Fast Track Plant

Fast Track Plant

Win64, English

ECAD, Inc.
Design tools for Autodesk® AutoCAD® P&ID and Autodesk® AutoCAD® Plant 3D.

General Usage Instructions

Install the product and run commands as needed. On new projects, you will be prompted to FASTTRACKPLANTSETUP to add required database columns to the project setup.

Screenshots

Commands

Ribbon/Toolbar Icon Command Command Description

UPDATESELECTIONDISPLAY

Updates defined linked properties to show the description value for selection lists. For example, you can link a Service Description property to the Service property to have General Process show when P is selected for Service.

RENAMEPROJECT

Rename the current Plant 3D or P&ID project.

COPYPIPE

Retains line numbers while copying pipe to other drawings in the project.

EDITEXCELSYNC

Allows customizing the import and update routines by defining the header row, columns, and other information.

AUTOSYNCSPECLISTFROMPLANT

Updates the P&ID Spec list from the Plant 3D specs when project setup is closed.

USEENDTYPES

Indicates whether P&ID items should show end types (like welds, and flanges). If you want only one end type (like flanges), you will need to create a blank end type block and assign that to the other end types while keeping USEENDTYPES on.

EXPORTPROJECTTOZIP

SQLite only - Allows users to export selected files and folders to a zip file for easy transmission.

EXTRACTPROJECTZIPANDOPEN

Extracts the select project zip to a folder and opens it.

ORIENTATTRIBUTES

Allows the user to rotate, move, or mirror attributes in P&ID annotations or ortho annotations.

SETPARTSIZECURRENT

Allows setting the current pipe routing size by picking on a part in the model

USEPNIDSPECPARTS

A toggle that will prompt the user to select an item from the piping spec. A selection dialog displays when a part is placed on a line that has size and spec properties filled in, and if the part is mapped to a 3D shape in the project setup.

SHOWOUTOFSPECPARTS

Draws red circles around the objects that have mappings to 3D parts in the project setup, and have out of date or missing information.

SETPARTSPECCURRENT

Sets the current routing spec by picking on a part in the model

SHOWSPECVIEWER

Shows the spec viewer for 3D models.

UPDATELINEPROPERTIES

Updates the nominal size, nominal spec for P&ID line groups and P3D Line Groups. Updates line size/spec for lines connected across pages. Runs automatically when drawings open.

CLEARPLANTLOCALDATACACHEONSTARTU

Clears the local data cache before a project gets loaded. This increases the startup time, but ensures that stale data is not read.

BATCHORTHOUPDATE

Update a selection of ortho drawings

SELECTIONLISTSYNC

Synchronizes selections lists between P&ID and Plant 3D

AUTOSWITCHPALETTES

Switches tool palette groups from P&ID to 3D groups (for the groups set in the project setup) when the user changes from a P&ID to a 3D model.

SETPARTALLCURRENT

Sets the current routing size, spec, and line number by picking on a part in the model

UPDATEEXCEL

Writes to an existing Excel export. Calculated columns are not over-written; this will allow engineers to work of one spreadsheet instead of multiple exports. See EDITEXCELSYNC for customisation options.

SETPROJECTTEXTSTYLE

Allows a user to assign a text style to all annotations and blocks in the project setup.

EDITSELECTIONLISTDISPLAY

Control which selection lists descriptions get saved to columns.

EQUIPMENTSUBSTITUTEBLOCK

Substitute an existing equipment block with another one from the model. For example, if you use the IMPORT command to bring an Autodesk® Inventor® file, you can import again after changes are made to update the existing converted equipment model with graphical changes.

LISTUSERLOGS

Displays the users who have opened the project

SELECTIONLISTIMPORT

Imports modified selection lists

CONVERTTOCONTROLVALVE

Convert a manual valve in the 3D model to a control valve.

PURGEPNPSTYLES

In some rare cases, you may need to purge the PnP Styles from a drawing in order to refresh the symbol data. This command purges the dictionary so that SYNCHSTYLES creates fresh symbol information in the current drawing. NEVER run this on a projsymbolstyle.dwg.

USERLOGGINGENABLED

Turns user logging on for the current user

POPULATEPROPERTIES

A configurable prompt that allows users to input data that is not in the tag format when objects are inserted.

EDITSELECTIONLISTSYNC

Edit which selection lists get sync'd between P&ID and Plant 3D

FASTTRACKPLANTLICENSE

Displays the license manager to activate or deactivate licenses.

SETPARTLINECURRENT

Sets the current line number by picking on a part in the model

LINEGROUPSYNCTAGS

Allows the user to change which property is used to sync between P&ID line groups and 3d line groups.

IMPORTEXCEL

Imports data from Excel into the project without opening drawings. NO validation or rejection occurs, so all changes are accepted allowing for a faster data import. See EDITEXCELSYNC for customization options.

ALIGNVIEWCUBETOPIPE

Aligns the ortho view cube to a pipe while in the ortho view editing mode. Helpful when creating orthos of skewed piping

BATCHLINETAGTRIMUPDATE

Updates the trimmed line tag property for the entire project.

OUTOFSPECGRAPHICCOLOR

Changes the color used to show out of spec graphics (P&ID).

EquipmentSubstitute_32.png

Substitute an existing block-based equipment with a new block while retaining nozzles and equipment information.

PIDTO3DLINEGROUPSYNC

Updates values in 3D line groups that have matching tags from values in the corresponding P&ID line groups (for all columns that have the same names).

ROUTETOOFFSET

While routing pipe, route to a point offset from another. For example, route 6" past the center line of a column by pick the center line, dragging in a direction and entering 6.

ASSIGNSPECPROPERTIES

Applies information from part in a 3D pipe spec to a P&ID item, like a valve. By assigning information to P&ID objects, reports can be created based on the spec information.

SELECTIONLISTEXPORT

Exports selection lists to Excel for modifications

LINEGROUPVIEWER

A palette that helps isolate line groups in a model. You can also list other models that have the same line group, and locate parts of a line group that have been separated from each other (which breaks isos).

SYNCSPECLISTFROMPLANT

Read the spec files from Plant 3D and modifies the P&ID spec list to match.

CLEARSELECTIONLIST

Remove the values from a selection list

EXTRACTPROJECTZIP

Extracts selected project zip to a folder for opening

FASTTRACKUPBATCHUPDATEPROPERTIES

Updates all properties in an existing project to use available Fasttrack Plant functions.

PICKELEVATION

Allows the user to pick a point to change elevation while routing pipe

FASTTRACKPLANTSETUP

Configures the current project to work with the plugin. Details are written at the command line.

AUTOFILLINNOMINALSPEC

Indicate whether or not to fill in the nominal spec automatically for the current project (while running the UPDATELINEPROPERTIES command).

Installation/Uninstallation

The installer that ran when you downloaded this plug-in from Autodesk App Store has already installed the plug-in. You may need to restart the Autodesk product to activate the plug-in. To uninstall this plug-in, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features (Windows 7/8.1/10) or Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP), and uninstall as you would any other application from your system.

After purchasing the app from the App store, your installation will be a 30-day trial. Along with the purchase, you will receive an email with an activation code. To complete the activation, please see these activation instructions. http://www.pdoteam.com/license-activation/

Additional Information

Online help (and a download for offline help) is available here: http://www.pdoteam.com/help/fasttrackplant/

Contact

Company Name: ECAD, Inc.

Author/Company Information

ECAD, Inc.

Support Information

Version History

Version Number Version Description

1.0.6

1.0.6 Added compatibility with Plant 3D 2018, 2019, and 2020! Unfortunately, we had to drop compatibility with 2017 and older. If you still use 2017 and older, please continue to use the previous version. If you have purchased Fast Track Plant, your license key should work with any version. 1.0.17018 Fixed P&ID spec dialog prompting, and some validation issues. Added SETPROJECTBYBLOCK to update all project block color to ByBlock. 1.0.16299 Remove the Deploy Scripts button since it's not being used. 1.0.16286 Fixed a bug where the spec directory for Spec-Driven P&IDs didn’t update when the project was changed. Verified Spec-Driven P&IDs work with Vault Fixed bugs where valves wouldn’t show if out of spec if the line size changed Fixed a bug in the BATCHLINETAGTRIMUPDATE where it wouldn’t update pipe run components.

1.0.17018

1.0.17018 Fixed P&ID spec dialog prompting, and some validation issues. Added SETPROJECTBYBLOCK to update all project block color to ByBlock. 1.0.16299 Remove the Deploy Scripts button since it's not being used. 1.0.16286 Fixed a bug where the spec directory for Spec-Driven P&IDs didn’t update when the project was changed. Verified Spec-Driven P&IDs work with Vault Fixed bugs where valves wouldn’t show if out of spec if the line size changed Fixed a bug in the BATCHLINETAGTRIMUPDATE where it wouldn’t update pipe run components.

1.0.16299

1.0.16299 Remove the Deploy Scripts button since it's not being used. 1.0.16286 Fixed a bug where the spec directory for Spec-Driven P&IDs didn’t update when the project was changed. Verified Spec-Driven P&IDs work with Vault Fixed bugs where valves wouldn’t show if out of spec if the line size changed Fixed a bug in the BATCHLINETAGTRIMUPDATE where it wouldn’t update pipe run components.

1.0.6080

1.0.6080 - Fixed startup bug Initial Release

1.0

Initial Release
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