Hi
We are in the start phase of designing our small (about the size of a normal house) process plants from scratch. We have some old concept P&ID's in pdf version that we might be able to convert to dwg, but no strong preferences about which software to use, except something from Autodesk (we use Inventor + Vault Pro for 3D stuff).
I now need a software to draw the P&ID's for this process plant. In previous jobs I used plain AutoCAD Mechanical with a self-designed symbol library for the various components and pipe lines. The symbols had some intelligence built into them with ERP data etc, so we could export a BOM.
But that was 10 years ago.... Has the world moved on..?
So the 1m$ questions are;
-Should I just go for AutoCAD Mechanical like I used to, if so; are there any good symbol library's available (with component metadata built into it) so I do not have to build everything up from scratch?
-Or is e.g Plant 3D a better option (using only the 2D P&ID module for schematics, all piping is to be done in Inventor)?
Thanks!
