AutoPLANT Equipment

3D Modeling of Equipment, Nozzles, Ladders, Platforms, and Walkways

Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment places equipment, nozzles, ladders, platforms, and walkways in 3D space. Equipment provides numerous equipment, nozzle, and structure placement options. An Equipment model may also be opened in the AutoPLANT Piping application to directly connect Piping components to your Equipment nozzles. Equipment dialogs are intuitive and display annotated views of the requested dimensional parameters.

User-defined Custom Equipment

Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment can also connect a series of intelligent primitives to build virtually any desired equipment assembly.

Reporting

Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment has a Report Writer module that provides a means to generate a set of external reports on the data contained in the current model or across a range of models. AutoPLANT makes extensive use of the Crystal Reports™ run-time engine to process data in external drawing databases. Equipment List and Nozzle Schedule report types are provided. You can customize reports or create your own.

Automated Orthographic Drawing Creation

Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment has utilities to automate creation of 2D orthographic drawings. These drawings are referenced from the model, so any changes to the model will update the orthographic drawings. AutoPLANT Equipment has tools for annotating elements with information pulled from the database like coordinates, elevations, insulation thickness, and more.

Flexible Working Modes

The V8i (SELECTseries 3) Edition introduces a new Briefcase mode technology. This allows designers that do not need the work-sharing features of the project to work independently with less administration and setup. Using the same technology, large projects can easily move models between projects or model disconnected from the project or restore individual project models from backup.

Integration with Your Current AutoCAD Environment Up to AutoCAD 2011

Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment runs on top of AutoCAD. It includes menus and toolbars of commands designed to create and modify equipment models. The Equipment menus are organized in a cascading style like those in AutoCAD. In addition, Equipment provides easy access to AutoCAD commands and support of most AutoCAD command line key-ins.

Program Architecture - Customization

Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment uses take full advantage of the latest AutoCAD ARX technology. Within these ARX applications, Bentley has implemented a Basic Script engine. All Equipment components and most dialogs are defined in open Basic files for easy modification. The system architecture enables a user with a solid foundation in Visual Basic for applications programming language to modify almost any aspect of the component placement process, to create new components, or add new functions to the system.

Intelligent Components

Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment models are not merely drawings. As the model is created, component data is also maintained in an external project database. The component data can be edited at any time during a
drawing session. The dimension and position parameters initially defined to place a component may be edited and the corresponding graphic re-drawn to reflect these changes. If dimensional parameters of parent equipment primitives are modified, linked children diameters may be adjusted
automatically.

Bentley Plant products are the best selling plant design applications in the world

There are more 3D designers using Bentley’s plant design software than any other product. Bentley AutoPLANT Equipment is a proven productivity tool. Numerous customers have reported significant productivity gains by using Bentley AutoPLANT products.