Free online courseAutoCAD Plant 3D 2025 Training: Piping, Isometrics and Orthographics

Course Description

AutoCAD Plant 3D 2025 Training: Piping, Isometrics and Orthographics is a free online course in Design and Creative Arts, focused on Architectural Design workflows for plant and piping projects. It guides you from first launch through producing professional deliverables, helping you build confidence with the Plant 3D interface, core tools, and project organization.

You will learn how to open and set up Plant 3D projects and models, configure the workspace, and navigate key panels such as the ribbon, tool palettes, properties, and on-screen tools. The course also covers practical file handling, including creating new models, bringing existing drawings into a project, renaming files, and keeping drawing information up to date.

As the project develops, you will work with structural steel by creating grids and placing and editing beams, plus adding common access and safety elements such as ladders, railings, plate, grating, and footings. You will also create and refine equipment, apply trims, add and adjust nozzles, and use annotations and templates, including methods for converting existing AutoCAD equipment into Plant 3D equipment.

Piping design is addressed in depth, with guidance on routing lines, branching, placing valves and instrumentation, and adding pipe supports. You will also explore techniques to modify and reuse piping data, isolate and manage components, update line numbers, connect to external references, and extend capability with custom parts.

To support data-driven deliverables, the course introduces the Data Manager for tagging, filtering, locating components, and exchanging project data with Excel. You will then generate orthographic drawings with view creation and editing, adjacent views, dimensions, annotations, bills of materials, and revision control. Finally, you will produce isometric drawings, from quick outputs to production-ready isometrics, including reference dimensions, start and break points, line locking and issuing, and PCF-to-isometric workflows, plus validation, auditing, database maintenance, and export options.