So cruisin around on the old Inter-web, I found a -real- cool piece of software-Digital Pipefitter. Basically this thing lets you print out templates with your printer, slap it on the pipe for say, a wye. Mark on the dotted lines, cut and shazam! The guys got a great video demo on the site, and he developed it himself.
It looks really cool and I'm gonna play around with it tonight. Ill write a better review/more info on it if ya'll are interested. I thought this might be really cool for the guys in the small shops or even do it yourselfers that may not wanna go through the hassle of doin all the layout themselves. Link- Edit2-From my first 5 minutes of this program, I think it would be great for all the airplane builder guys out there-I know theres alot of tubing intersections and what not, and this might help ya out for designing some of the trickier joints. I installed that free trial offer for Digital Pipefitter too. Wasn't going to spend the ching until I heard good things about it from people who've actually proofed it out on a few jobs and can attest that it works accurately.So far, not a word. There's nothing more aggravating than trying to work with a template that doesn't fit correctly.
I've been making templates for better than 40 years and in many cases laying the ordinates out directly on the workpieces. Can't even imagine how many copies of 'Ordinates for 1,000 Pipe Intersections' I've worn out. Since I got into AutoCAD about 20 years ago, the task of layout and plotting became a lot quicker and easier.
Since it's somewhat impractical to have the workstation right on the job with me, I also went another route. I programmed a bunch of routines into my TI-83 Plus calculator for figuring out the most common pipe problems (offsets, miter ordinates, equal spreads etc.).
Even wrote one to figure 16 ordinates for a 90 degree saddle-on tee using any size combinations and wall thicknesses of pipe. As we speak, I'm working on another calculator routine for developing 16 ordinates for 45 degree laterals. J Posts: 4 Joined: Tue May 31, 2011 5:51 pm Location: Everywhere USA. Kermdawg wrote:So cruisin around on the old Inter-web, I found a -real- cool piece of software-Digital Pipefitter. Basically this thing lets you print out templates with your printer, slap it on the pipe for say, a wye. Mark on the dotted lines, cut and shazam! The guys got a great video demo on the site, and he developed it himself.
It looks really cool and I'm gonna play around with it tonight. Ill write a better review/more info on it if ya'll are interested. I thought this might be really cool for the guys in the small shops or even do it yourselfers that may not wanna go through the hassle of doin all the layout themselves. Link- Edit2-From my first 5 minutes of this program, I think it would be great for all the airplane builder guys out there-I know theres alot of tubing intersections and what not, and this might help ya out for designing some of the trickier joints.