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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 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 3 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

Add TOTAL RUN TIME FEATURE/LOG to AutoPIPE Analyses

For large AutoPIPE analyses especially, it would be VERY helpful to know how long an AutoPIPE analysis took to run! I think the a log file with the time stamp, what analyses were run, and the total run time would probably be the best option. A pop...
Guest about 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

Add EN13941 functionality

New Oil and Gas projects may dry up as more countries set their sights on net zero. Along with this there is currently a massive increase in the number of large scale district heating systems in both Europe and North America. Adding EN13941 functi...
Guest about 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

When exporting a model, the user should have the ability to select which nodes are exported based on the type of element it represents.

When creating stress isometric drawings, my team typically exports a .dxf file of the AutoPIPE Model. We are only concerned with nodes that represent support locations, however, there is no option to export only support nodes. Having this option a...
Guest about 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 over 3 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 over 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 Future consideration

Add option to enter Specific Gravity of contents referenced to Air instead of Water

The Specific Gravity based on water is not applicable to flow services that are 100% gas. Specific gravity for liquid is weight of liquid with respect to water and specific gravity of gas is weight of gas with respect to air. These 2 fluids are to...
Guest over 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration

Add trunnions and connected supports to Stress Isometric

Stress ISOmetric, I would like to see the trunnions shown along with their attached supports This will definitely save time having to annotate stress isos to show the missing pipe supports with the trunnions.
Mike Dattilio over 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration