 PDS 3D CADD Advanced Piping Training
Offered by SPED in conjunction with
Intergraph Corporation and the
Houston Community College System
This
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 to the right to view an expanded version of
the courses that Intergraph recommends for a beginning 3D equipment and piping
designer to 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.
 Key Benefits
This course is intended for the piping designer, who will use PDS 3D to
create piping models. The course focuses on the PDS software module for
piping (PD Design). We recommend
that piping group leaders attend this course as well, to understand the
system’s capabilities.
Major Topics
- PDS overview
- Routing piping centerlines
- Placing piping and piping components
- Placing piping assemblies
- Placing specialty and instrument items
- Revising and reconstructing models
Prerequisite Course Training
Although this course for PDS 3D designers will
get a new PDS user started in the PDS environment, it should not be considered a
direct substitute for MicroStation training. It is highly recommended that
designers shall have completed a 3D MicroStation course prior to beginning this
PDS course.
- A background in piping is strongly recommended.
- A basic understanding of Windows and MicroStation is
required. This can be obtained
in any of these ways:
- By attending a Houston Community College System course on MicroStation.
- By attending Windows-NT/MicroStation Use for PDS 3D
Designers (TPDS1103)
- Via on-the-job experience comparable to the above,
- By attending vendor classes on
Windows NT and MicroStation. Students
who do not attend TPDS1103 will be
expected to be familiar with all topics covered in that course.
About the Instructors
 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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