AutoPIPE Ideas Portal

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Redesign Input Grid

The current input grid is difficult to read and navigate between all the tabs. The UI elements shall be redesigned to facilitate improved navigation and data input.
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed almost 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 Future consideration

Unlock Springs for HydroTEST

Provide an option for unlocking Springs and Constants on the support definition dialog. Set default to Lock and allow Unlock during Hydrotest
Mike Dattilio about 5 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration

PCF import: add feature to map component attributes to over-ride default mappings

I think there should be a feature for component attributes mapping on a GUI (dialog) so users can over-ride the default mappings. I am thinking of following grid like GUI. Also suggest to have a button in order to restore defaults so if anyone wis...
Mike Dattilio about 5 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration

Add a feature to apply impose displacement at any node point regardless of support settings.

This is to apply at nodes where support is not applied so the user can apply imposed discplacement regardless of support setting.
Guest 10 months ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

Turn off wind in 1 or more directions for segement

In some cases pipes are shielded from wind from walls etc, it would be helpful to be able to turn the wind off in that direction, on that segment, Currently you can only turn off all of the wind loads on a segment
Paul Nielsen over 1 year ago in Analysis 0 Future consideration

Model Square pipe / ducting

Add the ability to model square piping / ducting
Mike Dattilio over 2 years ago in Modelling 1 Future consideration

Improve reference loads dialog

Add a toggle between X/Y/Z and axial/shear/bending/torsion for forces and moments in the reference loads dialog. Many allowables for connections are given in terms of total shear load or bending moment. It is not possible to use the current refere...
Michael Wood over 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress / UI 0 Future consideration

AccuDraw functionality to be able to select, place and move components

This will be a huge improvement with the ability to interact with Autopipe. Currently, users have to use a coordinate system, and map out changes to the Autopipe Mode. A feature similar to Accudraw in Microstation would significantly improve the a...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed almost 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 Future consideration

On screen Code Stress Pass/Fail Indicator

During the development of pipe design, one may need to iteratively. make small changes, and check the impact on stress, Forces, Restraint forces, etc. It would save a lot of time if there was an indicator on the default main UI that states the hig...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed almost 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 4 Future consideration

Modeling soils in AutoPIPE should be simplified

In my opinion modeling of soils in AutoPIPE takes to much time and could/should be simplified. For selected part of the model, including simultanously vertical, horizontal or inclined segments, there are four geometrical methods to define a terrai...
Wojciech Dudek over 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration