Plant Solutions at AU 2009
Autodesk University as usual in Vegas.
Two weeks and we will be in Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas for Autodesk University 2009. Among all the exciting things happening at AU; Plant Solutions have a list of customer engaging events to learn from the experts about AutoCAD Plant 3D, AutoCAD P&ID, Autodesk Navisworks, etc. There are series of Plant Solution classes and labs offered for the plant products. A good place to get jump start on the AutoCAD P&ID and AutoCAD Plant 3D. There will be Plant Solutions booth in the Exhibit hall for the demos and talking to all the customers. A cool AutoCAD Plant 3D t-shirt too. A Plant Solutions Lounge will be there too to relax and talk to Plant folks.
Another place to learn and interact with other users and experts at AutoCAD Exchange Plant Group and see the AU Plant Industry Sneak Peek Preview Videos.
PD208-1: AutoCAD P&ID Customization: Everything From Tags and Annotations to Symbols
This year at Autodesk University (AU 2009), I will be speaking about AutoCAD P&ID customization. Here are the details:
PD208-1: AutoCAD P&ID Customization: Everything From Tags and Annotations to Symbols
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:00am – 11:30am PST
Banyan F @ Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas
Class Type: 90-Minute Class Primary Track: Plant Design
AutoCAD P&ID is gaining popularity quite rapidly. Every company has their own ways of creating P&IDs; with custom symbols, different ways of tagging and different data they want to display in the drawings, etc. And there are lot of things that you can do to get the best out the software; customizations that can make things very easy to you and make the software do what you want it to do for you. The key areas that I will be touching are mentioned below.
You will learn how to customize AutoCAD P&ID; to create and use custom symbols, define and utilize custom tag formats that inherit properties from different sources. Learn about property acquisition to propagate property values from one asset to another and define new rules for acquisition.
This will be an interactive class with most of the time spent on the AutoCAD P&ID software itself. I will be using a lot of examples to show how annotations can be formatted and placed inside custom blocks which are dynamically resized when the length of the text changes.
This class will require some knowledge of Plant industry and P&ID. Basic concepts of how to use AutoCAD P&ID will not be covered. There are few other classes and Labs on AutoCAD P&ID and other Plant Solutions product at AU 2009 and all the details can be found on AU site.
See you at Las Vegas.
Autodesk University 2009 at Las Vegas
Autodesk University (AU 2009) this year will be held in Las Vegas from Dec 1 to Dec 3, 2009 and this year, Autodesk University is moving to The Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.
Why attain AU 2009?
This will be my third year at AU and I am all excited to attain this year too. As always there will be hundreds of classes and hands-on training with the latest Autodesk tools and techniques. This gives a chance to learn from some of the world’s top instructors, Autodesk insiders, and industry experts. I like it at AU because this is a good opportunity to share ideas with the users and understand about their experience with the Autodesk products, tools they use and if any issues they have. The feel of participating in a live event with experts around all the time is a experience in itself. The professional experience and expertise of participants mutually helps each other at our work and career.
I will be teaching a class again this year. This class will be on AutoCAD P&ID Advance Customization. This class will cover all the details about the customizing Tags, annotations and symbols. I will talk about the details later.
PD208-1: AutoCAD® P&ID Customization: Everything From Tags and Annotations to Symbols
AIChE @ Genentech: Process Safety in the Biotech Industry
Last week AIChE NorCal decided to meet at Genentech facility at their headquarters in South San Francisco. AIChE meets have always been best place for networking and catching with the industry peers about things going in their part of industry. There has been a wide range for industry representation of chemical engineers; from biotech, oil & gas, specialty chemicals, semiconductors, research, software, students, etc…
Why was this meet different then the regular ones?
As a part of this meeting a tour of the protein plant was included. The process was show around and the pilot plant with step up process was explain. First thing that was very obvious was the housekeeping, excellent. All the guests were given safety glasses and coasts as expected to take a look around at the world class production facility. The close look at the process control and instrumentation was possible with the details of process going on.
It was evident that everyone working in the pilot plant gave imporatnce to safety. The tour was followed by dinner presentation about Process Safety in the Biotech Industry. EHS professionals at Genentech discussed on three topics. Process Hazard Analysis of pressurized systems (steam, fermentors, columns etc) was the topic to start with followed by Ammonia use, controls and safety alarms in the manufacture of proteins. Then there was presentation and discussion about Management of Change process in plants to ensure safe implementation of new technologies. A lot of information sharing and a good dinner ended the session.
AutoCAD Plant 3D; How easy can plant 3D design be?
AutoCAD Plant 3D is obviously build on the AutoCAD platform and made it as easy to use as it can be. With very little (or no training) one can get going with the product as oppose to other Plant 3D design products. Also, this is easy to install and use as a stand-alone product without a data base expert needed.
So, if you have installed AutoCAD Plant 3D; just open the Project Manager and create your project the exact same way one would do in AutoCAD P&ID. Under the Plant 3D section in Project Manager you can create a new 3D model drawing. To route a pipe; click on the ribbon button ‘Route Pipe’. You can change the Size and Spec as you need. Also, adding Line Number is option or it can be picked from the existing line numbers from your P&ID.
You can start routing pipe. There are several options that can be considered too as needed. The options are changing Size/Specification/Plane/Cutbackelbow/Rollelbow/Stub-in/Elevation/Offset. As you start using the product you will face the auto-routing feature which gives different routing options shown once you select the end point of pipe in an existing nozzle.
Equipment modeling is another easy thing to do. Create Equipment button ribbon shows a interface that can help you create the type of equipment and edit all the necessary information. Your own blocks can also be used and I will talk about it in later blogs.
Isometric and Orthographic projects can be created in just few clicks.
There are some classes on Plant products at Autodesk University 2009 at Las Vegas from Dec 1 – 4, 2009 at Mandalay Bay. There will be several classes in Plant 3D and P&ID. I will be speaking in one of the advance customization on AutoCAD P&ID. Some of the AutoCAD Plant 3D classes are:
PD118 Intro to AutoCAD Plant 3D – Process Piping, Structural and Equipment
PD214 Executing a First Project in AutoCAD Plant 3D Some more P&ID classes…
All the details can be found on Autodesk University site. http://au.autodesk.com
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010 is released…
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010 is released.
The first release of the Plant 3D design product that is built on AutoCAD platform as AutoCAD P&ID was. AutoCAD P&ID is also integrated in AutoCAD Plant 3D to make P&ID to Plant 3D interoperability so you can create and edit P&ID, and reconcile the underlying data with the 3D model.
AutoCAD Plant 3D is Spec driven with standard parts catalogs that comes with the product that helps in pipe routing and equipment modeling. Structural design is also integrated. Isometrics and orthographies can be generated very easily from ten 3D model. The same Project Manager from AutoCAD P&ID is used, which make it very easy to start working with the projects. Pipe routing is very intuitive and at times the auto-routing feature kicks in and helps with different options of routing.
AutoCAD Plant 3D is a very impressive product with so easy to use functionalities. More details of the features can be found on Autodesk site at: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=12290214
