works for
f the valvve. There's a
sample actuator av
vailable. Mo
ost likely we
w would cre
eate a top
works fille for this va
alve. Leave this field blank for now.
n
Click
on the button
b
to set it as an op
ptional com
mponent.
2 For description en
28.
nter Contro
ol Valve, Fisher E. For the Tag
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2 Scroll up
29.
u to Valve
es. Right-c
click and click Add.
3 For Typ
30.
pe, use Control Valve
e.
3 For Data
31.
a table, sellect the Typ
pe K contro
ol valve. Ag
gain, you
can see the informa
ation from the
t data file
e files out th
he dialog
box.
3 Set the valve
32.
v
to Op
ptional. Fo
or descriptiion use Co
ontrol Valv
ve
Fischerr K. For Ta
ag use CVF
FK. Click Add
A when done.
d
3 Save th
33.
he spec an
nd go back into CADW
Worx.
3 Click Se
35.
etup and cllick to open
n your Proje
ect 1. Sele
ect the A10
spec. Set
S the size
e to 3, and click Apply
y & Close.
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3 If your Spec
36.
S
View tool palette
e is set to sh
how optional
components, you'll start seein
ng these optional contrrol valves
appearin
ng in the lis
st of components. You
u can click
k the
Settings
s tab and make
m
sure you have the show optional
o
compon
nents butto
on checked
d.
3 Scrolling
38.
g down, we don't see the
t other tw
wo that were
e added (th
he
compactt expanding
g gate valve
e and the th
hreaded byy flanged
gate valvve). This is
s because the
t compacct expandin
ng gate valvve
went from eight to 12 inches in size.
3 Set the
39.
e size to 8 and the co
ompact exp
panding gate valve will
appear, as well as one of the other contrrol valves th
hat is in tha
at
size range.
4 Set the
40.
e size to 2. That's the
e size we had
h for our threaded
t
byy
flanged gate valve.. If we scro
oll down, we
e'll see it, so
o let's place
e
that and
d see how itt appears.
4 Right-c
41.
click on Pip
pe, and clic
ck Threade
ed. Click two
t
points
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to place
e a piece of
o threaded
d pipe.
4 Click on
42.
n the threa
aded by flanged gate valve and press
Enter. The
T valve will
w connectt automatica
ally to the end
e of the
pipe. Ch
heck it to ve
erify its con
nnected pro
operly.
4 Set the
43.
e size to 8. Place a piece
p
of pipe into the drawing.
4 Click on
44.
n the Fishe
er Type K control
c
valvve and pres
ss Enter. Itt
should connect
c
auttomatically. Since the rules have
e been set to
t
place fla
anges autom
matically, th
he system should pla
ace a
flange, gasket and
d bolts. .
4 Scroll down
45.
d
and click on th
he compact expandin
ng gate
valve, and
a press Enter.
E
The valve shou
uld connectt
automattically. You
u should get prompted for a top works.
w
4 Check th
46.
he descriptions on eacch of your components
c
s by double
e
clicking them. You
u should alsso have Tag
g values in them.
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V
Eight
E
1 In this viideo we're going
1.
g
to loo
ok at severa
al new thing
gs.
2 We're go
2.
oing to crea
ate a speciffication from
m scratch, and
a we're
also goin
ng to go intto the catalo
og and cha
ange some of the
settings. We're going to modiify some of the measu
urement files
so that we
w can prod
duce graph
hics in enha
anced mode
e. We'll alsso
set up a minimum and
a maximum pipe len
ngth.
3 Let's sta
3.
art out with our catalog
g. Click on
n the main button, and
open up
p the compa
any catalog we created
d earlier
(Compa
any1.cmp)..
4 Click th
4.
he plus nex
xt to the da
ata tables and
a scroll down
d
to the
flanges and expan
nd them (cliick on the + sign). Click
C
on the
plus nex
xt to Flang
ge Weld Ne
eck, and do
ouble click
k the
FLG_W_
_150. The data fieldss open up and some off the fields
will be changed
c
so we can pro
oduce enha
anced graph
hics when
we model them.
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5.
g to expand
d this colum
mn display a little, and we're going
to set up
p the 6 inch
h size here for enhance
ed graphicss. If we
hover over
o
this fie
eld we can see it's the
e raised face diameter.
So well click in that field and
d enter in 215.9
2
(Note: Its on the
e
row for the
t 6 size).
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8 This com
8.
mpletes the
e flanges. Now
N
let's do
o something
g on the
pipe. Minimize the
e flange lis
st, and click the plus next to
T
double
e-click the
e PIP_W_ST
TD.
Pipe. Then
9 In the ne
9.
ew version of CADWo
orx we have
e a rule thatt allows
setting a pipe minim
mum length
h and maxim
mum length
h. For the 6
inch sizze, let's putt in 300 forr the minim
mum length
h. For the
maximu
um length, put 6,000 in that field
d.
1 The ETS
11.
S value in the right column has to
o do with co
omponent
insertion
n. Its a sys
stem setting
g and not so
omething youll
y
have to
t
change. It stands for
f Bitwise End Type Placement
P
Control.
mber will va
ary, depending upon th
he type of component.
c
The num
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1 Get you
15.
ur catalog modified
m
to here, and well
w
continu
ue in the
next vide
eo.
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Nine
N
1 We've updated ourr catalogue
1.
e. Let's go ahead and save it,
n our proje
ect (Projec
ct1.prj).
and nexxt we'll open
2 What we
2.
e're going to
o do in this video is ad
dd a new sp
pec to the
project.
4 You can
4.
n create a new
n
spec a couple of ways.
w
One way is to
import in
n a legacy spec
s
from an
a earlier ve
ersion of CA
ADWorx
and mod
dify it. I thin
nk that's the
e easiest way
w to go ab
bout it
because
e there are so many co
omponents built into th
hese specss.
Its easie
er to take something
s
that has bee
en done an
nd modify it,,
than it iss to create something
s
from the ve
ery beginnin
ng.
6 Click on
6.
n the Spec
cifications tab,
t
click th
he Add buttton. It
brings up a file for us to use fo
or filling outt the new sp
pecs
informattion. For th
his example
e name the new spec A20_M.
A
7 The com
7.
mponent class will be
e 150. The
e temperatu
ure rating
will be a 78 C (we''re in metricc units here
e). The pre
essure
rating will
w be 14 BAR.
B
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8.
e table willl be Size. For
F this size
e table well remove
some sizzes that willl not be in this
t
spec. Click the down
d
arrow
w
and clea
ar out size
es up to a half
h inch. This
T
spec will
w start at a
half-inch
h on and go
o up.
9 I'm going
9.
g to take a couple of other
o
sizes out. Lets remove
r
the
e
3-1/2, an
nd the 5. Next
N
take out
o all the larger
l
sizes above 24
4.
So we'll take out fro
om 28 up. This will se
et our size ranges
r
like
or this particcular specification.
we wantt to have fo
1 The thic
11.
ckness table will rema
ain the stan
ndard one. The
materia
al table will be
b as well. Later the material
m
tab
ble might be
e
modified
d within the catalog, if we want ad
dditional ma
aterials and
d
grades to
t be availa
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ou use this method, yo
ou can use certain fields, or
separate
e them with
h hyphens. You have options on utilizing this
feature.
1 Again, since
15.
s
it's co
ompletely automatic, well
w
use it as
a given,
and clic
ck OK. So that's done
e.
1 We have
16.
e options fo
or the layer name and layer colorr. For this
spec us
se color se
even.
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17.
ell enter our name. Yo
ou put in yo
our name, and I'll type
e
mine in. The desc
cription is Sample
S
Test Spec. Click
C
OK.
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e down arrrow for Sch
hedule, and
d this will be set to
Schedu
ule 40. Whe
en this is se
et, the syste
em can look up wall
thicknessses, since the schedu
ule determin
nes the thicckness of th
he
pipe. La
ater when we
w draw thiss in enhancced mode, the system
will display the pipe
e inside dia
ameter.
2 For long
22.
g description you have
e some choiices. You can
c click in
the box for long description an
nd type in any
a kind of description
you wou
uld like. That's the trad
ditional wayy of doing itt.
2 We also
23.
o have the ability
a
in thiss new versiion of CADW
Worx to use
data fields from the
e catalog ta
ables to auto
omate this. This will be
b
covered in a later video.
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g to be Elb
bows. The Type
T
will be
e a Long
Radius Elbow, and
d the Data table will be
b the standard one.
L_W_STD.
So we'll go find 90L
3 On my screen
30.
s
the short
s
desc
cription nee
eds to be set to 90
Degree. I'll modify that with 90%%D LR ELBOW.
3 Click Ad
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dd. Now riight click to
o add anotther compo
onent.
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ange. The Group will be Flange
es.
3 Next add
34.
ded will be Gaskets an
nd Bolts. Right
R
click and add.
The Gro
oup will be Gaskets/B
Bolts/Welds
s. The Typ
pe is
Gasket, and the da
ata table is
s GAS_F_2
2_150.
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Te
en
1 In the prrevious vide
1.
eos we mod
dified the co
ompany ca
atalog and
added a new spec.. Now let's go into CA
ADWorx and
d we'll bring
g
in some componen
nts. Well use the enha
anced mod
de for this
test.
2 I have CADWorx
2.
C
started.
s
Yo
ou start it if you haven't done so.
Start a new
n
drawing using the
e metric tem
mplate.
3 On the CADWorx
3.
C
Plant
P
I tab, click the Se
etup button
n. In the
options for
f the Currrent Drawin
ng, click on the button to set 3D
Enhanc
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4.
pecification
n/Size and click the Browse buttton.
5 Select Project1
5.
P
an
nd click Ope
en. Select the A20_M
M spec. Nexxt
click on the 6 inch size underr Main. Earrlier, when we
w added
size valu
ues in the flange data file, the 6 in
nch flange was the on
ne
that we modified. In
I an earlier video we set dimenssions for the
e
n
of bolt
b holes.
bolt circlle diameterr, bolt holess, and the number
6 Click on Piping Ru
6.
ules. Set th
he Apply Pipe
P
Length
h Rule to
Show Options.
O
Ea
arlier we se
et up a miniimum and a maximum
m
length fo
or that.
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9.
t piping rules is workking. The system
s
is prompting
that the pipe I drew
w is longer than
t
the allo
owed maxim
mum length
h.
It asks iff I want to split
s
that pie
ece of pipe,, yes or no. Its set to
yes by default,
d
so Ill press En
nter to contiinue. The system
s
will
split the pipe into tw
wo segmen
nts and then
n I can carry with the
routing of
o more pip
pe. Ill come
e over and click and th
hen press
Enter to exit.
1 Now I want
11.
w
to look at this from
m a 3D view
wpoint. In my
m system,
at the to
op right of my
m screen iss the view cube.
c
If I cllick on the
corner I could have
e a southw
west isomettric view. This
T
versio
on
CAD also ha
as a view menu
m
right on
o the screen. As I
of AutoC
move the mouse ov
ver it, it displays the view controls. Ill click
Top, the
en SW Isom
metric.
1 All of th
13.
hese methods produce
e the same view. Usin
ng the
mouse wheel
w
to zo
oom in, we'll see that we're
w
in enh
hanced
mode. The
T system
m is now dra
awing the in
nside diame
eter of the
pipe.
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ange again
n, and pres
ss Enter to connect au
utomaticallyy.
Click pipe, press Enter to co
onnect auto
omatically and drag it
nd click. Press
P
Ente
er to exit.
down an
1 You can
17.
n see how the 3D Enha
anced mod
de works. Itt might be
something you wou
uld want to do for a pre
esentation to a client,
o have yourr drawings look more realistic.
r
or just to
1 Make su
18.
ure you go through
t
the
ese steps, and
a we'll co
ontinue afte
er
that.
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1 In this viideo we're go
1.
oing to buildd a branch taable. On my system, the
spec edittor is running
g. There's a couple of ways
w
you cann start it. If
you havee CADWorx open, on thee CADWorxx Plant I tab
b you can
click on the
t Spec Ed
ditor button. This is an easy way too start the
program..
2 If you use Windows Explorer, yoou can go to the CADWoorx folder annd
2.
n open up thee spec folderr, and you'll see a list of
go to Plaant. You can
files.
5 Double click
5.
c
the A2
20_M specifiication. Thee spec is now
w open for
editing. Looking at the
t screen, down
d
towardd the bottom we'll see wee
have a Brranch Table tab. Sometiimes if this gets
g hidden on
o the
display, you
y can alwaays adjust thhe task bar att the bottom.
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1 Next to get
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g placed will be the oleets. I'll click
k in one of th
hese other
empty ceells, right cllick and seleect olet. Whhat we'll havve to do if yoou
want lim
mit these to ceertain types of
o olets - perrhaps you onnly want a
weld olett for some off these size combination
c
ns - we'll justt have to
restrict thhe sizes with
hin the spec itself.
i
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20.
the long description use
u TEE DE
ESCRIPTIO
ON. Click Add.
A
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25.
The grou
up will be ollets. The typ
pe will be oleet. The dataa table will
be TOL__T_30C, wh
hich is a Threedolet, 30000 lb. The lon
ng
descriptiion will be Thredolet
T
D
Description.
Click Add.
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t
a quick look at that.. We can cliick on the main
m
button
n,
and we can
c save ourr project. Let's
L
open up
p the Comp
pany1
catalog. Now let's taake a look att some of theese data filess.
3 Scrollingg down find a 24-inch teee. The mainn size is 24, and
30.
a our
reduced size
s can go from
f
8 all thhe way up to 22. So the catalog
c
has
specific size
s combinaations that thhis reduced tee
t will workk with. If we
try to select size com
mbinations thhat are not lissted here, wee'll get a
message that it's not available.
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1 In this viideo we're go
1.
oing to test the
t branch taable we creatted in the
previous video. CAD
DWorx is ru
unning. Clicck New, andd start a new
drawing, and use a Template,
T
M
Metric.
In CA
ADWorx, when
w
you starrt
a new draawing, you always
a
use a template. Once
O
the sysstem starts
click Settup.
2 Click on
2.
n the Specifiication/Size,, then click the
t Browse button and
select Prroject1. Clicck on A20_M
M spec, andd set the maiin size to bee
6, and th
he reduced size
s to be 3.
3 Check thhe piping rulles and veriffy that the brranch table is set for
3.
Automattic. Click Apply
A
and Close.
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1 Now the system is giiving an opttion to placee an olet forr the branch
14.
h
connectiion. The braanch table annd spec (andd catalog) havve both a
threadoleet and a weld
dolet with thhose size com
mbinations. I'll use a
weldolet.. You can seee there wass no option for a reduccing Tee. Soo
you can see
s the bran
nch table is controlling which typee of fitting
can be used for bran
nches.
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Th
hirteen
n
1 In this viideo, we're going
1.
g
to buildd a user shappe, a custom
m componentt.
I'm in CA
ADWorx. Get
G that startted, if you doon't have it going
g
at this
time. Wee'll click New
w, to start a new drawiing, and wee'll use a
metric teemplate.
2 Next I'll click on the Setup buttoon. Click currrent drawinng and set thee
2.
drawingg mode to 2D
D double lin
ne. Well use that settingg in this
example.. Well creaate a profile for
f an in-linee componentt, and the
system will
w revolve it
i around a center line latter. It will also
a create a
3D solid from it as well.
w
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5 Next I'm going to put another flaange out to thhe right, withh the face off
5.
the flange facing to th
he right. Thhere will be a distance off 662 betweeen
nge, and notiice the promp
mpt. On my system
s
Ill
them. Illl click Flan
need to right-click
r
fo
or buttweld
d. Ill do thaat, and then pause
p
the
mouse riight on the end
e of the first
fi flange, but I'm nott going to
click. Th
hen I'll justt move the mouse
m
to thee right, and the system
will startt tracking.
8 Verify thhe incrementt angle is sett to 45. Clicck OK to exiit the dialog
8.
box. Typ
pe pline to start
s
the polyyline commaand. Next Ill click points
around thhe edge of th
he flange. Ill click the first
f
point on
n the end off
the purp
ple center lin
ne, and then just go righ
ht around th
he edge of th
he
flange. I'll
I be clickiing on thesee endpoints as I go arounnd it.
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9 Then draag out to thee right and type 150. I''m not goingg to click; I'm
9.
m
going to just
j drag outt and type 1550 and presss Enter. Froom there
slant up at 45 and ty
ype 150. Drrag the mou
use to the right and typ
pe
150, com
me back dow
wn at 45 deggrees for 1500, drag overr and click
on the en
nd of that fllange. From
m there click points righ
ht around th
he
edge of the
t second flange,
f
click each cornerr and continuuing right onn
down to the
t center lin
ne again.
1 Press En
10.
nter to exit th
he polyline command.
c
N type E and press
Next
Enter for Erase. Crross through
h the lower part of the flanges and
d
nter, and it'lll leave only the
t polyline outline. Thhis is going too
press En
become a flame arresstor. It's goiing to becom
me an in-line component
that will have CADW
Worx intelliggence and wiill end up as part of our
specificaations.
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1 It starts with
15.
w the firstt end, and it prompts
p
to set
s the end tyype at the
connectioon point. I'lll set it for fllanges. On the
t other endd, it will be
set for fllanges, as weell.
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1 One of them is called skeys.pdf. It's a PDF file and the name
18.
n
is
skeys.pdff. It's under the plant, unnder ISOGE
EN. It has illlustrations of
all the different skeys that Isogenn can displayy. These skeyys can be
assigned to different CADWorx objects.
1 There's one
19.
o in there that has a diiamond shappe, and the skey to makee
this work
k is going to
o be FTFL. What that will
w do is prooduce an
Isogen syymbol for a flame
f
trap with
w flanges on
o each sidee. So well
use this value.
v
Ive added
a
some illustrations showing whhere I found
this for your
y
referencce informatioon.
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2 If I doub
22.
ble click it, I can see thatt it did put inn the weight. It has my
descriptioons and everrything lookks good. Nexxt we'll run itt out throughh
ISOGEN
N and see wh
hat gets produuced. First, let's take a look
l
at it froom
an angle.. I'll click thee top on my screen and click
c
on SW Isometric.
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2 Next con
24.
nvert it to a 3D solid. Theres
T
a buttton you can use on the
CADWorx Plant I tab
b.
2 Having Ortho
26.
O
on, drrag out to th
he right and
d click, and then turn th
he
corner with
w and elb
bow and clicck. Press En
nter to exit.
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2 Press En
29.
nter, then seelect the objjects, and prress Enter. The system
m
will prodduce the ISO
OGEN Isomeetric. When we look at it,
i we can seee
it will haave a nice graaphic that reepresents thee Flame Arreestor. You caan
see that it
i is piece maarked correcctly. You cann also see thee system
included the bolts an
nd gaskets.
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SUM
MMARY
So thhe ease with which you can
c create usser shapes annd custom components in
i
CAD
DWorx has always
a
been one of its grreat strengths. It's just soo simple. Yoou
creatte a graphic,, and then yo
ou can store it within thee system. Thhen, in a few
w
stepss, you can prroduce a fullly intelligentt CADWorxx component that knows
how to connect to
t other com
mponents andd work well in
i ISOGEN..
A lott of other syystems involv
ve programm
ming. Some of them youu have to do
Visuual Basic scripts to createe a componeent, which caan get quite involved.
i
But CADWorx
C
i really easy
is
y. If you cann draw it, youu can, typicaally, get it
creatted as a CAD
DWorx object.
In thhe next videoo, we're goin
ng to look at a more com
mplex shape. We're goingg
to loook at one that is a 3D sh
hape with muultiple conneections on it.
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Foourteen
n
1 In this viideo we're go
1.
oing to creatte a more com
mplex user shape.
s
Previously I created a block. It's a 3D modell, and it's in your
exampless folder. If you
y go to thee
CADWorx_Lesson_F
Files/Specifi
fications foldder its locateed there. Its
called Baaffle_Box_L
Layout, and this
t is the shape well bring into
CADWorx as a new component.
2 On this 3D
2.
3 shape, thee flanges aree 10 inch flannges. If I hoover over
them, youu can see thaat. These arre set to existting.
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5.
hrough the object
o
to seleect everythinng and presss Enter. Thhe
system prompts for an
a insertion point.
p
Next, zoom in andd select an
nt on the flange centerliine.
end poin
6 Next is more
6.
m
informaation about the
t connectioons. Click on
o the Defin
ne
Connecttions button
n. The system
m prompts for
f which dirrection is this
going to insert from?? Click on the
t end poin
nt of the flaange
centerlin
ne and drag out away frrom the object, and clicck. This
indicates how connecctions are orriented, like gaskets and flanges.
7 The systeem prompts what kind of end type iss this connecction? Click
7.
k
Flanges. The first co
onnection pooint has beenn defined.
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9.
o more con
nnection to specify.
s
Cliick on the en
nd of the top
p
flange. Drag
D
straigh
ht up using ortho and click.
c
And I'm
I avoidingg
an extra osnap
o
when it asks direcction. I do not
n want to osnap on
another component
c
in
nadvertentlyy because it could
c
possibbly skew the
orientatioon. So just come
c
up awaay from the object
o
with ortho
o
on andd
click. Th
his connectiion will alsoo be flanges.. Press Enteer to finish
the comm
mand sequen
nce.
1 We can add
10.
a some infformation foor this new coomponent. Enter
E
600
for the weight.
w
For long descrip
ption enter BAFFLE BOX.
B
Leavee
the shortt description
n blank at thhis time. Thhe system haas detected
this is a multi-port
m
co
omponent.
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11.
N uses a generic symbol for this typee of component. It
illustrates it as a circlle on the isometric, withh different coonnections
o of the cirrcle. Other things
t
we coould add in thhis dialog boox
coming out
include notes,
n
a tag, or
o other fieldds. Leave th
hose empty at this time
and click
k OK. The component
c
is now defineed.
1 Start a new
13.
n drawing
g using a metric templaate. If promppted to
update the project answer
a
yes.
1 Click on
14.
n Setup. Cliick to set thee project, annd set it. Sett the spec too
A20_M, and the sizee to 10. Cliick Apply. If prompted to update thhe
specificaation becausee it has been change, clicck OK.
1 On the sp
16.
pecview tool palette clicck on the baaffle box. Were
W
set to
10 inchess. Click a point
p
and drrag to the up
pper right and
a click (iff
promptedd for the rotaation).
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18.
with Ortho on)
o and click
k. Next we'lll place somee
componeents and test it in ISOGE
EN.
1 Click on
19.
n a gasket. Click
C
(usingg Osnap) on
n the end poiint of the
purple center line. Place a flan
nge, a piece of pipe, andd elbow and
another piece of pip
pe (see illustrration).
2 Place a gasket on th
20.
he flange on
n the other end.
e
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2 Add som
21.
me pipe and an elbow ass shown.
2 Constru
22.
uct some pip
pe and an ellbow coming out of the top flange
as in thiss figure. Bee sure and usse osnap whhen youre pllacing the
gasket onn the flange. Also presss Enter as yoou place thee componen
nts
from the gasket on.
2 Run an Isogen of th
23.
his componeent.
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1 In this viideo we're go
1.
oing to workk with settingg long descriptions in the
Spec Ediitor. In this version
v
of CADWorx,
C
thhe long desccriptions can
be built automatically
a
y by using fields
fi
from thhe various taables and thee
catalog. When we pu
ut these fieldds together, one
o after anoother, the
result is a good long description that will com
me out consiistently. Thiis
is useful,, since over time
t
differennt people maay work on setting
s
up
specificaations. If you
u want consisstent qualityy and exactneess to your
specs, thiis is a good approach.
a
4 This videeo will be baased on a carrbon steel A220 spec. Forr pipe, we'll
4.
use the A106
A
Grade B.
B Most of the
t fittings will
w be A2344 Grade WPB
B.
Flanges and
a some off the fittings, like unions or couplings will be
A105.
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6 Toggle over
6.
o
to the Sp
pec Editor. Click the Main
M
button and open up
u
the Company1 Cata
alog.
8 We can see
8.
s there are a number off schedules listed
l
as partt of the
catalog.
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1 Right-cliick and Clicck Insert Roow. The systtem will addd a blank row
17.
w
at the botttom of the list.
l
Type A106
A
in the blank
b
square,, which will
add this as
a a new maaterial.
1 Double click
19.
c
in the space
s
to addd componentts and add Pipe.
P
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23. When you add rows to tables sometimes youll see a message that it
already exists. This can be a problem if you want variations of it,
with more than one entry (row) within the table. What you can do in
that case is fill out one of the second or third fields along the row first,
and then enter in the main value (like A106) in the first field. This is
how you can get variations of the same material in your table (maybe
you want an A106 Grade A and an A106 Grade B).
24. Clicking the headers lets you sort these tables in different ways.
Sometimes that can help you find values in them easier.
This is a good point to pause the video. Why don't you get your catalog set
the way we've done in this lesson, and then we'll continue on after that.
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1 In this viideo, we're going
1.
g
to autoomate how we
w bring in loong
descriptioons for our specification
s
ns. In the preevious video, we modifieed
the cataloog. So we want to make sure we savve it. Click Save.
S
2 Open Prroject1.
2.
4
4.
6 Toggle back
6.
b
to the Word
W
docum
ment (the document menntioned in the
previous video). Loo
ok under Caaps. This doocument show
ws how the
long desccription was done in prevvious versioon and it show
ws how we
can autom
mate them in
n this currennt version.
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8 One issuee with enteriing in a text string for a long descripption is that it
8.
i
can change from persson to personn. Each designer who crreates
specificaations may allter them sligghtly based on
o his personal opinionss.
This can lead to inco
onsistency. In this neweer version yoou can build
long desccriptions by putting togeether a sequeence of data fields from
the tabless. Then the system will produce a coonsistent desscription forr
you, baseed on whatss in the data files. It willl automaticaally fill in
values, annd youll en
nd up with a good long description
d
thhat is
consistennt in its form
mat. The wayy you go aboout doing thiis is really
quite inteeresting.
1 Click on
10.
n the first table listed, cllick the firstt field and click the
arrow thhat goes acro
oss. This willl give us thee first item thhat begins our
long desccription, and
d it's going too say Caps.
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1 Click th
14.
he arrow in the
t list of tabbles and clicck Material Tables.
Click thee second field listed. Cllick the arrow to add thhat into the
long desccription.
1 Click in the
15.
t format box at the endd of the strinng and add a space and
GR spacee. Click the arrow to briing it in (likee you did forr the fields inn
the tabless it works the same).
1 And so everything sh
17.
hould be set up correctlyy for the Lonng
Descriptiion. Click OK.
O
Havingg this collection of data fields
f
and
strings will
w work as a template too automaticaally put in the informatioon
for a longg description
n. Its effecttive and it will
w work acrooss multiple
specs.
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1 Later if you're
19.
y
doing a higher preessure spec, or a spec thaat has exoticc
materialss in it, you would
w
be chooosing those.. This same long
descriptioon sequencee of fields annd user stringgs would woork. It would
just use these
t
new vaalues (differeent Schedulees and Materrials) your
long desccription wou
uld be autom
matically buillt.
2 Click Ap
20.
pply, the Sav
ve your Speec.
2 Toggle back
21.
b
to CAD
DWorx, andd make sure you
y start a drawing
d
using a template.
t
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2 Select Prroject1 and the A20 spec. Set the siize to 10 incches. Click
23.
Apply an
nd Close.
2 Click CA
24.
AP. Place itt in your draawing, zoom
m in on it andd double-clicck
it.
2 Review the
25.
t long desccription. It should
s
say CAP,
C
S/STD,, ASTM
A234 GR
R WPB.
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Seeventeeen
1 In this viideo we're go
1.
oing to speedd this processs up. Click on Elbows
and selecct the plus next
n to Elbow
w. Then clicck the row for
fo 0.5 to 24.
For this example
e
well copy and paste right from
f
the Woord doc.
Material: A234-WPB
A
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8 We'll do another one. We'll scrolll down and we'll click Pipe.
8.
P
This iss
going to be a little more
m
interesting because something
s
g added to
got
g
to clicck the plus next
n
to Pipee and we'll seelect the
this. I'm going
entry.
1 The curreent versions will use fiellds and user strings like we did in
10.
earlier exxample. Alsso, for pipe, well
w
includee the thickneess. Well do
d
this to illlustrate how you can brinng in fields from
f
differennt tables andd
show theem in the maaterial list. The
T string thaat goes in the descriptionn
box is thiis: COMPT
TYPE_CMP__TBL, SCH
H MAINSCH
H_SCH_TBL
L
SMLS, ASTM
A
SPEC
C_MAT_TB
BL GR GRA
ADE_MAT_T
TBL,
MAINTH
HK_THK_T
TBL THK. At
A the end you
y can see the field for
the thicknness and thee user string THK.
1 Copy it from
11.
f
the Wo
ord documennt and paste it
i in to the Long
L
Descriptiion box in th
he spec editoor.
1 Click Ap
13.
pply.
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1 Click Elb
16.
bow and plaace one in the drawing. Double
D
clickk it and checck
the descrription.
1 Double click
18.
c
it and check
c
the description. Yooull see thaat it has a
good desscription and
d it includes the
t thickness as part of it.
i
So you
y see, you just
j have a lot
l of variation of possibbilities in thiss. Once youu
get this set up yoou can use itt for a varietyy of specs annd achieve consistent
c
resullts.
So thhank you forr taking the time
t
to go thhrough thesee videos on thhe new
CAD
DWorx speciifications ed
ditor. I hope they
t
were innteresting and beneficial,,
and most
m of all, I hope they save
s
you a loot of time inn your work!
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