PlantBuilder is a plant concept modeler that facilitates rapid modeling and 3D visualization of possible plant layouts very early in the planning process. For customized plant modeling the Equipment Builder allows you to create personalized parameterized equipment complete with rules for automatically placing nozzles. The Equipment Builder uses natural language-like definitions and a set of parameterized geometric primitives for easy definition of equipment shapes. An included Table Editor allows the creation and editing of tables that may be used as source data for customized equipment.

Other PlantBuilder benefits include:

• Placement and dimensioning of 3D equipment, obstacles, structures, and pipeways with 2D graphics.
• Iterative input of process data. Completed PFD or P&ID are not necessary to start modeling in PlantBuilder.
• Rapid modeling of pipeways and structures with minimal input.
• The ability to export created models and import data from previously created models.