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PDS 3D CADD Equipment and Basic Piping Training

Offered by SPED in conjunction with 
Intergraph Corporation and the Houston Community College System

To see the current schedule for the 'live' courses you can jump to the SPEDweb Home page and look under the 'Events' section by clicking here.

This class is the fundamental training a piping designer needs to develop 3D CADD PDS models.

The class is taught by highly experienced 3D designers/supervisors who are currently working in PDS and leading teams of PDS experts for their corporations during the day and teaching these courses at night. The content of this course is the same as the course content of the courses taught at Intergraph headquarters. The same lab exercises, textbooks, and software versions are used. 

Click on the thumbnail picture below and to the right to view an expanded version of the courses that Intergraph recommends a beginning 3D equipment and piping designer take. The Equipment and Piping courses in the diagram are covered by the two SPED courses. Use your browser back arrows to get back to this page.

Contact Bill Beazley or Andrea Macejak from SPED at (832) 286-3404 to sign up for this course!

Key Benefits

The SPED course is offered at night over a six week period at the Houston Community College System. This allows students in the greater Houston, Texas, USA  metropolitan area to attend without disrupting their daytime commitments. The SPED PDS course is the equivalent to the first part of the 2-week series for PDS 3D designers offered at Intergraph's headquarters in Huntsville Alabama, USA.

PDSTraining.gif (16097 bytes)Major Topics

  • Creating equipment from 3D primitives

  • Creating equipment from parametric definitions

  • Equipment modification

  • Data review/revise

  • Nozzle Placement & manipulation

 Recommended Prerequisite Course Training

  • A background in piping or equipment layout is recommended.

  • A basic understanding of Windows and MicroStation is required.  This can be obtained in any of these ways:

    • By attending Windows-NT/MicroStation for PDS 3D Designers (TPDS1103)

    • Via on-the-job experience,

    • By attending vendor classes on Windows NT and MicroStation. Students who do not attend TPDS1003/1103 will be expected to be familiar with the topics covered in that course.

About the Instructor

Klay Smith

Klay has over 15 years of experience with PDS, including all aspects of equipment input and piping input, plus support for PDS 3D's more unusual administrative and batch processes. He has participated in the SPED PDS training program since its inception.

 

 
 

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