creating or editing existing drawings without creating a project

[Anonymous]

I use a lot of existing plant drawings, which are consistently being modified. I'm just doing a small modification where I want to use Plant 3D to make a short pipe run, or just add a items to the system. I want to take the opportunity to update the drawings to 3D, but these are small jobs. The whole concept of creating a PROJECT is great if your doing a major piping and plant design. I just want to create a new 3D piping drawing where I can use the library and tool palettes without the whole creating project file.

So the basic question is how to create  a simple 3D piping drawing with valves, fittings without creating a PROJECT.

I can do this in basic AutoCAD, but I would like to use the Plant 3D objects, so I don't have to create new valve drawings or fittings. 

Thanks for the input and assistance.

John Durbin

[dave.wolfe]

Use one project per client for small work. You can create subfolders to divide other projects. You may want to consider creating a custom drawing property that would hold a project number/name. You would have to fill it out for each drawing, but it'd still be intelligent.

The biggest difficulty is tagging. You would probably end up with a Plant 3d project per client if clients have tag formats that differ greatly.  

[Alex.Pena]

Hi @Anonymous,

For routing pipe or using any of the tool palettes that AutoCAD Plant 3D supplies, the given drawing has to be associated to a project. It's not like AutoCAD where you can create a new drawing at any given point. So to answer the basic question, it wouldn't be possible to create a drawing without a project. 

You'll notice that if you create a new drawing in any manner, you'll always be prompted to save the drawing to the current project before you're allowed to place any components, or route pipe. 

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