Lynda - AutoCAD P&ID Essential Training: User

Size: 1016 MB | Duration: 3h 37m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

With AutoCAD P&ID software, you can quickly create, edit, and validate piping and instrumentation design information with AutoCAD-based editing tools. In this course, discover how to leverage this powerful software to create a project-based piping and instrumentation diagram. Instructor Irene Radcliffe walks through the desktop environment and goes into the basic functions of the program. She explains how to locate and open a P&ID project, use the Project Manager function to create a new drawing, and build a new drawing by adding equipment, pipe lines, valves, and instrumentation. Irene also helps you understand how tagging works in P&ID, as well as how to use the Data Manager to manage the project database.

Topics include:

* Setting up the P&ID workspace

* Understanding the P&ID ribbon menu and tool palette

* Using the AutoCAD properties dialog box

* Creating P&ID drawing files

* Inserting equipment and assigning tag information

* Changing your P&ID layout

* Inserting a valve on a pipe line

* Adding instrumentation to your P&ID

* Creating custom P&ID symbols

* Adding and removing off-page connectors

* Understanding tagging and annotation

* Working with Data Manager

* Working with the Data Validation tool