Drawing Mapping

Drawing Mapping

mvanderhulst2
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Drawing Mapping

mvanderhulst2
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I am toying around with PID mapping into the Plant 3D models.  Is there a way to map from a 3d model into PID (backwards from the typical).  Does anybody use the mapping tool to route pipe and place components like this?

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Tomislav.Golubovic
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Not possible

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Michiel.Valcke
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There is no function similar like PIDLINELIST to draw in P&ID based on what you have in the 3D model. But if you draw your P&ID and want to push your data from the 3D model to the P&ID, there is a reasonably easy way to do this.

First make sure your P&ID tags are the same as your P3D tags. Or you have another identifier by which you can link P3D components to PID symbols.
Do a datamanager export to excel for both.

In the P&ID excel, add the content of the P3D excel as additional tabs. In the P&ID tabs you can do a VLOOKUP based on the tag to fill in the value of empty cells based on the value from the P3D tabs. (you might need to sort the data alphabetically by tag for VLOOKUP to work. But there are other excel tricks to do this as well)

Propagate your formula to the other rows and the data will fill itself. 

Save the file and you can import it back into your project. 

The advantage of this routine is that you can set it up that you can keep the setup, so changes in the P3D model can be exported again and used to overwrite the old file. The existing excel should be able to update and can be imported immediately. It can be done without a need for programming and doesn't need any add-ins.

 

 

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h_eger
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@mvanderhulst2 ,

 

only via external tools:
Auxalia: Plant Spec Driven
Axavia: EDB Module

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FelixPhan
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Mapping 3D to P&ID it is possible.

You can mapping Tag off pipeline same as P&ID and try Zoom to Object

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