Re: Re: SOFTWARE FOR PIPE THICKNESS CALC

From: <Geoff>
Date: Wed Sep 14 2005 - 18:27:00 EDT

Christopher,

Why not use Mathcad or TK Solver and the calculation presented does look exactly like a hand calculation. You can also link data to Excel if you need to. You can print Mathcad to PDF or MS MDI files.

Mathcad allows you to debug with tracing so you can check everystep of the way.

Geoff

Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote:

On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:30 AM, JOSHUA RIZAGA wrote:

> In fact, I am also making
> my own "programs" thru Excel in lieu of MS Project &
> STAAD which I used in our projects. In this sense, I
> am very confident that I input the exact data apart
> from the complexities of the expensive softwares in
> the market today.

That's a smart move. I've done the same thing with Excel for Section VIII calculations and I've been very pleased. One thing you might want to consider--linking your Excel workbook to calculation sheets formatted in MS Word, so your results are presented as if they were manual calculations, with the formulas and values provided. When you need to check the results independently (which is every single time you do arithmetic!) or make submittals it's a lot easier to review than printed out spreadsheets. I've used the Print Merge feature in Word to read a text file output from Excel into a Word template and make a helluva nice looking calculation sheet (If I do say so myself...) Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=5cQZDdtnzRjldmllip3Hl-zNl-a-vFqoWuVTs-rqWyqy59kf2WZLUqcc4MTwiM5Mmh_h_JaDC1pGME9d8g">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Wed Sep 14 18:27:00 2005