Why 2D DESIGNER® Piping Design Software?

Your priority is to create accurate 2D plant designs and 2d drawings more efficiently, at lowered costs and on time. 2D DESIGNER can help.

  • Faster project start-up with a user-friendly interface and world-class customer support
  • Improve plant design efficiency and reduce errors with spec-driven functionality and automatic checking tools that keep designs compliant with engineering specifications
  • Reduce costs with a comprehensive set of applications that include AutoFLOW (P&ID), AutoORTHO (plans & elevations), AutoISO (isometrics) and AutoELECTRIC
  • Improve collaboration with a platform that scales to the size and scope each project from single users to large global teams
  • Easily re-use designs by copying existing project settings and drawings for new projects

How Can 2D DESIGNER Work for You?

2D DESIGNER is used for plant design projects ranging from small retrofits and expansions to full-scale facility design and construction within the Oil & Gas industry. Users include…

Engineering Contractors (EPCs)

Handover designs to clients with confidence. 2D DESIGNER helps you maximize productivity with minimal cost and minimal errors from projects ranging in size, users and complexity.

  • Efficiently manage workflows, materials and resources
  • Quickly get your team up-and-running with minimal or no training
  • Reuse designs
  • Concurrent multi-site, multi-discipline projects

Owner Operators (OOs)

Capture return on investment more quickly from piping drawings to first oil. Effectively plan, manage and control short-term project performance and long-term plant operations success.

  • Manage concurrent projects across multiple contractors
  • Share data across teams and with customers
  • Ensure projects and plant operations comply with regulatory standards and customer specifications

Resource and Energy Companies

Complete your plant retrofits, expansions and full-scale facility design and construction with a reliable, cost-effective plant design solution.

  • Easy-to-use software reduces training requirements
  • Provide consultants with data that conforms to in-house company standard specs (e.g., pipe specs, drawing standard, border drawings and other settings)
  • Standardize drawing files in native DWG format to eliminate data loss and avoid time consuming error-prone translation

Independent Contractors

As an independent contractor, you need to keep your costs down while delivering successfully on projects to clients. PROCAD’s affordable stand alone licensing plus world-class support keeps you competitive and performing at your best.

  • Lower software cost over lifetime*
  • World-class support and training

*PROCAD Software has a lower software lifetime cost than competitors. We calculated this based on lower initial license cost, training requirements and the costs of ongoing support and IT services.

2D DESIGNER Features

Get Started

Accelerate training, deployment and management of 2D DESIGNER with a robust set of services and resources that meet your level of need.

  • Express installation auto-configures piping design software within minutes
  • Simplified installation and provisioning to scale from single to multiple networked licenses
  • In-product wizard guides set-up and help
  • Free assistance during installation and deployment
  • Custom training onsite and via web conference
  • On-demand web tutorials
  • Subscription Plan for comprehensive software coverage
  • Easily convert trial licenses to full product licenses at any point during or after the trial period with FlexNet licensing technology
  • Perpetual licenses with easy upgrade option to newer software versions
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Efficient Design

Improve plant design efficiency and reduce costly errors with a fully customizable and intelligent rules-based software.

  • Project settings restrict usage to approved piping specs
  • Automatic background compliance checks alert users when straying from established piping design parameters
  • Create BOM files in multiple formats: drawing (DWG), web (HTML), Excel (CSV or .xls) and text files
  • Generate material reports for the entire project, a single or a group of 2D drawing or report by line number(s)
  • Standard libraries are thoroughly checked to ensure accurate component data for piping and structural steel
  • Edit piping specifications and component data files with Spec Generator
  • Set project parameters to conform to your company standards with Standards Manager
  • Change layers, colors, component size and appearance
  • Purchase individual applications: AutoFLOW (P&ID), AutoORTHO (plans & elevations), AutoISO (isometrics), AutoELECTRIC (electrics) or purchase the full Piping Suite that includes: AutoFLOW, AutoORTHO and AutoISO.

Better Collaboration

The scalable multi-user working environment allows you to setup projects of all sizes from single users to large global teams and ensure uniformity across disciplines.

  • Dozens of engineers and designers can work concurrently on a project
  • Achieve consistent and uniform project drawings output by using the same standards and specs
  • Create unlimited number of projects
  • Copy existing project settings and drawings for re-use in new projects
  • Customize each project settings, layers, etc.
  • Assign where the project drawing will be stored
  • Restrict use of project piping specs to approved specs
  • Assign border drawing templates
  • Create list of available line numbers
  • Access project defined BOM templates
  • Share drawings in DWG format
  • Standards and specs are portable with the Export/Import feature to sync data between engineer and customer
  • Global BOMs can be shared with procurement in Excel file format

2D DESIGNER Benefits

Same Day Set-Up

The easy-to-use and friendly user interface requires minimal training to install, set-up and get started. We also offer a robust set of support services that meet your level of need.

Efficient P&ID Design Solutions

Quickly produce accurate 2D plant drawing and P&IDs from scratch or re-use existing designs with intelligent spec-driven drafting and robust bill of materials.

Integrated

2D DESIGNER and PapriCAD 2D are fully compatible to share drawings, standards, pipe specs and BOM templates.

Customizable

Customize 2D DESIGNER to your exact needs. Purchase individual applications – AutoFLOW (P&ID), AutoORTHO (plans and elevations), AutoISO (isometrics), AutoELECTRIC (electrics) – or get the full Piping Suite (AutoFLOW, AutoORTHO, AutoISO).

Better Collaboration

2D DESIGNER scales to the size and scope of each project from single users to large global teams.

2D DESIGNER Applications

2D DESIGNER comes with all the applications you need to form a complete 2D plant design solution.

2D DESIGNER AutoFLOW

Reduce your design and documentation time for creating intelligent Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) and Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) schematics.

  • Symbol Libraries
    Extensive industry-standard symbols and customized symbols for valves, instruments, instrument lines, instrument balloons and instrument equipment.
  • Line Types and Piping Specs
    Define line types for primary (process) and secondary (utility) lines to be distinguished by color and/or line thickness. Piping specs support pipe sizes from 1/8” to 80” (3mm to 2000mm).
  • Automation
    Draw vessels, exchangers, tanks, flare stacks, pumps, compressors, exchangers, re-boilers and more. Intelligently breaks long instrument balloon edges to ensure your instrument numbers do not bleed into the instrument blocks for clarity.
  • BOM for Valves
    You can easily generate valve BOMs for a single drawing, a specific line number, or for the complete project. Get a head-start on ordering valves, especially the ones with long delivery schedules.
  • Instrument, Equipment and Line List
    Create global lists for project instruments, equipment or line numbers. You can insert lists in the drawing or export them in multiple file formats.
  • Global Changes
    Make global changes to valve and instrument attribute data to reduce edit time and ensure data accuracy.

2D DESIGNER AutoORTHO

Efficiently and accurately create 2D piping, structural and civil drawings choosing from an extensive variety of components including valves, flanges, pipe fittings and structural steel items.

  • Spec-Driven
    Spec driven with background compliance checking to ensure your input is accurate.
  • Override Options
    Override piping specs if you need to. Alerts from the software inform you of the pending override and requires your confirmation to proceed.
  • Automation
    Increase drafting speed when placing vessels by providing its dimension and let the program do the rest for you. Draw structural components such as ladders, stairs and building outlines by entering their data. Save time with the auto-routing feature in piping layouts.
  • Generate Piping BOMs
    Generate Bill of Materials (BOMs) for your piping components for a single drawing, a specific line number or for the complete project. BOM files can be created in multiple formats: inserted into a drawing (DWG format), web format (HTML), Excel format (CSV, or .xls or xlsx) and in text files.
  • Extensive Piping & Structural Steel Components
    Get a comprehensive selection of pipe components, structural steel members and civil drafting routings to produce perfect plans and elevations.
  • Variety of Pipe and Structural Steel Types
    • Supports pipe sizes from 1/8” to 80” (3mm to 2000mm).
    • Supports ANSI flanges and valves from 150 to 2500 lb.
    • Supports threaded and socket weld fittings from 2000 to 9000 lb.
    • Supported structural steel shapes include wide flange, standard beam, angle, tee, channel and HSS

2D DESIGNER AutoISO

Speed creation and modification of your isometrics with this intelligent, spec-driven piping isometric drawing application.

  • Variety of Piping Components
    Vast selection of pipe fittings, flanges, valves and supports to make your job easier. Piping components come in flanged, threaded, socket weld and butt-weld configurations.
  • Spec-Driven
    Spec driven with background compliance checking to ensure your input is accurate.
  • Override Options
    Easily override the operational spec if you need to. Isometrics will allow you to proceed with the override after alerting you of the pending deviation from standard practices.
  • Automation
    Draw vessels by simply selecting two corners, sequentially place piping components with AutoRoute, annotate valves and generate BOMs. All made easy by the program’s intelligent background checking.
  • BOM Generator
    Generate Bill of Materials (BOMs) for your piping components for a single drawing, a specific line number, or for the complete project. BOM files can be created in multiple formats: inserted into a drawing (DWG format), web format (HTML), Excel format (CSV, or .xls or xlsx) and in text files.
  • Destination Control
    Specify where fittings are to be shipped – to the field or any number of fabrication shops.
  • Supports Variety of Sizes and Weights
    • Supports pipe sizes from 1/8” to 80” (3mm to 2000mm).
    • Supports ANSI flanges and valves from 150 to 2500 lb.
    • Supports threaded and socket weld fittings from 2000 to 9000 lb.

2D DESIGNER AutoELECTRIC

Draw flawless electrical single line diagrams, control schematics and layout drawings.

  • Extensive Libraries
    Get a comprehensive selection of electrical symbols and components.
  • Automation
    A range of design routines automate many of your day-to-day drafting functionality, like preset line types, drawing terminal blocks, wire tagging and cable tray layouts. There are so many productivity tools and only by trying AutoELECTRIC, you will appreciate its capabilities in simplifying your design process.
  • Standards Control
    The Standards Manager included with AutoELECTRIC helps you control drafting and design standards. You can easily create customized standards to match your project or customer’s drafting and design criteria.
  • Additional Features
    Provides many more time-saving routines and templates, including:
    • Comprehensive library of drawings for I/O cards for Allen Bradley, Siemens, and Square D
    • Library of drawings for single & 3-phase Lighting Panel Schedules (6-42 circuits)
    • Shutdown Key Template drawings for E, D & C size drawing borders (A0, A1 & A2)
    • Automation for placing Terminal Blocks and wiring them
    • Complete symbol set for Terminals

Standards Manager

Control drafting and design standards by easily establishing customized standards to ensure that drawings are flawless and consistent from start to finish.

  • English or Metric or mixed English/Metric units
  • Layering and color schemes
  • Border drawings to be used
  • Piping specs allowed on the project
  • Scaling factors for symbols
  • Dimension variables

Spec Generator

Create your own pipe specs from 2D DESIGNER’s vast database of components in a variety of ratings and material.

  • Database includes pipe ratings from 150 to 2500 lb and pipe sizes ranging from 1/8” to 80” (3mm to 2000mm)
  • Includes generic carbon steel ANSI pipe specs for 150, 300, 600 and 900 lb ratings
  • Generate new pipe specs
  • Organize and edit existing specs
  • Add new material and other options to the source database

BOM Settings Manager

Customize material reports to suit your exact needs. Easily create any number of report templates to extract material information to accommodate your project’s schedule, the material availability and delivery timetables.

  • Determine the components to be included in report
  • Set sorting sequence
  • Define BOM item numbering format
  • Decide on the appearance of the report by choosing font type, size, grouping headers, etc.
  • Define CAD options when BOM is to be placed in a drawing
  • Ability to preview reports in case adjustments are necessary

BOM Generator

Manage each project’s material reports with confidence and easily transfer material requirements to the procurement department for ordering. Accurate and timely material reporting reduces waste and ensures material is ordered in time for a successful project. Generate material reports for the entire project, a single or a group of 2D models or report by line number(s). The BOM Generator creates material reports in any of these formats:

  • Insert BOM into current drawing or a newly created drawing dedicated to displaying the BOM only
  • Excel format (CSV or xls)
  • Web format (HTML)
  • External text file (txt)

*2D DESIGNER AutoELECTRICS only comes with Standards Manager

2D DESIGNER System Requirements

32 bit

Workstation

  • Operating System: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
  • CPU Type: Intel® Pentium® 4, with 2.2 GHz or faster processor, or compatible
  • Memory: 1 GB of RAM
  • Hard Drive: 125 MB of hard disk space (not including space for saved drawings)
  • 1024×768 minimum screen resolution
  • AutoCAD 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 or 2010

License Server (Network Installations Only)

  • Operating System: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Home or Pro, Windows Server 2003 or 2008

64 bit

Workstation

  • Operating System: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
  • CPU Type: AMD Athlon® 64 with SSE2 technology, or AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, or Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
  • Memory: 2 GB of RAM
  • Hard Drive: 125 MB of hard disk space (not including space for saved drawings)
  • 1024×768 minimum screen resolution
  • AutoCAD 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 or 2010

License Server (Network Installations Only)

  • Operating System: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 or 2008

Recommended Graphics Cards

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