Discover EdgeWise’s Updated Integration with AVEVA E3D Design
Digital twins are reshaping industrial, marine, and process plant operations by enabling real-time asset monitoring, predictive maintenance, and operational efficiency. While greenfield projects adopt digital twin technologies like AVEVA E3D from the start, brownfield sites struggle with outdated documentation and complex environments.
While point clouds provide an accurate reflection of as-built conditions, they lack the intelligence for downstream engineering workflows inside of the AVEVA ecosystem. ClearEdge3D EdgeWise bridges this gap by automating point cloud conversion into intelligent 3D models within AVEVA E3D Design, accelerating digital twin creation, minimizing manual effort, and streamlining brownfield documentation for long-term value.
The Challenges of Brownfield Projects
Brownfield sites face unique hurdles:
- Outdated Documentation: Legacy P&IDs, outdated 3D models, and 2D plans often fail to reflect existing site conditions.
- Complex Layouts: Congested environments make manual measurement and modeling difficult and error prone.
- Disconnected Workflows: Brownfield projects often suffer from fragmented data spread across multiple departments, legacy systems, and physical records, making collaboration and project execution inefficient.
Traditional documentation methods—surveying, CAD drafting, and point cloud —are slow, prone to inaccuracies, and fail to integrate with modern digital tools like AVEVA E3D Design.
Why Point Clouds Alone Aren’t Enough
There’s no denying that point clouds have revolutionized as-built documentation. But they remain incomplete within the AVEVA Ecosystem without intelligent modeling:
- Data Overload: Large-scale point cloud datasets can be difficult to manage, visualize, and process efficiently, creating bottlenecks in engineering workflows and slowing project timelines.
- Lack of Metadata: Point clouds provide rich spatial data but lack intelligence for advanced E3D workflows or further integration into the AVEVA ecosystem.
- Manual Modeling is Inefficient: Manually tracing point cloud data in AVEVA E3D into usable models is extremely time-consuming and an error-prone process.
NavVis VLX3 point cloud data inside ClearEdge3D EdgeWise.
EdgeWise + E3D Design
Smarter, Faster, More Accurate
EdgeWise is an advanced automated modeling solution that transforms raw point cloud data into intelligent 3D models. By leveraging powerful feature extraction algorithms, EdgeWise significantly reduces modeling time, improving efficiency and accuracy when creating as-built documentation.
Designed to integrate seamlessly with AVEVA E3D Design, EdgeWise ensures that engineering teams can generate high-quality, data-rich models that enhance collaboration and decision-making across the project lifecycle.
Spec-based model generated from just one hour of modeling in EdgeWise
Benefits For AVEVA E3D Design Users:
- Automates time-consuming and tedious modeling tasks, reducing manual effort by up to 73%.
- Generates intelligent 3D models that are easily exported to AVEVA E3D
- Improves accuracy, reduces rework, and minimizes project delays.
Benefits for Project Leaders & Asset Managers
- Accelerates project timelines and reduces costs.
- Enables faster and more efficient brownfield documentation and digital twin generation.
- Enhances collaboration by providing accurate, spec-based data.
Seamless AVEVA E3D Design Integration
EdgeWise automates feature extraction, generating metadata-rich models that:
- Facilitate efficient digital twin creation: Easily generate intelligent GENSEC, PANEL, PIPE, BRAN, ELBOW, TEE, FLANGE, VALVE, EQUI, SUBE elements from your EdgeWise geometry.
- Enable seamless collaboration: Ensure engineering, operations, and maintenance teams work with precise, structured models derived from point cloud data.
- Enhance long-term asset value: Maintain up-to-date digital representations that support ongoing facility management and future modifications.
The EdgeWise to E3D Workflow
Load registered point cloud into EdgeWise.
Automatically extract much of the piping and structure using computer vision and pattern-matching algorithms.
QA/QC the extracted elements to ensure accuracy.
Complete the model using EdgeWise’s semi-automated finishing tools.
Export the model to AVEVA E3D Design using native plug-in to create spec-based, catalogue geometry.
The Smarter Path to Brownfield Digital Twins
Traditional brownfield documentation methods are slow, fragmented, and labor-intensive. By integrating
automation with AVEVA E3D Design, EdgeWise eliminates inefficiencies, enabling faster, more accurate as-built modeling. Whether you’re looking to streamline point cloud processing, improve collaboration, or accelerate digital twin adoption, EdgeWise provides the smart, scalable solution you need.
For engineers, designers and modelers, EdgeWise automates tedious tasks, dramatically reducing manual effort and rework. For project leaders and asset managers, it delivers cost savings, faster project turnarounds, and a reliable foundation for long-term asset management.
Enter a new era of operational efficiency today by attending a personalized demo and beginning your free trial of EdgeWise!