Adding nozzles to Horizontal Centrifugal pump

[Anonymous]

Hi Folks,

Is it possible to add extra nozzles to standard horizontal centrifugal pump equipment ?  For example Pump casing drain, vent etc......I don't want to be creating a special equipment just for this......we all know that pumps come with more nozzles than Suction & Discharge, so I'm hoping it's a simple thing that I'm missing...…..other CAD platforms allow additional nozzles to be added easily.....so if it's not as simple as that, could Autodesk add this as a fix ?

Cheers

[h_eger]

Dear @Anonymous ,

we will not provide any additional connections for parametric pumps!
This is only possible with user-defined and block-based pumps.

[George.Endrulat · Accepted solution]

Create the pump parametrically, explode it, convert it back to a plant3d equipment, now you can add additional nozzles.  You do lose the parametric properties of the pump, but it does work.

[Anonymous]

Cheers George, seems like this is the best way to get around Autodesk not allowing additional nozzles to be added

[Anonymous]

Hi Hartmut,

A bit poor that from Autodesk really.  Additional nozzles can be added to other parametric equipment like exchangers and vessels, pumps should be the same.

[George.Endrulat]

Yep.  We all know that no CAD problem is going to stop a deadline, work has to get done.

[Anonymous]

Yep, bang on the button there George......however faffing about to make things work shouldn't be a requirement, and affects estimates/schedule/quality/efficiency