IsoMet: turn your PCF file into a piping isometric drawing

Generating a piping isometric by hand is a pain for any designer or engineer. Wouldn't it be easier if you could export a PCF from your 3D modelling software and get a DXF or a PDF straight back?

I've waited a couple of days to a week myself for isometric drawings to come back from a PCF I'd generated. I don't think engineering should have to wait that long anymore, so I built IsoMet into EngCoSuite to close that gap.

What IsoMet does

Upload a PCF and IsoMet takes care of it. It handles pipes, elbows, tees, valves, flanges and every other component in the file, lays the drawing out so nothing overlaps, and connects one sheet to the next properly when a line is too long for a single page - "CONTD. ON SHEET" where it breaks, "CONTD. FROM SHEET" where it picks back up, so nobody's left wondering where a line went.

I tested it against 8 real PCF files before calling it done, and no two of them were written quite the same way - different units, different component naming, different levels of detail. IsoMet handles all 11 valve types correctly, and it even catches the small stuff a real file leaves behind: two points from the same physical joint that land a hundredth of a millimetre apart instead of exactly on top of each other. Left alone, that kind of gap can split a drawing into extra sheets over nothing. IsoMet merges anything that close automatically. On one real project file, that alone took a drawing from 186 sheets down to 183, and it held together without a hitch.

You get a Bill of Materials for free

Every drawing comes with a Bill of Materials pulled straight from the PCF's own data - sizes, descriptions, quantities, all of it. The richer the PCF file you give it, the richer the drawing and the BOM you get back. Supports draw correctly too, across 8 real types - anchors and hangers included - and welds get marked properly, filled for a field weld, open for a shop weld.

Export the format each person on your team actually needs

Export as DXF so your designers can keep working in their own CAD. Export as PDF so your engineers can review it and sign it. Same drawing, same revision, whichever format the person on the other end actually needs.

Get your PCF right and IsoMet takes care of the rest

If you've created your PCF file correctly, your piping isometric is already taken care of by IsoMet in EngCoSuite.

If you've paid for isometric drafting, or tried to recreate a drawing from a raw PCF file by hand, I'd like to know - what did it cost you, in your time and in dollar value?