3D plant modeling systems and methods

Abstract

Systems and methods for leveraging a preliminary plant model to create a detailed physical plant model are presented. The system stores instances of component primitives, and can utilize stored geometries of the component primitives to identify a plurality of physical components to form a physical plant model. The physical plant model can realize at least a portion of the component runs based on equations and mapping definitions that establish relationships among the geometries of the component primitives and the physical plant model equipment and piping. The components of the physical plant model can be mapped to catalog items based on the geometries of the components. After translation, a bill of materials listing the physical plant model components can be produced.

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technical field [0001] The field of the invention is software translation tools. Background technique [0002] When building a process plant, extensive engineering development work is typically performed during the front-end engineering and design phases of the plant. This work often includes developing a drawing layout of the facility and may include developing three-dimensional ("3D") computer models of one or more processing units showing preliminary equipment, piping, and structures. These preliminary models represent the starting point for the detailed engineering model. [0003] Current rapid plant modeling software programs lack the ability to translate equipment and piping components from these preliminary models into detailed engineering models that more accurately represent the actual physical plant. The entire preliminary model is thus generally reconstructed using a software program capable of producing a more detailed design. This can be problematic especiall...

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This can be problematic especially in complex plant models with multiple processing units due to the large amount of time required to rebuild a detailed version of the preliminary model

[0004] Thus, although some configurations and methods for rapidly designing preliminary 3D models for process plants are known in the art, all or nearly all of them suffer from one or more disadvantages

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