3D plant design tools for the process industry

Create and manage P&IDs with AutoCAD P&ID software.

• Automate design and editing tasks
• Annotate designs based on industry-standard formats
• Identify drawing inconsistencies

• Share plant designs and models
• Create standard reports and export data in various file formats
• Use industry-standard P&ID symbols

• Quickly produce instrument lists and reports
• Connect to process data to identify equipment for monitoring
• Integrate with monitoring databases (such as LDAR)

Intelligently model piping with AutoCAD Plant 3D.

• Quickly model piping using spec-driven technology
• Share info between 3D models, P&IDs and orthographics 
• Work easily with point clouds for brownfield projects

• Quickly generate materials lists and reports
• Work via an interconnected model
• Easily share construction documents

• Check against criteria to design to spec
• Better co-ordinate piping and structural design
• Check designs for interferences

Inventor model of a skid-mounted pressure vessel.

• Create and modify P&IDs more easily
• Use Digital Prototyping (US site)for equipment and skids
• P&IDs and 3D models share one integrated project

• View equipment and skids in a 3D process model
• Optimise designs and find problems earlier with simulation
• Better co-ordinate information on fast-paced projects

• Create and share DWG™ drawings
• Generate documentation from digital prototypes
• Create and manage bills of materials (BOMs)

Model structural components with Revit software.

• Quickly create preliminary structural models
• Design more efficiently with intelligent structural objects
• Integrate design and analysis with bi-directional links

• Define and visualise concrete reinforcement
• Create details with 3D model views
• Prepare shop drawings for fabrication

• Calculate and track detailed material quantities
• Provide more accurate engineering models
• Automatically generate sections and levels

• Create and modify P&IDs faster and more accurately
• More easily extract info from P&IDs
• Minimise documentation errors

• Deliver more co-ordinated information across teams
• Provide more complete plant engineering data
• Minimise re-work by identifying issues earlier

• Create with state-of-the-art software
• Use AutoCAD-trained staff
• Help attract graduates trained on Autodesk software

• Create P&IDs and equipment lists more quickly
• Share info across process models, P&IDs and orthographics
• Support faster reviews with CAD renderings

• Identify issues earlier with 3D models and visuals
• Minimise change orders
• Find fewer documentation errors

• Start projects faster using existing AutoCAD-trained staff
• Use tools designed for 3D plant design workflows
• Help speed project tasks with 3D process models

• Simulate performance before manufacturing
• Create and modify P&IDs more easily
• Connect skid to main P&ID to display project scope

• Improve project team co-ordination
• Better understand site conditions before delivery
• More effectively identify issues before construction

• Use materials more efficiently
• Minimise changes on the shop floor
• Re-use design data for manufacturing and marketing

• Determine project complexity and scope
• Aggregate data for whole project review
• Better co-ordinate site and workflow planning

• More quickly generate material take-offs
• Evaluate design alternative costs
  
• Help resolve conflicts before construction

• Simulate schedules and logistics in 4D
• Assess and quantify scope changes
• Easily communicate plans to stakeholders