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Ability to add new equipment types (classes) for Plant 3D
This is an enhancement request to have the ability to add new classes (equipment types) under the root of the Equipment section in Project Setup. Currently, any equipment that doesn't fit into one of the existing classifications would have to be created under "Misc Equipment" using a tag prefix or some other designation to identify the actual type of equipment on a report.
I'd like to expand this - also be able to remove or move class definitions into a different category or class. There are a few that can't be removed, even though we never use them.
You can do this with SQL or even a SQL Lite Editor, but it is not "supported" by Autodesk. However I have done this for years with no issues as long as you know what you are doing. I may consider this for a future article in a Hagerman Newsletter.
Plant 3D Class Definitions > Piping and Equipment > Equipment
You cannot right click on Equipment and add a new Class Definition. You can do this on the P&ID side but not the Plant side. You can also do this in SQL, but most people do not have that ability and there are multiple tables in SQL that you would need to add it to.
When you say 'You can also do this in SQL', you mean for adding a new class definition in P3d equipment of for adding a new class definition in P3d P&ID?
If your 'do this in SQL' is for adding a new class definition in P&ID, then ignore my comment.
If your 'do this in SQL' is for adding a new class definition in Equipment, then could you pls. show us some prcedures or SQL files or something that can help us? We do have some knowledges in SQL.
I've been trying extensively to clean up and add to the 3D component classes. It really looks like they hard-coded the 3D classes into the Project Setup dialog, which is just terrible code development. I've tried extensively to get rid of those completely useless Equipment subclasses, but P3D always fails to load the project once they are removed. I would be that if I looked at the code that trapped the Heat Exchanger and Flume classes into the P&ID dialogs, it would be plain to see that the developer who did that work failed to use the proper methods to add them, and hacked those items into the Project Setup class tree, just the same as was done for the 3D Equipment subclasses.
I was mistaken, I'd missed a table that contained pointers to the Equipment subclass. Here is a list of the tables I deleted records from to get rid of the unwanted classes.
@Zhars, have you tested this with the P&ID mapping? Also, we're not seeing that you created the entries we'd expect in the PnPBase for your Test class. Have you found them to be unnecessary?
