The placement of equipment is a key part of the plant design process. In this overview, learn about how equipment is handled using Plant 3D.
- [Instructor] Welcome to Chapter Four, and we're going to take a look at equipment. So, let's start by navigating over to our Project Manager, and we're going to open, and from our desktop, exercise files, we're going to open Chapter Four, and choose our project XML. So, we're going to scroll down into our Plant 3D drawings, and we're open equipment 04_01_Equipment. So, double click on that to open.
So, the Plant 3D equipment module, allows you to create your equipment in a number of different ways. We can use the parametric equipment builder that comes with program, or create your own AutoCAD 3D shapes, or import equipment from other programs, such as inventor. While the program does come with some equipment shapes already loaded, the goal really is to create your own, as you need them, and save them to central location, to be used over again as templates. So, let's take a look at the different equipment options that we have. If we look up on our ribbon menu, here, we can see the equipment panel, and it's fairly small and fairly simple to use.
If you want to create parametric equipment from the Plant 3D program, we just simply come up to the create button, and we can open this dialogue box, and you'll see here, we have a number of different options that are pre-configured. And, essentially what we're doing is just taking standard AutoCAD shapes and stringing them together to create an impression of the equipment that we want to place in our model. We also have another couple of options, here. We have the modify equipment button, once we've placed equipment, we can use this to go back and change some of the parameters.
Attach equipment, this allows us to take customized AutoCAD solids and attach them to a piece of equipment, so it basically creates a block or a group. We can confer equipment, which it takes standard AutoCAD 3D shapes that you may have customized or been given by a vendor, and we can convert those into smart Plant 3D equipment models. We can remove any kind of attachments that we've made using regular AutoCAD, and we can bring equipment in from inventors. If you have a vendor, who's created equipment using inventor, any of the smart nozzles, piping connections, all of this can come through into your drawing.
So once you create a piece of equipment, we're going to start to use it, as a library, and you continue to work on your projects. The time spent creating equipment becomes less and less. Make sure that you store templates in a location that's easy to navigate to and accessible to all the people who are working on your projects.
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11/12/2018Released
9/14/2017- Setting up the Plant 3D workspace
- Using on-screen tools
- Working with Plant 3D files
- Creating a new model
- Importing an existing Plant 3D file into a project
- Locating missing drawing files
- Creating a structural grid
- Working with the structural steel component
- Creating equipment
- Basic pipe routing
- Moving and copying data
- Locating components using Data Manager
- Linking P&ID line information to your 3D model
- Orthographic drawings
- Isometric drawings
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome50s
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1. Getting Started
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Opening a Plant 3D model2m 30s
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Using on-screen tools3m 17s
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2. Working with Plant 3D Files
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2019 release bug1m 20s
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Renaming drawing files2m 42s
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3. Structural Steel
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Structural steel overview3m 42s
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Creating a structural grid3m 41s
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Placing structural beams6m 52s
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Editing structural beams6m 52s
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Placing ladders3m 5s
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Placing railings2m 35s
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Placing footings1m 18s
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4. Equipment
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Equipment overview2m 31s
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Creating equipment4m 50s
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Adding equipment trim3m 8s
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Equipment templates3m 38s
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5. Piping
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Piping overview6m 25s
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Basic pipe routing7m 59s
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Route pipe from equipment8m 51s
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Adding branches8m 9s
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Adding valves12m 35s
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Adding instrumentation3m 46s
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Pipe supports5m 21s
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Sloped piping2m 59s
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Insulated piping3m 42s
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6. Modify and Reuse Piping
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Hiding and isolating parts2m 35s
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Assign new line numbers5m 45s
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Connecting to xrefs4m 31s
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Custom Parts Builder6m 46s
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7. Data Manager
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Data Manager overview5m 1s
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Modifying tag data3m 34s
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Using Data Manager filters2m 48s
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8. P&ID
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P&ID overview3m 48s
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9. Orthographic Drawings
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Orthographic overview2m 36s
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Create adjacent views5m 21s
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Bill of Materials5m 27s
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10. Isometric Drawings
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Isometric overview5m 26s
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Touring the interface4m 18s
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Reference dimensions5m 36s
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Lock and issue a line5m 11s
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PCF to isometric2m 59s
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11. Project Tools
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Validation settings5m 35s
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Exporting to AutoCAD4m 6s
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12. Report Creator
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Report Creator overview7m 45s
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Conclusion
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Next steps45s
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