Lynda - AutoCAD PID Essential Training: Administrator

The P&ID software from AutoCAD gives you the ability to create, edit, and validate piping and instrumentation design information with AutoCAD-based editing tools. In this course, learn how to set up, customize, and maintain a piping and instrumentation project with this powerful program. Join Irene Radcliffe as she explains how to create and customize a new project, navigate a standard project structure, and add classes and custom properties to build a project symbol library. Irene also shares how to create custom component tags and annotations, modify existing symbols, and more.

Topics include:

Accessing data in Project Manager
Reviewing P&ID class definitions
Reviewing drawing properties vs. project properties
Creating a new project
Managing files
Setting up P&ID project paths
Working with custom project properties
Creating custom P&ID symbols, component tags, and animation
Modifying existing symbols
Setting layers, fonts, and linetypes