AutoCAD Plant 3D enables the user to create a tap joint or threaded tap joint on blind flanges and caps. With new pipes, nipples and couplings the user can just chose a point on the blind flange/cap 's face and the joint is created automatically. With an instrument (threaded or otherwise) Plant 3D does not create an automatic tap joint. Even though instruments are in reality often screwed directly into threaded tap joints.
To create an instrument connected directly with a blind flange / cap the user has to jump through several hoops. As shown in this screencast.
It would be a big improvement if placing an instrument directly on the surface of a blind flange/cap would have AutoCAD Plant 3D act in the same way as it does with other fittings or pipes placed directly placed on such a surface.
As an alternative users could be allowed to directly create tapped connectors without a connecting part (much as a user can directly add a weld to a pipe) so that the connector can exist on its own and can then be used for switching different types of parts, from fittings to instruments to pipes.
