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Display response spectrum acceleration results using the 'interactive' results viewer (showing deformed model and acceleration values)

The AutoPIPE 'interactive" menu has a way to display displacement results and filter results. Presently, the acceleration results in a response spectrum analysis are only viewable from the text result files or excel reports. Having a GUI accelera...
Guest 11 months ago in UI 0 Needs review

Model Square pipe / ducting

Add the ability to model square piping / ducting
Mike Dattilio about 1 year ago in Modelling 1 Future consideration

User to select spring from list of springs returned by Spring hanger analysis command

After running a hanger selection analysis with the currently defined hanger analysis parameters, 1 or more possible spring hangers that meet the criteria are reported, starting with the longest range and highest spring rate and finishing with the ...
Mike Dattilio about 1 year ago in Analysis 1 Needs review

Specifying sub-report item under batch run by ntl files

I want to customize the output report items for an automation process. I'm building the system by ntl file. The dat file can customize them but the ntl file cannot.
Guest about 1 year ago in Reporting 1 Needs review

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 about 1 year 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 over 1 year 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 over 1 year ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 4 Future consideration

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 over 1 year ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 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...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration

100-40-40 spatial combination option

In Response Spectra Analysis, the spatial combination is always SRSS. The NRG 1.92 rev. 2 accepts as an alternative the use of the 100-40-40 method, as proposed by Newmark, to spatially combine the components. An option to select between SRSS or 1...
Edgar Flores over 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration