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Maarten_M
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Workbench for industrial plant design

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Dear All, Currently I have several projects to build industrial plant systems. You have special software for this. Now I mainly work with Autocad Plant 3d. Which is basically horrible :). It is slow, crashes a lot and generally has everything autodesk does to make software "better". I really like open source and cad design and a bit of programming, I would be very nice to have a workbench for industrial plant design similar to arch. Is this a good idea? Are more people interested in this?

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Maarten
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Re: Workbench for industrial plant design

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This workbench seems a good idea, but, what would be the difference between an industrial plant design and Arch?
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Hi Maarten, welcome to the forum
For introducing to people who do not know anything about piping, you want a workbench that gives Freecad the functions you have in these commercial programs;
- From softwarehouse Aveva program PDMS (old) and E3D (new)
- From softwarehouse Bentley program PlantDesign
- Last and least from softwarehouse Autodesk program Plant3D

Here an image of a typical piping drawing
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I ask myself or much people interested in such a workbench.
A lot of people want to work with an architectural program, but piping i doubt
For home users perhaps for those who wants to built a beer brewery for hobby.
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Willem wrote:
I ask myself or much people interested in such a workbench.
A lot of people want to work with an architectural program, but piping i doubt
For home users perhaps for those who wants to built a beer brewery for hobby.
I think FreeCAD need not to be connected to the mainstream.

Piping systems are the 3D implementing of flow.
There are already methods in Part which support pipes. But I think there is more behind.
https://modelica.org/events/modelica200 ... ion6b1.pdf
Why programmers and piping experts should not share their knowledge to get a workbench?
Drinking a beer when the brewery is established
should not be the last choice :lol:
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Re: Workbench for industrial plant design

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Yorik has started here: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Arch_Pipe/en
But drinking beer is more fun :)
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@Maarten_m @Willem you guys seem to know that area well, what would be interesting, is if you tried to design a plan of what such a workbench should have, that is: Tools (buttons) and workflows (what are the different things that need to be achieved and what are the steps to achieve them).

These design plans take time to build, because it is less obvious than we use to think :) and it needs input of many people to mature. But I think that's definitely an area where freecad could fit well.
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Re: Workbench for industrial plant design

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@Maarten_M @Willem
Hello,
There is also an extension to Arch Workbench : Flamingo.
It's in the freecad addons and can be installed with the addon installer : Tools \ Addon manager (since FreeCAD v. 0.17.9940).
This adds several toolbars, including one named PipeTools.
There are tutorials on how to use it on :
https://github.com/oddtopus/flamingo/tr ... /tutorials
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Someone wrote about the desire to cable tray routing in FreeCAD, but I can't find the topic.
Maybe it was @PrzemoF ?
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Bump, any headway on this?
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