OL 493dey9 Plant model > Plants, specially Off-Shore platforms, are usually congested due to the limited space available. Several disciplines install their equipment in the same limited space: equipment, pipes, supports, structural steel, cables, etc. This must be coordinated in order to avoid interferences, e.g., pipe and structural steel members installed at the same place, ete. This coordination used to be done in 2D, by superimposing the various discipline location drawings that were at the time and for that reason done on transparencies, e.g. piping, foundations, underground piping, cable routing plans, all having the same coordinate system, etc. Superimposing drawings then became a functionality of 2D design softwares such as AutoCAD, which allow the various disciplines to work in independent, yet ied by different colors on the screen, e.g., cable superimposed, layers iden sleeves in green, pipes in black... At any time in its design, the piping engineer can display the civil layout in order to check for civil interference with its own design.