P&ID for Solidworks/ SW Routing

[ChrisMorris]

We are currently using SW and will working on a project in which we will be needing to generate Process and Instrumentation Diagrams. I've generated process flow diagrams before as SW drawings and it is tedious. It appears the piping features available in SW Routing are rather limited so I'm wondering if it's worth continuing working on the design in SW? What's out there as an add-in or stand alone product for creating layouts and P&ID's?

 

[ctopher]

I have not used it, but I heard from others that they use MS Visio.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
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[NL8]

I've heard good things about Autodesk's AutoCAD P&ID.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=11093050

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 09 x64, SP 1.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[Eltron]

We use visio for our P&IDs.


Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

Dan's Blog

 

[ChrisMorris]

I installed a trial licence of Visio, seems to be working out pretty well.

 

[HippieGuy69]

Just to throw my 2 cents in...Visio is not bad after you work with it for a while...when I started using it it seemed a little counter-intuitive...but then..it could have been just me

Designer / Drafter
SolidWorks 2009

It doesn't sound crazy from MY point of view!

 

[NL8]

Going to try a free trial of the AutoCAD package here tomorrow, will report once I've fiddled a bit.

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 09 x64, SP 1.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600