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P3D Multiple Users on One Project

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James_C
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P3D Multiple Users on One Project

I'm new in using Plant 3D and would like to know if it is really necessary to buy another software Vault Collaboration for multiple users on one single project (let's say a small project)?  Can P3D be doing in a similar way without Vault?

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TomislavGolubovic
in reply to: James_C

In the one office, for sure, just break up the models to different plant areas, and disciplines.


Tomislav Golubovic
Technical Specialist - Plant and Infrastructure
Autodesk Australia / New Zealand
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk ANZ YouTube Channel
Message 3 of 8
James_C
in reply to: James_C

How can it work on ONE project with different disciplines by different users at the same time in the same office?

Will there be any COMMON FILES need to be updated or creating conflicts when working on trhe different disciplines at the same time?

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TomislavGolubovic
in reply to: James_C

No, lets say for example you have 12 designers working on the project. 2 of them would be P&ID persons, 5 are Pipers, and the remaining 5 are Structural modellers.

 

The 2 P&ID designers would draw on the P&ID's for the project, there might be a half dozen P&ID's so they co-ordinate on who is doing what drawing, and from whichever process engineer marks up the drawings.

 

The Pipers would have their own models, for example, so they do the Equipment Layouts in one model, and then XREF that Equipment model into other Piping models and do the Piping Layouts.

 

The Structural or the Pipers might do the preliminary structural modelling in Plant. From there, you can dump the Structural models into Revit and continue modelling, or export that file to ASD to do the detailed structural design. Because ASD is an AutoCAD based product, you could at some point, detach the Plant3D structural models from the other Equipment and Piping models, and use the ASD models in their place.

 

Plant3D is AutoCAD based, so like any other AutoCAD project, you just make up models for an area of the project, and then break that down again into disciplines, so for Area 01, you might have PI-001.dwg, EQ-001.dwg, STR-001.dwg and STR-ASD-001.dwg for the Piping, Equipment, Plant Structure and ASD Structural models.



Tomislav Golubovic
Technical Specialist - Plant and Infrastructure
Autodesk Australia / New Zealand
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk ANZ YouTube Channel
Message 5 of 8
mikael
in reply to: TomislavGolubovic

Hi,

 

This whitepaper might be helpful.

http://autocad.autodesk.com/ama/orig/plant/How_to_Manage_Large_Projects.pdf

 

//Mikael

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aldevos
in reply to: James_C

Hi James,

 

For the configuration on your project, I definitely recommend you not to use SQLite databases but SQL Server databases.

We started our project with SQLite databases, we have 8 people working simultaneously on the project and we had so many problems due to the database. Since we switched to SQL Server, we have no more databases problems.

 

Do not to neglect this point, we lost so many hours on our project.

 

Best regards,

Alexandre Devos

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James_C
in reply to: James_C

Thanks everyone for the informationa and advise.  

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hyrro_velasquez
in reply to: aldevos

Does SQL server database, allow multiple user to model in one DWG? sorry for the question I'm new to this part of plant 3D, also does all the objects on the workspace will registered in the database table even though it is placed by different user? hope to find more information regarding DB server, thank you so much for this.

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