I’m not going to go into the details of that transition, but will say that it’s still sort of an ongoing process. I was sent to training that summer to learn the basics, and tasked myself with converting all of our schematics and panel layouts to this program, since it incorporates a lot more intelligence than the simple ladder diagrams we were producing. The symbols are based on ANSI/ISA-S5.1 (R1992) A little background might be helpful…īack in 2012, when we got our upgrade to Autodesk Product Design Suite 2013, we realized that it now came with AutoCad Electrical. but it’s worth putting in here as a part of the whole project.Ībove is a sample of one of our standard P&IDs. One of the steps will be a bit of a repeat…. Not everything went as smoothly as I had hoped, but in this post I will share some of the things I did to make this happen. I still have some symbols to create, but we should be doing our first trial run project in the very near future. I’m finally close, having solved the more challenging issues I was facing. In the last year or so, in my (clears throat) “spare time”, I’ve been working on a conversion that would allow us to create our P&ID’s (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams) in AutoCad Electrical instead of straight up AutoCad.
