Pipe Stock length is used by the Pipe Fabrication set of tools.
If a straight piece of tube is longer than that value it will be highlighted as not ready for fabrication.
Flange allowance is used for Slip-On Flanges.
It helps to calculate the pipe insertion depth.
[QUOTE=corrado;112959]Pipe Stock length is used by the Pipe Fabrication set of tools.
If a straight piece of tube is longer than that value it will be highlighted as not ready for fabrication.
Flange allowance is used for Slip-On Flanges.
It helps to calculate the pipe insertion depth.
Just a quick update on this.
Another use of that.
If CompType attribute of an SCOM is set to ALLO, then that object (i.e. FLAN) will have its attribute ALLOWANCE set automatically to the value of the Pipe Data Table and its LOOSE attribute set to TRUE.
This comes from the On-Line Help:
The flange allowance column allows a default method of specifying the extra material required for loose flanges or extruded.
Any flange with an SCOM COMPYPE attribute set to ALLO is considered as requiring extra material. If a flange requires an allowance then the value is taken from the pipe data table and put into the ALLOW attribute of the flange and the LOOSE attribute is set to TRUE.
The flange allowance value in the pipe data table is an expression so it could be related to the wall thickness for example (10 * pwallth(1)) would give a value of 10 times the wall thickness at p1 of the flange.
