Piping design is one of the best career options for Mechanical Engineers !!

Dear Mechanical Engineers,

I want to tell you why piping design is one of the best career options for mechanical engineers who just passed out from College.

When a student pass out from engineering college after completing Mechanical Engineering, there is a very big confusion facing him, where to go ? The first option for most of the students from middle class families is to get a job immediately via campus interview. Many such students eventually get selected in Campus interview and pursue jobs totally different from their field of study. Many students of Mechanical, Civil, electrical , Instrumentation and Chemical engineering branches are hired by IT companies for coding work. They happily join these companies and start learning coding soon, so what they learned as basics in their field of study becomes waste.

Some students go for doing higher education in India and abroad and later land up with MNC’s outside India, never to return. Some students join their family business and run the same or go for MBA course. Do to lack of guidance and research opportunities, many students migrate to metro cities and start searching for jobs, our metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore etc are overcrowded with engineers now days. These students are not employable and land up in low paying jobs.

Most of the engineering colleges in our country do not counsel their students what to do and where to go after completing their degree. The basic reason is the lack of knowledge of faculty members who has only bookish knowledge and never care to guide the students. The worst part is that students don’t know what to do and where to go after completing degree, most of them land up in wrong jobs and spoil their career.

Each and every student who complete their mechanical engineering degree has unique qualities, some are good designers, some can be good in marketing, others in research and development, but these students never know their strength and weakness. Thus a brilliant mechanical engineer with aptitude in design end up working as marketing executive selling industrial valves and end us as poor marketing engineering. A mechanical engineer with aptitude in marketing end up as a production and quality control engineer and end up in job which he don’t like. After marriage and settlement, they are unable to change their profession and work in fields which are not suitable for them.

So, what is the solution ?

As soon as a student pass out from engineering college doing any degree, he/she must be given a rating certificate based on his or her skills. A team of experts must evaluate his/her personal and professional skills and given him a certificate – stating which filed the candidate will shine in his/her career. The rating must be done by an independent agency and this must be made mandatory. After this rating is done, no student will ever have any confusion in his life, which field he will shine best in his/her career, sooner or later in life.


The use of Piping has become a prime source in recent times, as they are needed in big petrochemical plants or oil & gas piping industry as well. Hence, a considerable experience is required to handle these piping based structures and the engineers having an apt knowledge are preferred in the industry. The Piping Design and Drafting online training course will acquaint the candidates about the knowledge of design and drafting principles and implementing them successfully. This can help the candidates to get better job prospects and achieve heights.


Many Institute offers the Piping Design and Drafting online training program to attain the benchmark of the industry and let the candidates have a deeper knowledge about the concepts needed in Piping Engineering. The expert trainers will help the candidates know more about Piping industry and the role of Engineers in it along with the following: 

Preparation of Isometric drawings
Bill of Materials
Piping layouts
Computer Aided Drafting

The course equips the candidates with the skills needed to become an efficient Piping Engineering. The aspirants may join for other online courses under CAD/CAM that include the courses like AutoCAD and SP3D SmartPlant online training.

Course Contents Introduction to industry
Role of mechanical draughtsman in various fields of industry
Development of drafting skills and basics of engineering drawing
Guidelines of various process plants and their drafting requirements
Basic fundamentals and concepts of piping design and drafting
Preparation of Isometric drawings and Bill of Material
Basics of plot plan development
Detailing of Pipe Rack and YArd piping
Guidelines of equipment used in process plant
Development of equipment & piping layouts
Preparation of nozzle orientation
Basic study of selected manufacturing processes
Guidelines to preparation of as built drawings
Overview of international codes and standards
Computer Aided Drafting
Basic information about welding, inspection & testing


Smart Plant “ 3D (SP3D) is a modeling software used in the engineering sector for pipe designing. Multisoft Virtual Academy conducts SP3D online training for engineering candidates with an interest in the CAD domain and aspiring to establish a career in pipe designing. This SP3D training builds the skills required for executing detailed designing projects in power plants, petrochemical setups, oil and gas industry, and food and beverage manufacturing units etc.


After completing this Smart Plant “ 3D online training, participants will gain proficiency in piping and structural modeling. Individuals will additionally become adept with the following:
WEBS items, Templates, and style rules
Space management and control points
Piping hierarchy, piping routing and piping placing
Isometric drawing extraction
Grid/Coordinate System
Equipment placing


 Student candidates will also understand how to identify nozzle orientation; execute solid and structure modeling; and create designs for structure components like slabs, walls, ladders, handrails etc.

1. Introduction • SmartPlant 3D Introduction • Templates/Session Files • Filters (Database query) • Views • Common Toolbar • Selecting Objects • Surface Style Rules • WBS Items • Common Toolbar • Space management • Inserting Reference Files • Placing Control Points • Interference Detection

2. Piping • Piping Hierarchy • Route Pipes • Inserting Components • Routing a Sloped Pipe • Routing Pipes from the P&ID • Placing Instruments • Placing Piping Specialty Items • Placing Taps • Inserting Splits • Manipulating Views • Creating Spools • Sequencing Objects • Creating Isometric Drawings Smart Plant - 3D (SP3D) Instructor-led

3. Equipment • Equipment General Overview • Placing Equipment • Placing Equipment Component • Equipment Positioning Relationships • Placing Equipment Shapes • Equipment Nozzle\Ports • Inserting • Manipulating Equipment • Solid Modeling intro

4. Structure • Placing Grids/Coordinate systems • Linear Member System • Copy/Paste Mambers • Structure Modelling • Slabs • Walls • Stair/Ladders/Handrails • Footing • Equipment Foundations

5. Structure • Placement of supports • Hangers, Spring • Guide, Rest • Making special pipe support

Prepared by : M.Ajmal Khan