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Bentley AutoPIPE Basic User Accreditation - Program Overview
Advance your Skills and Career
The Bentley AutoPIPE Basic User Accreditation Program is an official credential from Bentley Systems, Inc. that verifies you have the essential AutoPIPE software skills and workflows to be a productive asset to your employer. By attending the accreditation course and completing a hands-on design project, you will have demonstrated the skills to stand out from your peers and advance your career to the next level. After you have successfully completed the accreditation, you will receive a completion certificate and an official Bentley badging.
Benefits of the Program
- Users become more productive by learning Bentley recommended best practices and workflows.
- Users and Future Professionals can add the accreditation credential to their resume to showcase their expertise for use with Pipe Stress Analysis.
- Companies can advertise that their employees possess the professional skills necessary for project bids and to be competitive in the piping stress analysis field.
Program Requirements
- Users must submit a signed accreditation program agreement.
- Users must take the required accreditation course(s).
- Users must submit their completed exercise models within 4 weeks of attending the accreditation course.
- The exercise submission is reviewed and approved by a Bentley instructor.
- If the project submittal does not meet completion requirements, the user can correct and resubmit their project within 2 weeks. Reattempts may be permitted at the discretion of the instructor and may require additional training.
- User must pass accreditation assessment. If user is not able to pass, he can redo assessment one more time.
- Users should have a minimum of 30 hours of modelling and analysis experience utilizing AutoPIPE CONNECT Edition.
- Existing users are able to get accreditation on submitting exercise and assessment without attending recommended courses.
Bentley AutoPIPE (Basic) User Accreditation for Pipe Stress Engineers Offering
The Bentley AutoPIPE (Basic) User Accreditation is meant to demonstrate your knowledge and basic requisite skills of using AutoPIPE to perform piping stress analysis. Users will need to complete exercise models and assessments to demonstrate their skills and abilities within a provided time frame. Users will create number of piping models, apply occasional loadings, create analysis sets, perform analysis, review model and will check analysis results using AutoPIPE. In addition to that, they will also extract output reports in different formats.
The following is a list of skills required to complete the required exercises:
Basic concepts
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§ AutoPIPE User Interface § Mouse Operations § View Control |
§ File Control § Component Selection
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AutoPIPE tools
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§ Creating New Model § Routing Piping Geometry § Defining Hangers and Supports § Applying Loads § Reviewing Model |
§ Creating Analysis Sets § Creating Load Combinations § Running Analysis § Checking Results § Extracting Output Reports |
Printing and Publishing
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§ Print Input/Output Reports |
§ Print Word/Excel Reports |
Users can add to their skills as needed by taking courses from the list of recommended courses.
Recommended Courses (OnDemand or Live/Virtual)
- QuickStart for Engineers Using AutoPIPE for CONNECT Edition
- Modelling Piping Geometry CONNECT Edition
- Model Modifications CONNECT Edition
- Intermediate Modelling and Analysis Using AutoPIPE
- Static Analysis and Loads in AutoPIPE
- Spring Hanger Selection in AutoPIPE
- Advanced Modelling and Analysis Using AutoPIPE
- Modal Analysis Using AutoPIPE and Dynamic Introduction
Download the Basic User Accreditation Workbook to access the hands-on, step-by-step instructions.