Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
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My company is a subsidiary of a large EPC company and has recently purchased a license for Autopipe. Autopipe was selected without much prior thought and mainly because some of our subcontractors use Autopipe and some of our staff engineers have experience with it. I have been tasked with looking at our engineering software applications generally and with providing recommendations and approvals for all of our engineering software procurements. I have little knowledge of piping stress analysis software and so have been making some inquiries to better educate myself.
I made some inquiries with our corporate offices and determined that our corporate pipe stress analysis software standard is CAESAR II rather than Autopipe. CAESAR II is able to be integrated with some other software applications that we are procuring that are used corporately.
So my question is, if we we to switch to CAESAR II instead of Autopipe, would we be able to re-run analyses originally performed by our subs in Autopipe using CAESAR II? i.e. is there a file format that an Autopipe analysis can be saved in that can be run in CAESAR II and vice versa?
If we were to re-run the analysis as part of a verification exercise, would the differences in the applications cause confusion?
I made some inquiries with our corporate offices and determined that our corporate pipe stress analysis software standard is CAESAR II rather than Autopipe. CAESAR II is able to be integrated with some other software applications that we are procuring that are used corporately.
So my question is, if we we to switch to CAESAR II instead of Autopipe, would we be able to re-run analyses originally performed by our subs in Autopipe using CAESAR II? i.e. is there a file format that an Autopipe analysis can be saved in that can be run in CAESAR II and vice versa?
If we were to re-run the analysis as part of a verification exercise, would the differences in the applications cause confusion?





RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
Does Autopipe have a neutral file? If so, perhaps we could develop such an interface.
Richard Ay
COADE, Inc.
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
Richard Ay
COADE, Inc.
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
If on the other hand a "piping CAD package" is being used, then there is intelligence associated with the objects in the drawing. There are various Autocad based Piping Packages (CADWorx, CADPIPE, AutoPlant, etc). Each of these can export some type of file that can be imported into other software packages.
Richard Ay
COADE, Inc.
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II
Richard Ay
COADE, Inc.
RE: Running Autopipe analysis in CAESAR II