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DESIGN & PLANNING BUS OR VIEW Computer Aided Design (CAD) and project planning programs can make your business a lot more efficient. Richard Krabbendam* describes how they can be used in the transport and rigging industry. n today’s office the typewriter has been replaced by the Personal Computer (PC) equipped with word processing programs .such as Word or WordPerfect. In engineet- Ing departments we are moving a litle slower. ‘The conventional drawing board is stil widely used andalthouggh ts replacement is avallable in the form of a PC with a CAD (Computer Aided Design) program, thelr use isnot neatly as wide: spread as word processors. This is probably because it took the software houses longer to levelop user friendly drawing programs, and ‘also because the market for CAD systems is ‘much smaller than for word processors. However, when you start to use a CAD pro- ‘gram you will ask yourself; why didn't I start thisearler? Just to list few advantages of a CAD system: © Easy copy, paste, modify, insert functions. @ Nore accurate drawings. © Easy scaling of drawings. Easy use of standard drawings. Easy printing of drawings on various scales Most projects today require detailed trans- port and rigging studies, and a CAD drawing program is an keal tool to prepare them. This is particularly true ofthe transport and rigging Industry where we use the same basic plant items again and again, We only have to set up a Ubrary of standard drawings of all these tools (alles, cranes, ting blocks, spreader and Hitting beams etc). ‘A good example of what Is possible was sven during the recent CICB (Crane Inspection Certification Bureau) Conference in Las Vegas. Fred Dickinson of Irving Equipment described hhow they have used a CAD program to provide a side view, top view and threedimensional view of a project simultaneously on the same screen (See also ‘Site Report Inside Job” September 1993, p28 fora fal report). The crane TRANSPORT & ERECTION SCHEDULE OF PRESSURE VESSEL Ti ec eld ied ‘a Ooms Tee ake ad ae ard eee ing tea “sil eed 0 [rani Tel eae) aia ot aenconaer [Si sata mains aC + "Tecapoteoan Ronipad spurt | “ah) on 18-42.68 13:0] "Hon 18-13:54 17.25] ee ee eed [ore Sassou Gras 9] Langit tease vessel on dais | Sh] Wan 1312641] Twas]

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