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Please give me details for INTools & Hook-up diagrams, etc. for INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING.

Also give me link for any related documents.

You will find it here.
http://www.intergraph.com/

The software name now is "Smartplant Instrumentation". You can take a look on the Intergraph page.

I have just finished a week of Intools training.
We needed to learn this for a project with large multi-national. It has some nice features but I still have lots of reservations.

High cost, huge application, not that user friendly, not that compatible with the other Intergraph applications such as Smart P&ID, lots of little bugs that should have been fixed.

We normally use an in house developed Instrument database using MS Access, It's great for most of our smaller projects e.g. $500,000 in field instruments.

Roy

Dear Mr. Roy,

You said you are using MS-Access Database for Instrumentation. However, does your database support Loop diagrams & hookup diagrams?
Does your database have the facilities of wiring? What about automated wiring?
Does your databse generate enhanced smart loops?

I feel it is difficult to have these with MS-Access database. But, I find Intools as a useful software for small/big projects if we can afford/we can pass on the cost to the end user in a round about way.

Sastry,
No our database doesn't generate loops, but we have Autocad people who can do loops just about as fast if not quicker.

I think the only advantage Intools has there is for multiple identical loops. Our database produces better looking data sheets for a fraction of the cost, has no annual licence fee and is well understood if we get a glitch.

I can take our database to site on a memory stick and use it on any computer with MS Access, I bet you can't do that with Intools.
As I said SPI has some nice features but hardly justified for smaller jobs of 1,000 instruments.
I'm not sure what an "Enhanced Smart Loop" is, I will check it out.

Roy

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