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TableofContents

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SettingtheConfiguration SelectingaProjectand Specification StartingSpecview

VideoTwoPage8
ReviewingthenewPipingRules

VideoThreePage13
Testingandworkingwiththenew PipingRules

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QuickStart tVideoO One

1. 1 Welcome to the set of Quick Start videos for CA e ADWorx Plant Professio onalSoftwar re!Theinfor rmationinth hesevideosisforversions of CADW Worx newer than the CA ADWorx 201 version. I the newe 12 In est releases of CADWorx, the feat tures and t techniques f using th for he software have chang and improved significantly. Fo instance, in e ged or the new versions of CADWor we now have ext w rx, w tensive rule es available ewithinthe system,whi ichcandoth hingslikech hangethesiz ze or spec of a group of piping components! Also, we can no g ow ticallyplaceflanges,gas skets,andboltsonvalvesastheyget automat modeled dintoaline! 2. 2 Another big chang is the w ge way the ne versions work with ew specifications. We now have the ability to generate au utomatic pa art numbers s,andthesp peceditorca annowbesettoautom matehowlon ng descripti ionsappear inthemate eriallists.Th hesekindsof ffeaturesca an greatly improve con nsistency in how we ca produce our materi an ial reports. 3. 3 Thepurp poseoftheseQuickStar rtvideosist togetyourunninginth he newvers sionofCAD DWorxwithi inminutes. Aswework kthroughth his material, ,you'llseet thatwe'reju ustscratchin ngthesurfac ceinthisne ew version. But once you're able to start run y nning the ne CADWor ew rx, you can begin to ex xplore the m many new fe eatures in th system. If his you wan additional training, w nt we'll show y some of the trainin you ng resources that are available to you in the last video in this set. S a So let'sgets started! 4. 4 The first thing we sh hould do is start a new drawing. Let's go ahea w ad and do t that. We'll click the New button, and we w want to use a template In CADW e. Worx, one o the fundamental ru of ules that yo ou alwaysd doistostartanewdraw wingwithat template.
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5. 5 Inmyex xample,I'm goingtobeusingthem metrictemp plate.Ifyou're going to be doing imperial, yo o ou're welco ome to use the imperi ial template e.Forourvideosthatfo ollow,we'regoingtobe eworkingin na mixed m metric enviro onment. We be using the metric template, s e'll so clickoni itandthenc clickopen. 6. 6 Now we' looking at our scree I'm in a very early r 're a en. release of th he software e,soasyoulookatthing gs,theremay ybesubtled differencesb by the time you see th e hem in your version. P Perhaps six months, or a year, fro the time of this rec om e cording som of these things might me change. 7. 7 Overall,t thescreenis sgoingtoha avethissamekindoflay yout.Wehav ve aribbon, ,andwehav vetheCADW WorxPlantI andPlantII tabs.Weals so haveaCADWorxSte eeltab,soth hisRibbonla ayoutisgoin ngtolookth he same. 8. 8 One of t main th the hings we use in CADWo is the S e orx Specview to ool palette. Ill go up on the Ribbo and click on Specvie and it w n on ew, will open the palette. Now one th e N hing to noti thats d ice different fro om earlierve ersionsisify youtrytose etasizeora aspecright away,likew we coulddo ointhepast,theSpecviewpalette isnotyetac ctive.There e's nothingw workingoni ityet. 9. 9 Inthene ewerversion ns,wehave todosome esettingsfirstbeforew we can begi to use Sp View. W in pec What we ne to do is click on th eed s he Setupbu utton.When nwedothat,adialogb boxwillopen n,andweca an getstarte ed.
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10. 1 This is w what the new Setup dia w alog box loo like. As the software oks evolves and subseq quent relea ases come out, this c could chang ge Butitwillprobablyhav vethesamekindofinfo ormationthat slightly.B we're loo oking at here. These ar some of the choices and settings re s thatyouneedtomakewhensta artingupint thenewvers sion. 11. 1 Wehave ealistofitem msthatwe willgothrou ughtogeto oursystemset up.The firstoneha astodowiththecurrentdrawing,andwhether we want to work in 3D solids or in thread or sock weld. Als t n ded ket so notice w have an enhanced mode as well. This will give us we n d enhanced graphics in displaying compon nents. For instance, th he wboltholes sintheflang ges. systemcannowshow 12. 1 Theconf figurationfil leissometh hingthatmu ustbeset.T ThisistheEd dit Config file that we are familiar from earlie versions, and it's very r er similarto owhatweu usedinthep past.Notethatyouwillneedtoloa ad theconfigurationth hatyou'rego oingtobeu using.Soyouwillgohere and clic load, an click ei ck nd ither the i imperial or the metr r ric configura ation. 13. 1 We'rego oingtoberu unningthem metricconfig gurationin thisexampl le. Inyourw work,youma aybeusingpuremetric corpureimp perialtoth he system,i itdoesn'tm matter.Youc canpickthe eonethatw worksforyo ou. I'mgoing gtocancelo outofthis,butI'vealread dysetminetometric. 14. 1 Now,the enextthingistosetup thespecific cation.This mustbedon ne fromwithintheSetu updialogbox.Wecan't setitinitiall lyinSpecvie ew did W click on Spe ecification/Size, what yo ou like we d before. When you c actuallyh havetodon nextisselect taproject. 15. 1 In the ne ewer version of CADW ns Worx, a colle ection of spe ecifications is grouped intoaproject.Thisis normalind doingdesign nwork.We ell useoneo ofthesampleprojectstostartforth hisexample. .
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16. 1 The system ships with these t w three sample projects. Youll see a . sampleinchproject,whichisaw workingimperialproject t. 17. 1 Theresa asampleme etric,which willhavemetricbored diametersan nd metricle engths.Ther reisasamp plemetricin nchproject. Thiswillhav ve thepipe diameters ininchesan ndthelengt thsinmillim meters.That t's gtousefor thissetofv videos.The reasonwe're theone we'regoing going to do that is it lets us use it worldwide. It's a ge e eneral choic ce, orksforboth himperialandmetricusers. anditwo 18. 1 Asfaras systemfeat tures,itdoe esn'tmatter. .Youcanclickontheon ne that you're going to be using in your work if you like. I'm going to o n k highlight ttheSample e_Metric_In nch.prj,and dclickopen.Thesyste em willthendisplaythespecsthata areavailable einthisproje ect. 19. 1 Projectsarecollectio onsofspecs s,andthat'showthingsareorganize ed in the n new versions. Once a project is set, then t the specs are available Next, clic on the 15 At that point, youl see a list of e. ck 50. ll inametrici available esizes.This exampleis inch,sosele ect10,whic ch willbeou urmainsize esetting. 20. 2 In the d dialog box, it displays both inches and millim meters. After clickingo onthe10,c clickApply& &Close.Att thatpoint,t theSpecVie ew toolpale ettegetspop pulated. 21. 2 Onceyou ugetittoth hispoint,it'sfamiliarw withwhatyo ouareused to seeing.Y Youcanselec ctthediffere entspecsth hatyouwant ttoworkwith or the different size So all this is similar to the earlier CADWo es. r orx t. versionsatthispoint
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22. 2 Lets return back to the Setup screen by c o clicking Plan and Setu nt up. Looking at the set tup dialog box, we ca see som addition an me nal configura ationfileset ttingsthatw wecando. 23. 2 This setu box also contains so up ome piping rules. This is somethin ng new.We earegoingt totakealoo okattheseru ulesinamoment.

24. 2 Whydon n'tyougetyo oursystemt tothispoint,andwe'llg gofromhere e.

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Quic ckStartV Video Tw wo

1. 1 In this v video, we'r going to explore th new pip re he ping rules in CADWorx x.Theseruleswilladd alotofaut tomationint tothesyste em for us, and they'll help us place piping com e mponents in our mod nto del bothquic ckerandeas sierthanwecoulddoinearlierversions. 2. 2 The first thing we want to do is verify tha we starte out a ne w at ed ew drawing usingatem mplate.Inthe epreviousv videoweclic ckedonNEW W, nweclickedmetricand Open.Thes systemstart tedupusing ga andthen metricte emplate. 3. 3 Nowwe' 'llclickonSe etup.Inthe previousvideo,wetalk kedaboutth he settings in the cur rrent drawin and som of the configuratio ng me on settings.Clickonthe eSpecificatio on/Size,clic ckonBrowseandclicko on thesamp plemetricin nchproject.Thenclicko onOpen. 4. 4 Thiswill loadinthe specsandw wecanclick onthe150_ _Mtosetth he spec.Se ettheMain Sizeto10i inches.Ifw welookdow wnthelist,w we canlookattheconfigurationrulesandhowthelayersa andcolorsca an beset.W Wecanalso oclickonthe epipingrule es,whichis theareathat we'regoingtofocusonsoonint thisvideo. 5. 5 ClickonA Apply&Clo ose.Thiswill lgetusinto CADWorx. Next,clicko on theSpecViewtoolp palettebutto onontheRib bbon.Specv viewwillope en nchsizesint the150spec c. foruseanditwillbesetfor10in 6. 6 Thesyste emisnowsetandread dyforuse.L Letstakea closerlook at thenewpipingrules.Clickonth heSetupbut ttonagainontheRibbon n.
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7. 7 The syste has a nu em umber of ne rules tha we can use, which w ew at will helpusb buildourmo odelsmoree easilyandm moreaccurat tely.Theyad dd alotofautomationintothesyst temforus.Forinstance e,here'sasiz ze rule.Ifit tisset,and wetrytoco onnectacomponentto oanotheron ne, the syste will prompt us if theres a siz mismatch and give us em ze h optionso onhowthisshouldbeha andled. 8. 8 Oneopti ionistohav veitautoma aticallyswitc chtothecu urrentsize, or we can keep the sm maller size and the sy ystem will h help us sele ect entstoformthetransiti ionfromone esizetotheother. compone 9. 9 Theresa alsoarulefo orspecchan nges.Ifyou trytoplace acomponent withadifferentspec cintoyourline,you'regoingtogets someoption ns. ngendtypes sasyouplac ce Alsothe systemcan nowcheck formatchin compone ents.Thisisreallyhelpfu ulbecauseit tcanautoma aticallyswitc ch andmatc chendtypes sforus,dependingonth hesettingw weselect. 10. 1 Theresa apipelengt thrule,whereweseta minimuma andmaximum allowed pipelength. .Thesystem mwillmake usadheretothat.Ifw we put in a long piece of pipe that exceeds th maximum length, th t hat he willaskusab boutsplittingitintosho orterlengths s,andthisca an systemw helpusm maintainour rfabricationrules. 11. 1 Wehave ealotofnew wrulesando optionsinth hisnewvers sion.There's sa gasketin nsertion,andtheresa switchtoin nsertboltsa automaticall ly. Lookingf furtherdow wnthelistw weseeabran nchtable.C CADWorxno ow canutiliz zeabrancht tableaspart tofitsspecifications.Th hiscanrestri ict thechoic cesthatourdesignershaveforspec cificbranchf fittings,base ed oncertai insizecomb binations. 12. 1 Looking further, we see a flang insertion rule. This i really quite ge is you a ld e ow nice. If y place a valve into a butt wel pipe, the system no automat tically places flanges, g gaskets and bolts on ea end of it. ach Thereare ealotofnew woptionsan ndsettingsa availablefor rusnow.
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13. 1 Now clic on the Help button This will display info ck H n. ormation an nd illustratio onsofthese erules.Anumberoftho oserulesare eshownher re. If we scr down, th roll heres a tog ggle where w can have center line we e es displayed dornot.

14. 1 Theresa alsoacheck ksizefeatur re,illustrated,withthre eesettings. If set to of the systemwill not c ff, check for ma atching sizes as we plac ce compone ents.Thats settingwoul ldallowust toputinco omponentsu up againsto othercompo onentswitha asizemisma atch.

15. 1 If the siz checking is set to automatic, th the new component ze hen w you're pl lacing will always match the existin one you're connectin h ng ng to. So t this will res a size if, needed, to match the existin set , ng compone ent.Ifyousetthesizec checkingto manual,the esystemgives you the option of placing a size that's diffe e erent. When that occur n rs, thesyste emwillprom mptforwhat tkindofcon nnectionsyouwanttous se toblend thenewco omponentin ntotheline. Youcanuse eeccentric or concentr ricreducers forexample e.You'llget someoptio onstherethat allowyou utomaketh hisallworks smoothly. 16. 1 Youcan seethenew wpipingrule esgivesomeassistance ewhenyou're tryingtochangesize eslikethis. There'salso oaspecche eckerthatw will prompty youifyouha aveaspecm mismatch.Yo oullbeable etouseane ew spec, and you would have a spec break in that case, o the syste d d or em can be set to always switch bac to match the existin spec in th s ck h ng he orendtypecheckingyoucanset,w whichwillhav ve line.There'sarulefo thesyste emcheckthe ecomponen ntsendcon nditionsasth heyreplace ed, andalwa aysmatchth hemtotheadjacentcom mponents. 17. 1 Thesyste emhasauto omaticweld dgapsetting gsyoucanturnonoroff. There is minimum and maxim mum pipe le ength check king availabl le. Thereis anautomat ticgasketse etting,anda anappendf flangesettin ng oaline,andt theappendflangesettin ng also.Soifyouplaceavalveinto is enable the syst ed, tem will au utomatically place som connectin me ng flangeso oneachsideofthevalve e.
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18. 1 Ifyouha avetheappe endflanger rulesettom manual,itwillpromptyo ou forwhich hkindofflangedoyou wouldliket touse.Ifyo outrytoplac ce aflanged dgatevalve upagainst abuttwelde edelbow,it twilldisplay ya list of a available fla anges to select from to connec those tw ct wo compone ents. So yo can see t ou there's a lot of modelin and desig t ng gn assistanc cebuiltintothesystemn now. 19. 1 Scrollingdownthelistofrules,h heresonefo orautomaticallyinsertin ng nd lso ting for Bolt Hole Orientation. Th t his bolts, an there's al now sett willdisplayonmode elswhenthe eenhanced modesettin ngisenable ed. So we ha a numb of featur now tha we didn't have befor ave ber res at re, andwhatwe'lldonow,we'llgo obackandw we'llsetsom meofthese in our dialo box. Then we'll take a look at h og n e how they w work when w we startplac cingcompon nents. 20. 2 I'llcloset thehelpdia alogbox,and dletschang gesomeofthesesetting gs. Onthesizerule,set itforshow options.Fo orthespec rule,setitfor showoptionsaswel ll.Thesizeo optionsettingswillgiveu uspromptsto put in re educers whe needed. If we have a size mis en e smatch, it w will promptu ustotransiti ionfromone esizetothenext,andth hesystemw will providec choiceswhensizemismatchesoccur. 21. 2 Theend typerulew willbeleftto oautomatic.Setthepip pelengthru ule toshowoptions.For rtheweldin nsertionrule e,leaveitse ettono.Ifset weldgapsautomatically. toyes,itwillplacew 22. 2 SettheA Automaticga asketruleto oautomatic,anddothe esameforth he automat ticboltsrule easwell.Wewanttoh havethetrim mmedelbow ws and the pipe healing rule both setto auto g omatic. The branch tabl le, rulewilla alsobesett toautomatic c.
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23. 2 Applyfla angeinsertio onruleYe es.Thedefa aultflanget typewillbe ea weldnec ck.Thebolt holesorient tationwon't tcomeinto play,because we'renotgoingtobe eusingenha ancedmode. 24. 2 Setthecenterlineru uletoon.

25. 2 Click App & Close. What we' do in the next video is we'll plac ply 'll ce somecom mponentsand see how t these setting work. gs

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Quick kStartV Video Th hree

1. 1 Inthisvid deo,we'reg goingtoplac cesomepipeandsomecomponent ts. We're us sing a metr template and we have our size set to 1 ric e, 10 inches. S both ma and redu Set ain uced sizes t 10 inches Click pip to s. pe, click a point and dr it out to the right. Notice how the syste rag o w em displaysacompass. 2. 2 Osnapis sturnedon, butnotort thoorotrack.Aswedr ragouttoth he rightwe cantypea numberorj justclick.I'm mgoingtoty ype5000an nd press en nter, and yo can see the pipe g ou gets placed and the lin ne continue es.Thesyste emisrouting gautomatic callyforus. 3. 3 Whatit's sdoinghere e,ifIgostraightup,it's goingtopu uta90degre ee elbowinthecentero ofthecompassdisplayf forme.ButI Icanalsoturn around a it will put a 45 elbow, if I'm at that ang Since th and p gle. he trimmedelbowsettingsruleis alsoturned on,itcant trimanelbo ow formeif fIwant.Ico ouldkeyin anumberhere,anditw woulddraw wa linethatdistanceatanangleof2 22.5degrees.

4. 4 Dragdow wnandletit tdisplaya90 0degreeelb bow,andclic ck.Thentak ke itonouttotheright tandclick.A Atthispoint tthecompassiswheelin ng fthelastelb bow.Sopres ssEnter,and dthepipew will aroundthecornerof extendo outtowherethatwas. 5. 5 Heres so omething ne If we z ew. zoom in on this pipe an we click it, nd we'llseethatthere's sanextragr ripthatdisplays.It'scalle edaplusgri ip. Ifweclic ckontheplusgripand turnitred, itgivesus someoptions wedidnt thavebefor re.
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6. 6 Click on the plus grip. Immediately, it wi show a b g ill branch fittin ng therefor rus.Itdispla aysaTee,an ndit'sdisplay yingadistan ncemeasure ed fromthe eendofthepipetothecenterofth hetee. 7. 7 If you rig ghtclick, yo will have some optio ou ons. You can change th he insertion npointofth hetee.IfIdothat,the insertionpo ointofthete ee willswitc chfromthecentertoo oneoftheen nds.Sonow wthedistanc ce isbeingm measuredto otheend.If fIdoitagain,theinsert tionpointw will shifttot theotheren ndofthetee e.IfIdoita again,thein nsertionpoint willretur rnbacktoth hecenterofthetee. 8. 8 Soyouca anseeweh haveaneasy ywaytoadd dbranchfit ttingsintoour line.Type2500and pressEnter r.Theteege etsplacedit atthatpoin nt. Nextthe esystemgive esanoption nonorienti ingthebran nchofthete ee turnedu upordown.Movethe mousedow wnandClick.Noticeho ow thepipe continueso outofthebranchofthe etee.Again n,there'salot ofassista ancegoingo onhere. 9. 9 Dragstra aightdown andclick,th hendragto therightan ndshiftrigh ht clickandselectperpendicular.C Clickonthepipetoconn nectit. 10. 1 Now som new opt me tions appear There's a lot of inte r. a elligence built intothes software.Theresanop ptiontoplac ceatee,astubin,acros ss, or none. These op . ptions are c coming from the branc table. Th m ch he system c utilize a branch tab and whatever is allowed by th can a ble, he branchtablewillappearinthe listofoptio ons.ClickonTeeforth his branchco onnection. 11. 1 Nextwe llplaceava alveinthem middleofaline.Clickon nagatevalv ve thendoa ashiftright tclickandcl lickmidpoin nt.
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12. 1 Click in the middle of this lin and pre enter to accept that e ne ess o number. The system inserts a valve. It als places flanges on eac m so ch sandgasketsinasneede ed. sideanditputsbolts 13. 1 Crossthr roughtheva alveandclic ckthegripin nthemiddle eofthevalv ve. You can drag it back and forth to position it as neede While th k ed. he hecenterof fthevalveis sred,youc canrightclic ckandchang ge gripinth thejustif ficationpoin ntonthevalve.Sothisg givesyouop ptionsonho ow thesyste emismeasur ringthevalv vesposition. 14. 1 Changet themainsizeto6.Clic ckongatev valveinthe specviewto ool palette. 15. 1 Thesyste empromptstopickapo oint,startor rmiddle,orlastpoint.I'm going to rightclick and select middle. A o t And so now the valve is cominginmiddlejus stified.Hold ddownshif ftkeyandri ightclick,an nd clicknearest.Clickapointalong gtheline.

16. 1 The system prompts for a distance. Type 2,000 and press Ente e d er. Next the system will display s e w some option since th ns, here is a size mismatchbetweent thevalveand dtheline. 17. 1 Rightclic ckandselectkeepcurre entsize. 18. 1 Thenitp promptsforchoicesonhandlingth hefirstend ofthevalv ve. One cho oice is a re educer. Click on that Select th concentr t. he ric standard d.Dothesam meoftheotherend.

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19. 1 Thesyste emplacesr reducers,fla anges,gaske ets,andbolts.Soweca an seethere e'sagreatdealofnewa automationandconsiste encycheckin ng built into this new version. Wh don't you use the in o hy u nformation in theseno otesanddup plicatewhat sbeenshow wn,andthenexplorean nd testouto othernewfe eaturesinth hesoftware? ? 20. 2 If you'd like additional specia alized traini ing of these many ne ew ,pleaseclick konsomeofthelinksonthiswebp pageformore features, information. The tra aining options we'll be offering will continue to eofthetop picswillinclu udeextensiv vetrainingo on getexpanded.Some randaseriesof"What's sNew"vide eos.We'llals so thenew speceditor short CADW Worx 2013 u update course where y you can earn have a s certificat tion.

So thank you fo viewing these quick start video And enj using an or k os. joy nd learn ningmoreab boutthisgre eatnewrele easeofCADW Worx!

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AbouttheAuthor
Anthony Horn has been active in the Houston engineering community since thelate1960s.Hehasdegreesinbothengineeringandarchitecture,andhas doneawidevarietyofdraftinganddesignprojects. Hisschool,theHornDrafting&CADCenter,hastrainedover5000graduates for Houstons industries. His school was the first in Houston to offer computer aided drafting (CAD) to the public in 1982. The school has maintained a reputation for high quality training in AutoCAD operations, withaspecialfocusonPipeDraftingusingCADWorxsoftware. In 1993 Anthony Horn began working for ECAD, Inc., while continuing his schools operations. In the next few years, ECAD, Inc. quickly grew, and became the largest CADWorx software dealer in the world. This opportunity allowed him to see how engineering designers apply CADWorx software to solve everyday problems, and gain an understanding of bestpracticesandhighproductivitytechniques. In2007AnthonyHornwrote,produced,andrecordedtheMasteringCADWorxPlantProfessionalDVDtraining course.ThiscoursehasbecometherecognizedstandardfortrainingmaterialsinlearningCADWorxsoftware. Thecourseincludesover150videorecordingsanda350pageworkbook.AnthonyHornsotherpublications includecopyrightedtrainingcourseswrittenforuseathisHoustonschool,andhewasacontributingauthorto TheCAD/CAMHandbook(McGrawHill,1985)andPipeDrafting&Design(GulfPublishing,1995). In2011AnthonyHorncreatedthehttp://www.PipingDesignOnline.comwebsiteforonlineCADWorxtraining. Thesiteincludescoursesthatstudentscantaketoadvancetheirskillsandearncertificates.Thesitealsocan accommodateprivatetrainingareasandsitelicensesforcompaniesthatwantacustomizedsolutionfortheir inhouseCADWorxtrainingneeds.Sinceitsinception,thistrainingwebsitehastrainedsubscribersfrommore than35countries.

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