New Piping Library Manager Enriches ALGOR's PipePak
PITTSBURGH--Jan. 25, 2001--ALGOR, Inc., a leading maker of software for mechanical engineers today announced that a new piping library manager is leading the list of enhancements in the latest release of PipePak for Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME.PipePak provides piping design, analysis, visualization and reporting tools that enable engineers to quickly create better, more reliable piping systems.
"The new piping library manager enables engineers to easily and efficiently manage data for use in piping systems," said Michael Bussler, president and CEO of ALGOR, Inc. "Many improvements in the new version of PipePak were based on customer feedback, reflecting ALGOR's responsive software development philosophy."
The all-new piping library manager enables engineers to add or remove items through standard Windows-based dialogs with copy and paste support as well as other Windows-style functionality. Information in the piping library may be in any unit system and is automatically converted to the model's unit system upon application.
This release of ALGOR's PipePak also includes:
| -- | the added capability to specify a custom unit system; |
| -- | a built-in, Windows-compliant interface for changing global analysis parameters and PipePak configuration settings; |
| -- | improved control over the combination method used for occasional loads; |
| -- | the added capability to specify an initial displacement to any node; and |
| -- | the added consideration of mill tolerance in code checking. |
ALGOR has been a leader in the engineering software industry since introducing FEA for PCs in 1984 and interfacing with CAD systems in 1985. The company provides innovative, affordable and easy-to-use software products that have enabled 20,000 engineers in 60 countries to create safe, efficient, cost-effective designs. ALGOR also offers superior educational support and customer service that includes the use of state-of-the-art Internet audio/video technology for "Web Courses," which provide step-by-step software instruction, and free public "Webcasts" for live software demonstrations.
ALGOR's family of products features Mechanical Event Simulation software for FEA-based motion and stress analysis, InCAD technology to seamlessly capture exact CAD geometry from popular CAD systems and extensive multiphysics capabilities. The company offers linear and nonlinear stress, vibration, heat transfer, electrostatic, fluid flow, composite materials and piping systems analysis tools. ALGOR's software interchanges data with products from ANSYS, Inc. , Autodesk, Inc. , CADKEY Corporation, MSC.Software Corporation , Parametric Technology Corporation, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Unigraphics Solutions, Inc. , SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, and others.
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