Draftech services

The advent of plant design software has brought great benefits to engineers and designers responsible for those tasks. We’re seeing true, quantifiable, improvements in the way we design and build industrial plants.

The image of the General Motors drafter, in suit, tie, and coke bottle glasses, hunched over his drafting board, preparing a 3D cutaway of a V8 engine (in ink!) is now relegated to a display case in an industrial museum. How did we ever get things done? The advent of reliable 3D modeling software has revolutionized the way we design most everything. Now, one designer can produce in a day what once took a whole department full of drafters and designers a week! However, there are still issues. To effectively utilize the advantages of 3D modeling software, we need highly trained, experienced technicians. Parts, weldments, sub-assemblies and assemblies are connected parametrically in ways that makes proper development of those models imperative for smooth workflow through the various shops, manufacturers, and assembly lines. Anyone with any experience in large assemblies knows that a manufacturing neophyte can wipe out the productivity gains that we expect from our software.