Hi, 1) I would not say that PlantWise is used for costing. While PlantWise does provide some costing results, the intent of it is to give you relative differences to different layout options that you can explore with PlantWise. Each time you make a modification to your model, you can compare the costs. This allows you to make changes to your model and then quickly make comparisons to come to an optimal design. PlantWise is not for doing detailed design, that is better to do with OpenPlant Modeler. What PlantWise does is allow you to evaluate the layout of your plant before you start with the detailed design. 2) We have a release of PlantWise coming in a week or so that allows you to convert all the equipment and piping from a PlantWise model into an OpenPlant model. The equipment from PlantWise is converted to either parametric equipment or custom equipment depending on the equipment types. Piping models in PlantWise can now use OpenPlant Modeler piping specifications. When the piping models are converted to OpenPlant, you will end up with a model that is the same as if you modeled it from the start in OpenPlant as they will use the same piping specifications. The structural parts of the PlantWise model can also be exported to ProStructures and once you create an ISM, you can import the ISM into OpenPlant Modeler as well. Let me know if you have any further questions. Tim
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