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AutoPLANT Equipment

Object-based 3D equipment modeling


AutoPLANT Equipment XM Edition provides the user with a powerful 3D application for fast layout and design of intelligent vessels, nozzles, and equipment drawings. The product is shipped complete with comprehensive prebuilt equipment libraries. Complex custom components are easily modeled from intelligent equipment primitives. AutoPLANT Plant Design solutions provide state-of-the-art 3D modeling capabilities previously unavailable in any AutoCAD-based plant design and modeling package, and this is particularly evident in AutoPLANT Equipment. The 3D engine for AutoPLANT is written exclusively with advanced ARX technology, allowing you to take
Equipment is placed based on parametric input data

advantage of new and advanced modeling methods available with AutoCAD ObjectARX technology.

Parametric Equipment
AutoPLANT Equipment lets you model using parametric information. Dialogs are presented with graphical representations of the equipment, along with data fields for each critical parameter, allowing you to draw equipment with a great deal of precision. As the design evolves dimensional changes can be reapplied to parameters and the 3d equipment is graphically updated automatically.

Standard Equipment Shapes


The AutoPLANT Equipment module includes a wide range of standard equipment shapes such as pumps, vessels, and exchangers. By selecting from the pull-down menus or toolbar, entities are quickly placed by defined points or relative to global reference points.
Examples of standard equipment

Custom Equipment
Custom equipment is easily built from intelligent primitives. Placing an equipment primitive defines the master or parent component, while attaching associative primitives defines the slave or child components. Constructing equipment assemblies this way is like attaching nozzles to equipment; if you modify the vessels dimensional parameters, the nozzles will move accordingly. Similarly, if you modify the parent primitive of an equipment assembly, the child primitives will be moved or sized accordingly.

User-defined Equipment
The Equipment/User-defined option displays a dialog for creating a special type of equipment component from one or more existing AutoCAD or AutoPLANT Equipment entities in a drawing. These entities can be anything
User-defined equipment dialog

from an AutoCAD primitive, such as a line or circle, to a complex component, such as a block or custom object. The Equipment/User-defined lets you bring legacy and other third-party equipment components into the AutoPLANT Equipment environment.

Intelligent Nozzles
AutoPLANT Equipment provides a variety of options for placing and orienting nozzles. First, nozzles are placed using parametric information from external database specifications. Once the nozzle is placed on the equipment, the intelligence becomes available to the AutoPLANT Piping application. With AutoPLANT Piping, the user connects a piping component to the nozzle, the size, spec, rating, facing, or line number is carried over to the connecting piping fitting.

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Reporting
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Spec-driven Pumps
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Pre-formatted report types include Equipment List and Nozzle Takeoff Creation of custom reports that group and sort equipment and nozzles according to any data stored in the AutoPLANT Equipment database

Standard pump parameters supplied in a Microsoft Access database Ability to enter unavailable size pump data into the spec once and re-use it whenever a similar pump is needed

Intelligent Nozzle

Location Points
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Equipment Editing
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Definition of location points for locating various pieces of equipment Automatic moving of location point and all associated equipment

Automatic adjustment of attached objects when a parameter is changed Automatic adjustment of attached items when diameters of primitives or pre-defined scripts are changed

Pre-defined Specialized Equipment


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Pre-defined pieces of equipment commonly used in the oil and gas industry Ability to specify equipment types Inclusion of material handling equipment, such as conveyers and bucket elevators Specialized pumps for the water/waste-water industry, and RO reactors for pharmaceutical/biotech industries

New project flexibility for XM Edition


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Create individual Models without a project Build up a project from individual models Restore individual models from tape backups. Move models between projects. Work on a project model while disconnected from the project.

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S ystem R equirements
Processor Intel Pentium 500 MHz or greater Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1A or later CAD Software
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AutoCAD: 2004, 2005, 2006 (SP1), 2007 AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop: 2004 (plus SP1), 2005, 2006 (SP1a)

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Architectural Desktop: 2004 (plus SP1), 2005, 2006 (SP1) Building Systems: 2004, 2005, 2006 (SP2) AutoCAD Mechanical 2004, 2005, 2006 (SP1a)

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the worlds infrastructure. The companys comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With 2006 revenues exceeding $350 million, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Design 500 and major owner-operators. For more information, visit www.bentley.com or call 1-800-BENTLEY. Bentley North American Headquarters Bentley Systems, Incorporated 685 Stockton Drive Exton, PA 19341 USA Phone: +1 800 BENTLEY (+1 800 236 8539) Outside the US +1 610 458 5000 Fax: +1 610 458 1060 Bentley International Headquarters Bentley Systems Europe B.V. Wegalaan 2 2132 JC Hoofddorp THE NETHERLANDS Phone: +31 23 556 0560 Fax: +31 23 556 0565

Memory 1.5 Gig (Typically more results in better performance) Free Disk Space 1.5 GB

2007 Bentley Systems, Incorporated. Bentley, the B Bentley logo, AutoPLANT, AutoPLANT Piping and AutoPLANT Equipment are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. DAA037440-1/0001 04/07

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