Design, Model and

Document Process
Plants

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 Topics – Day2
• Structure Steel Overview
• Ribbon menu
• Settings
• Structural Grid
• Placing Beams
• Placing Ladder
• Placing Railings
• Placing Plate and Gratings
• Placing Footings
• Equipment Overview
• Ribbon menu
• Create Equipment
• Equipment Trim
• Adding and Modifying Nozzles
• AutoCAD element to Equipment
• Equipment Templates
• Converting AutoCAD equipment
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 Structural Steel Overview
• A structural member is a 3D structural object, such as a beam or
column.

• You can create a structural member by specifying its start point and
end point, or by aligning the member with a line that you select in
your drawing.

• You can edit an individual structural member to change its settings.

• You can cut a structural member with respect to the boundaries of

another structural member.
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 Structural Steel

Open Chapter 3
Open Drawing 1
Explain Ribbon Tab: Parts, Modify and Cutting
Member Settings: Standards, Shape types & size, Orientation
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Structural Steel
Railing Settings
Stair Settings
Ladder Settings
Cage Settings

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 Structural Grid
Open Drawing 2, Activate Grid and specify the values
Create layer for grid and apply layer to the grid

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 Placing Structural Beams
• Choose the type of beam you want to place.
• How the orientation should be.
• Place it in the model

Open Drawing 3, create layer for steel (activate the layer)

Member Settings: AISC, W-beam, W8x40, ASTM, A242
Set Line Model (End point snap on and Nearest snap off)
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 Placing Structural Beams
Explain all member models
Add cross bracings: Shape AISC L, L2x2x1/4, Orientation default
Copy that cross bracings, create a beam at mid point

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 Editing Structural Beams
• Structure Edit option from Ribbon menu or context menu.

Open Drawing 4, Set top view, Rotate the beams by 90 degree

Select all and Rotate, Use Miter Joints at top frame corners
Use Cut Back Member: Limiting Member, Cut Member at all areas
Change the cross bracings size: L3x3x5/16
Edit the Grid Value to show dynamically not link with steel

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Edited Model

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 Adding Ladder
Open Drawing 5, Change to line Model, Draw a mid point line
vertical and add a 12” line horizontal
Ladders have 3 points action: Start, End and Projection
Ladder Settings: Width, Projection, Rung, Ladder and Rung Shapes
set default standards
Cage Settings: Parametric set default standards
Place the ladder, Ladder Edit

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Adding Ladder

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 Placing Railings
Open Drawing 6, Change to line Model
Railing Settings: Dimensions and Shapes (Set default)
Select Railing and Place in the model
Change to shape model
Don’t have the high level of detail
Approximate bill of material, Accessing dimensions

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Placing Railings

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 Plate and Gratings
Open Drawing 7,
Select Plate tool
Material Std, Material code, Hatch pattern, Hatch Scale (24)
Structure Edit not applicable > Properties

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Plate and Gratings

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 Placing Footings
Open Drawing 8,
Change to line model > Footing settings
Length (24) , Width (24), Depth (36)
Std – ASTM and Code – Concrete
Select Footing tool and pick the end point of the columns
Change to shape model

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Placing Footings

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Exercise

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 Equipment Overview
Open Chapter 4, and Open Drawing 1
You can create your Equipment in different methods
Default Equipment method
AutoCAD 3D model to Plant 3D equipment
Equipment Panel
Create Equipment dialog box

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Create Equipment

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 Equipment tools
Modify Equipment
Attach Equipment (Basic AutoCAD Model to Equipment Model)
Convert Equipment (3D Model to Plant 3D Equipment Model)
Detach Equipment (Remove)
Convert Inventor Equipment

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 Basic Equipment creation
Open Drawing 2 and click create Equipment
Pump > Centrifugal Pump > Pump Parametric
Change the length to 6’ and width to 2’, create
Specify the insertion point 25’ / 3’ and rotate 90deg
Copy the pump from the base point (0, 0) and specify
6’ distance and Change the tag.
Heat exchanger Shapes (representation), Modify
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 Equipment Trim
Created Basic Equipment > Skirt, Platform, Ladders
Open Drawing 3 > Create Equipment > Horizontal Vessel
Change cylinder height to 15’
Add Saddle > click cylinder > Add Trim > Saddle
L = 2’ L3 = 11’ and click create
Insertion point 2’/5’/23’-9” with 0deg

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Equipment Trim

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 Adding and Modifying
Nozzles
Open Drawing 4, Check the Vertical Vessel
Select the vessel and click nozzle icon
Nozzle type: size 6” RF ASME B16.5, 300#,
Location: Radial, H = 3’, L=6”, A=90deg
Location: Bottom, L = 6”
Edit: Ctrl + Select Nozzle, change size to 8” and A=0deg. Vent Nozzle
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 Adding and Modifying
Nozzles
Add nozzle to the other equipment with right click
Size 6” RF ASME B16.5, 300#, Radial, H = 3’, L=6”, A=90deg
Size 6” RF ASME B16.5, 300#, Radial, H = 13’, L=6”, A=90deg

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 Adding AutoCAD Equipment
Open Drawing 5,
Unload Structural Xref
Attach and Detach Equipment (Angles)

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 Equipment Templates
Open Drawing 6,
Create Equipment > Last configuration
Template > Save Current setting as template > Equipment Template
location
Load the template to other project

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 Converting AutoCAD
Equipment to Plant 3D Equipment
Open Drawing 7, Look the properties of the vessel
Data manager > Current drawing data
Click Convert Equipment > Select Vessel
Insert Base Point, Specify the Long description, Tag and click Apply
See Data manager and Properties
Add Nozzle with center point node
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Exercise

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