- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Save time with an easy-to-use application
- Perform advanced analysis and design
- Create graphical results and reports
- Streamline multi-discipline workflows
- Optimize pipe supports
- Quality assurance
AutoPIPE
High-quality, cost-effective, and reliable pipe and vessel designs
Including 2 training credits
High-quality, cost-effective, and reliable pipe and vessel designs
When the deliverable is reliable pipe and vessel designs, there is no need to spend time doing something your software can do for you. AutoPIPE is an analysis and design application used to calculate piping stresses, loads, and deflections under static and dynamic load conditions. With extensive interoperability across other industry applications as well as time-saving features like the new support optimizer, AutoPIPE helps ensure quality, cost-effective designs, and a smooth workflow for engineers who use it.
Save time with an easy-to-use application
Easily create and modify pipe stress models by using the object-based OpenGL graphical user interface. You can simply point and click to insert, modify, or delete components for instant visual updates and modify parameters across a range of points with just one command. Tracking changes or making modifications can be done in a snap to help save time and eliminate otherwise cumbersome tasks.
Perform advanced analysis and design
Perform design and analysis for buried pipelines, fluid transients, wave loading, and FRP/GRP or plastic pipe and avoid piping failures and costly shutdowns by evaluating your design under extreme loading conditions like earthquakes. With AutoPIPE?s 3D hot clash detection you can eliminate errors up-front and perform ?what-if? analysis to quickly evaluate various design scenarios.
Streamline multi-discipline workflows
Integrate piping and structural analysis and design with the ability to transfer pipe support loads and import complete structures to and from other applications. AutoPIPE interoperates with applications like STAAD.Pro, SACS, OpenPlant, and CAESAR, so you can save design time and streamline the workflow when working across various teams.
Optimize pipe supports
Provide the most optimized pipe support design quickly using the latest AI machine learning technology. When a piping system must be designed to withstand various stresses, it?s critical to assess loading points and support them adequately, yet keep costs to a minimum. The new support optimizer feature allows you to create thousands of design alternatives and compare them as they become available. Then make iterations until the best outcome is achieved.
Create graphical results and reports
Produce customized reports in various formats from an open-sourced, optimized SQLite database and eliminate tedious reviews with color-coded results and pop-up windows that help identify and investigate critical issues.
Modeling
- Single line, wire-frame, and solid render drawing modes
- CAD style single, double, or quad view ports
- Vertical axis (Y or Z) can be switched on the fly
- On-screen distance calculator for accurate coordinate checks
- Built-in valve actuator for more accurate valve modeling
- Segment management: reverse, split, join, and re-order segments
- CAD line class and line numbers
- Connectivity checker to avoid model disconnects
- English, metric, SI, and user-defined units
- Extensive ANSI/ASME, DIN, EN, JIS, GD, GB, GOST, and GRP/FRP standard piping component and material libraries
- Structural steel modeling using structural databases for 17 countries
- Expansion joint modeling with tie rod assemblies
- Model import from AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, OpenPlant, MicroStation, Excel, AutoCAD, Intergraph PDS, SmartPlant, Aveva PDMS, CADWORX, SolidWorks, Inventor, Plant 3D, CATIA, and PlantFLOW
- Automatic stress isometric generation in DXF, DWG, or DGN formats with engineers mark-ups
- PIPELINK bi-directional integration with STAAD.Pro and SACS
- Model geometry data export into AutoPLANT, MicroStation, and AutoCAD
- Automated ring main wizard
- Automatic ASCE soil calculator
Dynamic Analysis
- Time history dynamic analysis with ground motion
- Mode shapes, accelerations, and natural frequencies
- Harmonic load analysis
- Uniform and MSRS response spectrum and shock spectra
- Multiple spectrum enveloping
- NRC spectra and code case N411 (PVRC) damping and spectra
- NUREG.CR-1677, CR-6441, and CR-6049 benchmarks
- Automatic mass discretization
- Missing mass and ZPA correction
Piping Codes
- ASME B31.1 support for multiple years, including B31.1, B31.4, and B31.8
- ASME Sec. 3, Class I, II, and III (multiple years from 1972)
- European Standard Metallic Industrial Piping (multiple years) EN13480
- Multiple years: B31.4, B31.8, B31.4 Offshore, B31.8 Offshore and CSA_Z662 Offshore codes
- DNV OS F101 offshore code
- Canadian CAN/CSA?Z662 (multiple years)
- British Standard BS 806, BS 7159 (GRP piping code)
- FRP ISO 14692
- ASME N755 HDPE Code Case
- Russian SNIP 2.05.06-85 Oil and Gas
- Swedish Piping Code (SPC) Method 2
- Norwegian Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and TBK 5-6
- Dutch Stoomwezen D1101
- Japanese KHK, MITI class 3, JSME NC1-PPC and General Fire Protection code
- French RCC-M and SNCT
Analysis
- ASME B31J calculations for improved SIF values
- Unlimited static analysis to examine different loading scenarios, including hot modulus for any combination of 100 thermal, 30 seismic, 10 wind, and 50 dynamic load cases
- Automatic generation of wind profiles per ASCE and UBC guidelines
- Wave loading and buoyancy for offshore applications
- Hydrotest analysis with locking spring hangers
- Linear and non-linear hydrotest analysis
- Fluid transient utilities for water and steam hammer plus relief valve load analysis
- Automatic spring hanger sizing from 27 manufacturers
- State-of-the-art nonlinear support gap, friction, yielding, and soil interaction with advanced features of seismic wave propagation, overburden and settlement loads, and stresses to ASCE, AWWA, and ASME
- Thermal stratification bowing analysis
- Thermal transient analysis (TTA), fatigue and high energy/leakage design for ASME Class 1
- Seismic static and response spectra load generator to IBC, Euro, ASCE, Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Chinese standards
- Ec/Eh ratio applied to expansion stresses for any piping code
- Integrated flange loading analysis per ASME VIII Div 1 and 2, ASME III App XI, and ANSI B16.5
- Nozzle flexibility analysis per API 650 App. P, ASME Class 1, WRC 297 and Biljaard methods
Input and Results
- Results saved to Microsoft Access MDB file for post-processing
- Automatic or user-defined load combinations grid
- Automated batch processing
- Maximum intermediate stresses
- Reference point for manufacturer equipment loading reports
- Rotating equipment calculations to API 610, NEMA and API 617, and user-defined standards
- Results can be filtered and sorted by stress, deflection, or load criteria
Processor
Intel Pentium IV or higher
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Windows 11 x64
Memory
512 MB recommended. Additional memory potentially improves performance, particularly when working with larger models.
Hard Disk
500 MB free disk space
Video Graphics Card
Any industry-standard video card that supports OpenGL 3D graphics
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A Perpetual License is bought outright and owned indefinitely. You pay once, then pay an annual SELECT maintenance fee to keep your software updated and supported. It’s a shared network license, so it isn’t tied to one user.
An Annual Subscription is a 12-month subscription license you renew each year. It’s assigned to a named user and can be re-assigned every 30 days. Lower upfront cost, but access ends if you don’t renew.
In short: a Perpetual License is buying the software, while an Annual Subscription is renting access for the year.
It comes down to how long and how often you plan to use the software:
Choose an Annual Subscription if you want a lower upfront cost and no long-term commitment.
Choose a Perpetual License if you plan to use the software for many years. It is usually the cheapest option over the long run (around seven years or more).
Choose a Cloud Service Subscription if your usage is occasional or short-term and you want maximum flexibility. Keep in mind that CSS is charged at a premium rate, so it is not the most cost-effective choice if you use the same software regularly.
If you are not sure, just ask us. We will look at how your team works and recommend the option that saves you the most money.
It is simple and there is no disruption. Your software, your licenses, and your data all stay exactly as they are within your Bentley Account. The only thing that changes is who looks after you. CAD Journey can act as your dedicated partner for support, licenses, training, and advice. There is no cost and nothing changes.
Every license includes access to all the latest software features and updates, along with round-the-clock technical support. As a CAD Journey client, you also have our team of Bentley experts as your first point of contact for any question. Annual Subscriptions go a step further and include free one-on-one training and mentoring hours to help your team get up to speed.
Here is what to expect after you order:
1. Within 24 hours, your licenses are fulfilled and added to your account, ready to assign.
2. Within 48 hours, one of our Customer Success Managers reaches out to make sure you are set up and everything is working as it should.
From there, the main steps are registering each team member, assigning a license to each one, and having everyone install the software and sign in. We will walk you through all of it, or we can simply take care of the setup for you.
The CONNECTION Client is a small free app that sits on each user’s computer. Users sign in to it with their account, and that sign-in is what activates the software. It is also where users download updates and check which licenses they have. There are no activation keys or serial numbers to manage anymore, so signing in is all that is needed.
The administrator is the person who can manage users and assign licenses for your organization. You can also set up co-administrators so more than one person can help manage the account. This is useful if your IT team handles software, or if you want a backup for when the main administrator is away. We can help you set up the right people with the right access.
It depends on the license type:
– Annual Subscriptions are assigned to a named user, so you need one for each person who uses the software.
– Perpetual Licenses work as a shared pool, so they can be used across your team without being tied to one person.
If you are not sure how many licenses you need, we are happy to work it out with you.
Once users are registered your license administrator can begin assigning licenses.
1. Sign in to your license portal at connect.bentley.com.
2. Open the License Management area.
3. Choose the product and assign it to the user you want.
The user gets a confirmation email and can start using the software right away. If you get stuck at any point, just reach out and we will jump in.
New people first need to be registered as a user on your account before they can be given a license. An administrator can add them by entering their name and work email, and then assign a license to them. If you would prefer, send us the details and we will add and assign your new starters for you.
Yes, a practitioner license can be re-assigned as many times as needed on the first day it is assigned to a user.
After the initial 24-hour assignment period, the license will be locked for 30 days. At the end of the 30 day period the license will be available for re-assignment.
Any re-assignment will restart the 24-hour assignment clock, and will be followed by the 30 day assignment lock.
No. Software now activates through a simple sign-in. As long as a user is registered, has a license assigned, and signs in to the CONNECTION Client, the software will run. There are no keys to track or share.
SELECT is Bentley’s maintenance program for perpetual license holders. It gives you access to the latest software version, technical support, and license portability across devices. Without the SELECT program you can only utilize the version you purchased and lose access to updates. For most active users, SELECT is a requirement and letting it lapse can create complications as versions evolve.
Annual subscription users will lose access at the end of the term if they do not renew. The CAD Journey team will flag your upcoming renewals well in advance so that you’re never caught off guard.