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AutoCAD Plant 3D 
Designed specifically for process plant engineers and designers, AutoCAD® Plant 3D 2010 software helps increase productivity, accuracy, and coordination. AutoCAD Plant 3D is built on the familiar and most up-to-date AutoCAD® platform, bringing modern 3D modeling to your complex plant design projects. 

The following features and functionality help to streamline the design, modeling, documentation of piping, equipment, and support structures:

Spec-driven design
Standard parts catalogs
Integrated AutoCAD P&ID 
Isometric and orthographic functionality

Support Design and Engineering Productivity
Training and startup time can be minimized because AutoCAD Plant 3D is built on the widely-used AutoCAD platform. Costly server-based systems and database administration are not required. The product’s specification-driven technology and modern interface help simplify modeling and editing of piping, equipment, support structures, and other plant components.

Facilitate Information Accuracy and Consistency
Within AutoCAD Plant 3D, underlying data is directly exchanged between the 3D model, piping, and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), isometrics, and orthographics to help keep information consistent and-up-to-date. You can search and query for information and then easily review and edit the data in the drawings.

Improve Project Team Coordination 
Materials lists and reports are easier to generate and share with entire project teams. Portable AutoCAD Plant 3D .DWG files can be opened by other engineering disciplines with AutoCAD-based software. The data can be exported for integration into other applications like stress analysis or spool generation packages.