Getting Started

Now, I had just started a job doing piping design. I'm now about to finish up my first week.

Going in, I have 15 years of AutoCAD and 11 years of Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams and General Arrangement work, so I'm not a complete stranger to the Piping field.

The reason I'm e-mailing all you guys and/or ladies is looking for pointers... a place to start. Possibly point me into the proper direction for reference material, beit a website, books, whatever..

It's a little intimidating because ALL the pipers I've worked with basically know what I'm looking to learn and to them it's "common knowledge"... but for me, it's completely new ground. Well, I guess "completely new" is a bad term as I've treaded on it in my time doing P&ID's, but still.

As far as I can find I found the "Piping Handbook" on various sites going for anywhere from $89-$134.. I plan on grabbing it, but I'd like to know if there's any other books or reference material that may help. And also if there's any pipers on this mail list and if they know any "rules of thumb" for piping that'll help me out.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

Michael S Roble

Pittsburgh Received on Thu Feb 02 20:45:00 2006