AutoCAD Plant 3D Advanced Training

You are working with AutoCAD Plant 3D and want to learn how to configure AutoCAD Plant 3D and how to create your own components. For these users Van Zijtveld Consulting developed this 3 day course, where the user will learn the correct way to configure AutoCAD Plant 3D according to your company’s standards and settings. During the course the user will learn to configure AutoCAD Plant 3D by hands-on sessions and examples, where the user will work through the exercises to get a good understanding of AutoCAD Plant 3D.

After the course the user will be capable of configuring AutoCAD Plant 3D professionally and will be able to add his own components, tagging schemes and reports.

Required entry level

The user needs to have basic skills in using AutoCAD Plant 3D and should have understanding of creating blocks, importing external data and metadata.

Course duration

The AutoCAD Plant 3D Administrator basic course is a 3 day course where the user will learn how to configure AutoCAD Plant 3D and create new components, tagging schemes and reports.

Course content

Day-1 Day-2 Day-3
- Introduction to Plant 3D
- The project manager
- Structuring your project
- Plant 3D tool palettes
- Plant 3D project interface
- AutoCAD Plant 3D basic settings
- Color and layer schematics
- Tagging schemes
- Annotations and labels
- Isometric settings and templates
- Iso templates and themes
- Creating custom Iso symbols
- The Isoconfig.xml
- Pipe specs and dimensioning catalogs
- Pipe specs
- The ortho template
- Dimensioning catalogs
- New components
- New components based on AutoCAD blocks
- Using the nozzle catalog
- Supports catalog & spec
- The Report Creator
- Creating a basic report
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About Us

Van Zijtveld Consulting, started in 2009 as a small independent engineering and consultancy company, specializing in supporting and training users in the mechanical and process market who work with Autodesk software. In the meantime, we bring over 30+ years of experience in different phases of designing installations. Planning, design, production, implementation, integration and support is in our blood.

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