Recently due to increased hacker awareness, the page link for the downloads for CADWorx 2010 has changed. We want to make sure CADWorx users are aware of this change.
As always you can go to www.coade.com and visit the downloads page:
But if you want to bookmark the links, here they are:
Download a fresh version of CADWorx:
http://www.coade.com/uploads/cadworx/2010dl/index2010f.htm
Download an update for 2010:
Over last few months, everyone has been wondering (myself included)—how is Intergraph purchasing CADWorx going to affect us? On the forums, we have heard views from “It’s the end of the world!” to “the greatest thing since sliced bread.” But alas, we can’t know the future until we get there (unless you’re from the future of course).
Part of my duties here at ECAD include testing the developing product so that you (the users) don’t have to lose design time. I do my best to take the input I receive and present to the developers as topics come up. Since I have been involved in beta testing for the last few years, I have gotten to know the developers and the process. Over the last month, we have been testing on the new products coming in September (approximately). Intergraph buying CADWorx has enabled the development to communicate more with the users.
By users in this case, I’m referring to testers. Intergraph has a programming process (AGILE)they use, along with programs that have kinds of bells and whistles for writing code. Since CADWorx began using AGILE, development has gotten broken up into month-long chunks (called a sprint). During a sprint, the developers take a list of features and write them so that at the end of the month, we can review the feature and give input on how it works. This process will repeat cyclically until the new release is ready.
Why should this matter to you? We recently finished up 2 sprint cycles, one for the CADWorx team, and one for the NG team. Word of warning, what you read next may seem like hyperbole, but the statements are the truth. On the NG side, we have seen awesome improvements in routing pipe, placing valves with the flanges coming in automatically, placing valves on the fly by dimensions off of other components, changing size/spec by selection, moving components down a line by grips, and more.
This last month the CADWorx team is working on some big new features too! Remember all that time spent tracking down breaks, overlaps, and duplicates for ISOGEN? No more! A ContinuityView palette is headed our way and looks incredible.
Rumor has it that the ribbons are now moving into the product, and HVAC gets data files.
So in my mind, CADWorx 2011 is shaping up to be the best release ever!
*No statement concerning the release date or features to be included is a guarantee, or should be taken as such. It’s all still up in the air.
I wanted to take a minute to show how to make sure you are up to date on the latest CADWorx software.
Enter CADWORXABOUT at the command line, and you will get this dialog. Then click the Check for Updates button.
Update: Per the comments, at times you may not be able to get the latest build by clicking the update button. Here’s a link to send an email requesting the latest build for CADWorx.
Email CADWorx for latest update
We’ll do our best to keep you informed of the changes that we know about.
To that end here’s our list of the 3-30 update:
1. Compatibility with AutoCAD 2011.
2. Fix spec editing crash for Windows 7, 64-bit.
3. Fix Eccentric reducer crash. Ricky Medley nailed down the problem here:
“Basically, any setup in which a viewport is looking “down the barrel” of the eccentric reducer when placed in another viewport will cause the missing integer error.
Start a drawing, and set a split viewport in model space with one in top view, and the other set to right or left view. Place a eccentric reducer into the top view. Save the drawing, and re-open the drawing. The missing integer error will occur, and the drawing appears corrupted.
The ucs does not have to be set to the same view as right or left.
Placement in the right or left viewport will not generate the error.
The above scenario can be changed; Again copying the reducer into a drawing that “looks down the barrel” of the eccentric reducer does not produce an error.
This error only occurs when running CADWorx 2010 (Sept. release) on AutoCAD 2010.
I installed CADWorx 2010 (July release) on AutoCAD 2010, and the error did not occur.
Interestingly enough, the error did not occur when installing CADWorx 2010 (Sept. release) on AutoCAD 2009.
If the eccentric reducer is copied into the drawing in any viewport there is no corruption.”
It turns out, that AutoCAD generates the error, but the CADWorx guys were able to come up with a workaround in their development.
4. P&ID project creation crash for Windows 7, 64-bit. This particular issue came up with a client.
5. Steel generic attached double-click broken. Though working in the 3-3 release, the 3-25 release had a bug which is now fixed in the 3-30 release. Stellar help by CADWorx as I notified them of this problem on 3-30 and the fix was posted the same day!
6. COADE logo changed to Intergraph.
Again, we will try to stay on top of the fixes and post about the updates here! If you’d like to contribute, Contact Us to tell us what bug COADE fixed for you that was included in the release.
We have exciting news for everyone. Today we are releasing the CADWorx Properties palette by ECAD! Here’s is the other half of the good news…it’s FREE! Once again, to download all you have to do is register with our site and then access the downloads page.
We have a video that walks through installation and usage, and the installer includes a readme with details about the product.
We developed this tool to give access to CADWorx information to people without CADWorx, as we know that a lot of design is interfaced with other AutoCAD products, like AutoCAD MEP or Civil 3D.
Obviously, we are not going to make any guarantees with this code. But since it’s free, you’re welcome to give feedback and we will post fixes ASAP. Contact us using the Contact Us page. Enjoy!
Here are some screen shots.
This one was pretty exciting to me. For those of us that have spent anytime trying to work with the symbol editor for ISOGEN, we all know the pain that IS the symbol editor for ISOGEN. Along comes a new hire in the Houston office of ECAD. Matthew Peters shows up, is given the task of taking learning ISOGEN, then writes this after spending about 2 weeks with the software. These are the people that A: make me sick 
and B: I’m VERY glad are on my team, and YOURS! He’s made putting good looking supports, shoes, etc… into ISOGEN an easy step by step. This document should go with the rest of your ISOGEN Bible that I know all of you have saved around there somewhere.
Here’s a couple of screen caps from the document.
You can download the file here ISOGEN Symbol Editor pdf
With any luck we can hope for more of this great work from Matthew in the future.
KP
Kyle Pope
Nozzles in ISOGEN
A small trick, that some might not know about getting Nozzle information into ISOGEN. Sometimes, we run into those pieces of equipment that just don’t fit the mold for what our Equipment module can do for us, or we get packaged equipment from a vendor with a good enough model to use in ours. That happens. This doesn’t mean however that we can’t get the equipment and nozzle info into ISOGEN.
If you have to use something other than CADWorx Equipment to make your equipment, make sure to use Long Weldneck (LWN) flanges for the nozzles. Once you’ve inserted the LWN in, do a component edit, and go to the TAG field. Type in your equipment name and nozzle number there. Isogen will then recognize what you are trying to do and make it into a nozzle for you on your ISO’s.
