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How is Edgewise working for you?

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Hello all!

I have been lurking on this forum for a short time now and finally decided to post my own thread! We have been scanning with out FARO Focus 3D Laser Scanner for about three years now and have been using ClearEdge3D for about two of those years. Currently, we are using the BIM Suite package for our projects. This software has worked for us but we have yet to dive in to full scan modeling. I am looking at potentially investing in the Plant software as well for a little better pipe extraction and the ability to add items such as flanges, tee's, elbows, ect.

I wanted to know how all of you like this software and how you think it rates against others? Also, how well is your workflow going with said software?
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Re: How is Edgewise working for you?

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Welcome to the forum Branden :D

I don't use Edgewise but I know there are some users on the Forum that will share their experiences.
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Hey Branden,

I'm replying to bump this request to the top. Happy to put you in touch with some Plant Suite customers who are currently using it if you like.

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Branden,

We have received excellent feedback from EdgeWise Plant Suite users. If you like, we can certainly put you in touch with a few to share their experience
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Post by Majid_noori »

Hi,

I had a chance to work with Edgewise Plant on a trail version, i would like to share my experience by comparing it to Cyclone.

Advantages:
For pipe modeling it is ~3 times faster than Cyclone.

Changing elbow radius is very simple and efficient in Cyclone it is difficult

Steal Structure, very fast and easy to use even you done need to clean the flying points around the steal and clear edge does a grate job.

Quality check is very well designed.

Weak points:

The clipping box is a bit slow to work with

i didn't find a way to scale the steel fitted to point cloud so Steel structure modeling of non-standard ibeams it was impossible for to use it.

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Branden,

We have used both Edgewise Plant and Edgewise Structure with great results. We had a project that started one year ago that included scanning and modeling all objects 1" and above for two full units at a chemical plant.

To give you an idea, the project size was over 40,000ft2, included 604 scan positions (Faro S120), 10,000 pipe runs and about 108,000 extracted cylinders.

We used Plant to extract all the piping, including conduit. We used the product to add all the valves and flanges as well with great success.

In regards to structural, no one will beat Edgewise Structure with extraction speed and accuracy. On the same project we were able to extract all the structural members, pipe supports etc. with ease.

We will be starting a project in about a month to extract all the piping for another chemical plant, export all the Edgewise solids out (.pcf) and import them into CadWorx. Our final deliverable will be an intelligent 3D piping model and 2D isometric drawings.

To date, we have over 2000 man hours using both of these products.

If you have any specific questions, you can send me an email at: [email protected].
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Re: How is Edgewise working for you?

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Hi Majid,

Thanks for your thoughtful assessment of EdgeWise. The clipping box is definitely a weak point--look for a completely revamped clipping box in early 2015.

On the non-standard steel issue...you can easily import a custom standard or create your own standard using our standards editor. Once the custom standard is completed, the software will best-fit structural members to the point cloud using the that standard, if you specify it. One of my support guys can walk you through how to do that if you need help.

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I have heard mixed reviews... mostly from people who dont model for a living and want to skip that trouble altogether. I am hopefully going to get a trial started soon to see how it has improved.

I saw Scott's presentation in Spar 2012 and thought it was awesome. Just the fact that the CEO is someone who is deeply interested and passionate about machine vision and learning... that to me is the greatest selling point even if the stuff doesn't work great yet. Plus the alternatives are so backwards and intrenched that Edgewise feels like the only game in town that is taking on the heavy lifting of creating real IP. Seriously, who else gets NSF grants!
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Post by Branden_Bowie »

Wow thanks for all of the responses!

As soon as I get a moment I plan on testing the trial version of Plant with a small marketing project. The only concern I have with Plant is how it will crossover in to Revit. Do the flanges, tee's, ect. carry over in to Revit like the BIM Suite does?

I too have had a difficult time extracting non-standard structural steel.

I will post again once I have taken Plant for a spin!
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We've used Edgewise Plant quite a bit, the automated pipe extraction and the steel tools are INVALUABLE time savers. It's sped up our workflow by leaps and bounds. Also yes, I do believe that the catalog items transfer into Revit libraries.
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