ProWrite Version 2012.4

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Issues Resolved

• The Print button will no longer be disabled when opening existing WPQs. (S9)

DesignCalcs Improvement Priorities

With our development philosophy of continuous and transparent improvement, we have prioritized all our planned improvements to DesignCalcs for the next several months below (ASME Code and otherwise in priority order). These improvements and their order are based on our estimate of how many customers they would affect, how long the improvement would take to complete, and the nature/importance of the change. This list will allow us to keep you up to date on our plans and help us adjust them if we’ve made any errors in setting our priorities.

DesignCalcs version 2012.5

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New Features

• The pipe and tube browsers have been redesigned to allow greater filtering options.  We have more than tripled the number of pipe options and now the data goes up to 80″ pipe.  We still allow adding custom pipe and tube data, but this is now accessed under the Custom Data menu.  A small performance improvement has come out of this, as now only the custom data is stored in the DcSupport.adb file and all the shipped data (B36.10M Pipe and Standard Tube) is in the executable.  When accessing the tube or pipe browsers, the shipped data will be clearly distinguishable from the custom data.  A transition piece has been put in place to bring any custom pipe and tube data from 2012.4 and older versions into the new paradigm in 2012.5.
• U-tube tubesheet design now allows for both the rho and ltx values to be set to zero when the tubes are inserted through the tubesheet.

Documentation Updates

• Additional topics have been added to the manual and the online help.  These include explanations of the new pipe and tube browsers and their respective custom input screens under the Custom Data menu.

Issues Resolved

• An issue was resolved in the nozzle report that was causing the value for the developed opening (d) to show up as zero in the displayed report even though the correct value was being used to determine the results.  The display of this value was incorrectly tied to the “Use excess vessel wall thickness for nozzle reinforcement calculations” setting in the vessel screen.   When this box was cleared, it was forcing the display to zero.
• An issue was resolved in the nozzle report that was causing the value of A5 to be determined artificially low for the large opening case.  The issue here was that the 0.75 factor used to calculate the limit of reinforcement for the large opening case was accidentally applied to the repad calculation as well, as if using a split repad, and it was therefore giving an artificially low value for A5 in those cases.
• An issue was resolved in the nozzle MAWP method that was sometimes causing the New and Cold MAWP to come out artificially low.
• An issue was resolved in the tubesheet report that was sometimes causing the required tubesheet extension thickness to come out as zero.
• An issue was resolved in all three tubesheet types that was sometimes preventing access to the tube browser.
• An issue was resolved in all three tubesheet types that prevented the Poisson’s ratio from being set properly to that of the material brought in with a selected component (e.g., shell, tube, channel).

User Interface Improvements

• The limits of reinforcement have been added to the nozzle Area Info tab to aid the user’s decision making in certain cases, such as how much internal projection to use or how big to make the repad diameter.
• A new Custom Material Control Panel has been put in place to improve dealing with custom materials.
• We have begun bringing more of the software into consistent behavior.  We have started with the new “Confirm Delete” window and also the “Unsaved Changes” window.  Right now these windows will appear when dealing with the Custom Pipe/Custom Tube/Custom Material Control Panels and also the Custom Pipe and Custom Tube editors.  As we go forward, these screens will start appearing all over the software.  This is part of an initiative to make the software easier to update, easier to understand, and easier to add automated testing to.
• Button images have been added to all the custom data options.

Misc

• Nozzle limits of reinforcement information that was available on the first page of the nozzle report (in releases 2012.2 and earlier) has now been re-added by popular demand.
• Custom pipe and tube data is no longer under Tools – Supporting Databases.  It is now under the Custom Data menu.
• When creating a tube for a heat exchanger, the tube browser no longer automatically comes up on entering the diameter field.
• Tubesheet MDMT has been altered slightly.  If the material for the tubesheet is UCS-23, the MDMT setting will default to perform the UCS-66 calculations without using the UCS-66(b) reduction.  If the material is not from UCS-23, the exemption will be set to “Impacts Required”.  This, of course, can be changed by the user.
• The tubesheet Alpha values will now default based on the Tsm and Ttm values as opposed to the Ts and Tt values.  They still change based on Tsm and Ttm changing as before.  Remember, it is important that Tsm and Ttm are accurate to get a good differential thermal expansion value for the operating loading cases (4 – 7)

WeldProject version 2012.1

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Performance Improvements

• Updated ProWrite S9 and D1.1 import.

Issues Resolved

• Corrected a number of minor issues relating to labels and display.
• Corrected an issue allowing two WeldProject connector lines to be attached to one another under certain circumstances.
• Corrected an issue displaying all ProWrite documents for both D1.1 and S9.

WeldToolbox – Estimator version 2012.1

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Issues Resolved

• Corrected an issue with the connection between WeldToolbox Estimator and ProWrite.