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AutoPIPE Pipe Stress

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Upgrade Steam relief to include other gas & liquid relief thrust analysis

Currently The Loads > Steam Relief > Steam Relief command enables the user to define the thrust loads at steam exit points due to a discharge through a safety relief valve. Add ability for program to analyze other gas & liquid relief val...
Mike Dattilio over 1 year ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

A single Autopipe file

Similar to APC files, it would be much more convenient if Autopipe packaged all essential sub files during an analysis project and created a single file by default. It would ensure that the user does not make a mistake and stores the wrong files. ...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed about 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 5 Already exists

Bolt Pre Tension

Possibility to declare bolt pre tension (eg, 40% or 50% of bolt SMYS) has to be provided in the Flange check.
Guest almost 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Needs review

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 4 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 Future consideration

display miter bends

When a bend is a miter display with the number of cuts or at least just one cut so they do not look like formed bends.
Kevin Koorey almost 2 years ago in Modelling 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 8 months ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Add label box for flexible joints

It would be helpful if flexible joints could have a label or tag added. This would be similar to how many components in AutoPIPE have the ability to label components, such as supports and anchors.
Michael Cummings almost 2 years ago in UI 1 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 8 months ago in Analysis 3 Needs review

Angle measurement

It is important to know not only the distance between the two points but also the angle of the pipe with respect to the coordinate axes during creating and modifying a model. I would like you to add another item to the Tools menu called Angle Meas...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 3 Future consideration

Allow user to set the 6 color stress plot ranges as needed

While looking at the Color Stress plot there is a Key in the top left corner with 6 colors and corresponding ranges. These ranges are hard coded into the program. Give the user the options to set these 6 ranges as needed.
Mike Dattilio almost 2 years ago in UI 2 Future consideration