Autodesk AUTOCAD P AND ID 2010 User manual

AutoCAD®
P&ID 2010
Easy does it.

Create, modify, and manage piping
and instrumentation diagrams with
AutoCAD P&ID 2010 software.
It’s How AutoCAD Does P&IDs
Start easier. Run better.
Finish sooner.
With simple reporting, editing, sharing,
validation, and exchange of design
information, AutoCAD P&ID 2010 software
helps your projects start easier, run better,
and finish sooner.
Familiar to designers and engineers.
Using the intuitive interface and standard
AutoCAD-based functionality, AutoCAD-
trained professionals can start using
AutoCAD P&ID right away.
Easy to use and saves time.
Developed specifically for P&ID designers
and engineers, AutoCAD P&ID includes a
collection of tools to automate and simplify
many of the detailed design and editing
tasks performed everyday.
Keeps project information accurate
and accessible.
Whether you need to generate in-drawing
reports or export information across an
entire project, AutoCAD P&ID includes
many features to support fast, accurate
completion of each step, while ensuring
data integrity in the face of constant design
changes and modifications.
Built on the latest AutoCAD platform, AutoCAD
P&ID is easy to use and familiar to designers
and engineers, so your design team can start
immediately with minimal training. Everyday
tasks are streamlined and automated to
boost productivity, while component and line
information is easily accessed as you work.
Project Manager
Easily set up projects and preview drawings with
straightforward organization and management of
DWG™ files.
Data Manager
Sort and organize underlying P&ID data for easy
referencing and see specific information in the
context of the drawing.
Symbol Libraries
Place snap-to industry-standard symbols (PIP, ISA,
JIS, and ISO/DIN), as well as symbols customized for
specific company or client needs directly into drawings.
AutoCAD P&ID is built on the familiar AutoCAD platform.

Validation Tool
Perform error checking with the Validation tool to
identify, navigate to, and highlight inconsistencies
in the drawing. Help to ensure accuracy and
dramatically reduce the time required to
identify potential inconsistencies in piping and
instrumentation diagrams.
Data Management and Reporting
Easily report, edit, exchange, and share project
engineering information, and know the impact
of external data updates for better management.
Export data into drawing data tables as well as
various file formats such as Microsoft®Excel®
software. Quickly sort and organize information
for easy referencing. Enhanced change management,
viewing, and editing functionality help ensure that
nothing slips through the cracks.
Dynamic Lines and Components
Lines and components are dynamic with AutoCAD
P&ID. Reduce manual breaking and mending of lines
with intuitive grip editing and manipulation. Create,
move, and snap lines into place. Lines automatically
break, maintain flow direction, and attach to
components that are inserted on, or attached to,
the line. When a component is removed, lines mend
automatically. Quickly move and snap components
with dynamically linked properties and information
in place without the burden of manually editing
underlying data.
Tagging and Annotations
Easily create, edit, and customize tags and annotations
in industry-standard formats. Simply drag data
properties from the Data Manager into the P&ID
drawing as annotations that automatically update.
The Data Manager makes P&ID information readily
accessible for referencing and editing.
There is a high level of
repeated information on a
P&ID drawing and with the
capabilities of the AutoCAD
P&ID Data Manager, speed
and accuracy is increased.
We can simply cut and paste
information from component
to component.
—Howard Zoutkamp
Project Engineer
Sonneborn
The results are compelling—
the ‘headline’ productivity
gain was found to be in the
region of 40%—and this
outcome was based on a
rigorous and wide-ranging
test of AutoCAD P&ID
capability.
—Tony Christian
Cambashi Limited
AutoCAD P&ID Productivity Study
Parts lists may be easily exported to Microsoft Excel from
AutoCAD P&ID.
It’s How AutoCAD Does P&IDs
Parts lists can be easily exported from AutoCAD P&ID to
Microsoft Excel.

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Using AutoCAD P&ID software means that we can
make the schematics and drawings faster than
ever before. Everything we need is included in the
software. Being able to create reports means we
can make purchasing lists so our suppliers can
produce prices for the equipment we need much
more quickly. This enables us to deliver our
quotations much earlier than we could have before.
—Kai Helge Hovland
CAD Designer
Ing Per Gjerdrum AS