Posted November 2020, some information may change without warning. If an issue arises, please log a Bentley Service Request to confirm limitations.

• Some supports do not translate. Warnings are given where these occur.
• ASME Mixed Class analysis are not supported by AutoPIPE
• Sub Space iteration is not supported by AutoPIPE
• An ADLPipe elbow/bend can have up to 9 mid points whereas AutoPIPE supports only 1. Elbow mid points are not translated.
• All note instructions are ignored and no comments are brought forward
• A PIPE or CH instruction with either of I1, I2 or both missing or set to zero is not supported
• Limited support for Mitre bends is given.
• Type of all valves and flanges imported is set to Non Standard. No pressure rating available in ADLPipe.
• BEAMS are imported as RIGID pipes so section properties are not mapped
• A '0' cannot be supported as a node number in AutoPIPE. Change the node number in the ADLPipe file before importing.
• The Anchor instruction is to be used to define the relative positions of the Anchor If it is used with 0,0,0 as the X Y Z coordinates then all other points will be with reference to this as the origin. If another Anchor instruction is specified with 0,0,0 then this will also be located at the origin. In ADLPipe '0' sometimes means ignore or do not change, AutoPIPE takes this as meaning zero. Either delete the anchor locations without correct coordinates or remove the 0,0,0 from the definition.
• The stress range reduction factor 'f' is mapped to a default value of 1.0 in AutoPIPE as there is no NTL field available to map the actual value.
• Only fully defined user SIF instructions can be supported. Partially defined SIF's are ignored.
• ADLPipe has no limit on the number of load cases. AutoPIPE does!
• Mapping for several NEWFILE types not available in AutoPIPE.
• NEWFILE methods are able to map are:

• Methods not currently supported.

• AutoPIPE can only have one sustained case, so if there are multiple DEADWEIGHT load cases in ADLPipe input, we only consider the first one.
• ACCELERATION (static earthquake) is mapped to Occasional load in AutoPIPE. Its value is fixed and cannot be changed as in ADLPipe, so we just take forward the initial value at first node in the model and ignore all the changes.
• Multiple Response Spectra analysis is supported by AutoPIPE but mapping is currently not available.
• For spectrums interpolation Lin-Log method is not supported by AutoPIPE.
• The stress summaries are translated from ADLPipe and written in an XML file in the same model directory. These summaries are available for ASME Class 1, 2 and 3. Stress Summary for B31.1 is not supported in AutoPIPE.
• The stress summaries contain load case combined. Every equation expects a particular type of load cases that can be combined to give stress report. If the load cases supplied by the user are not of the correct type, AutoPIPE may not accept these load cases from the translated .XML file.

See Also

ADL PIPE

Bentley AutoPIPE