Adding Custom "Piing and Equipment" class

[JohnHolder]

Anyone help direct me in adding a custom field in the <equipment> class settings?

inside <Plant 3D Class Definitions> inside <Piping and Equipment>

I wanted to add a few catagories for Aquaculture and the specific equipment that I use,

so I can have specific fields show up in the equipment reports.

[dave.wolfe]

Select the Equipment class and at the far right you should see an Add button.  You can pick your property type in the following dialog.  If you choose selection list, you can create a new selection list in the next dialog.

[JohnHolder]

That is just adding a <property>

I want to add <JLH Equipment> along side <filter> <furnace> <Global Equipment> etc

I use <Filter> < Tank> <Pump> and mostly <Misc Equipment> - but they are quite broad I want to add my own equipment catagory and for the specialized equipment then add my own properties.

John.

[Rave.Tam · Accepted solution]

There's no UI for this. Probably you can try editing the database to add a new class, but i'm not sure what is the repercussion. 

[AndyDavisArkance · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Although there is no UI to add new classes, it is really quite straightforward to add a new class directly to the database.

I have already documented the procedure here: http://www.cadlinecommunity.co.uk/WhitePapers/WhitePaper.aspx?ScoId=3663d1b1-7c60-4796-9e59-2c34f34c...

Please feel free to download a ccopy.

Regards,

Andy

[JohnHolder]

Thanks!  I will go over this.

[jhamilton]

This proceedure works, but it is for SQL Lite.  What about SQL Express?

[Anonymous]

Hi Andy,

As asked on the post below, what about the procedure for a project running on SQL Server ?

I tried to adapt your procedure but with no success.

Thank you in advance,

Alexandre Devos

[Anonymous]

The link is break, please helpme

[AndyDavisArkance]

Hi,

You can find the document you are looking for here: Add New Classes to AutoCAD Plant 3D 2013 

Please remember that I wrote this way back for the 2013 release - I have not checked it recently and cannot provide any guarantee that it will still work.

Regards,

Andy

[Anonymous]

you will not have a step by step how to do it, since the procedure you show, is quite general, you may have one where you show how you use the "SQLite Database Browser", to create the tables, create the "record", create "new view of the new table ", etc, I would thank you infinitely.

[jhamilton]

Very Cool, I am going to give it a try.

[Anonymous]

I was finally able to do it, I have done the procedure using the expert of SQLite Expert personnel as a database editor, and I have managed to insert new equipment classes for AutoCAD Plant 3D 2019, soon I will make a tutotial video of how to do it (step by step) on my YouTube channel, here are some screenshots.

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@jhamilton wrote:

Very Cool, I am going to give it a try.

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[jhamilton]

Sounds good.  I was going to try this in the next week or two.  The piping group is actually wanting sub-classes on supports to separate Hangers from Springs from Shoes.  They also want something to place field bolts for equipment.   That is something that is totally left out.

[Anderson-Brass]

This whole process is even valid.

But the fact of just inserting a new class of equipment would be the solution, because the result is flawed!

New equipment does not accept new nozzles or you cannot edit the nozzles.

Until the advances of my studies the process is still not ideal or functional.

I'm sorry about my English if you don't understand.

[Rolly.Pagod]

Agree @Anderson-Brass  I created also my new equipment (crane) but no properties show. for the item. Hopefully Autodesk can give us the rights to do this especially more clients wants to have everything in their plant to have asset information (which revit can handle)