AutoCAD Plant 3D®

Create and edit P&IDs and 3D models, and extract piping orthographics and isometrics with an industry-specific toolset for plant design.

Toolset Overview

Summary

Create and edit P&IDs and 3D models, and extract piping orthographics and isometrics with an industry-specific toolset for plant design. With the Plant 3D toolset, you can:
System requirements:
Plant designed with the Plant 3D toolset

Workflows

See how the specialized toolsets included with AutoCAD can save you valuable time.

Plant 3D toolset + BIM 360 Design

Plant 3D toolset + BIM 360 Design

Plant designers use BIM 360 Design to collaborate across project teams in a cloud-based common data environment.

Plant 3D toolset + Revit + Navisworks + InfraWorks

Use Plant 3D in the AEC Collection for spec-driven design, analysis, and construction-ready isometrics.

Autodesk AEC Collection

Collaborate on plant design models across project teams and maintain compliance requirements—all in a cloud-based common data environment.

AutoCAD Plant 3D simplifies plant design and boosts project efficiency

See how AutoCAD Plant 3D simplifies plant design and boosts project efficiency

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Features

Collaboration & P&ID’s

Collaboration for Plant 3D

Collaboration for Plant 3D

Plant designers use BIM 360 Design to collaborate across project teams in a cloud-based common data environment.

Quick P&ID drafting

Use in-context AutoCAD commands to make P&ID drafting easier.

Industry-standard symbol libraries

The Plant 3D toolset is delivered with standard symbol libraries in the tool palettes. These include PIP, ISA, ISO/DIN, and JIS.

Data validation

Quickly identify possible errors by scanning P&IDs for data consistency according to user-definable rules.

3D Modeling

Rapid plant modeling in 3D

Rapid plant modeling in 3D

Plant designers use BIM 360 Design to collaborate across project teams in a cloud-based common data environment.

Parametric equipment templates

Parametric equipment templates

Create and edit equipment using parametric templates to help you build plant layouts faster.

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Structural modeling

Lay out structures, stairs, ladders, and railings using industry-standard steel sections including AISC, CISC, and DIN.

Create project-specific piping specs

Customise piping specifications to meet project-specific requirements. Include industry-standard components as well as customised components

Piping Documentation

Create and edit piping orthographic drawings

Plant designers use BIM 360 Design to collaborate across project teams in a cloud-based common data environment.

Automated production of piping isometrics

Create industry standard/project-standard piping isometric drawings directly from the 3D model.

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Automated project-specific reporting

Define report formats for the project and automatically populate the data directly from the 3D model.

BIM model documentation

Work with other industry disciplines to create BIM models for the plant.

Optimise Your Plant Design with
AutoCAD Plant 3D

Effortlessly design, model, and document process plants with Autodesk AutoCAD Plant 3D. From intelligent piping and instrumentation to advanced collaboration tools, Plant 3D empowers teams to deliver projects faster and with greater accuracy.

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AutoCAD Plant 3D

AutoCAD System Requirements

Operating System

64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11 and Windows 10 version 1809 or above.

Processor

Basic: 2.5-2.9 GHz processor with 8 logical cores (base) ARM Processors are not supported.
Recommended: 3+ GHz processor (base), 4+ GHz (turbo)

Memory

Basic: 8 GB
Recommended: 32 GB

Display Resolution

Conventional Displays:
1920 x 1080 with True Color
High Resolution & 4K Displays:
Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 (with “Recommended” display card)

Display Card

Basic: 2 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Recommended: 8 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 12 compliant

DirectX 12 with Feature Level 12_0 is required for Shaded (Fast), Shaded with edges (Fast), and Wireframe (Fast) visual styles. Please be sure to use the latest drivers from the video card manufacturer’s website.

Note: AutoCAD uses your computer’s display card for a variety of essential graphics operations including but not limited to view manipulation, line smoothing, and text/linetype generation.  It is recommended that you have a display card with dedicated VRAM to support these operations at optimal speeds.

Disk space

10.0 GB (suggested SSD)

Pointing Device

MS-Mouse compliant

.NET Framework

.NET 8

Additional Requirements for Toolset (Windows Only)

AutoCAD Plant 3D

Disk Space: 12GB
Memory (recommended for 3D modeling): 32GB