As of September 13, 2020, a new AutoCAD Plant 3D 2021 update is available: Plant 3D 2021.0.1. It’s a welcome surprise for Monday morning. To update Plant 3D 2021, visit your Autodesk Account at manage.autodesk.com and go to Product Updates under Products and Services. For any questions or help with …
Moving Plant Shared Content to Vault
David WolfeFor people using Vault, many times they would like to host their shared content in Vault. The first step to doing that is to upload the content into Vault. If there is interest in future posts, we’ll show other steps like synchronizing Vault to a server, or having users sync …
Nozzles selection for custom equipment scripts
David WolfeThe #bestplant3dreseller here again with some information on customizing the default nozzle for equipment. This is an advanced Plant 3d configuration topic, and it can be used with a variety of equipment types including custom python equipment. Let’s examine the Centrifugal pump.peqx file You’ll need 7-Zip, and once you right-click …
Getting Started with Plant 3D
David WolfeUsually the posts tend to lean towards customizations and how to do stuff with Plant 3d. However, today I wanted to point out some resources for those of you looking to adopt Plant 3d. First of all, there is a great playlist on YouTube that covers a lot of the …
#Bestplant3dreseller with Biggest News In Plant 3d reporting…ever
David WolfeEver wanted to know how far along your plant 3d project is? What about knowing whether people are working more on P&IDs or modeling? How much equipment needs to be completed. How can you get those answers without a: having people fill in more data, or b: asking those questions …
Showing End Types on Spec-Driven P&IDs in Plant 3D
David WolfeA question came in today about how to show end types when using spec-driven P&IDs with AutoCAD Plant 3D. Let’s run through the settings to configure the project and show how the spec-driven P&IDs work. We’ll use the following outline as a guide: Configure Project Settings Draw Components Select optional …
Plant Design Innovators Recap: Plant & Civil with David Wolfe
Caitlin DunnDavid Wolfe of Applied Software led the charge for the second installment of the Plant Design Innovators virtual event. David discussed the use of plant design and Civil 3D software and began with a short description about his own experience in the field. “When I first started doing plant design, …
Plant Design Innovators Recap: Plant & Process
Caitlin Dunn“As far as plant design goes, there’s not a lot of us,” began Owen Whitehouse, Senior Implementation Specialist at Applied Software. Owen led the charge for the first installment of the Plant Design Innovators Virtual Event series. The virtual events are geared toward building community and sharing vital information among …
Plant 3D: 9 Quick Steps to Modifying the projsymbolstyle.dwg
David WolfeWhen configuring a Plant 3D project, you will need to edit the projsymbolstyle.dwg or other templates to customize layers, blocks or other AutoCAD styles. You can edit the projsymbolstyle.dwg using the following process: In Plant 3D, check in all files/changes you have on your local machine. We will need to …
Plant 3D Hackathon Attracts Global Audience
Carol DunnThe concept of a hackathon comes from the software development world. Coders get together, choose a problem, then put a high intensity level of effort toward solving that problem using whatever tools they have. The unstructured exercise starts with picking a part then proceeding. The Event The Plant 3D Hackathon …
Missing Default Pipe Specs CustomParts Imperial/Metric?!
David WolfeEvery now and then we or one of our clients forgets to have some key specs in the project. Mainly because they sometimes get deleted or seem insignificant. Here’s a list of the stock specs that you might end up needing by using certain Plant 3d features. CustomPartsImperial Required to …
The New Face of Plant Prefabrication
Carol DunnIn the Bluebeam/StrXur video titled Building Better, Faster with Plant Prefab, the art of prefabricated buildings gets a breath of new life. Steve Glenn, CEO of Plant Prefab, explains that modular construction cuts overall building time in half. Site work and construction happen concurrently. Under traditional site-based construction, site work …