Session Courses

Developing Piping Design Technician Level Skills Using CADWorx, CAESAR II and PVElite
The simplicity of CADWorx, CAESAR II and PVElite make it useful to train engineers and designers on specific technician level skills in a limited timeframe. Most engineers and designers are already AutoCAD literate upon graduation or through work experience. After suitable introductions to piping, valves, fittings and equipment, CADWorx can develop practical pipe routing skills and demonstrate advanced error checking and other CAD model benefits. With a brief introduction to pipe stress, a simple, conception CAESAR II model can be built, analyzed and animated. With a similar introduction to vessel stresses, a simple, conceptual PVElite model can be built, etc. Coordination of models with analysis can also be demonstrated. What results is valuable, technician level skills suitable to support building pipe stress and vessel stress models and their integration with process equipment and piping CAD layout. Although, not a complete review of pipe stress and vessel engineering considerations, these skills form a firm basis for job productivity and professional development for both piping designers and engineers.

PV Fabricator
All vessels and Heat Exchangers need to get built and require drawings to accomplish this. In this session you will learn how to use the latest COADE offering "PV Fabricator" to develop fabrication drawings from PVElite data.

Understanding the Basics of Wind Loads and Earthquake Loads
Instructor: Scott Mayeux, COADE
This session will provide an overview of how wind and seismic loads are produced and modeled with PV Elite.

PV Elite Basics Lecture
Instructor: Naveed Khan, Fern Computer Consultancy
In this session an overview of PV Elite and its various processors will be presented.

ASME Code Section VIII Division 1 Basics
Instructor: Ray Delaforce, COADE
In this session the basic rules and methodologies of ASME VIII-1 will be discussed. ASME VIII-1 is the most commonly used design code in the world.

PV Elite / Fabricator Integration - Lab
Instructor: Chris Schiller, COADE
This session will outline the features of PV Fabricator and how information from PV Elite is transferred to PV Fabricator. We will discuss the ins and outs of Fabricator and how the program can be customized.

PV Elite / CADWorx Equipment Integration - Lab
Instructor: Kyle Pope, ECAD
This session will discuss how modeling information is transferred between CADWorx Equipment and PV Elite. Attendees should be able to use AutoCAD.

PV Elite / COADE Product Integration
Instructor: Scott Mayeux, COADE
This session will illustrate how models can be constructed in PV Elite, CAESAR II, and CADWorx Equipment and be put together as a complete model in CADWorx Plant Professional.

Expansion Joint Design
Instructor: Chris Hinnant, Paulin Research Group
This Intermediate-level session will discuss why expansion joints are needed in exchangers and how they are selected. Life cycle and stress calculations using the older empirical TEMA method and newer FEA methods will be discussed.

Local Stress Analysis
Instructor: Chris Hinnant, Paulin Research Group
This Intermediate level session will discuss methods for determining stresses on vessel attachments and nozzles using various methods such as WRC 107/297 and finite element analysis.

Why Do Metals Break?
Instructor: Ray Delaforce, COADE
In this session various reasons for metal failure will be presented and discussed.

PV Elite Tips & Tricks - Lab
Instructor: Mandeep Singh, COADE
This session will cover various tips and tricks using PV Elite. Knowing these methods will help analysts create models quickly and efficiently.

From Drawing to Design - Lab
Instructor: Mandeep Singh, COADE
This session will teach those interested in taking a vessel drawing, and creating a PV Elite model from the drawing and performing the analysis.

ASME VIII-1 versus VIII-2
Instructor: Urey Miller, Retired
This session will discuss differences in design requirements between Division 1 and the new Division 2 Code.

Flange Design
Instructor: Urey Miller, Retired
This session will discuss flanges and how to produce an optimum flange design using ASME VIII-1 Code rules.

PV Elite Basics - Lab
Instructor: Scott Mayeux, COADE
This beginner-level session will expose attendees to pressure vessel analysis. PV Elite 2009 will be used to create vertical and horizontal vessels. These vessels will be analyzed and the results will be discussed.

What's New in PV Elite 2009
Instructor: Scott Mayeux and Mandeep Singh, COADE
This session will discuss the new enhancements to PV Elite and CodeCalc software in the 2009 release. Come see these new features in action. This will help you to become more efficient in your work using PV Elite and CodeCalc. A discussion on future initiatives will also be included.

Heat Exchanger Construction
Instructor: Ramsey Mahadeen, Atlas Industrial Manufacturing
The class will focus on the heat exchanger internals and how the design and construction information specified by the user interact to affect the decisions necessary to manufacture the heat exchanger. The emphasis will be on the tube layout, tube-to-tubesheet joint, tube bundle, tubesheet thickness, expansion joints, and distribution and vapor belts. The discussion will include the relationship between the thermal design and the mechanical design. The affect of the specified Codes and Standards (ASME, PED, TEMA, API, HEI, etc.) on the decisions relating to the design and construction will also be covered.

CADWorx Design Review 2010
Instructor: Stephen Hollinger, R & D Consulting
CADWorx Design Review was introduced in 2008 and since then has been developed to handle any project review needs. This year, COADE has added CADWorx Design Create and CADWorx Design Viewer to the tool set of CADWorx Design Review. These two new tools allow for quick publishing and viewing of models by anyone. In this session you will learn how to use these new tools and what has been added to CADWorx Design Review to enhance your productivity.

CADWorx IP
Instructor: Robert Riley, Golden Gate CAD
CADWorx IP has been around for quite some time. This amazing tool allows you to publish your P&ID files into web-enabled pages to be viewed by anyone with a web browser. All data is stored in each of the pages and can be reviewed by the user. In this session you will learn how to use the power of CADWorx IP.

CADWorx NG
Instructor: COADE
The Next Generation of CADWorx Plant is in full development. This session will demonstrate the new functionality of this highly anticipated release.

CADWorx the Right Tool
Instructor: Sonia Delgadillo, COADE
CADWorx is the number one selling plant design tool on the market today. In this session you will learn how the CADWorx suite of products can benefit your company and how CADWorx is right for any size project.

Plant Layout - Tips & Tricks
Instructor: David Edwards, Alliance Engineering, Inc.
CADWorx Plant is the tool used to help design piping systems in the plant designers world. As with any tool, knowing how and when to use it is an important part of any good design. Knowledge of piping systems is another important part of good plant design. In this session you will learn good design practices based on industry standards and years of experience. This session is intended for everyone from just starting out to seasoned pros.

ISOGEN Customization
Instructor: Steve Lozano, Nicholas Consulting Group, Inc.
ISOGEN is the tool to produce ISOMETRIC drawings inside CADWorx. To meet your company standards customizing ISOGEN is a requirement. In this session you will learn how to customize ISOGEN to meet these standards.

ISOGEN Optimization - Lab
Instructor: Matt Breeden, ICM Inc.
ISOGEN is very powerful and this session will demonstrate some of this power. Learn how to use user shapes and SKEY's to get what you want in your drawings. Learn how to use the symbol editor to create custom symbols and assign your own SKEY's to have ISOGEN use them automatically and to develop detail sketches.

ISOGEN Setup
Instructor: Rod Abbott, Wardrop Engineering Inc.
The final deliverable of any project is drawings. ISOMETRICS are the primary drawings produced and ISOGEN is the tool CADWorx uses to generate these drawings. With the power of ISOGEN comes the complexity of the setup. This session will teach you how to setup ISOGEN using the new iConfig tools added to CADWorx 2010.

CADWorx ISOGEN 2010
Instructor: John McWilliams, Mustang Engineering
I-Configure is replacing Project Manager as the user interface for CADWorx Plant Professional 2010. This session will guide you through the improved user interface so you can optimize your ISOGEN output.

Advanced CADWorx P&ID - Lab
Instructor: David Wolfe, ECAD Inc.
CADWorx P&ID is a very powerful tool used to generate P&ID's. In this session you will learn how to take advantage of this power by using the database features of CADWorx P&ID. You will also learn how to make existing legacy P&ID's intelligent and how to transfer P&ID drawings and data between projects allowing you to develop standards and reuse CADWorx P&ID drawings on new projects. You will see how to use dynamic blocks in your P&ID's.

CADWorx P&ID 2010
Instructor: Gary Mellinger, Mellinger and Associates
Each new release of CADWorx comes with new features and enhancements. This course will demonstrate these new features and help you take advantage of them in your daily work efforts. Come see the new tools that are available in CADWorx P&ID 2010.

CADWorx P&ID Tools
Instructor: Robert Riley, Golden Gate CAD
CADWorx P&ID Pro comes with several tools to help you develop your required drawings more efficiently. In this session you will learn how to use CADWorx Datasheets, CADWorx LOOPS, and CADWorx IP. Each of these tools has a specific requirement that they help fulfill.

Introduction to CADWorx P&ID - Lab
Instructor: David Wolfe, ECAD Inc.
Good design starts with a good P&ID. All good designers know how important P&ID's are to the overall project and most have experienced frustration with poor P&ID design. This session will demonstrate CADWorx P&ID and how this integrated design tool can help you with your design projects and eliminate some of these frustrations. You will see how CADWorx P&ID will link your work with CADWorx Plant so the data from a good P&ID can be directly used in your modeling designs.

Advanced Modeling Techniques - Lab
Instructor: Mike Jukic, AMEC BDR
Using CADWorx Plant you can model any type of piping project you desire. Sometimes you need to look at alternative ways to develop your models using different tools and techniques inside CADWorx. In this session you will learn how to use some of these tools and techniques to enhance your productivity.

Basic Equipment Modeling - Lab
Instructor: Josh Sampson, Mustang Engineering
CADWorx Equipment is the tool used for quick pump, vessel and heat exchanger layout. Create your equipment in detail then XREF them into your models. Keep up with the changes by modifying a previously modeled piece of equipment.

CADWorx Plant 2010
Instructor: Rhett Rathbone, Merpro Americas
Many new enhancements have been added to CADWorx Plant 2010. In this session you will see these enhancements in action and learn how to use them in your design projects.

Creating Specifications & Data Files - Lab
Instructor: Carol Orgar, Ecodyne Ltd.
CADWorx specifications and design data are the easiest to build and maintain. This session will teach you how to build and maintain your company standards and how to add to the data files used by CADWorx.

Model Organization
Instructor: Bruce Parsons, Gas Liquids Engineering Ltd.
Large and small models require careful planning to make their development and use efficient. Many times models are used for different purposes - from overall plant layouts to equipment details to subsystem drawings. This can be very complex if a good model organization is not developed and followed. In this session you will see one way of developing a good model organization plan and begin to see ways you can implement a good design for your organization.

Pipe Supports in CADWorx 2010 - Lab
Instructor: Mark Bross, Anadarko Petroleum Inc.
With the addition of the intelligent support modeler in CADWorx Plant 2010 you are now able to parametrically add the necessary pipe supports and generate a BOM of the support assemblies. In this session you will learn how to use this new and exciting tool and how it will enhance your model production.

Sheet Set Manager - Lab
Instructor: Mark White, Mustang Engineering
AutoCAD has a very powerful but little-used tool called Sheet Set Manager (SSM). In this session you will learn how to use SSM and the power it can bring to your organization and your design work.

User Shapes - Lab
Instructor: Lee Smith, John Zink Company
Although CADWorx has an extensive library of components to select from, sometimes you need to show something in your models that is not "off-the-shelf". User shapes allow you to add a custom component with intelligence to the model. In this session you will learn how to build a user shape and how to add the intelligence needed for BOM and ISOGEN generation.

Using FieldPipe with a Total Station
Instructor: Brian Michaud, Hunt, Guillot and Associates
Field verification and data accusation has always been required in piping design, from building a new project to interfacing with existing equipment to verifying dimensional data, as-built generation and even fabrication verification. These tasks are required to complete the projects at hand. CADWorx FieldPipe is the tool to use. In this session you will see how to use CADWorx FieldPipe to gather dimensional data from the field and generate 3D models of the same data all at the same time. Before you leave the field you will have completed a model and, if needed, the ISO's from the data collected.

Using FieldPipe with Point Cloud Data
Instructor: Billy Therrell, MKEC Engineering Consultants
Taking point cloud data sets to the next level and producing an intelligent model is the job for CADWorx FieldPipe. Learn how to use this exciting new tool and how your company can benefit from producing intelligent models of your point cloud data.

2010 CADWorx Steel Pro Plus - Lab
Instructor: Donna Schrader, Mustang Engineering
CADWorx Steel Pro Plus is a new offering from COADE to enhance the design and production of structural steel models and drawings. In this session you will see this new program and how it integrates with CADWorx Plant Pro. You will also learn how easy it is to generate 2D stick drawings of your steel models.

Addressing Nonlinear Conditions in the Piping Model - Lab
Instructor: Nigel Marsh, Peak Engineering
Translating actual field support conditions into a CAESAR II model introduces the greatest variation in program results. Things become more difficult when those supports respond in a nonlinear fashion. Add to that the lack of industry standards for nonlinear considerations such as support lift off and support friction. A proper analysis requires some basic understanding of how CAESAR II handles these nonlinear conditions. This session will review nonlinear conditions in piping systems (gaps, liftoff, friction, etc.) and their influence on load cases and stress evaluation.

Basic Expansion Joints
Instructor: Dan Edgar, Senior Operations Pathway Div.
Expansion joints accommodate large strain in a relatively small component and can solve many design problems but they have their own important considerations. Stiffness, effective length, and pressure thrust all come into play in modeling these components in a piping system analysis. This basic expansion joint session will define criteria for a simple expansion joint assembly and utilize the CAESAR II expansion joint modeler.

Advanced Expansion Joints
Instructor: Dan Edgar, Senior Operations Pathway Div.
The expansion joint modeler may be unable to properly model some of the more complicated expansion joint assemblies. In these situations the entire expansion joint assembly can be constructed out of individual piping components to accurately predict system response. This advanced session will highlight the important considerations in building these assemblies and provide several examples.

Buried Pipe - Lab
Instructor: Al Kaye, Altech
What happens when piping goes underground?  How does soil response to pipe strain affect the piping response? How do you introduce this pipe-soil interaction in CAESAR II?  This session will answer these and other questions regarding the CAESAR II buried pipe modeler.

Creating an Accurate Fatigue Analysis of Offshore Piping
Instructor: Bob Robleto, KBR
Fatigue Design of FPSO's is outside the design guidance of ASME B31 piping standards but not outside its scope. An approach is demonstrated that was recently used for design of an FPSO using B31.3 requirements as well as DNV overall fatigue assessment. The two design philosophies are compatible. This course will show how CAESAR II can accurately evaluate overall fatigue of piping systems restrained by a moving hull of a ship. Also computing the fatigue design of ship structure requires massive amount of displacement input data. This presentation discusses FPSO design and shows how an Excel spreadsheet macro can be used to generate and input displacements into the CAESAR II module through the program's Neutral File.

Advanced Tools for the Piping Engineer
Instructor: Tony Paulin, Paulin Research Group
The simple beam bending model utilized in CAESAR II provides an accurate look at piping at the system level. But what if the assumptions of this beam model are violated - for example, if the pipe wall deflects before the beam bends or if there is a branch connection on an elbow? In many cases, these conditions are not explicitly addressed by the codes. The engineer might turn to finite element analysis (FEA) to evaluate these components or conditions. This session will review such FEA tools offered by Paulin Research Group.

Background and Application of Recent Changes to ASME B31.3
Instructor: Chuck Becht PhD, Becht Engineering Co. Inc.
With roots as old as 50 years, the piping codes were built for engineers armed with only a slide rule. Over the last decade, the increased analysis capabilities of today's piping engineer have allowed the code writers to improve and expand the code's analysis requirements. Some of these new requirements need clarification or perhaps explanation. This session, presented by the current B31.3 Chairman, will highlight some of these code updates - weld joint factors, Appendix P, occasional loads, Code Case 181, and others.

Benefits of Time History Analysis over Other Methods - Lab
Instructor: Jim Wilcox, CoadeCAD Inc.
Time history analysis of dynamic loading offers more accurate results than other methods, often with no "extra" effort. This session will demonstrate some advantages of time history analysis, including how these results let you observe system response in a way that is not possible with static equivalent or spectral methods. This ability can be critical to fully understanding how a system responds when solving certain types of problems.

Transient Hydraulic Analysis for CAESAR II Evaluation
Instructor: Trey Walters, Applied Flow Technologies
Many operational failures in piping are caused by transient hydraulic events such as surge or hammer passing through the system. Several commercial programs are available today to calculate these changing hydraulic loads. This session will review this hydraulic analysis in AFT Impulse, a program that has a data link to CAESAR II. The resulting force-time data from this hydraulic analysis will be merged into CAESAR II dynamic input for a time history analysis.

Equipment Modeling Strategies
Instructor: John Luf, Consultant
In many instances the final piping design is controlled by the equipment to which the piping is attached. The interaction then, between piping and these "boundary conditions" is significant. An accurate analysis will depend on the thermal strain introduced by the equipment and the relative stiffness of that equipment. This session will provide guidelines for proper equipment modeling in CAESAR II.

SIFs through FEA & Testing – The Realignment Project
Instructor: Tony Paulin, Paulin Research Group
The SIFs we use in analyzing piping components today were developed over 50 years ago and since then they have been subject to inconsistent modifications between codes. A recent ASME contract was "let" to review the literature and add more testing to develop "better" SIFs and realign the various codes' use of these factors. This session is led by the author of that new work and will review the highlights of this project.

ISOGEN Spools with I-Configure in CAESAR II - Lab
Instructor: Jack Hollenbeck, Exterran
Many CAESAR II users recognize the value of standardized ISOGEN drawings that are now available in the program but many engineers simply use the default drawing settings rather than learn how to customize their drawings to match company standards. This session will provide guidance on creating a backing sheet and manipulating data displayed in these drawings.

Sizing Spring Supports in CAESAR II
Instructor: William (Bill) Miller, BIS Frucon Engineering Inc
CAESAR II can select a spring support for any number of manufacturer's catalogs. All it requires is the design load and the design travel. But is it the best support for the system? CAESAR II provides many design criteria for these supports. This session will highlight the most useful design parameters and also review a procedure by which these supports can be evaluated and perhaps improved.