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If only FileFixer could fix the
human soul…
by Reverend Bethel Chapman, Design
Manager, Valero Paulsboro Refinery and Pastor, CornerStone
Pentecostal Assembly
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| Reverend Bethel Chapman and Dan
Lottes of the Valero Paulsboro Refinery |
PAULSBORO, NEW JERSEY, USA —
One afternoon, I was using FileFixer to repair ten
MicroStation design files with problems such as "end
of file missing", nested cell corruption and a number
of other various problems. I thought to myself — if only
I had this tool in my church, what great people we would have
in this world.
Just think, when people come to my church with all kinds of
problems and hang-ups, just run them through "SoulFixer".
Within seconds their sins would be washed away and the lust
problems would disappear. Depression and stress would dissipate.
Hate, envy and malice would all turn to love. What a beautiful
solution to the problems of mankind.
I then came to my senses and my ten files that had gone through
FileFixer were totally repaired and operating perfectly.
My name is Reverend Bethel Chapman and I currently have two
jobs. I am currently Design Manager of the Design and Reproduction
Department at the Valero Paulsboro Refinery and I am a pastor
at the CornerStone Pentecostal Assembly Church, in Williamstown,
New Jersey. Since 1985, my job in the church world is to try
to fix souls as FileFixer repairs bad design files.
My CAD History
I have been working in the engineering profession since 1968.
I became a junior designer for R.W. Booker Consulting Engineers
in St. Louis, Missouri while still a junior at Southern Illinois
University in Edwardsville, Illinois. In February of 1970,
I went to work for Mobil Oil Corporation in Sauget, Illinois
in the Design Engineering department. I was later transferred
to the Paulsboro, New Jersey refinery. I specialize in designing
piping systems, tanks, fractionation systems and generally
all facets of mechanical engineering design.
How Axiom tools have been a blessing to us
My Design Lead Supervisor, Dan Lottes, has implemented several
tools in MicroStation Productivity Toolkit to eliminate
thousands of hours of tedious work and wasted time.
For instance, we recently constructed three new process units
here at the refinery. As a result of this new construction,
we received 12,000-plus design files from our contractors.
Using Global File Changer we were able to select text,
delete it, attach a cell library, place a new cell at the
correct scale, angle and location and drop the cell, for over
1,000 designs at a time. Using RefManager, we were
able to make reports on what design files had what reference
files so we could run our batch plotting program. RefManager
also detached all the needless reference files from the entire
group of design files. Using RefMerge, we were able
to automatically merge all reference files attached to each
design into the design file itself. Using RenamePlus,
we were able to do batch renaming for thousands of design
files that did not quite match our file-naming procedure.
Using DgnCompare saved us hours of painstaking work
when it came time to merge the contractor's revision with
our current revision of the design.
Dan Lottes found that MicroStation Productivity Toolkit
was so valuable that he wanted all his designers to have access
to its goodies. We purchased a site license last month and
now all of our designers have access to all of the great tools
contained in MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
How much money did we save?
The money we saved by using MicroStation Productivity Toolkit
was substantial. If we were to project that it would take
a minimum of 15 minutes to process one design then we are
talking about 3,000 man-hours. We were able to complete the
job in less than 500 man-hours. That's a savings of 2,500
man-hours at a very conservative rate estimate of $50.00 per
hour, we were able to save $125,000 dollars. We have continued
to use MicroStation Productivity Toolkit with all of
its tools and Toolkit has been incorporated into our
everyday arsenal of design tools.
Prediction for the future of CAD
Since I began designing in CAD in 1987, there have been great
improvements in hardware and software designs. We can model
designs in 3D. Rotate, turn, cut sections through the designs,
walk through the entire model and do many other things. With
the improvements in software, there is no telling where we
are going. Nonetheless, it will be an exciting ride.
Thanks!
Thank you for thinking of us at Valero Paulsboro Refinery
and thank you so much more for creating such a great, helpful
tool as MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
Call now!
For more information on Toolkit
contact an Axiom MicroStation Consultant today! Call 727-442-7774
extension 9678 or e-mail 9678@AxiomInt.com.
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