Using weight of fasteners in analysis is not possible? ISO spool weight on drawi

[Anonymous]

Hi All

I have two questions regarding weight of components. We've made lapped flanges with our own made stub-ends. Both have a weight attached in the spec. However if we look at the total weight when selecting both with analysis (snapshot) it will not include the stub-end (apparently a fastener). Strangely if you make an analysis report it will add those stub-end fasteners with weight.

My partial solution is to add the weight of the stub-end (and bolts with standard length) to the flange. However this would be very confusing in the database. Also the analysis would be less accurate.

Does anyone encounter this problem or has a better solution?

Now with the new update (AutoCAD 2017.1) we can finally use the spool configuration in the ISO's because skews have been added! However i could not find an option which shows the weight of the spool in the ISO drawing. Did other people encounter this?

Thanks in advance,

Jasper Paulusma

[Anonymous]

Hi All

I have two questions regarding weight of components. We've made lapped flanges with our own made stub-ends. Both have a weight attached in the spec. However if we look at the total weight when selecting both with analysis (snapshot) it will not include the stub-end (apparently a fastener). Strangely if you make an analysis report it will add those stub-end fasteners with weight.

My partial solution is to add the weight of the stub-end (and bolts with standard length) to the flange. However this would be very confusing in the database. Also the analysis would be less accurate.

Does anyone encounter this problem or has a better solution?

Now with the new update (AutoCAD 2017.1) we can finally use the spool configuration in the ISO's because skews have been added! However i could not find an option which shows the weight of the spool in the ISO drawing. Did other people encounter this?

Thanks in advance,

Jasper Paulusma

[ryan.bales]

I was able to get the weight of the components in my BOM - but not in a spool style. Mainly because a spool style doesn't show bolts and gaskets. I had to add my column for spool at the top - Pipe run component - hierarchy to get it to work. Also its the manual entry weight column not the autofilled.

[ryan.bales]

I was able to get the weight of the components in my BOM - but not in a spool style. Mainly because a spool style doesn't show bolts and gaskets. I had to add my column for spool at the top - Pipe run component - hierarchy to get it to work. Also its the manual entry weight column not the autofilled.

[Anonymous]

Hi @ryan.bales,

I prefer not to have the seperate component weights in the BOM. If you create normal isometrics it is possible to get the total line weight in the drawing, see attached. This does not work for spool format. The total weight for each spool would be useful since those are the components which have to be transported to the site.

I will put the analysis question in a different post.

Thanks,

Jasper Paulusma

[Anonymous]

Hi @ryan.bales,

I prefer not to have the seperate component weights in the BOM. If you create normal isometrics it is possible to get the total line weight in the drawing, see attached. This does not work for spool format. The total weight for each spool would be useful since those are the components which have to be transported to the site.

I will put the analysis question in a different post.

Thanks,

Jasper Paulusma

[ryan.bales · Accepted solution]

I was able to get it to come in, however it does come in via a mapped attribute as the weight of the entire pipe line group - as the attributes are based on that. But you can add it to the spool list table to get to just show the weight of that spool.

[ryan.bales · Accepted solution]

I was able to get it to come in, however it does come in via a mapped attribute as the weight of the entire pipe line group - as the attributes are based on that. But you can add it to the spool list table to get to just show the weight of that spool.