Note:

1. Download Actual read-me file from AutoPIPE here

2. Select Link here for Release notes

What is New & Changed in AutoPIPE®

The following outline identifies new features and enhancements in the AutoPIPE CONNECT Edition version 11.04.

• Analysis

  • Flange Analysis
    • The allowable value for flange allowable stresses is now determined by the attached piping materials / piping code.
    • A warning is now issued when the calculated Bsc exceeds 1 and is not included in calculations.
    • An option has been added to substitute "B1" for the inside diameter of flange "B".
    • The flange analysis workflow has been updated to perform automatic ANSI checks for all flanges in the model.
    • External flange loads are now included in determining bolt stresses.

• Library

  • The Vendor Valve catalogs are now certified for commercial consumption.

• General

  • CONNECT Advisor is now fully integrated, including Contextual assistance, Expert Advisor, and the Ribbon command search utility.

• Reports

  • A new check has been implemented to verify the selection of points before running a report that limits results to selected node points.
  • Export SQLite DB Input and Output Reports  [Technology Preview ] 
    • Users now have more power to create data reports with the information that is important to their teams with the new SQLite DB export capability and a custom report manager.
  • AutoPIPE Report Manager  [Technology Preview ] 
    • The query designer can be used to export custom reports to Excel with charts and pivot tables.
    • Detailed hanger listing reports can be generated to assist in the purchase and installation of piping supports.

• Interoperability

  • Stress Isometrics with Open Plant Isometrics Manager (OPIM)
    • Separate support and anchor tags are now available to control the information to print on isometrics.
    • The default acronym for non-standard Pipe has been changed to avoid confusion with Nominal Pipe Size.
  • Read/write controls have been added to Integrated Structural Model (ISM) for better integration with Structural Analysis and Plant Design products.  [Technology Preview ] 
  • All Piping Codes and Material Libraries have been added to the PCF Translator.

• Security Release Notes

  • Not applicable to this release.

 [Technology Preview ] provide users preliminary access to features currently in development but not yet ready for production. These features are provided at no additional charge to promote awareness of a feature or technology to be deployed in a future release. Users are encouraged to provide feedback and suggestions. To learn more about Technology Previews, please create a Service Request (be sure to include "Technology Preview" in the Description field).

AutoPIPE®  Requirements

More detailed installation information can be found in the AutoPIPE Quick Start Guide.

Product Version

Installation Requirements

CD drive or access to the Internet required for product installation. The minimum system configuration for installation:

When installing the product through the installer program, the required components will be installed automatically. The contents of the Desktop Prerequisite Pack include:

• • Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (web installer requires internet connection)
  • Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.6.1
  • Microsoft® VC++ 2015 Redistributable 
  • Microsoft® VC++ 2013 Redistributable 
  • Microsoft® VC++ 2010 Redistributable 
  • Microsoft® VC++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable
  • Microsoft® Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update 
  • Microsoft® Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update 
  • Microsoft® Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update
  • Microsoft® XML Parser (MSXML) 6 SP 1 (32 bit)
  • AutoPIPE® Preview Handler Setup 

Minimum Profile

The minimum recommended workstation profile for running AutoPIPE is:

Download and Installation

QA Users:

Only model analysis performed on a AutoPIPE version installed from the QA CD sent by the QA manager are concerted to be certified under the QA Procedures. Any model analysis performed on a AutoPIPE version installed from a downloaded file should be considered invalid and must be re-run on a certified installation of the program.

See Link here for valid installation procedure.

Non-QA Users:

See the AutoPIPE Quick Start Guide (..\Documents\Quickstart_AutoPIPE.pdf) for more information on downloading and installing AutoPIPE.

To complete the licensing process, you must have the appropriate roles assigned by your Site Administrator. If you have not been assigned these roles, you will need to obtain the name of your Site Administrator by submitting a Service Request at http://apps.bentley.com/srmanager/ProductSupport.

If you are experiencing problems logging into your Bentley account, please contact bentley at 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539). Outside the United States +1 610-458-5000.

Network Considerations - Network drives are only supported for data files.

- AutoPIPE software must be installed on a local client workstation.

- AutoPIPE data files (*.DAT) must have full read/write access to be opened and edited.

Applications Included in the Installation Package

AutoPIPE Standard, AutoPIPE Advanced, AutoPIPE Nuclear, and add-ons are installed from one executable.

• AutoPIPE Standard- The standard configuration of AutoPIPE includes these features:
  • Hanger selection, static linear and non-linear, modal, and response spectrum (SRSS combination method only)
  • Static Earthquake - ALA, ASCE, Chinese GB50011, Mexican CFE, and User Profile 
  • Static Wind - ASCE, UBC and User profile
  • ASME B31.1, B31.3, B31J, B31.4, B31.8, European EN13480, and General piping code
  • Rotating equipment reports
  • Beam elements for modeling frames and supports
  • Library utilities
  • Thermal Bowing
  • Snow Loading
  • Analysis Sets for multiple static analyses
  • STAAD Structural Libraries (17 countries)
  • Flange Analysis, ANSI Check

• AutoPIPE Advanced- Incorporates all of the features of the Standard version, as listed above with the following additions:
  • Harmonic, Force spectrum, Time history, and SAM
  • Buried pipe
  • NUREG combinations and code case 411 spectrum
  • Static correction - Missing mass correction and ZPA
  • Wave loading and buoyancy, fluid transient loads, and relief valve loads
  • Nuclear power piping codes: ASME B31.1-1967
  • Offshore piping codes: ASME B31.4 Chap. IX, ASME B31.8 Chap. VIII, CSA-Z662 Sect. 11
  • International piping codes
  • Flange Analysis: ASME Section VIII Div 1, Div 2, Appendix XI
  • KHK Level 1
  • Buried pipe w/ automatic Soil Calculator
  • 50 Response Spectrum load cases
  • Canadian piping codes
  • Russian SNIP 2.05.06-85 Oil & Gas
  • ISO 14692
  • KHK Level 2 piping code (note 1)

• AutoPIPE Nuclear- Incorporates all of the features of the Advanced version, as listed above with the following additions:
  • ASME Class I/II/III design
  • JSME PPC
  • ASME Class I Thermal transient analysis (TTA)
  • ASME Class I Ovality, Gross discontinuity, Delta T1, T2 loadings
  • Fatigue Analysis
  • JSME S NC1-PPC

• KHK2 Add-on for AutoPIPE Advanced or Nuclear - allows the use of the Japanese KHK Level 2 piping code in the Advanced or Nuclear version.

• Intergraph PDS, SmartPlant and ADLPipe Translators - This release installs three translators to import models from other applications to AutoPIPE.
  • Intergraph PDS, SmartPlant and ADLPipe translators included
  • AutoPIPE File > Import menu updated to include 3 new options
  • Easy to locate installation directory; all installed under "C:\Bentley\AutoPIPE Translators"

NOTE: For further information on translators, please refer to their respective readme files.

Documentation

Program Help: Detailed feature information may be accessed directly from the calling application by selecting the Help command, or by pressing the Help button from any of the application dialogs. Be sure to explore the program Help for answers to your questions. A set of supplemental How To, Tutorial, and Reference Information documents in PDF format are provided in the Supplemental Documentation folder (Bentley AutoPIPE > Supplemental Information) of the main Program Help file (autopipe.chm). 

Tutorials: Documentation for AutoPIPE applications is provided online in the Adobe.pdf format. These files are accessible from the Help Menu. All documents can be browsed, searched, or printed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information and how to download a FREE copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader can be obtained from http://www.adobe.com/.

It is highly recommended that you obtain the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader..

Piping Codes

This sections contains the list of piping codes, code editions supported and AutoPIPE license edition (Standard, Advanced or Nuclear) for which these items are supported.

Standard Edition Piping Codes

Extra Codes Available in AutoPIPE Advanced Edition

AutoPIPE Advanced includes all codes available in AutoPIPE Standard, as well as the following codes.

Extra Codes Available in AutoPIPE Nuclear Edition

AutoPIPE Nuclear includes all codes available in AutoPIPE Standard and AutoPIPE Advanced, as well as the following codes.

How to Activate AutoPIPE® 

AutoPIPE Standard, AutoPIPE Advanced, AutoPIPE Nuclear, and add-ons are are all supported on the SELECT Server Licensing. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of the product, it is highly recommended that you do not install this product over the previous version. Older versions of AutoPIPE 6.3, 8.50, 8.51 and 8.60 will run under SELECT Server XM Licensing using the SELECT Server XM Gateway Service and the older SELECT licenses. For more information on the SELECT Server XM Gateway Service see the AutoPIPE Quick Start Guide.

The AutoPIPE products can be authorized as Standalone Licenses (formerly called Fixed Licenses), fixed to one user workstation or as Concurrent Licenses (formerly known as Floating Licenses) running from a local or Bentley hosted SELECT Server.

Users who have existing Floating Licenses and wish to convert the licenses to run on SELECT Server can contact Bentley Sales Support Center from the website at http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Services/Bentley+Sales+Support.htm. The following information is required when requesting SELECT Server licensing: Server Name, email address of the recipient of the SELECT Server license and the Serial Numbers to be added to the server.

Product activation is achieved by connecting to a SELECT Server, receiving a verification that your SELECT Server Name and Activation Key are correct, and successfully posting Usage logs. Product activation is not the same as checking out a license. This document describes how to configure AutoPIPE for activation. After initial configuration, AutoPIPE automatically and transparently tries to activate each time it runs, and runs unconstrained for a period of 30 days after its last successful activation. However, if activation is unsuccessful for a period of 30 days, AutoPIPE will not start until it is activated again.

Activating a product using the Product Activation Wizard

The Product Activation Wizard is designed to step users through the product activation process. After a product is installed, you must obtain a license and then activate that license. Obtaining the license alone is not enough to complete the process. This wizard eliminates the confusion and makes it clear that obtaining a license and activating a product are two essential steps.

The Product Activation Wizard opens automatically (unless the "Activate product using Bentley License Tool" check box is turned off) at the end of the product installation process. See the AutoPIPE Quick Start Guide for more information on installing AutoPIPE.

The first screen of the Product Activation Wizard offers four product activation options:

SELECT subscribers with a deployed (local) SELECT Server

SELECT subscribers activating against a hosted (Bentley) SELECT Server

Non-SELECT users

Evaluation Only - No license information

The wizard steps you through the activation process based on the options selected.

SELECT subscribers with a deployed (local) SELECT Server

If you are activating against a local SELECT Server, you must provide the proper Server Name and Activation Key. The Server Name and Activation Key, along with any proxy configuration information, can be obtained from your Site Administrator.

SELECT subscribers activating against a hosted (Bentley) SELECT Server

If you are activating against a hosted (Bentley) SELECT Server, the Server Name is pre-populated but you must provide the proper Activation Key provided by the Bentley Sales Support Center.

NON-SELECT user

If you are not a Bentley SELECT subscriber and you are activating AutoPIPE, you are presented with three options:

• • I have a license file ready to import
  • I have an activation key
  • I do not have any license information

I have a license file ready to import

1. 1. Enter the path to your license file (or Browse to the location of your license file) in the License File field.
   2. Click Next. The Wizard Selections dialog box displays the information provided on the previous dialog boxes.
   3. Review the information and click Finish to activate the product.

I have an activation key

1. 1. Enter the site activation key in the Site Activation Key field.
   2. If you are using HTTPS, enable the HTTPS (SSL) check box.
   3. If you are using a Proxy server to connect to the hosted SELECT Server, click the Proxy button and fill in the Proxy Server information then click OK.
   4. Click Test Connection to verify the connection to the SELECT Server.
   5. Click Next. The Check out license now? page displays.
   6. Enter your Email address in the Email Address field.
   7. Select the product to be activated (if not pre-populated) it the Product Name field.
   8. Enter the product version number (if not pre-populated) in the Product Version field.
   9. Click Next. The Wizard Selections dialog box displays the information provided on the previous dialog boxes.
   10. Review the information and click Finish to activate the product.

I do not have any license information

1. 1. The product will run in evaluation mode.
   2. Click Go To Bentley.com to request activation information.

Evaluation Only - No license information

1. 1. The product will run in evaluation mode.
   2. Click Go To Bentley.com to request activation information.

Error History

The following outline identifies all major errors fixed in Release of AutoPIPE v11.3.0.

• 865266 Bend flange correction factor is not applied when flange is located beyond segment change

  Bend flange correction factor is not applied when flange is located beyond segment change. Program logic to locate a rigid component (flange or valve) upstream or downstream of a bend at a distance L/D is disrupted if there is a segment change within that distance.

• 874191 ASME NB: Response and SAM case are not summed up using Modal/Timestep Tee moment Summation

  Response spectra and SAM cases are not considering modal/timestep tee moment summation for tee points in models with more than one analysis set. In such cases, tee local moments and stresses may not be calculated correctly, leading to unconservative results.

• 896029 B31.1 Material Library: Thermal expansion data (Table B-1) was not updated in B311-12, B311-14 & B311-16

  Thermal expansion data (Table B-1) for B31.1 materials is outdated in following material libraries: B311-12, B311-14 & B311-16

• 905085 HDPE Pipe cross section library has wrong values

  HDPE Pipe cross section library has wrong values for following cases. For Nominal 20": Wall thickness for dimension ratio 9 is missing; Wall thickness for Dimension Ratio 8.3 is using wrong value 2.222 which belongs to Dimension Ratio 9 For Nominal 30": The dimension ratio 9.3 is incorrectly written as 9.0

• 889026 Flange Analysis: Program is incorrectly calculating gasket seating bolt load (Code required) for flanges subjected to external pressure

  Program was using incorrect formula of Am2 in gasket seating bolt load (code required) calculation for flanges subjected to external pressure. Gasket seating bolt load (Code required) for flanges subjected to external pressure = W= (Am2+Ab)*Sa/2 Where: Am2 = Wm2/Sa (Div 1 section 2-3) Program was incorrectly calculating Am2 = Wm2/Sb Sa = allowable bolt stress at atmospheric temperature Sb = allowable bolt stress at design temperature This issue affects ASME section VIII Div1, Div2 and Appendix XI

• 890784 Flange Analysis: When internal pressure is set to zero, stresses due to external loads are not calculated

  Program was incorrectly reporting zero flange stresses for both operating and gasket seating conditions if internal pressure was set zero. Program was not calculating stresses due to external loads. This issue affects ASME section VIII Div1, Div2 and Appendix XI

• 908627 Flange Analysis: When internal pressure is less than zero, ASME section VIII Div 2 is not calculating stresses

  ASME section VIII Div 2 states : If the pressure is negative, the absolute value of the pressure should be used for calculations of stresses. When internal pressure is less than zero for ASME section VIII Div 2, program is not calculating stresses

Copyright

TRADEMARK NOTICE

Bentley, the "B" logo, AutoPIPE, MicroStation, ProjectWise, SELECT, and MDL are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated, or one of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

© 2018, Bentley Systems, Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Including software, file formats, and audiovisual displays; may only be used pursuant to applicable software license agreement; contains confidential and proprietary information of Bentley Systems, Incorporated and/or third parties which is protected by copyright and trade secret law and may not be provided or otherwise made available without proper authorization.

Complete copyright information can be found in the product by choosing Help > About.

For reference, a copy of the End User License Agreement named "EULA.pdf" is included in the "AutoPIPE V8i SELECTseries5" folder of the product installation. By default, this location is "C:\Bentley\AutoPIPE V8i SELECTseries5".

See Also

AutoPIPE CONNECT Release Notes (10.00.xx.xx - higher)

How do I download, install, and license AutoPIPE?

Bentley AutoPIPE