Is pds is better than pdms?

Answer 1

Hi,

I worked only a few weeks with PDS after using other CAD and piping software for years.

Thank god after a few weeks with PDS I got rid of this "software" and I started with PDMS.

My personal opinion:

PDS is just pain in the ass, old crap. Unflexible, difficult, a user nightmare.

Well, some peope like it - humans get used to everything....if you don't know other software...

PDMS is "different", means: It is also old crap, so some functions are just sh....

But Piping is partly great (some of the best functions in the world).

Look & Feel of PDMS is strange (from hackers for hacker), not nice for people who are used to normal CAD Systems.

That's the thing: PDMS is -no- CAD System, it's a databased Plant Design Tool.

Also PDS is no CAD Systems, it's just an "add-on" of MicroStation.

Don't expect to work in PDMS like in AutoCAD.

The worst thing of PDMS is, you just can't input / attach 2D Drawings in the 3D environment (e.g. G.A. Plan, topographic layouts, cadastre drawings, ...), no .dwg, no .dxf, no .dgn, no .jpg, no .tif, nothing!

2D in 3D is just not possible, what makes PDMS unacceptable for project where the environment has to be considered and attached in 3D (ground levels, coast line, hills, rivers, ...).

Of course roads and things like that can be easily remodelled and shown with 3D primitives...

Creating 2D drawings is easy, dimensioning and labelling like in AutoCAD or MicroStation is not possible, it's utterly exhausting!

PDMS is a huge tool, difficult to learn autodidactic.

Some modules are partly as good as piping (e.g. HVAC), others are not...

It's just not possible to describe all modules here and it's not possible to learn all modules if you are not using all modules constantly.

Just try it out and be patient!