Product Data Sheet AutoPLANT® Equipment V8i AutoCAD-Based 3D Parametric Equipment Modeling Parametric Equipment Design AutoPLANT Equipment enables you to model plant equipment parametrically. Dialog boxes are presented with graphical representations of the equipment, along with data fields for each design criteria, allowing you to model the equipment precisely. As the plant design evolves or changes, updates can be applied to the design parameters and the 3D equipment is graphically automatically updated. Standard Equipment Types The AutoPLANT Equipment module includes a wide range of standard equipment types such as pumps, vessels, and exchangers. By selecting from the pull-down menus or toolbar, the user can quickly place entities either by defined points or by relative to global reference points. Custom Equipment from Primitives Custom equipment is easily created from intelligent primitives. Placing an equipment primitive defines the master or parent component, while attaching associative primitives defines the slave or child components. Constructing equipment assemblies this way is similar to attaching nozzles to equipment. By modifying the vessel’s dimensional parameters, will move the nozzles accordingly. Similarly, by modifying the parent primitive of an equipment assembly, the child primitives will be moved or sized accordingly. User-Defined Equipment The User-defined option within AutoPLANT Equipment enables users to create plant equipment components from one or more existing AutoCAD or AutoPLANT Equipment entities in a drawing. These entities can be anything from an AutoCAD primitive, such as a line or circle, to a complex component, such as a block or custom object. The Userdefined equipment option allows users to bring legacy and other third-party equipment components into the AutoPLANT® Equipment environment. Intelligent Nozzles AutoPLANT Equipment provides a variety of options for placing and orienting nozzles. First, nozzles are placed using parametric information from external database specifications. Once the nozzle is placed on the equipment, the intelligence becomes available within the AutoPLANT® Piping application. With AutoPLANT Piping, the user connects a piping component to the nozzle, the size, spec, rating, facing, or line number is carried over to the connecting piping component. Integrated The AutoPLANT Equipment 2D-to-3D interface links equipment tags and nozzle tags with the plant project database. The same plant project database is shared with AutoPLANT P&ID, AutoPLANT Piping, Bentley® Data Manager, Bentley® Datasheets and Bentley® Instrumentation and Wiring. AutoPLANT Equipment V8i provides the user with a powerful 3D application for fast layout and design of intelligent vessels, nozzles, and equipment drawings. The product is shipped complete with comprehensive pre-built equipment libraries. Complex custom components are easily modeled from intelligent equipment primitives. Generate equipment and nozzle lists from selected components or across the entire project Place equipment, nozzles, ladders, platforms, and walkways in 3D space Equipment libraries provide common industrial equipment types AutoPLANT Equipment V8i provides the user with a powerful 3D application for fast layout and design of intelligent vessels, nozzles, and equipment drawings.

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