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AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 & Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012 Released

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Topic: AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 & Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012 Released
Posted By: BetweenTheLines
Subject: AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 & Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012 Released
Date Posted: 01.Sep.2011 at 00:04

http://www.autodesk.com/plantdesignsuite">Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012 To the delight of extreme pipers and plant design professionals around the world (including myself as a former process plant designer), the http://www.autodesk.com/autocadplant3d - AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012, http://www.autodesk.com/autocadpid - AutoCAD P&ID 2012 and  http://www.autodesk.com/plantdesignsuite - Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012 have just been announced.

The http://www.autodesk.com/plantdesignsuite - Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012 comes in Standard, Premium and the Ultimate edition which would now include http://www.autodesk.com/revitstructure - Revit Structure and http://www.autodesk.com/inventor - Autodesk Inventor .

Key components of Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012, which are all part of the Ultimate edition also referred to as the “whole enchilada” or “candy store” by me, include:

  • http://www.autodesk.com/autocad - AutoCAD 2012 for general drafting, design and layout
  • http://www.autodesk.com/autocadpid - AutoCAD P&ID 2012 for piping and instrumentation design, featuring improved symbol library management and better support for mixed metric projects
  • http://www.autodesk.com/autocadplant3d - AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 for 3D modeling and documentation of piping, featuring enhanced AutoCAD isometrics and customizable report creation
  • http://www.autodesk.com/structuraldetailing - AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2012 for drafting and editing structural details
  • http://www.autodesk.com/revitstructure - Autodesk Revit Structure 2012 for 3D modeling of structural components
  • http://www.autodesk.com/inventor - Autodesk Inventor 2012 for Digital Prototyping of plant equipment and skids
  • http://www.autodesk.com/navisworks - Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 for model aggregation, visualization, and simulation
  • http://www.autodesk.com/navisworks - Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 for clash detection
  • http://www.autodesk.com/showcase - Autodesk Showcase 2012 for showing interactive presentations
  • http://www.autodesk.com/showcase - Autodesk SketchBook Designer 2012 for design illustration and graphic communication

With http://www.autodesk.com/autocadplant3d - AutoCAD Plant 3D you can create not only 3D models plant equipment and piping but the Isometrics and P&IDs.

http://autodesk.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfd0c53ef0153912fb321970b-pi">AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 with 3D ortho design http://autodesk.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfd0c53ef01543503232d970c-pi">AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 with P&ID design

Press Announcement: http://bit.ly/nT0pBi - http://bit.ly/nT0pBi   

“Today’s compressed timelines and tighter budgets mean cooperation on every process level is more important, yet more difficult to realize. The latest edition of http://www.autodesk.com/plantdesignsuite - Plant Design Suite was specifically developed with multidisciplinary coordination in mind,” said Mark Strassman, vice president, http://www.autodesk.com - Autodesk Construction & Plant. “With http://www.autodesk.com/inventor - Autodesk Inventor , http://www.autodesk.com/revitstructure - Autodesk Revit Structure , http://www.autodesk.com/autocadplant3d - AutoCAD Plant 3D and http://www.autodesk.com/navisworks - Autodesk Navisworks Manage now all part of the suite, http://www.autodesk.com - Autodesk provides the best of http://www.autodesk.com/autocad - AutoCAD , the best of http://usa.autodesk.com/building-information-modeling/ - BIM , and the best of digital prototyping solutions for a more streamlined workflow—all in one package.”

A few of the larger new things in AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 and AutoCAD P&ID 2012:

Items with a * are for both P&ID and Plant 3D

  • *MS SQL Server and SQL Server Express support
  • *New Report Creator
  • AutoCAD Isometrics
  • Piping performance improvements – particularly with orthos.
  • Cadworx and Autoplant spec conversion
  • and more

There are 30 day full trial versions available for http://www.autodesk.com/autocadplant3d - AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012 and http://www.autodesk.com/autocadpid - AutoCAD P&ID 2012 available for download in many regions. Free Trial.

Also check out the http://autocad.autodesk.com/?nd=plant_home - Plant Exchange Community if you are in the plant design industry. You are likely to run into Extreme Piping like those in Project X and their video shown at Autodesk University 2010.

Project X Video on YouTube 
http://autocad.autodesk.com/?nd=projectxvideoyoutube

“A plant model completed in 2 weeks using the Autodesk Plant Design Suite, Autodesk Buzzsaw, and Autodesk 3ds Max by a team of 15 industry experts from the Dave Tyner Digital Plant Design Community.

The project included 40+ P&IDs, 13 3D models, 9400+ piping components, 4900+ structural items, 300+ pieces of equipment, 2000+ instruments, 14 ortho's, and 124 iso's.”

Cheers,
Shaan
Former Pi’d Piper

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