TRIFLEX®
Windows 1.6.0
21
February 2002
Enhancements
1. Euro Code - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, the
requirements of the new Euro Piping Code have been incorporated.
The User will now be able to quickly check compliance with
the new Euro Piping Code using TRIFLEX® Windows 1.6.0.
2. Euro
Code User Documentation - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0, the requirements for entering the data for the new
Euro Piping Code has been incorporated in Chapter 3 of the
User Manual. In addition, a detailed discussion of the output
reports generated by TRIFLEX® Windows for the Euro Piping
Code has been incorporated in Chapter 8 of the User Manual.
3. Smart
Data Exchange File - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0,
a new data file has been developed that will enable a User
to export all data available for display on a Stress Isometric
Drawing. In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, a file for
one load case will be available for export to the Stress
Isometric Drawing capability.
4. Graphic
Display of Soil Restraints - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0, the display of Soil or Underground piping restraints
will be shown as radial rods or "whiskers". It
is now easy to spot all underground piping in a piping model.
5. Graphic
View Saved - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, the
Graphic View last saved by the User will be the view in
which TRIFLEX® Windows will display the piping model
when the DTA file is accessed anew by the User.
6. Default
Isometric View - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0,
the default orientation of the Isometric View of the piping
model will be with the commonly used X, Y, Z Triad with
X oriented to the lower right, Y oriented vertically up,
and Z oriented to the lower left corner.
7. X,
Y, Z Triad Display - The default view of the piping model
will be displayed with the X, Y, Z Triad shown in the lower
left corner. The User can eliminate the display of the X,
Y, Z Triad by going to Setup/Graphics Preferences/Fixed
Axis Display and clicking on the option. The User can also
modify the orientation of the triad and the subsequent orientation
of the piping model as well as the location of the triad
by going to Setup/Graphics Preferences/Axis Properties and
selecting the desired settings.
8. Log
File Display - In previous releases of TRIFLEX® Windows
when a User was using Windows '95, '98 or Millennium, the
log file for large problems was not available for the User
to see. This problem did not occur when a User was using
Windows NT or 2000. Code has been written to work around
this limitation of Windows '95, '98 or Millennium. In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.6.0, the Windows limitation of the size
of the log file has been eliminated. This enhancement will
enable a User to see the entire log file for each execution
of TRIFLEX® Windows. The entire keyword file will always
be available to view, as well as the notes and messages
generated by TRIFLEX® Windows at the time of execution.
9. Wind Load and Uniform Load - In TRIFLEX® Windows
Release 1.6.0, the output reports have been separated to
eliminate confusion between the two separate loading conditions.
10.
Path Name - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, the full
path name of the current data file is available to users
through a Utilities Menu item. Selecting this menu item
shows immediately where the currently active DTA file is
located. Further, should the user have multiple versions
or copies of TRIFLEX® Windows on his machine, or wish
to locate the installation directory of TRIFLEX® Windows,
the full path of the currently active executable may be
found in the Help About Box pull down.
11.
New Export Capabilities - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0, Users may now export spreadsheets to:
12.
Coordinate Entry Option Added - In TRIFLEX® Windows
Release 1.6.0, Users can now specify the TO Node as either
an X, Y, Z global coordinate or a delta dimension.
Modifications
1. Improved
Node Numbering Scheme for Soil Modeling - In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.6.0, the automated node numbering scheme
has been improved to eliminate the difficulty experienced
by several users in modeling soil near elbows. When a User
modeled soil on an elbow or bend with the following run
of pipe defined to the weld point on the elbow or bend,
TRIFLEX® Windows did not assign soil restraints properly.
In this release of TRIFLEX® Windows, this difficulty
has been eliminated.
2. PDS
Data File Import - In previous releases of TRIFLEX®
Windows, the data imported by TRIFLEX® Windows from
a PDS model malfunctioned when eight digit data set labels
were encountered in the file. In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0, this problem has been eliminated.
3. Export
File to 3D CAD Systems - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0, the options shown on the pull down menu for exporting
to 3D CAD Systems have been eliminated. This functionality
is being provided in the Smart Data Exchange File capability
described above.
4. Deflection
Scale Range - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, the
scale for displaying the deflections has been improved to
reflect minimal deflections at the low end and significant
deflections at the high end.
5. SNIP
Code Data Import - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0,
the data interpretation error that existed in the previous
version of TRIFLEX® Windows has been corrected. Lynn
to test and document. Built in SI units in Dos and imported
as a job file and in file to insure that the unit conversion.
6. Replace
Mode - In the previous release of TRIFLEX® Windows,
Users encountered difficulties in using Replace Mode. The
functionality of Replace Mode has been greatly improved
in this release of TRIFLEX® Windows.
7. Use
of Insert/Replace/Delete after an Elbow - In the previous
release of TRIFLEX® Windows, Users encountered difficulties
in using the Insert/Replace/Delete functionality on a piping
component that immediately followed an Elbow Component.
In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, this problem has
been eliminated.
8. NUST
- The prominent misspelling of Nust on an Error Message
was reported and was corrected to read MUST.
9. Spelling
of TRIFLEX® Windows - Throughout the program, we have
endeavored to remove the misspelling of the name of the
program TRIFLEX® Windows. Many lower case references
have been made over the years and we are endeavoring to
replace these misspellings with TRIFLEX® Windows.
10.
Printing the Graphic Model Directly - In the previous release
of TRIFLEX® Windows, Users encountered difficulties
in trying to printout the piping model directly from TRIFLEX®
Windows when they were using MS Windows 98 or Millennium.
TRIFLEX® Windows Users on Windows NT, Windows 2000 or
Windows XP did not experience the printing problem. This
problem has been corrected in TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0.
11.
Pointer Mode Rather than Graphics Mode - In all previous
releases of TRIFLEX® Windows, when a piping model is
accessed, TRIFLEX® Windows presents the graphics representation
of the piping model with the graphics cursor in manipulate
or hand mode. Many Users have requested that TRIFLEX®
Windows present the graphics representation of the piping
model with the cursor in select or arrow mode. In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.6.0, TRIFLEX® Windows presents the
graphics representation of the piping model with the cursor
in select or arrow mode.
12. Viewing Default - When a piping system is initially
being designed with TRIFLEX® Windows, the default viewing
mode is Continuous View All. The User may reset the Continuous
View All setting at any time using the graphics preferences
menu. When this system is saved and brought back into TRIFLEX®
Windows, the viewing mode is whatever was saved. For systems
saved with previous versions of TRIFLEX® Windows, the
default viewing mode is with the Continuous View All turned
off.
13. Set Home and Go Home Functionality - The Go Home and
Set Home Buttons on the graphic tool bar to the left of
the graphic representation of the piping system have been
removed and replaced with View Add and View Recall buttons.
Both new buttons function similarly. When either buttons
are clicked on, a dialog is displayed that interfaces with
a View Cache which allows the user to save, manipulate,
and recall up to 32 different views of the piping system.
14.
Read Only .mdb File - In previous releases of TRIFLEX®
Windows, when a User attempted to open a .DTA file by double
clicking on the file in an arbitrary folder from within
Windows Explorer, TRIFLEX® Windows reported that the
".mdb" (component database) file was in read-only
mode and TRIFLEX® Windows would not open the file. In
TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, this malfunction has
been eliminated.
15.
Axial Coefficient in Soil Dialog - In previous releases
of TRIFLEX® Windows, the Axial Coefficient entered by
the User or the default value assumed by TRIFLEX® Windows
as shown in the ASME B31.1, Appendix VII, Soil Parameters
was not properly transferred by TRIFLEX® Windows to
the Table of Soil Loads and Stiffnesses in the bottom section
of the dialog. This malfunction has been eliminated in TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.6.0.
16.
TRIFLEX® Windows User's Manual Accessible from Acrobat
5.0 - In previous releases of TRIFLEX® Windows, when
a User attempted to open the TRIFLEX® Windows User's
Manual after loading Adobe Acrobat 5.0, the User's Manual
could not be opened. This malfunction has been eliminated
in TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0. In certain instances,
a dialog that will enable the User to browse the hard drives
for the location of the latest version of Adobe Acrobat
Reader. After this location is selected, the location of
the desired version of Adobe Acrobat will be saved and automatically
used when the User tries to access the User Manual again.
17.
Accessing TRIFLEX® Windows in Demo Mode - In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.5.4, when a User attempted to access TRIFLEX®
Windows in Demo mode, access was initially denied. When
the User tried a second time to access TRIFLEX® Windows
in Demo mode, access was granted. This malfunction has been
eliminated in TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0.
18.
Output Spreadsheet Copy & Paste - In TRIFLEX® Windows
Release 1.5.4, when a User copied an output spreadsheet
report and pasted it into Excel, an empty leading column
always preceded the report. In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0, this malfunction has been eliminated.
19.
12 in Schedule 40 Pipe - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.5.4, when a User entered a 12" schedule 40 pipe,
TRIFLEX® Windows would pass to the following piping
components a diameter of 12" and a schedule of 40S.
In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, this malfunction
has been eliminated.
20. Skewed Expansion Joint with Pressure Thrust - In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.5.4, when a User modeled a skewed expansion
joint with pressure thrust, TRIFLEX® Windows did not
provide a report that provided the true skewed movements.
In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, this malfunction
has been eliminated.
21.
Anchor movements entered when using SI, MET & IU1 UNITS
- In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.5.4, when a User entered
anchor movements and had selected SI, MET or IU1 units in
which to build the piping model, TRIFLEX® Windows would
reflect the anchor movements in the output report in the
values that they would have been if they were in inches.
In TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, this malfunction
has been eliminated.
22.
Occasional Loads Memory Overwrite - In TRIFLEX® Windows
Release 1.5.4, when a User entered occasional loads in a
Code Compliance Analysis, TRIFLEX® Windows would in
some instances experience a memory overwrite problem. In
TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0, this malfunction has
been eliminated.
23.
Flange Loading Report - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.5.4, when more than Nine (9) Flanges are listed to be
checked for flange loading compliance, the output report
only reflected the first nine flanges entered. In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.6.0, all flanges entered will be shown
in the output report.
24.
Code Compliance Graphics - In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.5.4, when a User reviews the Output Graphics for a code
compliance load case and then switches to a load case where
no code compliance has been specified, TRIFLEX® Windows
continued to reflect the code compliance graphics for the
previously shown load case. In TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0, when a User switches from a load case with a Code
Compliance Analysis being specified to a load case without
a Code Compliance Analysis being specified, TRIFLEX®
Windows disable the Code Compliance Graphics. This restriction
will eliminate any possible misconception by the User.
25.
Load Case Selection and Print Preview / Print - In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.5.4, when a User selected Print Preview
or Print, TRIFLEX® Windows allowed the User to change
Load Cases, but did not do so properly. In TRIFLEX®
Windows Release 1.6.0, this malfunction has been eliminated.
26.
Mill Tolerance - In previous releases of TRIFLEX® Windows,
when a User attempted to specify a mill tolerance as a specific
amount rather than as a percentage of the wall thickness,
TRIFLEX® Windows accepted the value but did not modify
the percentage to reflect the same ultimate value. The two
values are linked in TRIFLEX® Windows Release 1.6.0.
27.
Soil Specified for All Load Cases - In TRIFLEX® Windows
Release 1.6.0, if Soil is specified for one load case, then
TRIFLEX® Windows will automatically turn on Soil for
all the other load cases.
28.
Expansion Joints and Load Cases - In previous releases of
TRIFLEX® Windows, when a User entered an expansion joint
with an effective area and selected loading conditions that
did not include pressure, TRIFLEX® Windows did not generate
pressure thrust nodes. If pressure was specified on a subsequent
load case, then the number of nodes in the piping model
as generated by TRIFLEX® Windows was different than
in the load cases without pressure. In order to insure that
the number of nodes in the piping model are identical whether
or not pressure is entered, TRIFLEX® Windows Release
1.6.0 will automatically generate a pressure thrust force
of a minimum of 1 lbs. for all expansion joints in which
an effective area is specified.
