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.

You have 3 options for providing feedback:

  1. VOTE for an existing idea. The popularity of an idea helps us understand its importance to the community.

  2. COMMENT on an existing idea. We want to hear your unique point of view.

  3. ADD a new idea. You can always submit a new idea if no existing one describes your suggestion.

When you add, vote or comment on an idea you will also be subscribed to that idea and receive status updates. Please note we may merge or rename ideas for better clarity for the community. Thank you for your support and feedback.

ADD A NEW IDEA

FILTER BY CATEGORY

All ideas

Showing 92 of 92

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 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

Allow gap supports with response spectra analysis

Response spectrum analysis is a static equivalent linear analysis to a dynamic earthquake event. AutoPIPE allows the use of V-Stops with gaps for static analysis. The condition of the gap closure and subsequent support loading is determined by eva...
Guest over 1 year ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

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 almost 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 Future consideration

Model Square pipe / ducting

Add the ability to model square piping / ducting
Mike Dattilio 7 months ago in Modelling 0 Needs review

Support Results grids local direction should be user friendly and consistent

Open the results grids, select the support tab, and locate the columns for LocalDir1 - Gap3. Quick what does this refer to: pipe local axis, support local axis? Is this direction consistent across all of the support types (see attached image of Su...
Mike Dattilio 7 months ago in Reporting 0 Needs review

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 over 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

Add color-coded presentation of P&ID line numbers assigned to AutoPIPE model segments

This kind of presentation allows for model data analysis in order to see pipes according to their P&ID line numbers. It is VERY needed as allows to verify which segments represent which lines. Also may by used to represent equipment, equipment...
Guest over 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Planned

Modeling soils in AutoPIPE should be simplified

In my opinion modeling of soils in AutoPIPE takes to much time and could/should be simplified. For selected part of the model, including simultanously vertical, horizontal or inclined segments, there are four geometrical methods to define a terrai...
Guest over 1 year ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 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 over 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

100-40-40 spatial combination option

In Response Spectra Analysis, the spatial combination is always SRSS. The NRG 1.92 rev. 2 accepts as an alternative the use of the 100-40-40 method, as proposed by Newmark, to spatially combine the components. An option to select between SRSS or 1...
Edgar Flores almost 2 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration