I recently released my dwg batch import utility for 3ds Max Design called "Polyform Importer". The purpose for creating the utility was to solve the problem of only being able to import one file at a time into 3ds Max. I will show you how to install it and then talk about how it works. Installing the Polyform Importer 1. Navigate to the folder that you exported the project DWG files to 2. Download the Polyform Importer.ms script and drop it into any 3ds Max Design scene 3. From the main menu click Customize then click Customize User Interface 4. Click on the Menus tab 5. Click New......

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

I want to give everyone a heads up that there is a new rendering engine on the scene that looks very promising. It's called the Corona renderer. It's fast, flexible, very easy to use and best of all it's free!! Time is money and we all have precious little of both. This bad boy will make quick work of your scenes. The build is still in alpha but they're making improvements and updating it all the time. It would definitely be worth a minute of your time. Head on over to their website to check it out after you check out a couple of the images I created using it below. Website:...

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...

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

Tired of hearing about Project X accolades? We're not! :D Huge thanks to Autodesk for putting our project in your reel, we are honored!! Congrats, Krew! You guys just keep blowing my mind. Click the play button below to play the reel or just check it out on YouTube! YouTube Link

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 To” but these steps will also work for vanilla AutoCAD 1. Type CUI at the command line. This will bring up the Customize User Interface window. 2. Select the workspace that the toolbars are to be added to, these can be found in the tree in the Customizations in All files section...

In my presentation at the Autodesk University Plant Keynote on December 1st in Las Vegas, I explained how a group of davetyner.com members called "The Krusty Krew" came together to create this monster in just 15 days. The keynote audience seemed very into it as I took them through each step leading up to the project before showing them the video below. YouTube Link