Plant designers face a wide variety of tough-to-solve ventilation and flow control challenges. How can contaminant releases be controlled more effectively? How can you improve energy efficiency? Can you improve flow uniformity through a filter to improve uptime and reduce costs? Designers routinely face these and countless other challenges but until today have had limited ability to examine them in detail. Plant Design Suite subscribers now have access to Autodesk Simulation CFD 360 cloud-based software, which enables designers and engineers to model flow, thermal phenomena, and fluid mixing in complex plant environments. This class will introduce attendees to what Simulation CFD 360 offers and how they can make best use of it for their design work using geometry that was created in AutoCAD® or Autodesk® Revit® software.

Plant designers are among the earliest adopters of reality capture technologies. With a facility's constant demand for upgrade, repair, and turnaround, highly accurate, yet efficient real-world measurements are an essential foundation for new design and organized asset management. One major technology, laser scanning, is becoming more of a standard rather than luxury within the plant design world. Over the past few years Autodesk has made significant strides in combining reality capture technologies natively into software products such as AutoCAD® software and Navisworks® software. This class provides live demonstrations and real user stories to review the latest enhancements for reality capture in the 2014 product portfolio as well as evaluate how the enhancements affect the AutoCAD plant design workflow. Attendees learn the latest methods for going from scanning, to point clouds, to deliverables such as intelligent plant models, tie-in points, equipment conditions, clash reports, and more.

How are inventive plant designers capitalizing on the power of Autodesk, Inc.’s, reality-computing platform? This class will examine real Autodesk user experiences regarding how companies are successfully implementing point cloud data for plant design. Listen to your peers and gain insight into the latest software used, the common barriers experienced in introducing new technology, and the workflows adopted to help users get from the field to completed design. This class will also recommend the latest laser scanning workflows within the Plant Design Suite software for 2016. Discover how to achieve typically needed plant deliverables such as catalog piping and structural design, tie-in point extraction, clash reporting, and field to shop and back—all from native Autodesk point clouds.

It is common to design factory layouts using AutoCAD software and Inventor software to ensure spatial accuracy and safety compliance. However, it is not the norm to be as diligent with process design. Often plant designers will rely on equipment vendor rates and will assume equipment and resources will integrate and run according to the design on paper. But what happens when the reality of process variation and equipment and labor interdependencies come into play? It’s very difficult to take all these factors into account using only CAD drawings and layouts. The solution is to use simulation to optimize the factory workflow, then create a direct link from the simulation to the factory layout, providing a digital twin of the factory. We will demonstrate the value and basics of how using ProModel and Process Simulator Autodesk Editions, synced with AutoCAD and Inventor, can help optimize your digital twin first so that you’re not playing trial and error with your real equipment, inventory, and labor.

This class covers helpful tips and tricks for working with specs, 3D models, isometrics, and Navisworks® software in the AutoCAD Plant 3D software design environment.

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How to use the isometric configuration files for your needs - with a main focus on the isoconfig.xml

In this class, you will learn to create custom content for both Autodesk® P&ID and Autodesk Plant 3D software. We will focus on using tools such as legacy AutoCAD® data, previously created AutoCAD 3D solids, and Autodesk® Inventor® to create the content. You will learn to create and modify custom symbols. We will also show you how to create and maintain project templates that contain custom content as well as how to copy custom content from one project to another.

In this class, we share some of the tricks we have learned over the years for working with AutoCAD® Plant 3D software. We cover various ways to route pipe, including rolled offsets, L2P, sloped, F as you go, elevations, and compass settings. We teach you to create equipment templates and use Viewports in Plant 3D modeling. We cover X-ray view, layer and template options, and iso messages and breaks. We explain the model symbols, such as triangles, pluses, inverted triangles, arrows, and the red line of connectivity. Finally, we cover the proper method of making line and inline asset size changes.

In this roundtable session, we will talk about future directions for AutoCAD P&ID software and AutoCAD Plant 3D software. Come prepared to discuss what features you would like to see in AutoCAD P&ID or AutoCAD Plant 3D. What would you like to do with your data outside your drawings? Topics for discussion include data management, interoperability between AutoCAD P&ID and AutoCAD Plant 3D, validations, and spec-driven P&ID.

In this class, you learn how to set up isometrics within AutoCAD Plant 3D design software. You see how you can create your own iso styles, how to use your own symbols, and how to set up your title block. We also cover some tips and tricks outside the comfort of the user interface.

In this class we will show and demonstrate the new multiport valves now included inside our AutoCAD Plant 3D software. Come and watch how we can utilize multiport valves to meet the needs of the pharma or food and beverage industry.

Become a better designer in AutoCAD Plant 3D software by using these tricks of the trade. In this class, you will learn better ways to route pipe, more-efficient ways to develop platforms and structures, tricks to equipment creation using Inventor software for simplifying, and some Catalog editing tricks. This session features AutoCAD Plant 3D and Inventor Professional.

In this class, you will learn how to create and customize a sample AutoCAD P&ID software project. We will show you how to customize a title block to include company information, modify AutoCAD P&ID to use your own layering system, and create company blocks for your project. The class will cover how class structure affects symbol creation and how dynamic block tools work with AutoCAD P&ID. You will also learn how to work with project fields and find out where project settings are stored.

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In this class, you learn about a proven oil and gas industry workflow using Plant Design Suite. We start with P&IDs and go through creating plant design models using all of the components within the Plant Design Suite Ultimate edition. We also cover how to incorporate Inventor® software models into your design.

The specs and catalogues provided with AutoCAD Plant 3D software are very good for a large number of users. However, there can often be a requirement for customization of these default specs if your design operation requirements include specs with vendor content; specs for fittings not included in default catalogues; specs for connection systems not included in default catalogues; specs using custom components; specs requiring metric dimensions in size descriptors; specs requiring metric weight data; and/or specs requiring visual realism. Come and learn how to develop specs for high-purity applications such as Tubepress; how to build components such as tap-in clamps, ladders, and sprinklers; and how to modify the 3D enumeration file to add custom body types such as flow meters, steam traps, expansion joints, and so on.

During recent years computing technology has moved quickly from desktop computers to mobile devices and cloud computing. Such a technology shift provides both CAE vendors and enterprise users with large challenges and large opportunities. In the first part of the lecture we will present Bayer AG's vision for the application of these technologies. What advantages does a global chemical enterprise like Bayer experience, what technological requirements does such an enterprise have, and which challenges does it face? In the second part of the class the Bayer vision is compared to the view of Autodesk, Inc., as an innovative CAE software provider. Cloud and mobile computing—just a vision 5 years ago—is now reality in a variety of released cloud and mobile apps. How does this technology match the needs of industry? How is it accepted, and will it indeed induce major changes in the ways that CAE is applied in a chemical enterprise like Bayer? We will provide a snapshot of an interesting interaction between industry vision and software vendors' visions.

As many of us know, changing from one software solution to another is not an easy task. In most cases, companies must put applications through a rigorous process to set them up to meet company standards. When changing from one program to another, it is ideal to maintain the largest amount of customized data possible. This class covers converting your current Bentley® AutoPLANT, Intergraph® CADWorx®, or CSV-formatted specs and catalogs into AutoCAD Plant 3D specs and catalogs. We go through the process for conversions as well as take an in-depth look into the mapping and the setup of the mapping inside of the AutoCAD Plant 3D Spec Editor.

In this session we will look at BIM 360 Glue software and show how to use it with AutoCAD Plant 3D software.