AutoPIPE vs. JavaScript vs. Raindrop vs. XAML Comparison Chart

AutoPIPE provides you with a comprehensive and advanced software tool specializing in pipe stress analysis. Increase your productivity and improve quality control with an intuitive modeling environment and advanced analysis capabilities. Ensure efficient workflows between pipe stress engineers, structural engineers, and CAD designers through interoperability with leading plant design applications. AutoPIPE includes special features for advanced buried pipeline analysis, operational (hot) clash detection, wave loading, fluid transients, and FRP/GRP or plastic pipe, as well as time-saving integration with other Bentley and third-party applications such as OpenPlant, AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, Hexagon PDS and SmartPlant, Autodesk Plant 3D, and Aveva E3D Design. AutoPIPE automatically determines the optimal pipe support locations to satisfy your design requirements with the most cost-effective solution, without sacrificing quality or safety.

With tools to help with sprinkler layout, pipe input, and zone sizing, Raindrop’s workflow will save you time and frustration. Place sprinklers along polylines and manually with our dynamic sprinkler tool. Meet Raindrop, our plugin for AutoCAD that helps you create efficient irrigation systems for your landscape planting plans. The planting tool is a new feature, designed to help you produce organized planting plan CDs that are well-labeled and easy to quantify. Hydraulic calculations for pressure and pipe velocities are a snap with Raindrop’s tools. Size and calculate both zone sizing and looped mainline hydraulics with ease. The equipment database includes major manufacturers and is frequently updated with the latest model and nozzle information. We are working on adding other manufacturers constantly. Updates to the database are included in the subscription. Irrigation schedule tables are quickly generated when required for your submittals.