AutoPIPE Ideas Portal

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AutoPIPE Pipe Stress

Increase tag length or remove the restriction altogether (like Caesar II)

The current max length of tags is 36 characters. Tag is meanwhile just about the only play where we can save some element-specific information. For example in the case of a Support I would like to save AT LEAST the following:1) The designation of ...
Guest almost 5 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress Future consideration

Combination Reorganization

In the screenshot in the attached link, for example, i would like to move the highlighted combinations between LC130 and LC131. Does this make sense? As far as I know, the only way to do this is to duplicate LC131 to LC148 and then delete them. Li...
Guest about 5 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress Future consideration

Add new support type for wall and roof penetrations

We typically model wall and roof penetrations as guides with clearance gaps of approximately 0.5 to 1.5 inches in all directions. These modeled clearances are then used to verify load transfer and confirm that the gaps are adequate at each penetra...
Karim Rinawi 4 months ago in Modelling Reviewed

Bring back AutoPipe Nozzle in AutoPipe

AutoPipe Nozzle has been discontinued for some time now. Many users and prospects are looking for this feature in the latest version of AutoPipe which is missing. It is good to have this feature back in AutoPipe future versions
Madhan Elumalai about 1 year ago in UI Future consideration

Stress Isometric: populate isometric title block

Add options to export data from AutoPIPE that will to fill in attribute data for a Stress Isometric title block.
Mike Dattilio almost 3 years ago in UI Needs review

Increase allowable number of internal data points from 10,000 to 100,000 or more

AutoPIPE's analysis is blocked if total number of points (piping points+ soil points + frame nodes) is greater than 10,000. Suggest to increase the limit number of node points from 10,000 to 100,000 or more.
Mike Dattilio about 3 years ago in Modelling Future consideration

Copy to clipboard button for floating load window

It would help users trying to extract maximum loads from the floating loads window if it included a copy to clipboard button which copied the loads, directions and load case to the clipboard. Currently, users have to manually type this and this ca...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed about 1 year ago in UI Needs review

User Having to Re-import .CMB File After Saving .APC File

When saving APC files, the code/non-code combinations get reset to default by AutoPIPE. User has to go though an extra step of re-importing the relevant .CMB file after saving the APC file. If there is a way to have AutoPIPE maintain the already s...
Fouad Tabbaq about 1 year ago in Reporting Will not implement

Allow gap supports with response spectra analysis

Response spectrum analysis is a static equivalent linear analysis to a dynamic earthquake event. AutoPIPE allows the use of V-Stops with gaps for static analysis. The condition of the gap closure and subsequent support loading is determined by eva...
Guest about 4 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress Future consideration

Export DGN, DB and others using DataAPI

This functionality would be very advantageous for post-processing results. I currently have scripts to convert dgn to dwg (and adjust according to my delivery standard) in addition to accessing the .db to generate an organized excel with the relev...
Guest 7 months ago in Reporting Planned