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Save Time& MoneyIn the engineering & design business one of the biggest issues is man-hours.

How to get work done quickly and flawlessly is the name of the game. Working

with a host of different programs for Finite element analysis, structural design,

steel detailing, concrete detailing and other disciplines complicates the issue.

Passing data from one program to the other becomes messy and usually a lot of

vital information is lost in the process. COMOSYS is perhaps the only software in

the market which provides advanced finite element analysis, design and detailing

capabilities without switching programs. With its intelligent object oriented design

it provides the platform for superfast modelling and the production of drawings.

Intelligent connections adjust automatically when design revisions are made and

updated drawings are available at the press of a button.

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Finite Element Analysis

Design

Steel Detailing

Formwork Detailing

Rebar Detailing

Cable Tray & Raceways

Mechanical Design & Detailing

Integration with other Programs

GA & Detail Drawings

New GenerationConstruction ModellingTechnology

Integrated 3D modeling environment of COMOSYS does not

only combine analysis, design and detailing stages in single

environment but also enables shop drawings to be produced

automatically. Once the 3D model is ready, 2D drawings such as

plans, sections, elevations, material lists can be created with a

touch of a button. When a revision is made to 3D model, changes

are automatically reflected in 2D drawings. In short, integrated

modeling environment of COMOSYS saves you many man-hours

while increasing the quality of work.

Imagine andBuild!

All in OneSolution

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COMOSYS offers a completely standalone drawing module which doesn’t require

the user to install any AutoCAD or Microstation for it to work. Thus a major portion

of the CAD related investment is saved making the cost benefit ratio of investing in

COMOSYS even more attractive.

Standalone

Drawings produced in COMOSYS do not need to be drawn as done in classical programs. On the contrary once the model is complete all the user needs to do is to define Windows looking into the

model and COMOSYS does the rest. Once the view angle and depth of view and other filters have been defined COMOSYS produces the flattened 2D view automatically saving enormous amounts

of time. Furthermore this view is now linked to the model and any changes occurring there are automatically reflected in the drawings as well. Many drawings like steel shop drawings, single part

drawings and rebar drawings of template based concrete elements are produced entirely automatically while in General arrangement drawings the user is required to enter the dimensions and

annotations manually. However here too the user can benefit for semi-automatic functionality.

Adding Views

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Sections can directly be taken from views already existing on the drawing. This

greatly facilitates the insertion and definition of new views into the drawing. The

views thus created are not only intelligently connected to the model but they are

also intelligently connected to the section symbols. If the user moves the section

symbol the sectional view it is associated with also updates itself.

All drawing views can be filtered in order to see exactly what the user

wants to see on the drawing. Filters can be object type based, or ID

based, or group based or based on other properties of elements like their

materials, disciplines etc. Spatial filters limiting the spatial scope of the

view can also be applied. Furthermore when multidisciplinary drawings are

created and the user wants to emphasize a particular discipline without

completely erasing the others COMOSYS provides very elegant options to

quickly gray out unwanted material.

Taking Sections

Filters

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COMOSYS offers a full range of dimensioning commands like horizontal, vertical, aligned

and angular dimensioning. These dimensions are intelligent objects and do not need to

be redefined according to changing scales as in many CAD programs. This saves an

enormous amount of time. Once the actual size in mm of the dimension is set the user

can change the scales of the view as many times as he wants and the dimensions

automatically adjust. Special dimension options are available for dimensioning levels in

plan and levels in section.

Many fields are available for Frame, plate, bolt and weld type element annotations. COMOSYS automatically finds the best location for the

annotation in such a way that it doesn’t interfere with other elements of the drawing or other annotations. This means that hardly any time

is lost in re-touching the drawings to make them more readable. Most programs require the user to place the annotations manually and if

automatic annotation is used most annotations end up on top of each other which is highly undesirable. COMOSYS solves this problem by

using advanced place finding algorithms.

Dimensions

Frame, Plate, Bolt and weld Annotations

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Five different styles of rebar dimensioning/annotating are available in COMOSYS. Rebars need to be

dimensioned/Annotated in different ways in plan views and differently in sectional views. Furthermore

rebars appearing as dots (sectionally) in sectional views are annotated differently as compared

to rebars appearing as lines. Stirrups and cross ties etc. have their own unique way of being

dimensioned and annotated. COMOSYS provides specialized commands for all these situations.

These annotations too like other annotations in COMOSYS are “self locating” and find places for

themselves in a way that two annotations don’t end up on top of each other.

Rebar Annotations

Material take off commands are available inside the drawing module and the user

can place material take off tables anywhere on the drawing. In many cases these

tables are produced and placed automatically by the program thereby eliminating

any time loss.

Material Take Off

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COMOSYS gives the user the ability to insert special CAD details which may have been too cumbersome to model. Such blocks

can be directly called into the COMOSYS drawing module and automatically adjust themselves according to the scale of the

view. A man imported into a 1/50 view will be scaled to 1/50 and if the view scale is changed this inserted block too will adjust.

Such details can also be inserted into the drawings on a 1:1 scale outside of any view.

Insertion Of Special Cad Details

It is possible in COMOSYS to add text, notes and tables to the drawings. Standard notes which the designer repeatedly uses

or which need minor modifications each time can be read from text files. Furthermore drawing objects like lines, polylines,

rectangles, polygons, circles etc. can be drawn directly into the drawings. However this almost never required since all the actual

drawing is directly coming from the model anyway but it is good to know that the capability exists. The user can also draw revision

cloud symbols very easily.

Adding Notes And Other Cad Objects

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Since the customer may not have a license of COMOSYS he may want us to deliver the

drawing in AutoCAD format. COMOSYS directly exports its drawings in a way which is

readable by AutoCAD. Furthermore such drawings are very well organized and different

layers are used for the various objects thereby allowing the user to easily make any

modifications to the drawing if needed.

Export To Popular Cad Formats

All drawings produced in COMOSYS are accessible via the “Drawings Manager”.

Drawings Manager allows you to store thousands of drawings of different types

under the same model, to create new drawings, to delete or to clone existing ones.

Using advanced filtering options of the manager, you can quickly and easily find

the drawings you want from thousands of drawings. These filtering options are as

listed below:

* Filter by drawing name

* Filter by drawing’s dimensions

* Filter by drawing type (discipline)

* Filter by open/closed status

* Filter by marks in the drawings

* Filter by various flags that can be assigned to drawings

In addition to these, Drawing Manager also provides batch operations. You can

plot or update multiple drawings with a single command or you can freeze your

drawings so that they are not affected by changes in the model. If you want to

export multiple drawings to DXF files with batch operations, that is also possible.

Drawing Manager

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* Steel Shop drawings (Assembly drawings) (Both “Separate” and “Multi” format)

* Steel single part drawings

* Concrete rebar template drawings

* Tank detail drawings

Are produced completely automatically by COMOSYS at the press of a button. All the user needs to do

is save the drawing production parameters once and all workers can then use these settings again and

again in different projects. Furthermore COMOSYS allows the user to save different drawing settings for

different assembly marks. For instance the user may want the column drawings to be of a different scale

than other drawings. This feature saves time as the production of drawings can be done in one go rather

than group by group. The speed of drawing production is of the order of a few hundred drawings in less

than an hour so once the model is finished it basically means that the drawings have also been completed.

Multi drawings are also created very efficiently and COMOSYS directly uses advanced space optimization

techniques to make sure the multi drawing is not too sparse.

Automatically Produced Drawings

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* Steel General Arrangement drawings

* Concrete Formwork drawings

Etc. have to be produced manually. However this should not be confused

with classical 2D drawing production. Even here the user can produce

up to 10-15 drawings in a single day using the extremely efficient tools

provided inside the drawing module. Automatic dimensioning and

annotation of views is also available.

Manually Produced Drawings

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Model and Data TransferCOMOSYS supports many different file formats for importing and exporting data and can transfer data to

and from popular CAD and engineering software.

COMOSYS provides following data exchange options for structural analysis:

* SAP2000: You can export finite element model of the structures you modelled in

COMOSYS to SAP2000. Every object that contains structural analysis information such as frame

elements, plate and shell elements, springs, rigid diaphragms and other types of

constraints, all kinds of loads can be exported.

* SAFE: Column support reactions can be exported to SAFE as superstructure

loads to be used in foundation analysis.

* Additionally, finite element models from Staad.Pro analysis software and column support

reactions from Probina Orion column forces file can be imported to COMOSYS.

Structural Analysis

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Geometric information represents 2 or 3 dimensional shape data. In this context, all kinds of 2 dimensional

drawing entities (including text) and 3 dimensional model objects can be exported from COMOSYS to

other CAD software or from these software to COMOSYS using following data exchange file formats:

* For exporting data from COMOSYS to other CAD software:

- DXF: 2 or 3 dimensional geometric information can be written into a file in DXF format. As

being one of the most popular data formats for geometric information, DXF export option allows you to

export COMOSYS models to virtually any CAD software (AutoCAD, BrixCAD, Solids Works, etc.) It is also

possible to export 2D drawings (i.e. engineering drawings and shop drawings).

- STL: This file format is used for 3D solid models. Using this file format, you can export data

to various CAD/CAM programs such as SolidWorks or CATIA.

- CEF (COMOSYS Export File): This file format is COMOSYS’ own data exchange format.

In addition to 3D geometry data, extra information about various disciplines and objects are included.

Using CEF, you can export COMOSYS models to VIMASYS, which is a BIM software. (CEF fformat is also

used for exporting 3D geometric data to AVEVA PDMS. See PDMS section for detailed information.)

Geometric Information

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Some data exchange formats for structural steel model carries extra information such as material grade, profile name

and type, weld and bolt information. Therefore, it is possible to import and export models without data loss between

software supporting these data exchange formats.

* SDNF: 3D steel models along with steel related data can be exchanged between COMOSYS and steel detailing and/

or modeling software (e.g. TEKLA Structures or Autodesk Revit). This exchange is bidirectional. That is, you import into

or export from COMOSYS.

* CEF: Using this file format, objects that belong to structural steel discipline can be exchange between COMOSYS and

AVEVA PDMS. See PDMS section for more detailed information.

Structural Steel

Other Steel Detailing Software

COMOSYS

Piping discipline objects such as pipes, flanges, valves, etc. can be

imported from Bently AutoPLANT and Intergraph CADWorx software

into COMOSYS models using PXF and PMF data formats, respectively.

Piping

* For importing data from other CAD software in to COMOSYS:

- DXF: Using this format, you can import 2D drawings and 3D models into a

COMOSYS model from AutoCAD or almost any other CAD software. Additionally, 2D drawings

can also be imported into COMOSYS shop drawing files.

- DWG: For some 3D object types that are not exported in open format by AutoCAD,

COMOSYS also allows you to import DWG files into COMOSYS models.

- STL: Used for importing 3D models (such as equipment models) from 3D solid

modeling software.

- CEF: You can import models from VIMASYS into COMOSYS using this file

format. (This file format is also supported by AVEVA PDMS. See PDMS section for detailed

information.)

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COMOSYS provides advanced data exchange capabilities for exporting to and importing from AVEVA

PDMS, which has become de-facto standard software in plant design and management industry.

CEF: Data exchange between PDMS and COMOSYS is done using COMOSYS’ own data exchange format

CEF. This is accomplished with the help of a specially developed extension module that plugs into PDMS.

Intelligent Objects: Many different types of objects are supported for data exchange between COMOSYS and

PDMS. What is important; however, is that: these objects do not only contain 3D geometry information but also

carry additional information related to structural, mechanical, or electrical equipment that they represent. As a

result of this, objects do not loose functionality when copied from one software to another. For instance, when a

cable tray object is exported from PDMS to COMOSYS, it is steel represented as a cable tray object, and retains

related object parameters. This intelligent data exchange includes following class of objects:

* Structural steel members: Objects that belong to structural steel discipline, such as profiles,

plates, bolts, welds.

* Piping members: Objects that belong to piping discipline such as pipes, flanges, elbows, valves.

* Cable trays and raceways. Simple trays, T connections, vertical and horizontal elbows, etc.

* Various mechanical equipment

Data Exchange with PDMS

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