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DESIGN/GEOMETRY MODULES

Blow Pipe Fittings is used for designing and unfolding 3D transitions and welded fittings for blow pipe, boiler making and general fabrication applications. Key features include:

  • Selectable weld joints and connections
  • Alignment marks
  • 3D DXF wireframe import with surface patch definition
  • Shapes: Offset, skewed and combination for:
    • Oval-to-round
    • Oval-to-oval
    • Rectangle-to-round
    • Rectangle-to-oval
    • Taps, nozzles and intersecting cones
  • Gored and reduced gored elbow
  • Branches and Y-pieces
  • Taps, nozzles and intersecting cones

HVAC is specifically geared to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry. In addition to the Blow Pipe Fittings package, SigmaDUCT HVAC adds:

  • Built-in knowledge of industry tables
  • Integrated nesting and NC generation

Cut-to-Length is a general purpose, cut to length nesting and orders and raw material management system for steel stockholders, distributors and warehouses. It is a linear nesting bar stock and sections management system with:

  • Linear nesting optimization
  • Automatic bill of material processing
  • Cut schedule
  • Raw material tracking
  • Drop management

ScanLine is a powerful raster to vector application for converting scanned diagrams to SigmaNEST geometry with:

  • Entity recognition
  • Conversion of everything or a selection to vectors
  • Center line (sketch) conversion
  • Silhouette (outline) conversion
  • Raster / vector overlay
  • User-definable parameters