

“Our experience is that a plant designed in full 3D provides financiers and investors more confidence in the project and lowers their risk adversity.”
Technical Capabilities
Multiple Project Configurations
- Works with different project units (imperial/metric)
- Configuration settings are saved to a project setting file and can be reloaded to maintain existing drawing conditions
Single/Double Line Drawing Output
- Allows user to create single/double line drawing output
- Line display can be controlled through pipe size
Hidden Line Option
- Hidden line drawings for 3D models can be controlled through on/off settings
- Various options are available to control hidden line output
- Pipe (single/double line display with industry standard 2D symbols)
- Elbow (Weld/SW and THD type), Tee
- Option to show centerlines
Built-in Reports
- Available for pipe, support, equipment, and instrument lists
Labeling Priority & Control with 2D Free Space Search and Optimization
OpenPlant Orthographics Manager’s white space search algorithm quickly finds free spaces in general arrangement drawings for labeling of various design components, such as instruments, supports, nozzles, reducers, and line numbers. This optimizes legibility by eliminating messy markups and drawing rework, and reduces output time from hours to minutes.
- Enhanced algorithm finds free spaces in general arrangement drawings for the optimal placement of labels
- Avoids interference of the label (e.g. text string and leaders) with other text or geometry in the drawing
- Gives ability to control interference through user interface generation option
- Ability to set priority of label (pipe, control valves, supports) in the drawing to avoid overlapping interference on highly detailed drawings
- Effectively and efficiently uses the space around a tagged item
- Uses two types of label control options based on:
- Internal density
- Boundary area
Multi-views and Composite Views
- Supports multiple views of 3D design to create composite drawings
- Ability to interactively select desired clipping sections
Runtime Options
- Output unit (metric/inch-feet)
- Placement priority of inside annotations
- Free space searching density (sparse/average/dense mode)
- Free space searching boundary (fast/middle/detail mode)
- Annotation filtering options
OpenPlant Orthographics Manager Output
- 2D hidden line MicroStation® output (.DGN) with dimensions and annotations


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