Streamlining Industrial Workflows with Advanced CAD Validation

Client Name
Intrida

Intrida

  • Languages

    JavaScript, PHP, C++, C#

  • SDKs Used

    HOOPS Communicator, HOOPS Exchange, HOOPS Publish

  • Location

    USA

  • Domain

    CAD Visualization and Compare

Clients Overview

Intrida specializes in developing engineering data integration solutions that harness the intelligence of technical data. Their solutions are designed to improve industrial project efficiencies, foster confidence in design workflows, and streamline cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Project Overview

In industrial plant construction, teams across departments—electrical, fabrication, piping, and more—collaborate on creating and refining 1D, 2D, and 3D designs. Each department’s design versions must undergo meticulous validation to ensure no critical entities or attributes are missing, and that all attribute values fall within acceptable ranges. To address this challenge, Intrida sought a tool capable of:

  • Importing, visualizing, and comparing diverse design formats.
  • Flagging errors and warnings to facilitate iterative improvements.
  • Offering intuitive overviews of check history through visual representations.

Challenges

  1. Format Diversity: Importing and retrieving data from various formats, including 1D, 2D, and 3D designs.
  2. Data Visualization: Effectively visualize data in all three dimensions to ensure clarity and usability.
  3. Rule Validation: Running comprehensive comparison checks to validate design adherence to predefined rules.
  4. Insightful Reporting: Displaying validation results through user-friendly chart formats to enhance decision-making.

Solutions

  1. Advanced-Data Import and Visualization:
    • Integrated HOOPS  Exchange and HOOPS  Communicator to seamlessly import and visualize 2D and 3D CAD formats.
    • Utilized Excel for intuitive visualization of 1D data.
  2. Automated Rule Validation:
    • Developed a flexible framework to define comparison rules in XML.
    • Automated checks based on these rules to flag discrepancies, ensuring compliance with design standards.
  3. Versioned Validation History:
    • Implemented a system to maintain a versioned history of validation checks.
    • Enabled tracking of error resolutions, offering clear insights into project progress.
  4. Insightful Visualization:
    • Designed chart-based representations of check history, providing stakeholders with actionable insights at a glance.

Benefits

  • Streamline Collaboration: Teams could now seamlessly share and validate design iterations across departments.
  • Enhance Accuracy: Automated validation minimized manual errors and ensured adherence to design standards.
  • Improve Efficiency: Intuitive visualization and insightful reporting significantly accelerated decision-making processes.
  • Track Progress: Versioned histories highlighted improvements over time, fostering confidence in the design workflow.

“We had presented a very challenging set of objectives requiring intricate engineering processes. This was expertly handled by ProtoTech Solutions, with a high degree of technology expertise, a deep understanding of product requirements, and excellent communications. This has naturally led to a perfect partnership which we are very proud of. Many thanks to ProtoTech Solutions!”

Henry Uyeme

CEO, Intrida

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