Does Inventor 2019 contain a basic 2D Autocad for drawing P&ID's
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I think that it has much more than "basic 2D". It has an entire subsystem for this. Google for "Inventor Tube and Pipe". A good starting point would be this tutorial.
thanks john,
i want to move from autocad plant 3D to inventor and would like to know if i can create basic plan views and P&ID's.(not necessarily spec driven) as I do at the moment.
the old inventor always had a separate 2D autocad program.
the reason I'm asking is that a salesman from an autocad licensed seller has told me that i cant make / amend 2D drawings with the new package,is this true
You have Inventor (3D) and Autocad (2D), both are Autodesk products and are bundled, if you buy the Product Collection - together with dozens other programs which you might not need ever 🙂
Buying Inventor and Autocad seperatly might cost the same as the bundle (which states the general usage of the remaining programs ?)
We use Autocad too for simple P&ID schemes. We have some kind of block library for valves & instruments - self made.
We use Inventor to work out the projects in 3D. There is no link between the 2 in our workflow
https://www.autodesk.com/collections/product-design-manufacturing/included-software
The Tube & Pipe subsystem is using the Assembly engine. Hence you can generate (exact) Drawings from it in the same manner in which you would generate drawings from any assembly.
Inventor never came with AutoCAD unless you obtain it through a suite years ago.
If you subscribe to the Collection now-a-days, as others have pointed out, you get access to AutoCAD or AutoCAD One which would include Plant3D/P&ID but Inventor itself never had AutoCAD with it.
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@Anonymous wrote:
The Tube & Pipe subsystem is using the Assembly engine. Hence you can generate (exact) Drawings from it in the same manner in which you would generate drawings from any assembly.
Which doesn't help the OP at all. P&ID's are significantly different drawings.
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