1. © 2011 Autodesk Customizing AutoCAD ® Plant 3D Isometrics Joel HarrisIan Matthew Piping Technology Specialist, Anvil Corp.Technical Marketing Manager, Autodesk

2. © 2011 Autodesk Class Summary In this class, you will learn how to customize the isometrics produced by AutoCAD Plant 3D so that they will meet your CAD and engineering standards as well as the standards of your client. This class will walk you through all the steps that are necessary to perform this task and give guidance based on practical experience for best practices for piping isometrics

3. © 2011 Autodesk Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to:  Understand the Different Customization Options in AutoCAD Plant 3D  Create and Customize a New Isometric Style  Add a Custom Title Block  Modify Isometric Symbols

4. © 2011 Autodesk Assumptions 1. You are familiar with Piping Isometrics! 2. You have some knowledge of AutoCAD Plant 3D Note: The material in this class is applicable to AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012

5. © 2011 Autodesk Introduction

6. © 2011 Autodesk Let’s Create a Piping Isometric

7. © 2011 Autodesk Resulting Iso – one of several sheets!

8. © 2011 Autodesk User Options

9. © 2011 Autodesk Resulting Iso

10. © 2011 Autodesk Customization Options in AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012

11. © 2011 Autodesk Isometric Styles  Isometric Styles:  For different types of isometrics  Each has different settings  Many styles per project  Each can be customized

12. © 2011 Autodesk Customizing existing styles  Iso Style Setup – Main UI  Isometric or Spool  Auto Field Weld  Spool setup  Paths  BOM Table Overflow

13. © 2011 Autodesk Customizing Existing Styles  Annotations  BOM Annotations  Spool Annotations  End Connection Annotations  Cut Pieces  Weld  Valves

14. © 2011 Autodesk Before & After  Before  After

15. © 2011 Autodesk Customizing Existing Styles  Dimensions  Dimensioning Types  For iso themes  Dimensioning Behavior  Gasket Handling

16. © 2011 Autodesk Before & After  Before  After

17. © 2011 Autodesk Customizing Existing Styles  Sloped & Offset Piping  Sloped Piping Annotation  Offset Piping  2D vertical offsets  Sloped pipe with a 2D horizontal offset  Rolled offsets (3D skews)

18. © 2011 Autodesk Customizing Existing Styles  Title Block & Display  Title Block  Isometric Symbols  Elbow & Pipe Bend Display  Iso Theme Criteria

19. © 2011 Autodesk Before & After  Before  After

20. © 2011 Autodesk Create and Customize a NEW Isometric Style

21. © 2011 Autodesk Create New Style  Base on existing style  Creates new Isometric Folder

22. © 2011 Autodesk Create Iso

23. © 2011 Autodesk Add a Custom Title Block

24. © 2011 Autodesk Add Title Block

25. © 2011 Autodesk Set Drawing Area, Table Area & North Arrow

26. © 2011 Autodesk Add Attributes

27. © 2011 Autodesk Isometric:

28. © 2011 Autodesk Modify Isometric Symbols

29. © 2011 Autodesk Mapping SKEY to Block  IsoSkeyAcadBlockMap.xml  In Isometrics Folder

30. © 2011 Autodesk Edit Symbol  Use the Skey map to find the symbol

31. © 2011 Autodesk Edit Symbol

32. © 2011 Autodesk Before & After  Before  After

33. © 2011 Autodesk Advanced!

34. © 2011 Autodesk IsoConfig.xml  Beware!  ALWAYS Backup the file before you edit it  Add a Support Tag  Edit IsoConfig.xml  Use Notepad or Notepad++

35. © 2011 Autodesk  Add Support Tag

36. © 2011 Autodesk Before & After  Before  After

37. © 2011 Autodesk Conclusion

38. © 2011 Autodesk What we did  Explored the Isometric Settings in AutoCAD Plant 3D 2012  Created a NEW Isometric Style  Added a Custom Title Block  Modified Isometric Symbols

39. © 2011 Autodesk More Informationwww.autodesk.com/plantexchange  Video Tutorials  Ask the Expert and Discussions  Community of users

40. © 2011 Autodesk

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