Enhancing safety through innovative 3D design technology
Company Announcement - Safety in the engineering environment is increasingly being improved through the use of innovative 3D design. The application of visual aids is contributing to the reduction of project construction and safety risks, while assisting engineers to comply with client and international standards. Innovative intelligent 3D design software is enabling the production of higher quality and improved designs with significantly better accuracy. In addition, the imbedded metadata can efficiently deliver an accurate bill of materials. Standards such as the NRS and SANS are now embedded into the symbols themselves to ensure high standards are utilised throughout the designs.
The flexibility of the latest design software can be utilised to accommodate various customer needs with reference to templates used or material descriptions. (Fig 1) As well as improving the quality of designs, the developments in 3D software are also proving to be the means to achieve significant gains in productivity, through the clever data link imbedded into the symbols, giving the symbol properties such as size, weight of material, grouping of voltages and current capacity, restriction of proximity of other equipment, associated pairing of other equipment and many more.
The potential for 3D design, combined with intelligent design software, is well illustrated by Aurecon’s highly efficient substation designs, which have come a long way from the old 2D designs for engineering works.
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