AutoCAD
Speed documentation, share ideas, and explore 3D concepts with powerful design and documentation tools.
AutoCAD Raster Design
Add powerful raster editing and raster-to-vector conversion tools to AutoCAD-based software.
ReCap
Capture and integrate reality data directly into your design process with ReCap reality capture software and services.
Showcase
Easily transform plant equipment models into compelling imagery, movies, and interactive presentations.
AutoCAD P&ID
Create, modify, and manage piping and instrumentation diagrams on the latest AutoCAD software platform.
AutoCAD Plant 3D
Design, model, and document process plants on the familiar AutoCAD software platform.
AutoCAD MEP
Get the power of AutoCAD with features designed specifically for MEP designers and drafters.
Revit
Use BIM tools for architectural design, MEP engineering, structural engineering, and construction.
3ds Max
Create 3D construction animations of process plants and perform rigging studies for complex equipment.
Navisworks Manage
Integrate data to facilitate whole-project review, perform interference analysis, and simulate construction.
Inventor with Routed Systems
Design better products in less time with 3D mechanical CAD, visualization, and documentation software.
Tight integration with Vault
Integrate with Vault data management software to improve inter-office project coordination:
Collaborate across offices.
Receive design update notifications.
Manage piping specification and catalogs inside projects.
Manage model workflow throughout the project.
Electrical raceways and ducting
Plant Design Suite includes AutoCAD MEP mechanical, electrical, and plumbing software for modeling electrical raceways and ducting.
BIM coordination with AutoCAD 2016
With 2016 BIM coordination model features in AutoCAD design and documentation software, you can now open Navisworks project review software and BIM 360 Glue cloud-based BIM collaboration software models within design products. Designers can now model in-context using the integrated Navisworks model as an underlay to assist with clash avoidance.
Equipment and skid design
Design and model equipment and skids with Inventor 3D CAD software. Create more accurate digital prototypes for a wide variety of equipment and skid units such as pumping systems, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and separators.
Routed systems design
The Ultimate edition of Plant Design Suite 2016 includes Inventor with Routed Systems 2016 software. More easily design routed elements, including tube, pipe, cable, and electrical harness runs when designing equipment and skids.
Tight integration with Vault
Integrate with Vault data management software to improve inter-office project coordination:
Collaborate across offices.
Receive design update notifications.
Manage piping specification and catalogs inside projects.
Manage model workflow throughout the project.
Electrical raceways and ducting
Plant Design Suite includes AutoCAD MEP mechanical, electrical, and plumbing software for modeling electrical raceways and ducting.
P&ID creation and management
Create, modify, and manage piping and instrumentation diagrams with AutoCAD P&ID piping design software. Take advantage of faster piping—insert industry-standard symbols (PIP, ISA, JIS, ISO/DIN) or customized symbols into drawings. Access component and line information while you work.
3D plant and pipe design software
Experience modern 3D process plant modeling. Create more accurate designs in less time with spec-driven piping and components. Use spec-driven technology and ANSI/ASME (B16) and DIN/ISO catalogs to help meet project requirements.
Design, drafting, and plant layout
AutoCAD design and documentation software is included in every edition of Plant Design Suite for general design, drafting, and plant layout design.
Isometric and orthographic documentation
Generate piping isometric and orthographic drawings and documentation with AutoCAD Plant 3D software. Produce more accurate documentation throughout the process.
Fixed length pipe modeling
Route fixed length pipe more easily with functionality in AutoCAD Plant 3D plant design software. Plant Design Suite supports AWWA, BPE, and other piping catalogs.
Weight/Center of Gravity (COG) calculations
Use AutoCAD Plant 3D software to more quickly identify Center of Gravity (COG) for piping components and networks and produce COG reports.
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Use AutoCAD Plant 3D software to create Bill of Materials (BOM) tables and linked annotation from 3D models when creating orthographic drawings. By selecting the view, you can customize a predefined BOM table to better comply with client standards, then place it anywhere on the drawing.
Reality capture
Begin your design process in context from existing environments with ReCap reality capture software and services. ReCap creates 3D data from laser scans and photos, enabling you to clean, organize, and visualize massive datasets more easily.
Raster-to-vector conversion
Plant Design Suite includes AutoCAD Raster Design software to more easily incorporate design information from scanned drawings, maps, satellite images, aerial photos, and raster images, then convert them to DWG™ files.
BIM coordination with AutoCAD 2016
With 2016 BIM coordination model features in AutoCAD design and documentation software, you can now open Navisworks project review software and BIM 360 Glue cloud-based BIM collaboration software models within design products. Designers can now model in-context using the integrated Navisworks model as an underlay to assist with clash avoidance.
Clash detection
Help identify interferences before construction by aggregating models and performing clash detection analysis in Navisworks Manage software for design simulation and validation testing.
Design visualization
Use 3ds Max 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing software to create high-impact 3D visualizations and animations of process plants. Transform plant layout design models into photorealistic design visualizations. Help clients, government agencies, and community stakeholders better comprehend design intent and project impact.
Faster project reviews
Combine structural, piping layout, and equipment models in Navisworks Simulate software for design simulation and product review to support project constructability reviews.