2.2.1 is out. My part of it: a 3D view can now be built from a 2D process drawing in one click, so you no longer draw the 3D version of a screen you already have from scratch.
The steps are in 3D views under “Make a 3D view from a 2D drawing”. What you can change afterwards is in The 3D designer.
Remote device settings, the Sites template and custom domains are in the same release and get their own posts.
Where is the button? Looked in Process Diagrams and in the 3D Designs list and found nothing.
It sits on the 2D view of a device or a site, under its Views: Make a 3D view of this drawing. Save the drawing first, the 3D view is made from the saved version. It is added as a new view beside the 2D one and keeps the same connections.
Found it, worked. Two of our dosing pumps came out as labelled boxes though.
Those are symbols with no 3D shape yet, or with a shape in a library your workspace does not hold. The view tells you how many of each. The boxes are connected like their symbols, to the same devices and values.
What happens when someone edits the 2D drawing later? I would hate to lose walls I drew by hand in 3D.
The 3D view says the drawing changed since it was made, and you decide whether to press Update the 3D view. If you do, equipment you moved keeps its place and items you added stay, but walls, floors, storeys and pipes drawn in the designer are replaced by the new layout. So draw the building last, or leave the update alone once you have.
Tried it on our boiler house drawing, fine. Note for others: 3D needs WebGL. The old panel PC in our control room cannot show it, so that screen keeps the 2D card.
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