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About PipeDraft

Re-Imagining3D Pipe Drafting

[Copyright 2014 OnApplied LLC - All rights reserved.]

Introducing PipeDraft -- Re-imagining 3D Pipe Drafting

A new approach to 3D pipe drafting that's quick, fun, and easy to use!

$85,000,000,000 USD

2013 US Expenditures on Industrial Piping Systems

In 2013 $424 USD billion spent in the USA on industrial capital projects. The cost of the industrial piping systems in these projects is estimated at $85 billion USD.

Piping is important aspect of these projects. Typically, The cost of piping averages 1/5th of all industrial process capital investments.

References:

US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Piping is 1/5th of the total cost of average industrial plant costs. "The 'Piping Guide' - A Compact Reference for the Design and Drafting of Industrial Piping Systems", Sherwood & Whistance 1976 ISBN 0-914082-00-0.

Software (including drafting and design applications) is used in all aspects of industrial design and build processes. Efficient project execution (especially on piping installations) necessitates effective design and drafting tools. Low productivity will increase costs while high productivity will lower costs. The complexity of the software used plays a key role in productivity.

References:

McGraw-Hill Construction Research and Analytics 2007

European Business Review 2014

Wasteful Complexity

Software complexity causes frustration and lowers productivity. Most 3D piping software applications take too much time to learn, make simple tasks too laborious, and are too difficult to understand. They often require several weeks of training and several months of experience to become reasonably productive. Many systems require highly specialized administrators to setup and maintain.

"Complexity wastes time, creating busy fools struggling to get simple things done."

European Business Review (2014)

"Complexity wastes time, creating busy fools struggling to get simple things done." European Business Review 2014

References:

"Complexity wastes your employees time: it distracts employees from focusing on value generative activities, creating busy fools people who are working hard, running in the wrong direction, or struggling to get simple things done." European Business Review 2014

"Everything shouldbe made as simpleas possible, but not simpler."

Albert Einstein(1933)

Einstein understood the inherent problems with overly complex systems. Is this confirmed by modern research?

References:

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein (1933)

This popular quote is probably a simplification of his documented statement, "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." Einstein, Albert (1933)

Complexity Kills Productivity

Business research confirms that systems must have just enough complexity to be useful, but too much complexity will decrease productivity/profitability.

References:

The Global Simplicity Index (GSI). "63 percent of managers in our survey reported that complexity was responsible for over 5 percent of productivity loss in their business. 10 percent of managers claimed that over 30 percent of productivity losses were due to complexity." Collinson, Simon & and Jay, Melvin (2014) Complexity Kills Profits, The European Business Review, http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5052

"Software tools have become victims of complexity, a serious malady of user interfaces that cripple the user, leaving them with an agoraphobic response to large dialogue boxes and a lingering fear of unknown menus." [p. 162] Constantine, L.L. (1995). Constantine on peopleware. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

"Heavily featured software reduces user productivity. "Munk, N. (1996, October 21). Technology for technologys sake. Forbes, 280 288.

"I should be able to 'get-it' what it is and how to use it without expending any effort thinking about it." [p. 11] Steve Krug (2000) Don't Make Me Think, Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Publishing ISBN 0-7897-2310-7

$1,200,000,000 USD

$1.2 billion USD are lost each year due to excessive complexity. This figure is based only on the largest 200 companies and would be much higher if accounted across all businesses.

References:

"The largest 200 companies in the Forbes Global 500 are losing, on average, 10.2 percent of their annual profits or $1.2 billion per year each due to value-destructive complexity." Collinson, Simon & and Jay, Melvin (2014) Complexity Kills Profits, The European Business Review, http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5052

"Insanely great!"

Steve Jobs (1984)

Visionary product developers understand the yin-yang of complexity and simplicity, and have used it to distinguish their products in the market place.

Steve Jobs used the tag-line "Insanely Great" to launch the original Apple Macintosh computer in 1984.

Simplicity Revives Productivity

The Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc. What makes Apple Computer products so highly revered?

They challenge the status quo, making products that are simple to use.

Simple products "get out of your way" and let you get things done!

Simplicity Hides Complexity

The simplest high-tech products usually hide an underlying complexity while delivering a simple interface.

What makes Nest products so successful? They reinvent important home products by enhancing functionality while presenting simple and beautiful designs.

Simplicity is Viral

30,000,000

New SketchUp Users

TechCrunch(2012)

Users crave simplicity so much that simple products often go viral. Simplicity plays a key role in the popularity of the SketchUp 3D modeler, with 30 million new users in 2012 alone.

"Flappy Birds" was a mobile app created by Nguyen Ha Dong. The addictive simplicity of the game was key to its instant viral popularity. Despite making $50K a day from advertising, he discontinued the app in February 2014 to return to a simpler life style.

References:

"[SketchUp gained] 30 Million new users in 2012 alone!" Tech Crunch 2012 http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/sketchup-goes-to-trimble/

SketchUp has a larger market share than Catia, SolidEdge, and Pro/E combined.CNCCookBook 2013 http://blog.cnccookbook.com/2013/05/27/results-of-our-2013-cad-survey/

Global Computer-aided Design Market 2012-2016 The Wall Street Journal 2013http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130416-913123.html

"Our mission has always been to make 3D modeling tools that anyone can use."

John BacusSketchUp(2012)

Simplicity democratizes. SketchUp was designed to be easy to use without the steep learning curve of status-quo software.

"Our mission has always been to make 3D modeling tools that anyone can use." John Bacus, Product Manager, SketchUp (2012)

Simplicity Begets Simplicity

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PipeDraft

PipeDraft is a SketchUp plug-in extension. It leverages the simplicity of SketchUp while extending it to the task of intelligent 3D pipe drafting.

[PipeDraft is wholly owned by OnApplied LLC and is not affiliated with Trimble Navigation Ltd.]

Paper Simplicity

How do youdraw pipe lines on paper?

Do you remember the simplest pipe drafting application ever invented? It was isometric graph paper and a pencil. How do you use this "app?"

Paper Simplicity

Lines become pipes.

Corners become elbows.

Intersections become tees.

It's simple. Lines become pipes, corners become elbows, intersections become tees.

Paper Simplicity

Fill-in details.

Then you fill-in details, like valves.

PipeDraft Simplicity

How do you draw pipe lines in PipeDraft?

PipeDraft replicates the simplicity of graph paper and a pencil.

PipeDraft Simplicity

Lines become pipes.

Corners become elbows.

Intersections become tees.

Pipes are created by routing a line, corners become elbows, intersections become tees.

PipeDraft Simplicity

Fill-in details.

Then you fill-in details, like valves.

PipeDraft Hides Complexity

Spec-driven 3D piping components from a cloud-based catalog.

PipeDraft hides the complexity of intelligent piping. While it's as simple to use as graph paper and a pencil, behind the scenes it pulls real-world spec-driven 3D piping components from an Internet cloud-based catalog service.

Simple Choices

PipeDraft SE (Standard Edition) Free!

PipeDraft PE (Professional Edition) Subscription

PipeDraft EE (Enterprise Edition) Subscription

The PipeDraft choices are simple. Use the Standard Edition to get started. If you need more pipe specs and a full range of sizes subscribe to the Professional Edition. If you need specialized company pipe specs and customized component shapes then subscribe to the Enterprise Edition and we'll host them for your team in our Cloud service.

Revive Your Productivity

Eliminate complexity, revive your productivity, and reduce your costs. Avoid weeks and weeks of complicated software training, costly system set-up and maintenance Finally, a simple piping application that "gets out of your way" and lets you focus on your work. PipeDraft a 3D piping plug-in for SketchUp that's quick, fun, and easy to use!

A 3D piping plug-in for SketchUp that's quick, fun, and easy to use!

PipeDraft Copyright 2014 OnApplied LLC

www.pipedraft.com

Get Started: http://www.pipedraft.com

[Copyright 2014 OnApplied LLC All rights reserved.]