Revit for Industrial Piping

[Anonymous]

Hello Word...

We are an industrial piping contractor currently using Plant 3D.  On the industrial side, we generally live in a spec driven world relying on p&id's & single line isometric drawings.  Those of you who have experience with P3D know that it checks all of those requirements.

Rumors are constantly circulating that P3D has an end-of-life date that will be soon approaching.  That being said, is there anyone out there using Revit in an industrial piping environment that can shed some light on it's capabilities?

I appreciate any responses and feedback.  Thanks!

[pkolarik]

Despite using Revit from time to time on our water/wastewater projects, we still do our P&ID's in autocad. While we don't do isometrics ourselves, our plumbing group does and they're very dissatisfied with Revit's "default" method of displaying isometrics from the piping model. (even to the point of doing smaller, simpler isometrics "by hand" in autocad and linking them into Revit.....)

[robert.klempau]

Hello @Anonymous ,

I think there will be AutoCAD P&ID for a very long time. AutoCAD P&ID is embedded in so many company processes. Therefore it doesn't seem logical to me that Autodesk will stop supporting AutoCAD P&ID.

Autodesk has made the P&ID link in Revit a number of versions ago.

As long as there is no good alternative to AutoCAD P&ID or P&ID functionality in Revit that is comparable to AutoCAD P&ID, in my opinion, AutoCAD P&ID will be maintained by Autodesk.

For the P&ID Modeler for Revit see this link and especially the videos in it.

especially watch videos 1 and 3.

With a good industry Piping family library, I think Revit is a great program to model these industry Piping systems.

See also this link about Revit vs Plant3D

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the information.  It is appreciated.  I am trying to access the video link at the end but it will not load.  Is there another link to the David Manning video describing Revit vs Plant 3D?

Thanks.

[robert.klempau]

Hello @Anonymous ,

I noticed that the link isn't working. 🤔

I will try to contact the Author.

hopefully, they have a working link somewhere.

in the meantime have a look at:

Autodesk University items About Revit vs Plant 3D 

and:

in-the-pipes