SmartPlant Review .NET API Usage Tutorial By Parrish Husband When I worked as a piping designer, the SmartPlant Review driving and reporting fell into my lap more times than I can remember. Eventually I got to a point where I spent more time setting up VUE sessions and making tag reports than I was designing; thus it became clear to me I would need to figure out a way to streamline my efforts. I was introduced to the SmartPlant Review API module shortly thereafter by one of our PDS administrators, and immediately began testing it's capabilities and limitations. One thing I struggled...

The first in what will be a series of images I am creating to visualize the current plant software market. In this image, I am trying to show that Plant 3D has a "cool" factor that their competition cannot possible hope to compete with. More to come. Let me know what you think! Headphones model: Trimble Model Warehouse

So I am sitting there working away in my little corner on Friday when all of a sudden, the live chat room became engulfed in the flame (pun intended?) of heated discussion that involved the Intergraph Marketing Machine, Bentley's OpenPLANT, and how Autodesk's Plant 3D product intends to dominate mid level market at a time that Owner Operators find themselves in dire need of a working solution. Read on, if you dare! edit: mini translator: O/O = Owner Operator Ingr/IG = Intergraph P3D = Plant 3D SP = SmartPLANT OP = OpenPLANT CW = CADWorx zortar : CADWorx licenses = CADWorx licenses...

I have to admit to one thing: I really didn't like the economics classes I had in college. Maybe it was the fact that I was broke most of the time and the concept of massive economies the size of nations was beyond what I was able to understand at the time. Fast forward to 2013: I'm reading this book that a friend recommended to me called "Consumption Economics - The New Rules of Tech" by J.B. Wood, Todd Hewlin and Thomas Lah. More than just reading it, I'm understanding it - and believe me it makes a lot of sense.

Recently I was hit with the question: (paraphrasing) If there is, I’ve never run into it. In my experience, this has always meant physical block corruption within the data file. The simplest option to correct this is to recover the data from a backup, and roll through the archive/redo logs until the data file is healthy again.

Autodesk Plant guru Joel Harris breaks down AutoCAD Plant 3D Isometrics for us into easy to swallow, bite sized chunks. Joel presented some of this material to a packed house at Autodesk University 2011. Click on the image to view the tutorial.

  Why yes that is our beloved Project X on the cover. Suite! So, rather than post all the amazing features and benefits of Autodesk's 2012 release of the soon to be industry leading Plant Design Suite. I decided to create a short video about it. You can find all of the answers to your questions @ HERE Here Is The YouTube Link

Expert Smartplant 3D user and forum member "tim" discovered yesterday that every single SP3D 2009.1 Training Manual is now available for download via Intergraph Moscow's ftp. You can see the post here: SEE ORIGINAL POST HERE I am guessing that Intergraph will be locking the door, soon.

Irene asks this great question and gets many great responses. Click the link below and post your own thoughts! PDS to Smartplant - Are They Fully Compatible? Thanks!

Our Project X video was featured on CNBC recently. The piece was titled: "The New Industrial Revolution - Building Better, Cheaper, and Faster" and featured a number of visualization videos. The story was telling how BIM (Building Information Modeling) is helping architects become more efficient by using "intelligent" design systems like Autodesks Revit. I have included the video below. The first shot is at 1:07 and the second is at 1:28. Congrats the the Krusty Krew!