Overview
Experience modern plant design software
Autodesk® Plant Design Suite provides comprehensive plant design and piping software in an economical package. Design, model and review plant projects more effectively. The suite can help you innovate ahead of the competition, communicate with greater clarity and keep projects on schedule and within budget.
The future of design and creation suites
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See what you can do
Create and manage P&IDs with AutoCAD P&ID software.
Design P&IDs in an AutoCAD environment
- Automate design and editing tasks
- Annotate designs based on industry-standard formats
- Identify drawing inconsistencies
Improve co-ordination with other disciplines.
- Share plant designs and models
- Export data into tables and various file formats
- Use industry-standard P&ID symbols
Easily provide compliance documentation
- Identify component monitoring to support compliance
- Quickly produce instrument lists and reports
- Integrate with LDAR databases
Intelligent pipe modelling with Autodesk® AutoCAD® Plant 3D.
Simplify plant design and editing
- Place components with spec-driven technology
- Import specifications from other software
- Share info between 3D models, P&IDs and orthographics
Improve consistency between P&ID and piping
- Quickly generate materials lists and reports
- Work via an interconnected model
- Easily share construction documents
Minimise piping man hours
- Check against criteria to design to spec
- Better co-ordinate piping and structural design
- Check designs for interferences
Autodesk® Inventor® model of a skid mounted pressure vessel.
More quickly create equipment specs
- 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
- Optimise designs and find problems earlier with simulation
- Better co-ordinate 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)
Autodesk® Revit® model of structural components for a plant.
Design and analyse plant structures in 3D
- Visualise laser scans with point cloud tools
- Design more efficiently with intelligent structural objects
- Integrate design and analysis with bi-directional links
Create steel and concrete reinforcement drawings
- Define and visualise 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 levels
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Rendering of a processing plant model.
Better front-end engineering design (FEED)
- Create and modify P&IDs faster and more accurately
- More easily extract info from P&IDs
- Minimise documentation errors
Improve co-ordination
- Deliver more co-ordinated info across teams
- Provide more complete plant engineering data
- Minimise re-work 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
Process plant model with DWG™ file underlay.
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
Minimise re-work
- Identify issues earlier with 3D models and visuals
- Minimise change orders
- Fewer documentation errors
Fast-paced project support at lower cost
- Utilise existing AutoCAD trained staff
- Use tools designed for 3D plant design workflows
- Speed project tasks with 3D process models
Inventor® model of a skid mounted pressure vessel.
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
Minimise project delivery risks
- Improve project team co-ordination
- Better understand site conditions before delivery
- Identify issues before construction
Meet tight budgets and deadlines
- Use materials efficiently
- Minimise changes on the shop floor
- Re-use design data for manufacturing and marketing
Navisworks® model of a processing plant.
Virtually explore constructability
- Determine project complexity and scope
- Aggregate data for whole project review
- Better co-ordinate site and workflow planning
Improve cost reliability
- More quickly generate material take-offs
- 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
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