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Process engineering

Create and modify P&IDs in an AutoCAD environment

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

Improve coordination with other disciplines

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

Easily provide compliance documentation

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

Piping design

Simplify plant design and editing

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

Improve consistency between P&ID and piping

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

Minimize piping man hours

• Check against criteria to design to spec
• Better coordinate piping and structural design
• Check designs for interferences

Skid and equipment design

Quickly create equipment specifications

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

More easily validate design packages

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

Produce detailed fabrication documents

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

Structural design

Design and analyze plant structures in 3D

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

Create steel and concrete reinforcement drawings

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

Deliver more complete documentation

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

Process plant operator

Better front-end engineering design (FEED)

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

Improve coordination

• Deliver more coordinated information across teams
• Provide more complete plant engineering data
• Minimize rework by identifying issues earlier

Design with widely used 2D and 3D CAD tools

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

Engineering and consulting

Improve design efficiency

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

Minimize rework

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

Fast-paced project support at lower cost

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

Equipment suppliers

Digitally prototype plant equipment

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

Minimize project delivery risks

• Improve project team coordination
• Better understand site conditions before delivery
• More effectively identify issues before construction

Work within tight budgets and deadlines

• Use materials more efficiently
• Minimize changes on the shop floor
• Reuse design data for manufacturing and marketing

Construction

Virtually explore constructability

• Determine project complexity and scope
• Aggregate data for whole project review
• Better coordinate site and workflow planning

Improve cost reliability

• More rapidly generate material takeoffs
• Evaluate design alternative costs
• Help resolve conflicts before construction

Better predict project outcomes

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

Equipment and skid design

Model 3D plant equipment with Inventor.

(Video: 0:25 sec.)
 

Routed systems design

Design routed elements more easily.

(Video: 1:38 min.)

Electrical raceways and ducting

Model with AutoCAD MEP.
 

P&ID creation and management

More easly modify and manage piping.

(Video: 1:02 min.)

Design, drafting, and plant layout

AutoCAD software is included in the suite.
 

3D plant and pipe design software

Model process plants more efficiently.

(Video: 0:47 sec.)

Weight/Center of Gravity (COG) calculations

Calculate COG for piping components.

(Video: 0:50 sec.)
 

Bill of Materials (BOM)

Create BOM tables for orthographic drawings.

(Video: 0:33 sec.)

Raster-to-vector conversion

Work scanned data into CAD workflows.

(Video: 1:29 sec.)

Integrate with BIM 360 Glue

Share Navisworks data with BIM 360.
 

Clash detection

Identify plant layout interferences early.

(Video: 0:43 sec.)

Faster project reviews

Aggregate models to speed project reviews.

(Video: 1:27 min.)

Structural analysis

Simultaneous cloud analysis and desktop design.
 

Design and structural detail

Detail and design steel structures in Revit.

(Video: 0:31 sec.)