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Disclaimer ‘THISPUBLICATION ANDTHE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN iS MADE AVAILABLE BY CAD STUDIO ASCOM GMBH "AS 1S," CAD STUDIO ABCOM GMBH DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE REGARDING THESE MATERIALS. Published by: CAD STUDIO ABCOM GMBH Sehelleedam 15 23079, Hemburg, Germanyable of Contents General introduction to the book Additional comments and notesio. Glossary. AutoCAD Plant 30 Commands ‘AutoCAD Plant 30 System variables... Project and drawing properties Creating a new project User interface of the project properties dialog box... Project Structure... How things work together. Adding Project Propertie Adding drawing properties. File naming scheme Selection Uists.. Exercise -1., Layer and Color settings. The default Layer and Color schematic Schematic settings... Creating a new Schematic Switching between automation schemes... Pipe supports and automation schemes Exercise -2.... Joint settings - End Connections... ‘Type of connections... 82 Connection Adverts . os 63 Simple Joints vs. Cempound Joints... 54 Creating a new simole joint 70 Creating a new compound joint. R Bercise -3 5 AUEOCAD P&ID Object Mapping 77 mapping pra 3 properties fram P&ID with t 3 apping the properties... a Plant 30 cia Mapping.Table of Content Setting the Tag format. Where do you create the Tag format. Equipment Tag .. Valve Tag Pipe Line Tag .. Exercise ~4 Orthographic Annotations....0..- ‘Annotations set up. Equipment Annotation ‘Symbol Properties General Style Properties. Other Properties. Pipe Line and Valve Annotation . Exercise - 5 Setting up ISO styles.. Create @ new Isometric style ‘The structure of an bo Style 150 Style Setup Is0 Annotations Bill of Material Cut Pieces. welds Spooks... Valve Annotations.. End connection annotations. Connection Text Dimensions... Sloped and Offset Piping Sloped Piping Offset Piping ExerCi6@— 6 crn ie Title block and display... Setup Title Biock.... Table Placement and Setup. Title Block Attributes... Line Designation Table (LOT) 180 Themes ... Fxercise-7.. Fine tuning your settings lsocanfig.xm)) Ra : "i Elevations at every change of direction and at branches momen 5 Pipe Size annotation (modi). Pipe Size annotation (Off) Dimensioned Flow Arrow... Line number annotation (Style) Line number annotation (On/OF).. Pipe Support Tag Dimersioning from/to Elbow ends. Fine tuning your settings (IsoSymbolStyles.dw. Creating your own Iso symbolsTable of Content Catalog and Spec editor... Default file locations. Changing the default location. ‘The Catalog and Spec Editor creating pipe spec... Filtering for componerts... Adding components to 2 spec Setting the part priority... Setting up the branch table The Catalog Editor susie Adding Custorn Properties. Exporting and importing Catalog data. Port Properties... os The catalog editor Size tab. Size specific properties Creating new components. Catalog Editor - Duplicate Component. Catalog Editor - Create new parametric component Catalog Editor - AutoCAD based components PlantPartConvert.. Catalog Editor - AutoCAD based components (continued) Creating a new catalog ss... Nozzle Catalog Bolt sets and bott length. The report creator Report Creator - Template location.. Report Template setting: Output Type. Target vn Edit Query. Edit Report Layout.. Creating a new report from scratch Fine tuning the report sss Create new custom property, Grouping of a property... Adding Multiple groupings ‘The sum of parts 7 Report filter options Report Parameters Exercise -8 Tips & Tricks (Advanced). Pre-determined gaskettype Adding simple jcints Adding compound joints. DefaultConnectorsCanfig.xila sean Link with the catalog and Spec Ed OF nn ing the catalog connected to a pine spec. Editing the pipe spec without the catalog and specGeneral introduction to the book Welcome to this advanced book for AutoCAD Plant 30. To make good use of this book we ‘would like to tell you how this book is best used. This book, called AutoCAD Plant 3D - Advanced is a learning book and can be used as a reference guide when you are searching for answers. Important is that you have sufficient experience in working with AutoCAD Piant 3D, as the subjects taken care off in this book are for experienced users who want to be able to set-up and configure their own projects in AutoCAD Plant 3D. The best way to use this bookis in front of your computer, where ofcourse the AutoCAD Plant 3D software is installed, The nature of this book is hands-on, which means that you will not only read about possibilities, but you will experience them yourself by performing pre-defined exercises that will test your skills and challenge your knowledge. To get the most out of this book it is essential that you use it in the following way... * Read the explanation of typical commands and try to understand the procedures necessary to perform the exercises at the end of each chapter or paragraph. © Follow the exercises, they are all based on the knowledge you gained in the chapter before. ‘* When you understand the idea of setting up parts of the configuration, try to think of ways how you could use this in the set-up of your own future projects,General introduction to the book Additional comments and notes. During the course, in several locations in the book, we have added additional comments and notes, based on our own experience when creating project configurations. These notes and comments will help you to better understand the usage of some commands, but al prevent you from making the same mistakes we made when we started configuring AutoCAD will Plant 2D. To make sure you will recognize automatically our tips, tricks and warnings we will display them in the way as shown below. © TIPE ‘The text that goes with the tip will be placed in this area Se Note! The text that goes with the note will be placedin this area | Warning!General introduction to the book Glossary To help you to understand specific terminology in this book and in the AutoCAD Plant 3D. software, we added this glossary which shows a large number of commands and functions that will be used or which you will encounter while configuring, Acquire mode The mode in which a property acquires ts value from another source (properties for a project, drawing, orclass). See also Override mode and Initialization only. Acquisition A property type that acquires its value from another source such as project properties, drawing properties, or class properties. Annotation ‘An AutoCAD object comprised of text and (optional) shapes. In AutoCAD Plant 3D, annotations are used to display data values of P&ID components (including equipment, valves, lines, and so on). These values are displayed as text. Assembly A group of connected components that are commonly placed in a drawingat the same time. For example, a level gauge assembly might contain an instrument and five valvas. You can place an assembly from a tool palette instead of selecting each component individually. Assumed nozzle A type of nozzle that is automatically added as a record in the Data Manager when a pipe line is connected to a piece of equipment. Unlike other nozzle types, an assumed nozzle is not visible in the drawing. Autodesk Connection Point (ACP) An object that contains port information which allows piping connections to objects created in ‘other programs (for example: AutoCAD MEP). Automatic annotation A type of annotation that gets automatically inserted when a component is created. See also Annotation and Linked Annotation.Géneral introduction to th Bill of materials (80M) List of components needed to fabricate a pipeline. Child table See Object table. Class family A class thatis used to categorize other classes and seta starting point for class properties, tags, and annotations for those classes. For example, Pumps and Equipment are class familie Centrifugal Pump and Ball Valve are classes Class The type of an object. Especially a Plant 3D or P&ID class such as Pipe, Valve, Nozzle, or Equipment. Class property A property of a class; itreflects a data value. For example, the HandValve class type may have attributes of size, spec, and manufacturer. The Pumps class type may have flow, TDH, and manufacturer. Component A native AutoCAD Plant 3D object type AutoCAD Plant 3D components include Equipment, Nozzles, Lines, Instruments, and Inline Components. Component class See Class Connection symbol The graphical element in a drawing that indicates an off-page or on-page line connection. You can choose from several symbols. Convert To change an AutoCAD < 10. an AUTOCAD Plant 3D component or line; the converted item is included in date Converted support A pipe supportGeneral introduction to the book Data Manager An enhanced secondary window in AutoCAD Plant 3D; it displays data in atable. Duplicate Tags Tags are unique identifiers for components in.a P&ID drawing and /or 3D piping model, Because tags have to be unique ina single drawing, 2 duplicate tag is not allowed. Duplicate tags can only be used over multiple drawings where the tags will be linked with one another through the Data Manager, making each tag unique again. DWF (P&I) ‘A Design Web Format file; it isa compressed file format created from OWG files in a project. DWF files are easy to publish and view on the Web. Equipment InfoTag An annotation style. A multiline set of attributes that displays selected data values for a placed piece of equipment. One Equipment InfoTag for each equipment component is typically placed at the top of a drawingor in a grid across the bottom of the drawing. Family table A table that contains information about different classes within a class family. For example, the Equipment family table contains information about pumps, tanks, blowers and other classes found under the Equipment class family. Flag ‘A symbol, like an arrow, that indicates the direction of the flow, The flag symbol contains the line number annotation. It is on the Non-engineering tab of the P&ID DIN tool palette, Flip grip A grip that flips an object in the direction shown in the grip arrow. Flow arrow The direction in which a schematic line flows, You can control the direction of the flow arrow using dynamic grips. Freestanding annotation Text that is associated with a component; it does not move when the component moves, However, the data associated with the annotation updates with the component. Just the text gets disconnected. Annotations are either freestanding or linked. See also linked Annetation.General introduction to the book Gap crossing A visual indication on a drawing that a line breaks on either side of a crossing Initialization only A property setting that limits property acquisition to a one-time event, when a component is first initialized. f the property is set to initialization only, it acquires its value from its designated source and changes immediately to override mode. See also Acquisition and Override mode. Inline component A component with an alignment grip that can be dropped onto a line: Instrument ‘A device or combination of devices used directly or indirectly to measure, display, or control a variable. Isometric A 2D drawing that represents 3D objects. A piping isometric is a pictorial representation of a single run of pipe and can contain component and dimension detail. See also Spool drawing. KKS (Kraftwerk-Kennzeichensystem) A power plant classification system managed and developed by VGP Working Panel. KKS is, usually used with the DIN 2481 standard. Line designation table (LDT) List of pipe lines and their properties. Linked annotation Graphic, text, or text with a graphic that labels @ component. The text values reflect the data attribute values of a component. Examples of linked annotations are a line ID, a valve size, instrument function symbol, or Equipment InfoTag. Linked annotation moves when the component moves. Loop crossing alin Avis on a drawing that a line loops over another line.General introduction to the book Object table ‘A table that contains specific information about a class or a property of a class. For example, Pumps is an object table of the Equipment family table. Off-page connector ‘The graphical representation on a P&lD drawing of the continuance ofa line from one project drawing to another. Orthocube A semi-transparent green 3D solid box that you use to define the boundaries of an orthographic view. Orthogonal connection The default AutoCAD Plant 3D schematic line behavior of connecting at 90-degree increments Override mode A mode in which an acquired property can be modified. A property that isset up to acquire its value from another source is switched from acquiring mode to override mode in the Properties palette or in the Data Manager. See also Acquire mode. Part A piping component. Especially as it is represented in a piping spec or catalog. Pins Symbols that identify a change in 2 pipe line property. In the KKS tagging standard, pins identify ‘2 change in properties (for example, Unit Number or System Code). A pinis either open (no-fil) or closed (black fill. Open pins mark the boundaries of a group with a commen property. Closed pins identify a break in piping sub-systems or branches in a pipe line. When using either open or closed pins, drafters must manually change the properties of the lines beyond the open-pin boundary. Pins are located on the Non-engineering tab of the DIN tool palette. Pipe A tube or hollow cylinder for the conveyance of fluid. Pipe support ‘A manufactured component that connects a pipe to a structure,General introduction to the book Piping component file (PCF) A file created from the 3D model that contains pipe line detail commonly used to produce an Isometric drawing and bill of material. Schematic line A line in AutoCAD Plant 30 that represents pipe lines and signal lines. Spool Drawing A drawing that represents a fabricated sub-assembly of a pipe line. See also Isometric. Tag A property that uniquely identifies a component. Trim As a verb, to add hardware to a piece of equipment. As a noun, additional information. A pipe trim is additional information (text or graphics) to further define a piping segment. Equipment trim is additional information (text or graphics) to further define a piece of equipment. Validate To check a drawing or a project for errors and inconsistencies such as unconnected components, non-terminating lines, and soonGeneral introduction to the baok AutoCAD Plant 3D Commands ‘The AutoCAD Plant 3D command are specifically designed for use with AutoCAD Plant 30 and therefore will not be available in regular AutoCAD. The commands allow you to start commands over the command line instead of using the pop-up menus, ribbons and or right click functionality. Below a overview of all the AutoCAD Plant 3D specific commands which also can be found in the help documentation of AutoCAD Plant 3D itself. Acptooltips Enables tooltips for connection ports (ACP). Auditproject Allows project managers or other administrators to evaluate the integrity of a project and corrects errors. Autodeskconnectionpoint Creates an Autodesk Connection Point (ACP). Compressobject Compresses and defragments the cached drawing data that accumulates while project drawings are modified. Datamanager Displays data that can be viewed, modified, exported, and imported. Datamanagerclose Closes the Data Manager. DWFoutputsettings Specifies the type of P&ID date that you can include in DWF output files. DWFoutputsettings3d Specifies the type of Plant 3D data that you can include in DWF output files. Exporttoautocad Exports current drawing to AutoCAD file formats while maintaining visual fidelity, Newproject Creates a new projectGeneral introduction to the book Newprojectdwe Creates a new drawing to be included in a project NWnavigator (Opens Navisworks in anew window. Offpageconnect Creates an off-page connector symbol that represents linked lines that can span multiple drawings. Openproject Opens a project file in the Project Manager. Pidannotate Places an annotation ina drawing, Pidconvert ‘Adds data to an AutoCAD object to add it to reports. Pideditblock Edits a P&ID component so that you can create a new instance of that object. Pidtag Defines tagging data for a P&ID component or line, Plantameimportcatalog Imports an AutoCAD MEP catalog to use in the Spec Editor. Plantaudit Audits and repairs project data and drawing synchronization errors. Plantcompass Changes compass settings. Plantconnectionjoint Connects two adjacent components with a new joint. Planteonvertlinetopipe Converts AutoCAD line objects to Piping,General introduction to the baok Plantcustomparts Creates custom and placeholder parts, Plantcustompartsclose Closes the Custom Parts window. Plantdisconnectjoint Disconnects two joined components by removing the fasteners. Plantdynamictoolpalette Loads the dynamic pipe spec tool palette from the current spec. Planteditautodeskconnectionpoint Modifies Autodesk Connection Point (ACP) properties. Planteditbend Creates a pipe bend Plantendcodes Creates or modifies endcodes Plantequipmentattach Attaches an AutoCAD object to an equipment model Plantequipmentconvert Converts a 3D DWG model to an AutoCAD Plant 30 equipment model, Plantequipmentcreate Creates a new equipment model. Plantequipmentdetach Detaches all previously attached objects from an equipment model, Plantequipmentmodify Modifies an existing equipment model. Plantfittingadd Places piping components.Generel introduction to the book Piantfittingmove Moves piping components such that valves can move to a different pipe segment or to an open area in the drawing. Planthide Hides the selected objects. Plantisoaddinfo Creates an Iso information item. Piantisoaddmsg, Creates a message on the drawing. Sets the message text, enclosure, and dimensioning. Plantisotbtablesetup Configures tables (BOM, Cut piece list, weld list, spool list) that display on an isometric drawing title block. Plantinventorequipmentconvert Imports an Inventor AEC export file (*.adsk) as an AutoCAD Plant 3D equipment model. Plantinsertautodeskconnectionpoint Creates an Autodesk Connection Point (ACP) at an open port, Plantisolate Hides everything except the selected Plant 3D objects. Plantmodifysharedcontentfolder Sets the catalog file folder and migrates from earlier versions to AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 if necessary. Plantorthoadjacent Creates an orthographic view adjacent to an existing view, Plantorthoannotate Annot ents in ortho drawi Plantorthocreate Creates a new orthographic view.introduction to the boak Piantorthodelete Deletes an orthographic view Plantorthoedit Edits an orthographic view, Plantortholocate Locates the 2D object tha Plantorthoupdate Updates the content of an existing orthographic view. Plantorthoupdateannotation Updates all the annotations in an ortho drawing. Plantorthovalidateview Checks the model to see if changes have been made since the drawing waslast updated. Plantpartconvert Converts an AutoCAD block to a piping component by adding ports. Plantpcfexport Exports a piping component file. Plantpcftoiso tes an Iso from a PCF file Plantpidlinelist Places a 3D equivalent of a P&ID object in a Plant 3D model PlantpidsizemappingGeneral introduction to the book Plantpipesupportadd ‘Adds pipe supports. Plantpipesupportattach Attaches AutoCAD objects to a pipe support Plantpipesupportconvert Converts AutoCAD objects to a pipe support Plantpipesupportdetach Detaches all AutoCAD objects from a pipe support, Plantpipesupportmodify Modifies pipe supports. Plantweldadd Adds a weld to pipe. Plantproductioniso Creates a production iso. Plantquickiso Creates a quick iso Plantregistercustomscripts Registers a parametric model Plantremoveorphanfasteners Removes fasteners that are no longer part of a joint Plantroutefromautodeskconnectionpoint Route piping from an Autodesk Connection Point object Plantshowall Displays all Plant 3D objects in a drawing, Plantsizedisplaymode Display: units or in both Imperial and metric un ponent size only in pi project and component units differGeneral introduction to the book Plantspecviewer Displays the current pipe spec. Plantspecupdatecheck Checks for changes made to spec files that are in use in a drawing, Plantsteelmember Creates a structural member. Planttag Tags a Plant 3D object Projectmanager Assembles and manages files belonging to a project Projectmanagerclose Closes the Project Manager. Projectsetup Opens the Project Setup dialog box, where administrators can configure and manage project settings. SDNFexport Exports structural objects to Stee! Detailing Neutral Format. Sledit Edits schematic lines. Slgroup Creates new schematic line groups from existing schematic lines or schematic line groups Sleroupedit Adds, removes, or edits a selected schematic line group and associates or dissaciates a line group and a pipe line g Slgroupselect Selects all line segments ina group. Sline Creates a schematic line,eneral introduction ta Synchstyles Synchronizes the drawing with the project. Validate Validates the open project for errors such as orphaned annotations, non-terminated lines, unconnected off-page connectors, and so on, Validateconfig Controls the types of errors that are flagged by the validation program Validatesummary Displays the validation summary for a project. tOCAD PlantGeneral introduction to the book AutoCAD Plant 3D System variables AutoCAD system variables do not specifically start commands, but allow you to switch settings on and off. For example a system variable can switch the welcome dialog box on or off. Below an overview of the system variables that can be used with AutoCAD Plant 3D, these system variables will not be available in regular AutoCAD. Isoareavisibilty Displays iso areas as a perimeter ar hatch abject Planteonnectionmarker Toggles the display of the disconnect marker. Plantcontentfolder Displays the shared content catalog folder. Plantdefaultiayer Sets the piping layer to use when using automated layer assignments and the layer cannot be determined. Plantlockfadect! Fades locked piping in the 30 model Plantgripeditmode Controls whether inline fittings are constrained to move within the current pipe segment or if they mave to other connected pipe segments in the network. Plantinsulationdisplay Controls whether insulation is displayed on AutoCAD Plant 3D piping objects. Plantinsulationmode Controls whether insulation is displayed on AutoCAD Plant 3D piping objects. Plantlockpointofsupport Locks the point-of-support on pipe supports. Plantoffsetconnect Controls whether AutoCAD Plant 3D attempts to connect piping when snapping to a pipe connection and using pipe offset while routing. Page 22 AutoCAD Plant 3D AdvancedGeneral introduction to the book Plantmaxbendengle Specifies whether pipe bends can be used up to 90 or 180 degrees. Plantpcfunicode Creates Unicode PCF files, Plantpipesilhdisplay Sets the display of the pipe silhouettes, Plantpropmismatchdisplay Toggles the display of the property mismatch markers. Plantplaceholderdisplay Toggles the display of the Placeholder Part glyph. Plantroutebend Creates pipe bends while routing pipe Plantsavedetail Sets the detail of the proxy graphics when Plant 30 objects are viewed in AutoCAD or Navisworks without object enablers. Plantslopethresholdangle Specifies the angle below which pipingis treated as sloped. Plantspecnotify Checks for spec file updates when the drawing loads, and on atime interval. Plantspecnotifytime Sets the time interval that specfiles are checked for updates. Plantwelcomeenabled Displays the welcome screen at startup. Plantwelcomenewproject Displays the New Project button on the welcome screen. AutoCAD Plant 30 - AdvancedGeneral introduction to the book Plantwelddisplay Toggles the display of connection markers. Slineortho Sets whether ortho is tured on when sline is activated and whether corner points are implied. sycnstylemode Sets how project drawings synchronize with the project database. Verips Controls the display of vertex grips Page 24 AutoCAD Plant 30 - Advani