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Gaining the AVEVA
Bocad Advantage
How a progressive
deployment of AVEVA
Bocad has delivered
benefits for Dragados
Offshore S.A.
Previously, Dragados Offshore had been using AutoCAD for In addition, AVEVA Bocad saves time and eliminates many
2D and AVEVA PDMS™ for 3D work. A survey of steel detailing sources of errors by automatically generating high-quality,
solutions led them to AVEVA Bocad, which stood out, not only detailed deliverables that require very little subsequent editing,
for its best-in-class specialised capabilities, but also for being if any. Importantly for Dragados, it also offers highly productive
open and customisable. As an existing user of PDMS, Dragados capabilities for efficiently designing specialised structures such
Offshore was naturally very interested in the potential for as offshore platforms.
integrating the two solutions.
In the contracting business, tendering involves being able to
The type of complex, high-risk projects in which Dragados demonstrate the necessary capabilities. AVEVA Bocad’s support
Offshore specialises require complete real-time association for complex geometry eases the process of the first stages of
between the 3D model and its 2D deliverables, so that accuracy structural design, allowing Dragados Offshore to respond faster
is ensured throughout the design and fabrication workflow. in the market.
AVEVA Bocad not only maintains such an association, but also
enables designers to use either the 3D or the 2D design views As a result of in-depth research and collaboration between
when editing a design. AVEVA and Dragados, AVEVA Bocad also incorporates valuable
features for fabrication quality assurance, such as the treatment
of welds as tagged objects instead of manual drawing
Below: Vega Pleyade EPC project for Total – full 3D structural detail design. annotations, and the automatic creation of optimised weld
Image courtesy of Dragados Offshore S.A. preparations on even the most complex joints.
Above: The mariner jacket EPC contract for Statoil. The top view of the modelled pile cluster is shown alongside the fabricated pile cluster. Images courtesy of
Dragados Offshore S.A.
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