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    Clamped Shoe Support (Clamp orientation)

    yeah my response was going to be space, like Littleinch said.
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    Minimum pipe length for Process Vent

    so all the items can be welded in place, clear the insulation and discharge safely?
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    How to Manage Pipe Support Lift-Off in Stress Analysis

    Yes, when the operating temperature and design temperature are miles apart it can certainly cause some issues. Technically we have to design everything to be code compliant at design conditions, (including seismic design, nozzle loads etc) to be able to state the system meets the design...
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    How to Manage Pipe Support Lift-Off in Stress Analysis

    Often you can find that correct positioning of pipe supports can eliminate support lift offs. I don't let my junior engineers just blindly accept any lift offs. They need to be discussed with the senior pipe stressing engineers first, otherwise there is this desire to just ignore and accept all...
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    Drawing Notes Database

    I am a firm believer in standardizing as much as possible. The difficult thing with standardization is that often things need a small change for each different project, client, etc, so having a truly standard set of notes may be difficult. I would say whatever you do keep it simple and...
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    Considering Career Change to Medical Field

    I was reading this and I think this is a great idea. Would be interested to hear what the wife thought. If you as a family can make it work why not. Life is too short to not follow your dreams sometimes. You have at least 20 more years of your working life ahead of you - I am a firm believer...
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    Geotechnical Engineering - The Great Divide between Younger and Older Engineers

    I think in all engineering specialties, younger engineers need to remember that all this new technology that is appearing are just tools. Just because you are whizz bang at a computer program does not mean you know anything except how to push the buttons. The software does not carry out the...
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    How to Support very long Pressure Vessel (Bullets) on two saddles?

    I do not have much experience with vessels but I thought once you put a third saddle in it became statically indeterminant and was not recommended?
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    What would you say to your younger self?

    I would say the following: Find a job you enjoy. Do not assume that hard work alone will get you noticed and get you the opportunities you want in your career - it often just brings you more work. You need to learn to speak up and push yourself forward if you want opportunities. Having a good...
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    Mechanical Equipment or Piping Engineering

    I am a piping engineer. I have had a fabulous career up, although the last few years I have seen a number of changes, not always for the better. I was lucky to spend the majority of my career excited to go to work in the morning. Can't ask for a better job than that. I have also designed...
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    Displaying piping in different colours.

    Good Morning Everyone. I have a very complex piping model I want to build in C2. I want to know if it is possible to change the colours of the pipelines so I can identify in the model the service of the fluid, eg the steam lines could be green, the water lines could be blue etc. I know how to...
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    How do Engineers calculate the dimensions of their design ideas?

    The final dimensions is one of the deliverables of your final design. You need to understand the magnitude of your design - one thing a friend of mine does in job interviews with young engineers is gives them an engineering drawing and asks "how big is this item? Can I hold it in the palm of my...
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    Printing input lists in Caesar II

    All Can someone please remind me how to print the input lists in Caesar II? I do not want the input echo. I know it can be done as I used to do it all the time but I have forgotten how, I have done the obvious - selected the print button, highlighted the whole list and then hit the print...
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    thermal range in C2

    I am looking at a couple of stress models with 5 temperature cases that I have to review (I normally use a different program) Model 1 The user considers the thermal range by setting up the load case editor to calculate T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 and then considers the thermal range by also checking the...
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    CAD to India

    I would say you are a sucker for punishment if you want to do this. Have been there and done that. It is very stressful to do this and managing it is more than a full time job, and then you are very likely to reach your deadline and have nothing to deliver. Also do not underestimate the extra...
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