Piping & Tubing Design

This guide for administrators describes how to set up the Piping & Tubing Design apps.

This page discusses:

See Also
What's New

Piping & Tubing Design Capabilities

To benefit from the full capabilities of these apps you will need to spend some time setting up the system to suit the requirements of your projects, as described in this guide.

To set up the Piping & Tubing Design apps, you must configure various resources. These resources are mostly linked to customers and projects and are managed in the Data Setup app.

Depending on your requirements, configuring and maintaining resources using Data Setup can be simple or more complex:

  • The simpler the configuration is, the more freedom the designers have and the easier it is to manage using Data Setup.
  • The more complex the configuration is, the more it constrains the design process in accordance with predefined rules.

You must decide what is going to be a good balance between predefined design rules and designer freedom.

Note: You can open these apps and use them "out-of-the-box", however, in this case, functionality and efficiency will be very limited.

Before Reading this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you:

  • Carry out the administration tasks listed in Set Up Procedure - Quick Start using the sample data provided without any customization.
  • Once you have gained an understanding of how the system is set up, refer to this Administration Guide again, this time referring to Set Up Procedure - Detailed and customize your system to your own requirements by modifying the sample resource files or by creating your own files.

You might need to refer to the following guides as you are learning to administer Piping & Tubing Design.

3DEXPERIENCE PlatformDescribes the key concepts and capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, such as the Compass, 6WTags, 3DSearch, and 3DNotification.
3DEXPERIENCE Native AppsDescribes the user interface and tools common to all native apps. This guide complements 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
Data Setup User's GuideDescribes how to associate your resources to applications. Data Setup is fundamental to the administration of the Piping & Tubing Design apps.
Drafting User's Guide: Administration: Setting App-Specific Generative View Style Parameters Describes how you can customize the appearance and behavior of piping and tubing elements when projected in a drawing, via a set of pre-defined parameters and options known as generative view styles.
People & Organizations and Content Guide Describes the startup data (security contexts, projects, business roles, maturity, etc.) provided with the People & Organizations and Content Guide deployment option.