About This Training Course

Learn many of the essential features of AutoCAD P&ID Introduction Training Course, including how to create P&IDs by placing equipment, connecting equipment with pipelines, and adding valves, reducers and pipe fittings. After creating the P&ID, the generation of reports and extracting data are covered. Also a part of this guide is a topic about validating your P&ID.

Subjects Covered

This AutoCAD P&ID Introduction Training Course will cover the following subjects:

Getting Started
• Launching AutoCAD P&ID
• The AutoCAD P&ID User Interface (UI)
• Your Work Screen
• Workspaces
• AutoCAD P&ID Tool Palettes
• Tool Palette Options
• Creating a Tool Palette
AutoCAD P&ID Projects
• The Project Manager
• Open a Project
• Starting a New Project
• Structuring Your Project
• Renaming and Removing Folders
• Adding Existing Drawings
• Creating New Drawings
• Removing Drawings

Creating a P&ID
• Placing Equipment
• Adding a Tag
• Adding a Tag Annotation
• Existing Numbering
• Connecting Equipment
• Setting Line Sizes
• Pipe Line Grouping / Linking
• Straight and Non Straight Lines
• Curved Lines
• Placing Inline Components – Valves
• Special Inline Components – Reducers
• Special Inline Components – Control Valve
• Instrumentation
• Manually placing General Instrumentation
• Connecting Instrumentation
• Placing Non Engineering Items
• Flow Arrow
• Spec Breaker
• Connectors
• Copying Symbols

Annotating Your Components
• General Annotation Types
• Placing Equipment Annotations
• Equipment Information Labels
• Pipeline Tag Label
• Reducer Labels
• Valve Labels
• Annotation Settings

Modifying Your P&ID
• Schematic Line Editing
• Substitute Line Type
• Schematic Line Groups Editing
• Editing Schematic Lines
• Changing Equipment and Inline Components
• Extended Valve Functionality
• Convert to Control Valve
• Edit P&ID Objects Block

Managing Your AutoCAD P&ID Project
• The Project Manager
• Adding Existing Drawings
• Project Properties
• General Settings
• Custom Properties
• Rearranging the Physical Location of Your

Drawings
• Resave Project Drawings
• Sharing P&ID’s with Non AutoCAD P&ID Users
• Sharing P&ID’s with AutoCAD P&ID Users
• Work History

Validating your P&ID’s
• Validate Project
• Ignore / Erase
• Re-Validate
• Refresh
• Validate Drawing
• Validation Settings
• Solving Errors

Managing Your Project Data
• The Data Manager
• Project Data
• Drawing Data
• Viewing Data
• Adding and Editing Data
• Annotating with the Data Manager
• Export and Import P&ID Data
• Filter and Sort Data
• Creating Reports

Plotting and Publishing
• Publish - General
• Publish Options
Closing and Saving

Training Course Outcomes

This class is intended for users who have a need for generating Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) or Process Flow
diagrams (PFD). Either draftsmen or process engineers who have the need to quickly draw a P&ID or PFD can take this class.

At the end of this AutoCAD P&ID Introduction Training Course participants will be able to:
• Place equipment symbols.
• Connect equipment with pipe lines.
• Add inline components like valves, reducers, and pipe fittings.
• Tag and annotate the piping and instrumentation diagram.
• Generate reports.
• Import and export data to Microsoft Excel.
• Validate the generated piping and instrumentation diagrams.

Prerequisites

Students should have completed the AutoCAD Comprehensive Introduction (ACAD-1A) course or have equivalent experience
using AutoCAD.

Other Information

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