What software to do your P&ID's

[Anonymous]

I know it is a question for the Autocad Plant3D forum, but there is hardly any activity. I guess Plant3D is not Autodesks most important concern.

What software you piping designers use to do your P&ID's in an intelligent way. I mean by that; database driven, so all items' meta data used in your P&ID are accessible through some other way too than the drawing software itself, so other team members (purchasers, non-cad-engineers) can see & edit the data and print up to date reports of valvelists, insrtumentlists, linelists, etc, without asking the CAD department.

For the moment we use Autodesks Plant3D P&ID, but I don't lie if I say it crashes more than 5 times a day (for software that is 20 yrs in the running! come on...)

[Tomislav.Golubovic]

You're already using it if you're using Plant3D. As for the crashing, it must be something in your project or files. We're using it on a couple of projects and we're hitting 200+ P&ID's on the way to almost 260 and it works fine. We're also using BIM 360 Docs to share the project across three cities.

Autodesk don't have another solution for it. P&ID has been around since 2006, Plant3D since 2010. Its 'mature' but it could do with some more features, but for what it has, it works fine for us. Plus I'm working with a couple of clients who are using 2020 version on BIM 360 Teams and it works fine, also between three cities.

The only other competition I can think of are AutoPlant (now Open Plant?), CADWorx, Smartplant, PDS, and PDMS (which last I heard was using AutoCAD P&ID anyway, but that was years ago, I don't know if its been updated).

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I know it is a question for the Autocad Plant3D forum, but there is hardly any activity. I guess Plant3D is not Autodesks most important concern.

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Actually, it is only an indication of the number of users asking questions in that forum. For starters, the program is not nearly as widely used as AutoCAD. It wouldn't hurt to ask. One of the few just might be able to give you exactly the advice you need.

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@Anonymous wrote:

For the moment we use Autodesks Plant3D P&ID, but I don't lie if I say it crashes more than 5 times a day (for software that is 20 yrs in the running! come on...)

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This is most likely a local issue. You need IT support that has experience with Autodesk products.