Has anyone used AutoCAD P&ID

[thalon]

Has anyone out there used autoCAD P&ID? What are your experiences/opinions?

 

[zuccus]

I tried to convince they should give me 7 seats to be a beta-tester for them, but they wouldn't do it.

I haven't used it yet, but when I was talking to them I heard a lot of "that feature is going to be in our next release."

I decidedid to go and buy cadworx P&ID instead, because all those features I needed were already there.

Right now best I can tell, it is just a good blocks library.

Zuccus

 

[thalon]

How is CadWorx P&ID? Are there substantial benifits over simple AutoCAD drawing of P&ID's with no database involved?

 

[zuccus]

CADworx P&ID in my opinion is awesome if your doing some very high level stuff. i.e. databases, loop sheets, etc.

If your doing simple P&ID's with no databases it is good too.

It is kind of a learning curve, so if you are not expereinced with it, it might be tough to maniputale it to your company standards.

I don't know how the AutoCAD P&ID is for this though. It might be the same.

Zuccus

 

[Shenderson17]

Hi,

Just started using ACAD PID and got lumped with making fit company standards so I'll keep you posted on just how flexible it is.

Scott.

 

[thalon]

Shenderson17 - That would be great.

I was at AU2007 and attended a couple of class on P&ID. They made it sould easy to replace thier blocks with your own. But it didn't sould easy to assign all the data to and existing P&ID by beaing able to select a pump block and click a button to tell P&ID that this is a pump. and have it add all the data behind the block, or simply delete the block and insert the new one with all of the P&ID data.

I appriciate any updates you can give me. Thanks.

 

[PeterCharles]

I tried the beta version, but it was too heavy for our needs.