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Import multiple load cases from pcf files

We are trying to reduce the steps required to edit piping in initial design. We have multiple transients that all have to be accounted for. In order to hold a consistent model, we are trying to make any and all changes in SolidWorks and import int...
Guest about 1 year ago in UI 6 Planned

Add China Electric Power industry standard DL/T 5366

At present, the pipeline stress calculation specification is selected as the American standard, whether it is considered to refer to the Chinese standard DL/T 5366-2014. If there is no reference to this standard, then please ask whether this stand...
Mike Dattilio about 2 years ago in Code 0 Needs review

Copy & pasting pipe components with existing soil Id's are not updated with new Soil Id names

Open PipeSoil.apc Notice the Soil id currently in the model. Select all of the model. Paste to any location after pasting, notice the number of Soil Id's has doubled. Recommend when coping / pasting pipe node points with existing Soil Id's that th...
Mike Dattilio about 2 years ago in Modelling 0 Needs review

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 4 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

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 about 1 year ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Display response spectrum acceleration results using the 'interactive' results viewer (showing deformed model and acceleration values)

The AutoPIPE 'interactive" menu has a way to display displacement results and filter results. Presently, the acceleration results in a response spectrum analysis are only viewable from the text result files or excel reports. Having a GUI accelera...
Guest over 2 years ago in UI 0 Needs review

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 about 1 year ago in Analysis 3 Needs review

Model Square pipe / ducting

Add the ability to model square piping / ducting
Mike Dattilio over 2 years ago in Modelling 1 Future consideration

Evaluate General Stress with contour

Requesting the contour style of the general stress. Not only code stress but general stress. We need a visual image with a stress contour to evaluate general stress qualitatively.
Yasushi Nagao about 1 year ago in UI 0 Needs review

User to select spring from list of springs returned by Spring hanger analysis command

After running a hanger selection analysis with the currently defined hanger analysis parameters, 1 or more possible spring hangers that meet the criteria are reported, starting with the longest range and highest spring rate and finishing with the ...
Mike Dattilio over 2 years ago in Analysis 1 Needs review