Modeling Capabilities:
* Native 32-bit Windows application with an acclaimed user interface
*Multiple, independently resizable windows
* View Results, Graphics, Input and Details – all at the same time
* Industry standard OpenGL® graphics, capabilities include:
* Zoom, pan and rotate
* 3D Rendering
* Selective showing and plotting of various entities
* View from any direction (automatic iso and plan views)
* Color coded stress contour mapping
* Copy image from the graphics window to the clipboard
* Several graphics output formats - HPGL, DXF, EPS, EMF
* Plot of single line graphics to AutoCAD format
* Specify title for plot separate from model
* Print in color (Low/Medium/High Resolution, and Black/White background)
* No anisotropic graphical distortions upon window resizing
* Easy model generation and powerful editing features including numerous shortcuts
* Instantaneous error checking of input data
Various element types:
* Pipe
* Elbow/Bend (Flexibility factor, User SIF, Different material, Thickness, etc.)
* Miter bend (Flexibility factor, User SIF, Different material, Thickness, etc.)
* Jacketed pipe (with concentric core pipe being routed automatically along with jacket pipe)
* Jacketed bend (with concentric core bend being routed automatically along with jacket bend)
* Reducer (concentric and eccentric)
* Rigid element
* Valve
* Bellows
* Slip joint (with friction)
* Hinge joint (with friction and rotation limits)
* Ball joint (with friction and rotation limits)
* Beam (end releases, beta angle, shear deformation)
* Elastic element
* Tie rod (with different stiffnesses and gaps in tension/compression)
* Cold spring (cut short or long)
Various support types:
* Tag names for all supports (including Anchors and Nozzles)
* Rigid and flexible anchor
* Release anchors during hanger design
* Two-way rigid restraint
* Skewed restraint (translational or rotational)
* Guide (with gap, friction and stiffness)
* Hangers
* Variable spring support
* Constant support
* User defined
* Rod hanger
*Limit stop (with gap, friction and stiffness)
* Snubber (rigid or flexible)
* Generic Support
* Supports can be connected to other nodes
Other useful data:
* Flange
* Force and moment
* Jacket end cap
* Spider (ties core pipe to jacket pipe)
* Nozzles attached to cylindrical and spherical shells
* Weld
* Threaded joint
* Concentrated mass
* SIFs (tee, branch, and such) as per Piping Codes listed below and ASME B31J
Built-in databases:
* Pipe sizes (ISO, ANSI, JIS and DIN, including bend radius data)
* Insulation materials (densities)
* Over 30 spring hanger catalogs
* Flanges (weights, SIFs) for ASME and DIN
* Large Valve library (types, lengths, weights); User-definable too
* Material libraries for commonly used materials and codes (user-definable too)
* B31.1 and B31.3 Material libraries with over 400 materials
* Nozzle flexibilities according to WRC 297, API 650 and PD5500
* SIF values for different components from each piping code
* AISC library of beam sections (user-definable too)
* Spectrum Libraries corresponding to EL Centro, Uniform Building Code and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Guide 1.60
Piping codes:
* B31.1
* B31.1 (1967)
* B31.3
* B31.4
* B31.5
* B31.8
* B31.9
* ASME Section III, Class 2 (1980, 1986, 1992 and 2015)
* European EN 13480
* French RCC-M and CODETI
* Swedish
* Dutch Stoomwezen
* Norwegian
* British BS 806
* Canadian Z183
* Canadian Z184
* Canadian Z662
Rotating equipment:
* NEMA SM-23 (Turbines)
* API 610 (Vertical and Horizontal pumps)
* ANSI/HI 9.6.2 (Rotodynamic pumps)
* API 617 (Compressors)
*Internal and External Pressure Design of pipe and pipe fittings as per SS EN 13480-3 (2017)
* Flange stresses as per ASME Sec. VIII Div. 1
* Calculation of allowable loads on nozzles to spherical and cylindrical shells as per EN 13445-3 (2009)
Non-linearities:
* Friction in Ball, Hinge and Slip joints
* Gaps and friction in Limit stops and Guides
* Rotation limits in Ball and Hinge joints,
* Tension/compression stiffnesses and gaps in Tie rods
*Nozzle stiffnesses
* WRC 297
* API 650
* PD 5500
Units in any combination:
* SI
* Metric
* English
* Any combination of above
List window – Fully editable and printable:
* Display/edit itemized listings of components/materials/sections/etc. with all details
* Many keyboard shortcuts for quick and efficient operation
* Node search feature
* Comments in the model (make as many comments anywhere)
Block and Edit operations:
* Generate new piping from existing piping
* Change material, pipe size, and temperature and pressure in one click
* Changes immediately updated in all open windows
* Edit, split and combine elements
* Merge models interactively
* Copy and Paste single or multiple elements with supports (including user defined allowable loads)
* Extensive Find and Replace command
* Powerful multiple UNDO and REDO command
* Finding and Editing of Comment texts
Additional Features:
*Automatic backup and periodic saving of model data
*Default settings for ease of use
* When a bend is input, by default, the radius, radius type, thickness, material and flexibility factor from the previous bend are used.
* When a hanger is input, the defaults are set from the previous hanger.
*Conversion of a time function to a force spectrum
*Local coordinate system shown for most elements including a nozzle
*Automatic node number increment (can be turned off)
*Specify slope for an element
*Large model sizes (7,000 elements with node numbers up to 99,999)
*Redefining a model's vertical axis without affecting the layout
*Rotate sections of piping model
