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Hi, I’m looking for feedback on P&ID software, I’m looking at AutoCAD P&ID at the moment, has anyone had any experience of this?

[Jeff Berkley]

My company is looking for P&ID software. We use Solidworks for design. We’d like to find a great P&ID package! We are a very small company but are willing to invest some dollars for a good program. We want more than just graphics as in plain jane Autocad. I’d rather not have big annual maintenance fees. Any recommendations?

[Jayson Murdock]

If your company uses AVEVA at all then I would suggest looking into AVEVA PID. It’s a little cumbersome at 1st but once you get rolling it keeps up quite well in change management between the model and PID’s. As well you can tie in E&I elements.

[Jeff Berkley]

Thanks for that. Aveva did not come up in my searches so far.

[Caroline Conway]

Just my $0.02 here…I’ve used 2 different smart P&ID software packages. One was from CATIA and the other was from Autodesk. Both did the job, however I do think the Autodesk program was easier to use and had a much shallower learning curve. So…in my admittedly biased opinion, go with the AutoCAD Plant 3D package…it has the smart P&ID capabilities and the ability to transfer information to the 3D and BOM. The only drawback is writing the project.xml file. That I don’t know how to do, so you’d have to find someone who could…

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