{"id":38,"date":"2017-03-01T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/in-the-pipes\/2017\/03\/01\/update_from_plant_hq\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T22:53:39","slug":"update_from_plant_hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/in-the-pipes\/2017\/03\/01\/update_from_plant_hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Autodesk Plant Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe report of my death has been grossly exaggerated.\u201d<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> – Mark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though the quote was made over 120 years ago it is still relevant today because it speaks to how rumors spin out of control. Sometimes rumors are based on misunderstood information and sometimes they are based on a lack of information. Personally the ones I find the most aggravating are the ones that are pure fabrication. What rumors do quite effectively is generate FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the face of FUD, words are a poor cure because sometimes people don\u2019t want to believe information that does not support their frame of reference. So usually the only way to ease their fears is to show them not tell them. So I thought I would share with you what the Systems Engineering team at Autodesk has been up to over the past year or so. For those of you who are not familiar with the Systems Engineering team, it is the product group responsible for Autodesk\u2019s plant and building MEP related customers. These are two disciplines that are not usually grouped together in software companies or in the AEC market in general. However, it makes a lot of sense to group them together because there are a lot of commonalities between the two constituencies. More about that in a little bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

So back to \u201cseeing is believing\u201d. Let me show you just\u00a0a few of the things\u00a0we have been up to over the past year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spec Driven P&ID<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Even though we have had Spec Driven Plant design for many years, our P&ID tool did not have that capability. We had planned to release it with Plant 2017 but the quality was simply not there. So we decided to pull it out till we got the quality where we wanted it. We completed it in time for the 2017.1 release and did not want to hold it back till the next major release. I think you will find it very intuitive to use if you are already familiar with spec driven design in Plant 3D.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vault and Worksharing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have made major improvements to our Vault and Wide Area Network workflows for team collaboration\/worksharing. When we started 2016 the feature set in Plant 3D\/P&ID did not work very well when the project got very large, the team got very large or the team was distributed across multiple offices or geos. Working very closely with a handful of customers we found and fixed a large number of obstacles to those workflows and also figured out a repeatable set of best practices. So i<\/span>f you have tried Vault or worksharing across multiple offices and struggled to get it to work. I recommend you give it another try with our much improved 2017.1 update<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some useful Vault resources:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n