BENTLEY AUTOPLANT P&ID AT-A-GLANCE

Advanced Parametric Drafting Routines Exchange Drawings

■ Faster drawing generation ■ Ability to send drawings out for design review
■ Advanced user interface features for ease of use or editing, then import them back into the
and quick learning, such as Symbol Manager, icon project environment
menus, toolbars, dynamically updated dialogs, pick ■ Automatic updating of the project database with

lists, and more any modifications made to the data

■ Advanced drafting utilities included in the standard

AutoPLANT P&ID module, including automatic line

Organized, Consistently Accurate Drawing
break/mend, line tag update, instrument bubble Files
break/mend, and attribute display controls ■ Intelligent Line Annotation for updating line
P&ID edit tag type dialog box. attributes at all occurrences on the drawing
Symbol Manager ■ To/From Control for automatic lookup and reuse
■ Drag-and-drop component placement and easy of To/From data across multiple drawings; an active
right-click, context-sensitive menus for creating list of open To/From arrows can be used to initiate
custom component entries line routing
■ User-definable tag formats can include any field in
VB Data Screens
■ Visual Basic dialogs for accessing component a table to ensure accurate, unique tag numbers
attributes across multiple drawings
■ Ability to manually define tags or use the
■ Ability to customize or edit these dialogs to fit

specific data entry needs or perform data AutoPLANT Data Manager Interface to define
validation functions tagging conventions
■ Creation, insertion, and deletion of assemblies

Specification-driven Valve Placement across multiple drawings

Functions ■ Ability to preview assemblies prior to insertion

■ Ability to instruct assemblies to break a process

■ The AutoPLANT P&ID Valve Spec Mode™ allows
P&ID build annotation string users to tag valves based on valve specifications line where they are inserted
dialog box.
■ Automatic placement of the valves on a P&ID with

the correct end conditions

P&ID drawings can be imported into

a project environment with full
consistency checking.

BENTLEY AUTOPLANT
P&ID SYSTEM ABOUT BENTLEY
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REQUIREMENTS comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets spans architecture, engineering,
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Datasheets, AutoPLANT Hookups, AutoPLANT Instrumentation & Wiring, AutoPLANT P&ID Valve Spec Mode, Process Line Manager, and Symbol Manager are trademarks of Rebis. Rebis is a wholly owned
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