Aveva Releases Powerful New 3d Design Transfer Solution

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MEDIA RELEASE PR37849


AVEVA Releases Powerful New 3D Design Transfer Solution


CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --


    AVEVA (LSE:AVV) announces the release of AVEVA Mechanical Equipment

Interface, a powerful solution to the problem of transferring 3D models

between incompatible design systems.


    Until now, solutions for transferring design between different 3D CAD

systems have proved to be inadequate in various ways and have not achieved

the necessary high levels of usability or industry support. Recently,

however, a neutral format has been adopted - STEP AP203 - which does offer an

effective means of 3D design transfer and is now achieving widespread

industry acceptance. AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface has been developed

to employ the AP203 protocol and provides a plant or ship designer with a

robust and efficient tool for importing into AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Outfitting

accurate 3D models of suppliers' equipment items.


    Commenting on this important new release, Bruce Douglas, AVEVA Vice

President Product and Marketing Strategy, said:


    'The inability to easily share data between computer systems has long

been a barrier to exploiting the full value of engineering information and to

effective collaboration on complex projects. AVEVA is committed to the

removal of such barriers and plays a leading role in the development,

promotion and use of open standards for data interoperability.'


    'AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface is further confirmation of this

continuing commitment and our equal commitment to providing customers with

ever-increasing value from their use of AVEVA solutions. This new product

will make the practicing designer's work a lot easier and provide measurable

business benefits in project cost, timescale and quality.'


    A number of customers in the marine, power and mining industries worked

closely with AVEVA during the development of this new product and have

already reported up to 60% reduction in man-hours compared with their

previous practice of re-creating equipment models from scratch in AVEVA PDMS.


    AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface is available for immediate

deployment in an AVEVA Plant or AVEVA Marine environment, and is appropriate

for the Power, Marine, Mining, Mineral Processing, Pulp and Paper,

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing sectors.


    About AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface


    Equipment suppliers can export 3D models from the principal MCAD systems

in STEP AP203 format. Using AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface, a designer

can import these fully-detailed models into AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Outfitting,

where they can be manipulated like any native PDMS or Outfitting objects.

This avoids the need for laborious and error-prone workarounds, such as

manually re-creating an equipment model in PDMS/Outfitting. Now the full

design value already created by the equipment supplier can be exploited by

the PDMS/Outfitting designer to create better-quality plant or vessel designs

more quickly.

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    AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface provides facilities for simplifying

the display of an imported model for more efficient working while creating

the overall design, and for exporting selected parts of a PDMS or Outfitting

model to third-party 3D design applications which support AP203 import.


    More information about AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface and other




    About AVEVA


    AVEVA is a leading supplier of engineering and design software to the

plant and marine industries. For more information about AVEVA, please visit



    

    For further information, please contact:

    Alison Patey

    Marketing Communications Manager

    AVEVA Corporate

    Tel: +44-1223-556653

    alison.patey@aveva.com


SOURCE: Aveva Group plc


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