Jacketed, Primary and Secondary, existing and new are all available Pipe Lines in the P&ID Tool Palette. It’s great that they are all available, but what happens if someone used the wrong type of schematic line to draw a pipe line? Let’s say that all the information for the line is correct, except that it
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A client asked how to map custom items in the catalogs from PnID to Plant 3D. In doing some research, I found out some more key settings in Plant 3D. It turns out that you can’t (AFAIK) customize the Component Categories or Piping components: The question was how to I map a custom class in
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This time of the year is typically pretty hectic. Over the last couple months I did training for companies in Atlanta, Denver, and Houston. And of course we were at AU 2012. All that to say, sorry for not posting! Today’s article is one topic we get asked about pretty frequently, and is one of
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One question I’ve gotten in the past is “How do you launch Plant 3D in P&ID mode.” Frequently, we may be working only on P&IDs, and it’s nice to have the P&ID environment ready for us when we start Plant 3D. In our previous post on launching a specific project, I mentioned the help file
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On the forums the other day, the question came up “How do I create a desktop icon that launches a specific project?” Today we are going to look at the steps necessary to do that. We are going to use three key pieces of information. First is that you can create a shortcut for
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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Creating a Nozzle ReportToday’s article will continue where the last left off. Previously, we looked at how to add the Equipment Tag and Description fields to a nozzle. Today we will continue that by seeing how to configure a report to match our new fields.
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One awkward area in AutoCAD Plant 3D is change service and other line group information. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like there is a way to do that. The trick is the data manager views. The data manager can be changed to display by area or by object type. In 2012, you have to
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An exciting day as we are getting ready for the opening of Autodesk University! We are excited to announce the availability of the PDO Toolkit for Plant3D. The toolkit is in beta as we are working through more features to add. Check out our store to get your copy. Currently the toolkit lets you
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I wanted to make a quick extension of some other locations where the project name is stored. We talked about changing a project name in a previous post. In addition to changing the project name in the project.xml and the part databases, you should probably change it in the project part xml files as well.
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A good question came up from one of our users the other day. He asked, “Where can I find a list of all of the videos the help files reference.” Thanks to Eileen Foran who provided me with the link! Check out the full list here: http://docs.autodesk.com/PLNT3D/2012/ENU/plant/pip/ap3d_movielist.htm They have posted several great how-to/walkthrough style
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