AutoPIPE Ideas Portal

Welcome to the AutoPIPE Ideas Portal. We value your feedback, and our team regularly reviews your ideas and considers them for future improvements to our products and services.

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    Always enable "Use weight factor for bolt/nut weight" when importing a flange

    When importing a PCF file please allow for the option to enabler "Use weight factor for bolt/nut weight" for flanges
    Guest about 5 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 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 almost 4 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 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 over 2 years ago in Analysis 0 Future consideration

    Defining Concentrated force to the local axis of element

    The inability to specify the concentrated force for the local element in Autopipe leads to numerous challenges when defining the slug force on a pipeline that is misaligned with the axis. In contrast to CAESAR, Autopipe lacks the capability to rot...
    Guest over 2 years ago in Analysis 0 Planned

    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 over 5 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

    When modelling GRP piping to ISO 14692 be able to add metal pipe sections

    Design to ISO 14692 does not allow metal pipe properties to be applied. When GRP piping joins to metal piping we want the model to include the stiffness and thermal expansion of the metal piping. No requirement to work out the code stress in the m...
    Kevin Koorey over 1 year ago in Modelling 2 Future consideration

    "Selection types different" - Develop a permanent solution for this error

    https://communities.bentley.com/products/pipe_stress_analysis/w/pipe_stress_analysis__wiki/18879/selection-types-different-message-occurs-when-copy-pasting-to-autopipe Develop a permanent solution for this bug since 2015. Copy and pasting rows fro...
    Sujaan Ahamed Fareed almost 3 years ago in Modelling 0 Reviewed

    Add Cut-shorts to View Settings/Scale Factors

    Users cannot change the size of cut-short symbol. The cut-short symbol is drawn proportional to the pipe OD while in single line mode. It sometimes looks too big or too small.
    Guest almost 3 years ago in UI 0 Needs review

    Report Sign-Max for Support and Restraint in Results

    It would be very handy for AutoPIPE to report the maximum loading for all load cases for reporting to the structural engineer or equipment manufacturers.
    Sean Pellerin almost 3 years ago in Reporting 3 Already exists

    Add the plastic moment reduction factor criteria for the LCC calculation

    As per section 5.4.6.8 of the DNV ST F101_2021 Version, the LCC calculation is modified by including the plastic moment reduction factor due to the maximum vertical point load. This would be a good approach to have more realistic and reliable LCC ...
    Guest over 1 year ago in Code 0 Needs review