Re: Stress calculation

I wasnt thinking so much of designing an open source piece of software; more locating and adopting an existing "engine" and seeing if the group members could help in polishing it up. The "payment" would be free access to the latest version.

Problem #1: finding the software, if it exists. It neednt be a piping program; just one with a compatible I/O, database, processing format.

Problem #2: finding members who have the time to commit and the patience to wait for a usable solution.

Problem #3: Finding a coordinator to decide the architecture, split it up,farm it out and then pull it all together again .

Only 3 problems, but #1 could be a doozie.

Pipedreams are free!

Having seen the output from a well respected and expensive surge analysis program, I am quite sure some clients would be absolutely horrified to see the amount of absolutely erroneous crap such programs can produce. The program jockey continues to patch the boundary conditions until the program can handle the scenario. The output appears to be deemed to be correct when the jockey can believe the output ("just ignore those out-of-range spikes to the left of the printout - I dont know why they are there"). Woohoo.
I was quite frankly appalled. Beautiful printouts, however. Apart from the spikes, which apparently dont matter.

Cheers

Steve McKenzie

• In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Bowers" <pbowers@p...> wrote:
  > From: "Christopher Wright"
  >
  >
  > > >Tried it and I'm disappointed to discover that a Google search
  for
  > "piping
  > > >design software"
  > > I figure anywhere in the first 10 of 156000 hits is pretty good.
  Puts you
  > > in the top 0.00333 percentile worldwide. Some people... my glass
  is
  > > 0.00333% empty, not 99.9967% full. ;->
  >
  >
  > Yeah, I know. Too bad the site doesn't make enough to support some
  full time
  > R&D of open source piping design software.
  >
  > Whoops! That sound you just heard was every bigstore engineering
  software
  > rep reading this scratch Piping Design Central off the potential
  advertising
  > budget list. Not that there ever were any...
  >
  > Paul