Cadmium
Equipment 3D modelling
From vendor GA to plant-ready model.
Every item of equipment arrives as a vendor GA, and someone has to model it. Cadmium reads the GA and builds the 3D equipment, with nozzles where the vendor put them.
Vendor GA indrawings and datasheets, native or scanned
Connectable nozzleswith size, rating and orientation, ready for piping
Your design toolPlant 3D, E3D, S3D, SolidWorks, or neutral STEP and IGES
Deliverables
What changes on the job.
| Task | Today | With Cadmium |
|---|---|---|
| Vessels and drums | Modelled by hand from vendor PDFs | Built from the vendor GA |
| Exchangers, pumps and packages | Placeholder blocks until late in the job | Accurate envelopes from the first vendor issue |
| Nozzles | Typed in from the schedule, then checked | Size, rating and orientation read from the drawing |
| Vendor revisions | Compared and remodelled by hand | Differences found, model updated |
| Delivery | Rebuilt for each design tool | Plant 3D, E3D, S3D, SolidWorks, STEP or IGES |
Pilot
Start with one line, one sheet or one area.
Bring real project data under NDA. We run it with your team, on your templates, so your engineers can judge the output against their own work.
- ScopePick a representative sample with your lead engineer.
- RunWe run it on your template and standards.
- CompareYour team checks the output against the manual result.