Export to 3D Plant Design
This command lets you export deformed geometry to 3D Plant Design software E3D/PDMS and CADMATIC while being in Displacements results.
In order to comply with space constraints, piping designers check for interferences between piping and the adjacent structures, concrete buildings, equipment and reserve volumes for walkthrough, maintenance space etc. either manually on General Arrangement drawings or nowadays in a 3D Plant model. Unfortunately, such “Clash-check” is performed using only “as-designed” drawings/3D model. In reality, piping systems deform due to its own dead-weight during installed/shut-down condition, during hydrotest as well as during operating condition. Clash-checks for piping systems under such “deformed conditions” are usually never performed till date. This option transfers “deformed shapes” for the piping system for different loading conditions to the 3D Plant Design software.
The 3D Plant Design software, in turn, could then check for interference under different loading conditions as well as under the traditional “as-designed” model condition by exporting the “deformed layouts for loading conditions of interest” through the option Results Window > File > Export 3D Plant Design.