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Metric ASME Specs in AutoCAD Plant 3D

August 24, 2015 11:32 Plant

By Andy Davis

AutoCAD Plant 3D

When working on a plant design project it is quite a common requirement to use pipe specs that
conform to ASME standards but are dimensioned and reported in metric units.

The standard ASME catalogs that are supplied with Plant 3D are essentially Imperial catalogs, all of
the dimensions and descriptions being reported in inches.

The question is, how do I create metric pipe specs of ASME fittings without re-defining the fittings
from the standard ASME catalogs?

Plant Spec Editor

The answer is to use the Layout and Settings feature of the AutoCAD Plant 3D Spec Editor.

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In the Layout and Settings window, you can change the nominal size of the fittings in a spec to
display the units you require. You can select Metric units for the CS150 pipe spec, for example.

By selecting a value from the Long description (size) style: list, you can update the descriptions of
the fittings in the spec. When you click Ok or Apply, the size descriptions are updated to use the se-
lected units and are saved to the current spec.

In this example, I have opened the CS150 pipe spec, created a new spec from it called CS150-
Metric, and then changed the Layout and Settings as described above.

The result is an ASME pipe spec displaying metric units.

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The following example shows the results of using this pipe spec in a metric project:

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