Smart fittings - The ability to automatically change the lstu material to match the fitting.

Where I work you have the ability to select different pipe materials and similar components in the same pipe code.

1. You can choose a threaded elbow and then choose schedule 80 with a shop code of false, so the material doesn't go into the fabrication section of the bill of materials.

2. Or else, I can choose a socket weld elbow and choose maybe schedule 40 with a shop code of true, so the material shows up in the fabrication section of the bill of materials. 

Is it possible to make the elbow "smart" so it knows what leave tube to select?

  • I'm interested in this also. 

    So far, we have battled this issue by

    - for our own catalogues; creating specifications containing a single TUBI for single DN. This is I think the way Aveva is intended to be set up considering a single spec can have only a single Thickness table assigned to it

    - for client's catalogues designed as you describe, by developing tools that fix the schedule issue after the fact; eg you model the pipes with whatever default TUBE Aveva assigns and then run the tool to fix it up