Gents,
Will it be possible to feed the input to caesar from pdms model directly. though it might be a time consuming activity in which the input need to be checked once but want to know the possibility to do the same.

Many thanks.
Rams.

Yes it is possible to import the moded from PDMS to CAESAR and then back to PDMS. You need wo have a license for PSI (pipe stress interface) package in PDMS. Please refer the attached document.

Hello my friends,

If you have any of ALIAS products (I-RUN, I-SKETCH, SPOOLGEN, etc.) you can import PDS or PDMS models in CAESAR II, only with a few clicks. I've attached a handout of my presentation with this post which is shown how to import piping models from PDMS to CAESAR II. You need to create IDF files out of PDS or PDMS models. No need to buy expensive interface programs.

Hi Farhad,

I am unable to download your attachment. Could u please post it once again.

Many Thanks,

Here is PDF file for download again.

Thanks Farhad for that quick reply,

Definitely your method is simple and cost effective way of doing things. But for large projects with large number of stress critical lines, converting the weightless rigids, and giving input of pressure/temperature/fluid densitiy etc... and making the model useful is time consuming. Due to some mistakes debugging the errors is also time consuming. All this may finally results in the same effort as modelling from the scratch.
The use of PSI eliminates all these problems, and further we have seamless data transfer from PDMS to C-II and back. Hence the output data of C-II gets fed into PDMS thereby, helping the designer for support design and to check for clashes during expansion /occasional and other cases.
Finally everything runs around the cost. For small projects the method suggested by you may be appropriate and for large projects we may require a special interface.

Take a look at www.nbwsys.com

They have an on-line service for this which is very usefull.