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EPLANT, an AutoCAD based plant modeling software, is worth considering as a very effective alternative to other costly well known modeling software like PDS, PDMS, Autoplant, Cadworx etc. Main aspect of consideration for EPLANT is its amazingly low price without sacrificing any major feature offered by other competitors. Price is the root aspect, which prevents organizations to make a decision regarding buying and regularly using modeling software, although its obvious benefits are well known to most of the plant engineers and cad persons. Vigorous and tactical marketing techniques of high cost fancied modeling software companies makes it difficult for equally good low cost software like EPLANT to reach ambit of decision makers.

It needs open mind and in-depth evaluation to asses the power of EPLANT vis-à-vis other high cost completive software. For information, price of one EPLANT piping module license, which includes equipment also, cost very close to only one AutoCAD license. Hence it is very relevant for the present and would be users of plant modelers to actively take a close look at EPLANT and evaluate the software in an unbiased manner. Let us now review some of the sharp features of EPLANT piping module.

One of the crowning features of EPLANT is its exceptionally small drawing file size, which contains all model information. This definitely beats other competitors hands down. Most of the other software consumes lot of disk space for the drawing file and to avoid file corruption many competitor software compels to divides the project in many small files and then combine them in messy manner. EPLANT can accommodate many lines and equipment in one file without any problem whatsoever. So, using even cheaper computers, EPLANT can give satisfactory output.

Ease of operation and simplicity is the focal point of EPLANT’s specialty. There is no point in making propaganda, but worth giving a try using the free demo. Without going into minute details, one aspect of EPLANT regarding line routing is worth noting. Well there are center line routers in other software as well, but EPLANT line router helps to route the line by providing x/y/z distances in an editable panel to the next point picked/clicked. Then auto generation provides facilities to automatically place elbow, flange and pipes, which many competitors provide only pipe generation. Those two features in combination accelerate the modeling work to a great extent.

Many modeling software companies force users to buy piping and equipment module separately and to spend more money. But EPLANT combines them in piping module, which saves money, disk space and modeling complications like attaching many files etc.

Most of the modeling software sells clash-check module separately and again forcing users to spend more money. But for EPLANT, it is in built feature and easy to use at any time during development.

Continuity or Connectivity check in much competitor software is not so user friendly. But in EPLANT it is really helpful which shows discontinuity point by differentiating two colors. Subsequently user can fix the problem very easily.

Database is very well structured and gives many useful outputs as in-built feature. But the noteworthy aspect is that the material requisition and project monitoring features are integral parts of the database, which many other parallel software lacks.

Specification preparation is very well structured. It takes some initial time to understand the structure, but the way it is organized so as to eliminate the chances of duplication type of error to nil. Moreover software itself comes with many in-built catalogs and specification including tubing.

2d drawing generation from model in EPLANT is extremely fast and allows many options like single/double line representation, choosing of lines sizes etc. unlike many other equivalent software. Another unique feature is that the generated 2d drawings are also intelligent drawings, which carry all the model information when opened in EPLANT software. This helps further annotations in 2d drawings to a great extent and a definite advantage over competitor software.

Automatic Isos generated from the model by EPLANT allows many choices, but most important feature is that isos are intelligent drawings carrying all model information. This helps to edit and annotate isos after generation in EPLANT and comes as handy unlike others. Owing to customer’s demand, 2009 version of EPLANT will also have Isogen compatibility, for those users who prefers Isogen output.

Learning curve of EPLANT is very steep. In fact the learning time is in hours, in place of days for seasoned AutoCAD users and plant engineers. Most of the plant modeling software companies’ design their product in such a way that company sponsored training becomes almost mandatory and again forces users to spend more money. This also makes the user organization captive on specially trained people, which jack up the organization cost. For EPLANT this aspect can be taken easy as long as the engineers and cad persons are conversant with basic plant engineering and Autocad software. Nicely built EPLANT training flash videos are of real help for the evaluators as well as regular users.

EPLANT can generate and export compatible file for loading in Autodesk Navisworks software, where the model can be vividly reviewed, walked through and checked for all types of interferences.

It can be conclusively summarized that it is high time to take a serious unbiased look at software like EPLANT and compare it with other famous counterparts both with respect to price and features. This gives an opportunity for such users who are scared of price of so called well known packages, but want to use them and those who are tired of complexities of the modeling work.

Author is a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years experience in project engineering as consultant. Have written a number of engineering software which are currently being used worldwide. For more information on EPLANT and EPLANT-Piping please click on the links or contact bhaduri.amit@gmail.com.

Author: Amit Bhaduri
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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Corrupt files in your computer registry is one of the more common problems we see with computers that use Windows for an operating system. What happens when there are corrupt files in the registry? Your computer will run in a sluggish manner. It will take quite a while for the computer to start up and shut down. Also, your computer may stall out, freeze, or even crash. When this happens, you know there are too many useless entries inside the registry.

You may get an error message if you have a corrupted file or invalid entry in your computer registry. The message will tell you that you cannot proceed if a certain file is corrupt or is not there. If your computer will not boot up, you probably have the worst type of file corruption there is.

The good news is that you do not have to spend much money to fix this. A registry cleaner will do the trick quickly and cheaply. What will this software do? First of all, it will detect corrupt files, and then repair them. There are Windows registry repair program ratings online, and you should check them out before you buy a registry cleaner. Some registry repair programs are better than others. You should look for a program with an extensive help file, in case you have any questions. Registry cleaners are pretty easy to use, but questions will still come up from time to time, so you want to be able to get answers quickly. You also want a program that offers customer support at all times, either by phone or by live chat.

You may have heard about the importance of cleaning up your computer registry, but you may still be asking the question “is registry clean up necessary?” In this article, I hope to explain why it is.

When we look at whether registry clean up necessary, we first need to look at what the registry is, and how it works. The registry is a large database that all Windows based computers have, at least those with Windows 95 and later. Windows accesses this database whenever the computer user does a command. Also, new entries and files are constantly being placed in the registry. This includes whenever you install a new piece of hardware and software, but also when you go from web page to web page. Most of these entries are deleted right away, but some stay behind, and over time, this causes the registry to get big and bloated, and this will cause other applications on your computer to not run the right way. When this happens, you will see freezes and possibly even crashes, as well as very slow start ups and shut downs, and a computer that runs really slow in general.

Now that we have answered the question of whether registry clean up is necessary, now let us look at how to do it. Your best option is to use a registry cleaner which will perform a comprehensive scan of your computer to find problem files that you can delete. It will also perform future scans so that registry errors never slow down your computer again.

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