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Change Spec of Custom Piping Component

When we change the spec of a Custom Piping Component, the graphics are reset to OPM default 3D Geometry
about 3 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

BOLT selection for multiple materials or records

OPM_CALCULATE_BOLT_LENGTH = 1 and ALLOW_BOLT_INCREMENTING = 1 OPM finds multiple records that meet Nominal Diameter, Facing and Rating. Bolt Length for multiple records less than the OPM calculated value. When all three of the above criteria is me...
about 2 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

Insulation Manipulation and Control of Placement

Please can we request an enhancement on the way insulation is currently implemented in OPM. Currently, the insulation is placed at the pipeline creation level. If you create a new pipeline, you specify the material and thickness. This is then plac...
6 months ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

Measure - Change Units

Adding a dropdown to the Measure Tool to allow the user to change the measurement unit. Currently, the only way to Measure in different units is to change the Design File Working Units, however, this causes other issues and permanently changes Wor...
over 3 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

Desktop Review of OPM Models

After Bentley ended support for Navigator v8i, Bentley is missing a desktop-based review tool that supports dynamic review of Openplant DGN files stored in a ProjectWise Environment. While working in a File Based system, it is essential to have a ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

Ability to add the File Name to Piping Components

In a File Based CAD Environment, the File Name is used to identify systems and other details about a model. Currently, users need to add this data manually to different piping and equipment components. When a file name changes, we find that design...
about 3 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

BOLT LENGTH FROM SPEC + WAFER JOINTS

OPM has a config variable OPM_CALCULATE_BOLT_LENGTH which controls if the tool automatically calculates the required bolt length or uses the value from the Spec. We would like to use the values defined in our spec in all cases, except for Wafer ty...
over 3 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

Ring Manifold design in OPM

In the industry there are cases where a circular (ring shaped) header manifolds that branches equally to feed fluids to a sub system are needed. For example, a cooling water distribution system. Currently, Openplant has limited functionality to ac...
over 1 year ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

Graphics for Bolts

We would like to have a tool which converts the symbols of bolts to real graphics as an option. Either a switching option to select symbol or real graphics while placing bolts or a macro that will convert all the bolt symbols to real graphics fetc...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration

Validate from Spec using user defined properties

When we run a Validate from Spec command, by default OPM uses SPEC ID to validate all the other properties of Piping Component. I have some older models that have duplicate SPEC IDs. If we had the ability to tell OPM to use a different property fo...
about 3 years ago in OpenPlant Modeler Future consideration