Lynda - AutoCAD P&ID Essential Training: User
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