From the course: AutoCAD Plant 3D Essential Training: Admin

Project Manager overview - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD Plant 3D Essential Training: Admin

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Project Manager overview

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- [Instructor] Welcome to the Plant 3D Administrator Training course. As an administrator, you'll be responsible for all aspects of the project. These tasks include creating the custom components, the custom content, maintenance of all the project databases, upkeep of the project tool palettes, and preserving the integrity of the project data. All of this can be done using the Project Manager interface. This intuitive, easy-to-navigate interface is the brains behind the Plant 3D project. So let's start by talking a little bit about the administrator role and why this role is so important to the success of a project. So let's start with opening our software. So we're going to come to our desktop and launch our Plant 3D program. So we're going to navigate to our exercise file. So we have this organized as one project per chapter. So we're going to navigate to Open, Desktop files, Exercise Files, Chapter 01, Project.xml. And we're going to open P&ID up just so that we have something on the ribbon menu here. So the most important aspects of the project is making sure that all the information is centralized and that it's always up to date. We don't ever want to have information duplicated on the off chance that one designer is using maybe perhaps an old version of a spec, and somebody else is using the new version of a spec. So, the same works with tool palettes. We want to make sure everybody's working with the same symbols, the same terminology, the same drawing borders, same notations. Everything needs to be compliant with your company and your client's standards. So the best way to do this is only have a few people who have access to the project data. And this allows you to control the content, and it reduces the risk of having non-compliant data or drawing borders included with the company and client drafting standards. What you never want to do is make the core project files accessible to the majority of the users. So to do this, I would suggest have one or two people being responsible for creating the custom content because this eliminates the duplication of work, and it maintains the integrity of the project content. Restricted access to the project customization is vital to prevent others from making unauthorized changes to your project. So limiting access to the project data allows you to control the content. This reduces the risk of users creating non-standard blocks or using non-standard tagging schemes, and this risks putting you out of compliance with your company and client drafting standards.

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