Comments, Questions, and Answers with PCF translator into AutoPIPE: Note: See PCF translator Help / manual for complete details Issue #1: Process aborted Issue #2: Translator Freezes / Not Responding / Disappears Issue #3: Warning message about Flanges and Valves are set to weightless “Zero Weight” components Issue #4: "E880-1: Error in opening import batch file. File extension must be NTL" message appears Issue #5: No graphical elements found for the components Issue #6: Branch piping not connected to the main header pipe Issue #7: Imported pipe sizes are very Large or Small Issue #8: Imported file truncated pressure values Issue #9: Piping code, material, and components are not supported Issue #10: Imported branch connection are not connected correctly Issue #11: Status = "Incorrect Component Connection Tolerance Value" displayed Issue #12: All the pipe wall thickness values are very large Issue #13: Mapping a Line Number Issue #14: Mapping examples Issue #15: Parts of my PCF translated file are missing piping or components Item #16 : Imported flanges from a PCF file rotated 90 deg Item #17: Reset the PCF translator PCFin.MAP file Item #18: Piping was not connected Item #19: Remove Cad Length Below are general questions and answers about the process of exporting an existing AutoPIPE model (DAT) to a PCF file, translate the newly created PCF file with the PCF translator back into an AutoPIPE model, and compare AutoPIPE results between before and after translation: Q1. The expansion joint are not support in the current PCF translator A1. Support for Flex/Expansion Joints were implemented in PCF translator 1.0.0.24. Suggest to use the latest release of PCF Translator. Y Q2. The pipe is oriented 180 deg from original A2. Before export to PCF from AutoPIPE, In AutoPIPE Go to Tools> Settings > Isogen Settings Change North arrow to +X then the coordinates will matched exactly Q3. Pressure and Temp are different from before to after, example: 10 deg & 100 psi converted to 0.0 deg & 0.0 psi A3. This is a limitation in AutoPIPE PCF Export, which does not write Pressure and Temperature and hence default values are used. Q4. Pipe properties changed; wall thickness changed sch 160 changed to STD and Pipe material, from A335-P91 changed to A106-A A4. There is a limitation in AutoPIPE PCF Export could not correctly map the material and by default A106-A with STD wall thickness has been used. Adjust the map file as required to correctly map the material and wall thickness. Q5. Extra support (V-stop) added to the converted file at origin point with anchor. A5. During first time Export to PCF. AutoPIPE write Anchors as a Support with SKEY 01AN and then on import this support component converted to an default support V-STOP. Manually delete V-Stop. Q6. Flanges converted for the expansion joint are in the wrong location. A6. This has been fixed in a newer version of the translator, upgrade to the latest version of PCF Translator, Q7. Tee SIF values are different (because of wall thickness issue above, Q4) A7. Yes, proper schedule has not been exported by AutoPIPE in PCF. update PCF map file accordingly. Q8 Bend radius is different A8. Bend length is exactly same but after import from PCF the actual radius has been written instead of "LONG" Q9 I cannot get the PCF translator to execute from the command line (Batch Processing) as mentioned in the help info, why? A9. This passage was not suppose to have been printed in the published documentation because this feature had never been added to the program. This information was removed in the new version of the documentation. See Also PCF Translator Issues Bentley AutoPIPE
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