I-Run™ and I-Serve™

I-Run and I-Serve are very similar, both providing a way to run ISOGEN. The costs for I-Run and I-Serve are identical, based on the number of piping design seats at a given location. In general, Alias recommends the use of I-Run in most circumstances.

I-Run – Interactive ISOGEN

One license for I-Run is issued for each piping design seat at a particular location. The customer may install I-Run on each PC having a piping seat, or one central installation can service a number of piping seats. I-Run has a user interface that enables the user to select one or more PCFs for processing by ISOGEN. The I-Run user has the ability to select any of the ISOGEN styles set up the companion I-Configure™ product.

I-Run provides a more controlled environment for the production of drawings because the PCFs are manually chosen and processed. The user may review the drawings produced immediately and can quickly run a PCF through a different style if required.

I-Run allows individual users to run ISOGEN on their workstations. This means that check isometrics can be run off by the user to verify the design before final isometrics are created by a project lead or administrator.

I-Serve – Service-based ISOGEN

I-Serve runs continuously as a Microsoft Windows® “service,” monitoring a nominated folder. All users output their PCFs to this network folder, and ISOGEN processes the drawing and report output as soon as a file arrives in the folder. PCFs can be processed against a default or any user-defined style, although this requires that the design system allows the user to specify which style is to be used.

I-Serve is ideal when the PCF is generated on a non-Windows computer, since ISOGEN is only available under Windows.

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