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...

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.

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!

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 with a solution: LINK SP3D review data to Navisworks LINK rmorin has a work around!

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. You could easily print them out to a txt file or excel spreadsheet too. For this to work you must have your desired project active. Create a new .exe in VB6 Next, add your references (Project > References) - in this case we will need : Intergraph Smartplant...

Having been involved with various plant design software packages over the years, and watching the evolution of new platforms, features, buzzwords, etc., I constantly wonder “What’s next?” Over the years we’ve seen ADev Pro-Pipe and EDA Designer merge into Rebis AutoPlant, only next to be purchased by Bentley. CADCentre became AVEVA, PDS being outmoded and SmartPlant moving to the forefront. Recently, Intergraph purchased Coade and made a lot of CADWorx users very nervous. I won’t even go into the “Where are they now?” file populated by 4Front, UHP Process, CEA International, CADPipe,...