[Jayson Murdock]

Excellent resource! I hope you can keep updating it.

[Jayson Murdock]

We use laser scanning to some degree on almost every job we do working for Teck Metals. Trying to do anything on a brownfield site that’s been in operation for over 100 years without a serious amount of field time is nearly impossible. As Teck is divided into many different business units there are some customers who fully embraces the use of LS’s and others who still seem to think it’s some sort of black magic art that holds no value.

Our jobs can still be done w/o the LS but the cost of site visits and rework for unknowns that weren’t visible could be big cost adders to the project.

This past year we’ve been sending our scanners all across Canada and the US for some pretty major clients/jobs, from what we’ve hear they’re all happy with the results.

[Jayson Murdock]

Great article Mark!

Head Spelunker Report:

I have spent the better part of this year coordinating an overall U/G site drawing for a new AP that Teck is set to build in 2017. We’ve had to dig thru the archives (late 1800’s-1980’s), ask for survey after survey, watch them excavate and find things that were never documented and apply some of the best guess work we could. Sometimes its felt like I’m just spinning my wheels and remodeling, re-cutting and revising the same 10 dwgs over & over again.

Biggest part was the relocation of 3 existing lines: 14″ Wastewater, 4″ Effluent and 6″ Sanity sewer (all pumped) that shared the same trench and just happened to run directly under where the new converter was set to go. Those 3 lines ran almost 2km crossed above & below a boatload of other services and had to be tied in to the new location in a 12hr shut down – no exceptions.

Tie-In’s were successful and the construction team has been more than happy with what we’ve done and outside of a few things the contractor took upon themselves to change it’s been pretty smooth!

I’ll be happy to crawl above ground to see the light of day and resume fighting for space on already overloaded racks of varying integrity LOL

[Jayson Murdock]

LOL @ Seeing Mario & Luigi running around in Navisworks models!

[Jayson Murdock]

So I see the post count and for some reason they’re skipping a number and I don’t see any replies from JOP – He’s not blocked so what happened?

Missing 8995, 8997, 9001-9003.

[Jayson Murdock]

If your company uses AVEVA at all then I would suggest looking into AVEVA PID. It’s a little cumbersome at 1st but once you get rolling it keeps up quite well in change management between the model and PID’s. As well you can tie in E&I elements.

[Jayson Murdock]

Everywhere I’ve worked its always been the same…

We’re too busy to do training. It’s to slow, there is no budget for training.

[Jayson Murdock]

MAN! I wish I was still a bit closer… Almost.

[Jayson Murdock]

Can anybody advise on a good chat room for a piping designer website? I’d like to make my website more popular. Somebody gave me a link to RumbleTalk and c-box. It is mobile friendly but lack of 3rd party user integration is the problem. Maybe someone knows other sites, something that integrates 3rd party users?

[Jayson Murdock]

Here’s some pretty good info as well. It’s a bit dated (2003) but unless something major has changed in Albertica most of it should be still current.

Questions like these I must say sure do make me miss working Oil & Gas.

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[Jayson Murdock]

PDMS allows the user to UNDO and REDO commands in DESIGN and DRAFT.

Only since V11.6, and it rarely works as a true “undo” in anything but the MODELEDITOR in DESIGN. I have not had much experience with its use in DRAFT but I have seen it completely UNDO a whole session for one user in DESIGN, not just the last command.

PDMS as with any of the popular 3D modeling programs has its faults and weakness’. I have only ever known PDMS as my last 2 positions have required its use and the firm before could barely issue a P&ID let alone step into the realm of 3D design.

I find PDMS to be very quirky, backwards in progress and yet other times I feel that it’s made my job so simple my 7yr old son could probably keep up with me given the proper training & guidance

[Jayson Murdock]

We have both!

You have the choice to draw it with or without the hatching! The person who told me I was in the wrong is from another office and is here checking for our current project.

Up till this point I have only been working on/in the Mechanical Dept so I haven’t had to search out other dept standards.
I just tracked down the CAD Standards for Piping and low & behold I was right!

I know it’s petty to say the least but when the design lead is telling me this is how he wants it shown and then the checker is telling me I’m wrong and IT’S ONLY used for a cross section of a solid shaft and NOT our company standard I had to question it.

[Jayson Murdock]

Here is the AUGI Salary Survey for 2011.

http://www.augi.com/images/uploads/surv … ey2011.pdf

[Jayson Murdock]

*10D* on risers for typical utility PIGS is the standard for pipeline operations but I have also seen task specific PIGS that can articulate around a 90.

I have a great memory, it’s just short!

[Jayson Murdock]

Kindly use search utility on this forum to get the answer…..as I remember it is already covered in the PAST.

PLS READ BEFORE YOU POST…

The same could be said to you and the MANY of the questions you have asked that have been answered before.

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