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Since 2017 the Enterprise Specialists have been running a monthly virtual community meet-up for Enterprise customers. Unfortunately if you were not an enterprise customer you would have been blocked from registering or accessing the resources page.
Well no longer.
The Plant 3D Virtual User Community meetup is now open to everyone!
We also have a new registration page - https://www.autodesk.com/customer-success/plant-3d
You can still find it in the Customer Success hub Events calendar if that is your preference.
We also have a new page for resources - https://customersuccess.autodesk.com/articles/plant-3d-virtual-community-meetup-resource-store
This page is not restricted to only Enterprise customers. The old page now called Plant 3D Virtual Community Meetup resources – Archive will still be available for now, but only for Enterprise customers.
This year there are 37 classes that list Plant 3D and 8 that list Plant P&ID as related products.
To help see classes important to you at AU Vote now.
Don't forget, if you can't make it to AU Las Vegas 2019, most classes are recorded and available to you sometime after the conference. So you should vote as well, but we'd love to see you there.
https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/conference/las-vegas/call-for-proposals/voting
I often find that it can be confusing for people where to find what version of Plant 3D you are using and some times how to read it.
Following on from Bernd's previous post "All Updates installed?", I thought this might add some colour if not clarity.
There are two ways to identify the version of Plant 3D. The fastest is to type "PLANTVER" at the command line. This will give you the Plant version and only the Plant version.
This is not my preferred method. I prefer the full detail in the "About' panel.
When using this method however, it is important to distinguish between the AutoCAD built installed and the Plant 3D Build installed, which as Bernd points out are not packaged together anymore. So how do I know what version of Plant 3D I am using, or the AutoCAD version?
In the top right corner of the Plant 3D window find the help question mark and open the menu below it, then select the "About" option.
This opens the Plant 3D information window. The image below highlights the different areas for Plant 3D's version and the lower line for the AutoCAD version.
If you haven't already don't forget to check out Bernd's post on versions - here
It is always the best to have all updates installed. So, you will have the best guaranty that all available fixes are installed or that you will have access to all new features for that version. But what for updates are available for which version of AutoCAD Plant 3D? Note that you have to install plain AutoCAD Updates separately. They are not included anymore in AutoCAD Plant 3D updates since some years.
Blog "What version is it anyway?"
One more note about the updates. While the plain AutoCAD updates are cumulative, the Plant updates aren't. This means that for plain AutoCAD it is already enough to install the latest update only but for Plant updates you have to install the former updates of the specific version before. Thumb rule for Plant updates: Install the updates in the order of the publish date (oldest one first).
So, here is the list:
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2016:
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2017:
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2018:
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2019:
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2020:
You can either get the updates via your Autodesk Account, section "Product Updates". Alternatively, if you have a desktop subscription, you can use the Autodesk Desktop App to be up to date with your updates.