Yay. my first post. I'll throw in my two cents into this....
1) One workaround is to create valves that act like equipment (give them P&ID Type of EIN). This way you can also upload them to Workbench if necessary (I.e. specialty valve items). Or, as Elizabeth said, make them instrument valves.
2) P&ID 7.2 is compatible with AutoCAD 2008 (NOTE: can't go back to 6.2 once installed!). Never tried the import myself, but I have found xreffing in a 'dumb' AutoCAD drawing into a new P&ID drawing and tracing it goes fairly quick. Granted not as quick as importing, but faster then drawing from scratch.
3) Can tell you what we have. Two virutal servers on one box for the Workbench Oracle DB and Workbench Application servers. We manage all our P&ID projects on the same application server used by Workbench. That way all Aveva stuff is kept together. But you don't have to do it that way (the P&ID stuff anyways). The beauty thing about P&ID is that it's 'footprint' is really small, so it can be kept pretty much anywhere, but as Elizabeth said, you'll want a good connection between servers for uploading and WAPI purposes.
Yay. my first post. I'll throw in my two cents into this....
1) One workaround is to create valves that act like equipment (give them P&ID Type of EIN). This way you can also upload them to Workbench if necessary (I.e. specialty valve items). Or, as Elizabeth said, make them instrument valves.
2) P&ID 7.2 is compatible with AutoCAD 2008 (NOTE: can't go back to 6.2 once installed!). Never tried the import myself, but I have found xreffing in a 'dumb' AutoCAD drawing into a new P&ID drawing and tracing it goes fairly quick. Granted not as quick as importing, but faster then drawing from scratch.
3) Can tell you what we have. Two virutal servers on one box for the Workbench Oracle DB and Workbench Application servers. We manage all our P&ID projects on the same application server used by Workbench. That way all Aveva stuff is kept together. But you don't have to do it that way (the P&ID stuff anyways). The beauty thing about P&ID is that it's 'footprint' is really small, so it can be kept pretty much anywhere, but as Elizabeth said, you'll want a good connection between servers for uploading and WAPI purposes.
