PIPENET Vision v1.6.0.509

PIPENET Vision Release 1.5
General statement
Welcome to the latest version 1.5 of the PIPENET® modules, collectively referred to as PIPENET Vision™. It contains many new features and improvements.
General enhancements
• The installation process has been simplified, and delivers many new resources:
o Self-training materials
o Demonstrations
o Example datafiles
• Components now only change colour from blue to black when all mandatory attributes have been given valid values.
• The Options>Units tab now initially appears unexpanded, to make it easier to find and change the units of interest.
• Formatting of decimal numbers has been improved, and the requested precision is now saved correctly between sessions in all cases.
• Component types now appear alphabetically in the Data View window “Browse” selector.
• The size of network that can entirely be displayed within the view window has been increased.
• Large underlays now display correctly.
• A number of other fixes have been incorporated.
Standard and Spray/Sprinkler module enhancements
• New elastomeric valves achieve the required input pressure, output pressure, pressure drop or flow rate without the need to input the valve characteristic data.
• You can use the right mouse button menu to turn nozzles within a defined area on/off (applies to Spray/Sprinkler only).
• A new stand-alone program to convert a results file (SRF) to a spreadsheet is provided.
• The Edit Pipe type dialog now checks that increasing bores correspond to increasing flow-rate (calculated from the velocity and the pipe internal bore.)
Transient module enhancements
• A new graphing tool is provided, with improved user interface and capabilities including superimposition of multiple graphs.
• Open channel cavitation algorithms have been significantly upgraded - covering bubbly, slug, and stratified flow types. Other improvements have also been made to the cavitation algorithms.
• New geometric shapes are possible for:
o Simple tank types (vertical cylinder, horizontal cylinder, sphere, cone frustum).
o Accumulator types (vertical cylinder, horizontal cylinder, sphere).
o Surge tank types (vertical cylinder, horizontal cylinder, uniform section, cone frustum).
o Receiving vessel types (vertical cylinder, horizontal cylinder, uniform section, cone frustum).
• The new pipe bundle is a single component representing the hydraulic characteristics of a bundle of hundreds/thousands of pipes).
• A new Signal Selector component can find the minimum/maximum of two input signals, or switch from one input signal to another after a defined time period.
• A new Limiting Power Ramp option for Transfer function enables different ramp up and ramp down response rates.
• The receiving vessel model has been extended to allow the specification of various types of weir.
• Vacuum breakers can now be defined to operate only within a given time period, staying closed outside that period.
• Pressure and pressure-difference sensors are now recognized for both the analogue and digital options, whereas previously they were always assumed to be analogue.