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EB2 Plant

Engineering Base Integration with the AutoCAD Plant 3D

In many companies’ changes occur on a daily base; these changes have to be updated in several different disciplines like manufacturing process, mechanical, instrumentation and electrical design. These specialists often work independently from each other, having major issues getting a clear overview of the complete installation.

EB2 Plant

This overhead leads to a planning risk, data to be inconsistent and the need for more and more communication. Also changes in reports, drawings and 3D models have to be made by hand by highly qualified engineers. It is clear that this needs to be minimized and not only for one discipline. The issue is that most of the disciplines work with their own CAD solution and their provider is capable of offering only one solution between 2D P&ID, Instrumentation and 3D models.

 

Engineering Base, the E&I solution of Aucotec, is integrated by Unitec with AutoCAD Plant 3D. With this interface Unitec is capable of linking 2D P&ID drawings in Engineering Base with the 3D model in AutoCAD Plant 3D. The link will not only control the equipment and inline assets, but also links the instrumentation and control systems. This offers a wide range of options like generating parts lists up to complete creation of control and instrumentation diagrams.

 

All disciplines involved will work with the same data from the start of the project; all project members will have the same data at any location, all the time. Unitec’s interface with Engineering Base for AutoCAD Plant 3D, is a neutral developer independent communication platform. The interface with Engineering Base is ready, for the future we will also develop interfaces with AutoCAD P&ID, ISO15926 (COMOS, Smart- Plant) and SAP.

 

The current interface offers the following functionality;

• Object linking (2D to 3D)

• Property Update on request (2D to 3D)

• Model related status updates

• Bi-directional navigation

• Automatic zoom function

• Access to linked documents