10 Dec 2011 No Comments
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. Tweet This Post
31 Aug 2011 No Comments
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 [...]
03 Jun 2011 4 Comments
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. Tweet This Post
28 May 2011 2 Comments
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! Tweet This Post
17 May 2011 3 Comments
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 [...]
09 May 2011 5 Comments
Veteran Krusty Krew member, Ryan Chiasson, guides us through the time saving steps of setting up your toolbars for vanilla AutoCAD or AutoCAD Plant 3D. Huge thanks to Ryan for taking the time out of his busy schedule to set this tutorial up for us. Thanks, dude! AutoCAD Plant 3D is used in this “How [...]
23 Feb 2011 1 Comment
This article explains how to configure a RAM disk for use with AutoCAD Plant 3D. The purpose of the RAM disk is faster access rates for project and catalog/spec data. Plant 3D reads the project database and catalogs often as you’re working on models, so loading them into memory increases the performance in general (hard [...]
30 Jan 2011 No Comments
Pretty awesome video of a construction crew moving the Tesla car into the Gallery at One Market! Full screen it for 1080p quality! YOUTUBE LINK
30 Jan 2011 No Comments
Smartplant 3D Tim has updated his massively popular SP3D Search and Import/Export utility LINK Rotate Box From Center position 0 0 0 Chintan wants to rotate a BOX From CenterPos 0,0,0 with parameter parangle…Tim responds! LINK Smatplant Review Ajay asks if it’s possible to schedule Synchronize model with catalog and regenerate report database. Tim responds [...]
14 Jan 2011 6 Comments
Programming using Smartplant P&ID’s Logical Automation Layer is actually very easy and intuative after you do it a few times. This example of a what I start with a lot. What this little routine will do is loop through all the active (non stockpile) piperuns in your project and print their ItemTags in the immediate window. [...]
