GE'S Pipeline Solutions Group Introduces Pipeview Sheetgen Software

Houston, TX - GE's PII Pipeline Solutions business has launched a new version of PipeView SheetGen, a software tool to generate pipeline alignment sheets directly from maintained data sources.

SheetGen is a software application that automatically generates alignment sheets directly from relational databases and geographic information systems. SheetGen provides up-to-date, construction-quality drawings of a pipeline system for field use as well as analysis and decision-making purposes.

"SheetGen was the first alignment sheet generation product in the industry when it was developed in 1992," said Manuel Terranova, General Manager of PII Integrity Services. "Now that same development team is delivering another first – the first pipeline alignment sheet generation tool to deliver that same level of capability in ArcGIS."

With this release of SheetGen, users can directly access the ability to format sheets, place sheets and generate sheets from within ArcGIS – a geographic information system from ESRI. The alignment sheets can be generated from data stored in ArcGIS as well as rendered in ArcGIS layout space for plotting and storage purposes.

Using SheetGen, users can customize alignment sheets using Format Sheet Wizard, a tool used to construct the layout of alignment sheet templates. Individual sheets with associated templates are then placed automatically or interactively along the pipeline using Sheet Placer. From there, generation of alignment sheets can be performed for all or some of those sheets directly from the most up-to-date data at any time.

SOURCE: GE's Oil & Gas Business