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AutoPIPE's new Hot Clash Detection is gaining a lot of interest to avoid costly design and Plant operation failures due to deflected piping and structure hitting other pipes, structures, Equipment etc. The new technology will integrate with all the major 3D CAD systems on the market today: Bentley's AutoPLANT & OpenPlant, Intergraph's PDS & SmartPlant and AVEVA's PDMS. Hot clash PDF tutorial is available under the Program Examples folder.
New Nuclear JSME PPC (Class 2) 2008 design standard for the redesign and recertification of piping systems under new seismic rules for safe operation of 50 nuclear plants currently shutdown due to the Fukushima disaster in March 2011
Comprehensive FRP/GRP pipeline design to ISO14692:2005 Addenda with fully measured, simplified, and rectangular component failure stress envelopes automatically calculated using any our fiberglass manufacturers data or enter custom data. Tee and Bend components can be qualified and chemical resistance and cyclic service design factors supported.
Brand new simplified color data plots supporting 200 colors on-screen or printed to PDF complete with color legends. New Segment color plots and quickly hide groups of any connected segments to reduce the clutter of editing and/or viewing results for large complex models.
Toggle on/off any combination of pipe property, operating load or stress data with a simple click.
Six (6) new flange productivity improvements to sychronize flange design with the graphical plot, sort and edit any flange data directly from the integrated flange design module, see color coded view of incomplete flange data - not ready for analysis, new user defined PMAX pressure for ANSI flange check, and Analysis bolt spacing correction for lethal or non-lethal service.
Now import Caesar models into AutoPIPE and the model will be more intelligent with the flanges (RIGIDS with simple weight in Caesar) converted to AutoPIPE flanges with weight, flange type, pressure rating and flange spec then ready for comprehensive ASME 2010 flange analysis and design.
For complex skewed or circular piping systems, now easily insert any component using the polar/cylindrical coordinates
New dynamic dialogs and displacement, acceleration and velocity harmonic or transient time history analysis loads for solving Equipment and Acoustic vibrations
Now supporting more accurate Piecewise Time History Analysis Method
AutoPIPE for all common mechanical or flow induced piping vibration
Import 3D CAD models : AutoPLANT , PlantSpace, OpenPlant, Plant 3D, PDS, PDMS, SmartPlant, CATIA, Inventor, SolidWorks and CADWORX
Some very great improvements in the new version. Thumbs up for that.
Some questions regarding the 'new flange type' and the flaneg analysis.I noticed that in the new version, flange analysis keeps having problems with the library for gaskets. Flange analysis is not possible anymore (at least for me) for old (i.e. previsouly modelled) and new(ly modelled) piping systems, since I cant set any parameter for the gaskets. See below for the error message I keep getting.
For the problem outlined above, the flange visually appears to be same as in older autopipe versions, i.e. it looks like a 'blind flange'.
This problem, of not being able to do the flange analysis, does however NOT occur when I import a pcf under the following conditions;- the original routing is modelled in Autodesk Plant3D.- I import the pcf by selection the autodesk Plant3D pcf option.- after conversion, I open the model, and find all flanges look like this;
Now, flange analysis is possible.
Anyone who can tell me whats happening here?
Hello HVN,
This should have been a separate post instead of posting to the commercial release notification.
To answer your question, the image above is based on the new enhancement where AutoPIPE retains the 2 point flange length imported from the PCF file, as shown below in the announcement. With regards to your Flange analysis question, please log a service ticket with detailed steeps to repeat and attached model.
Again, please do not reply to this post, but log a Bentley service ticket or a new post.
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Mike Dattilio
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Can you fix the link to the hires feature presentation? Thank you.
Autopipe currently supports ALA guideline seismic wave propagation analysis. However, does it support analyzing fault line crossings per the same guideline? If not, will this feature be supported in an upcoming release?
Would it be appropriate to design fault line crossings by applying an offset to the pipeline? Are there any other way to model this?
Is there anyway to calculate pipe strain for buckling analysis?
Hi jacky89,
I have moved your question to a new post with a suggested answer. You can access the new post by the following link:
communities.bentley.com/.../92112.aspx
Bilal Shah