See also a detailed features presentation

Automatic Pipeline Routing

• Fast automatic routing (usually less than one second per pipe)
• Quality autorouting based on pipers rules
• Scales up to hundreds and thousands of pipelines while maintaining fast autorouting performance
• Autorouting driven from process connectivity
• Intelligent free-space autorouter avoids obstacles
• Smart on-pipeway autorouter knows about proper approach levels, routing plane turns, and berthing preferences
• Specialized structure autorouting knows about vertical pipeways, vertical chases, suspended pipeways
• Autoroutes through obstacles from point cloud to support brown-field applications

Automatic Component Placement

• Positions standard components such as tees, reducers, control valves, flow elements, and spec breaks
• Selects proper tee type
• User-defined parametric components available
• Intelligently auto-places key components such as control valves and routes pipelines through them
• Intelligently slides other components along the routed pipeline to satisfy spacing and orientation requirements

Pipeline and Component Manipulation

• Manually adjust a pipeline route and freeze it
• Manipulate part of a route, freeze just that part, and let PlantWise autoroute the rest of the pipeline to match
• Manually position key components (e.g., control valves) and let PlantWise autoroute through them
• Slide tees, reducers, and other components along the routed pipeline path

Parametric Equipment

• Create complex equipment graphics from a few inputs
• Simple geometry rules to build your own equipment types
• Unlimited number of equipment items
• Use your own previously created MicroStation equipment cells
• Simple nozzle creation
• AutoNozzle positions nozzles on equipment
• Simple AutoNozzle placement rules
• Manually place, override, or freeze any nozzle position

Parametric Structures

• Build multisection pipeways and structures from simple dialogs
• Multilevel pipeways with routing preferences by level
• Change the number of levels along a pipeway’s sections
• Change the alignment of pipeway sections
• Add  vertical pipeways, suspended pipeways, and vertical chases to structures
• Add stairways to structures
• Control where floors can be penetrated by pipelines
• Define special reserved spaces such as HVAC and fire suppression levels
• Move entire structures by dragging a single element
• Override the type and specific position of any structural element
• Add bracing to structures according to standard patterns
• Add your own structural elements to structures or pipeways

User Rules

• Create your own Equipment Geometry
• Create your own AutoNozzle rules
• Create your own equipment-specific routing patterns
• Specify your routing preferences for pipeline spacing, routing levels, reserved spaces, and much more

Integrated ReportWriter

• Report on anything that you input or that PlantWise calculates
• Customize your output for human readability or export to another program
• Use simple spreadsheet-style formulas  to provide calculations
• Total, subtotal, sort, and aggregate results
• Produce summary cost reports using simple ReportWriter calculations
• Report on selected components by MicroStation fence
• Highlight reporting components in CAD
• Built-in mass property calculations for weight, center of gravity, and moments of inertia of plant sections or entire plant accounting for empty/filled equipment and vessels, empty/filled pipelines, and structural members.

PlantDrafter

• Produce labeled plot-plan drawings
• Detached plan drawings for multi-level structures
• Optionally include single-line representations of routed pipelines
• Include your standard drawing symbols

Model Management

• Model save includes only user input—results in very small save files measured in KB instead of MB
• Save part of a model by category or fence
• Merge multiple models into a new combined model
• Compare the current model to previously saved versions
• Save only changes made in the current model for updating shared base models
• Simple import of process information and geometry from spreadsheets
• Make large changes by moving, rotating, mirroring, copying, or deleting groups of equipment, pipeways, and structures.
• Remember group composition for future group changes
• Simple specification tables drive pipeline properties
• Check equipment spacing against tables of required spacings by category
• Visualize center of gravity of idle/processing plant

Interfaces

• Equipment and Stream input from Bentley's AXSYS.Process
• XMpLant output for complete model export to other plant design software including Bentley Navigator
• APL (Alphanumeric Piping Language) output for PDS
• FrameWorks structural output via .pml file
• Easy ReportWriter links to in-house software