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AutoPIPE Pipe Stress

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Fix AutoPIPE window position on multiple monitors

When using AutoPIPE with multiple monitors, there are several scenarios in which a window positions will get messed up. One example is the interactive results box will sometimes become very tall, with the results still shown at the top and then bl...
Michael Wood almost 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 Future consideration

Add a button that resets the Input Grids or Results grids to visible location on screen

When using AutoPIPE on laptop connected to a docking station or additional monitors, then removed to just using a laptop screen may cause the input / results grids to not be shown in the visible area. The grids are hidden out of screen view. Recom...
Mike Dattilio over 1 year ago in UI 0 Needs review

Carbon Steel Flange Material

It would be extremely useful to add additional carbon steel flange material to the database drop down list. In my experience, the majority of the pipelines are comprised of the materials shown below and their flanged equivalent. Please add the fol...
Guest 4 months ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

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 over 3 years 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 9 months ago in Analysis 0 Future consideration

Total Computing Power

I noticed that Autopipe uses a limited amount of computer power. In a time-history analysis with a modal frequency of 400hz on a relatively small model it took about 30min using only 6 to 9% of the computer's processing power. An improvement in pr...
Guest 4 months ago in Analysis 3 Needs review

Flange Ansi check as per UG-44: setting a user ratio for each rating

Ansi/kellogs method is a widely used way to check flange joint, but different standard, or client specification could use different allowable. Now the ASME BPVC VII UG-44 suggest 2.2 for B16.5 #150 and 1.5 for most of the others; DNV suggested 1.5...
Gianludovico Spizuoco 9 months ago in Reporting 1 Future consideration

Ring Tool - Ability edit or modify the settings of an existing ring

Users cannot edit or modify existing rings. This is costing significant manhours to redo Ring Placement if the user forgets something during the initial ring placement.
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed about 1 year ago in Modelling 0 Needs review

Enable different ambient temperatures for each thermal case

There is often need to calculate two conservative thermal combinations (lowest possible assembly temperature with highest working temperature and highest assembly temperature with lowest working temperature). Now it is needed to prepare two models...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 3 Already exists

Dynamic interface between Autopipe and Openplant

Currently, the interface between Autopipe and Openplant is disconnected. Users have to manually export piping models to Autopipe, and perform analysis. If changes need to happen in one model, the other model isnt't updated dynamically. Further, th...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed almost 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration