AutoPlant Object Enabler for Plant 3D 2013

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have been trying to open an AutoPlant drawing in P3D 2013 (I already have all the object enablers installed) but it presents proxy objects where the pipes should be. In P3D 2012, everything works fine and I can see all the AutoPlant objects.

Since AutoPlant is not supported anymore (and therefore the betley object enablers are not updated) does anybody know any workarounds for this issue? Apparently, the AutoPlant objects come in as proxy objects in all 2013 Autodesk software.

Many thanks in advance.

Loukas

[AndyDavisArkance · Accepted solution]

Hi Loukas,

I don't know whether a 2013 OE will be available anytime soon, but as a workaround AutoPLANT custom objects can be converted to ACIS solids from within AutoPLANT. 

To do this, you can use the COPYASACIS command in AutoPLANT to create AutoCAD solids out of the AutoPLANT custom objects. Create yourself a new ACAD layer in AutoPLANT and make it current, run the COPYASACIS command and select all; this will create standard ACIS solids on the current layer.  Freeze all other layers and wblock out the drawing to a new AutoCAD dwg file.  You can then insert this new file into a Plant 3D dwg and explode it to get access to the geometry.

As an aside, legacy AutoPLANT models may be viewed in Navisworks 2013, with the AutoPLANT ObjectEnabler for AutoCAD 2010 installed and the DWG Loader Version of the Navisworks DWG/DWF File Reader set to 2010.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Andy

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply Andy.

I tried what you suggested and it seems that AutoPlant objects do appear in Navis 2013. However, they do not carry any intelligence with them and when you want to work with BIM in mind, that doesn't really help.

Anyway, thank you for your reply. It definitely helped!

Kind Regards,

Loukas