David 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, …

“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 …

When 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 …

The 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 …

Every 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 …

With the availability of Plant 3d 2021, here’s a short summary of the features we are looking forward into digging into (you know being the #bestplant3dreseller and all). We’re building a list of stuff we’re checking out, drop us a line if there is something you want us to investigate. …

Do you sometimes feel the weight of the world is on your shoulders – or at least the weight of your process plant facility? In some scenarios the tolerances for errors are so small, and sometimes life and safety are at risk. It would help relieve some of the burden …

Due to current events, we have gotten several calls about accessing Plant 3d remotely so that companies can develop a proper plan of action. Here’s our recommendation for Plant 3d users. Remote Desktop – I choose remote desktop (RDP) as the preferred method because of it’s ease of use and …

Your piping designs need to be meticulous. Some fluids, like water, are benign. If you make a mistake in a piping design and water leaks, while it’s certainly an issue, life and limb are not typically at risk. But a leak of hydrochloric acid can be a matter of life …