Our company are interested in buying pressure vessel design software. We are currently looking at Finglow- Pressure Equiqment Design.

Do u might know how good the programme is and are there any errors in using Finglow on both technical or conservative side.

Your thoughts on this will be welcomed

Kind Regards
Materialboy

Hi materialboy (what a great name)

We basically sell two products that perform pressure vessel calculations. The first is CodeCalc, and the second is PV Elite. Both Finglow, and our products perform calculations based on the formulae found in the code(s), so the results are presumably the similar.

In the case of PV Elite, you basically build the whole vessel including the supports, platform, nozzles, lining, and in the case of heat exchangers all the parts that form the heat exchanger. You can then apply wind and seismic conditions (to many of the popular codes). Full material databases are included. The software then generates a 3D model, to scale. Finally the completed analysis is performed.

PV Elite caters for 4 codes of construction: ASME Division 1, Division 2, PD 5500 and EN 13445.

CodeCalc on the other hand analyses one component at a time using only the ASME Division 1 code. However, it is loaded with features, such WRC 107, Rectangular Vessels and many other pressure vessel basic components.

PV Elite comes complete with CodeCalc.

Finglow to the best of our knowledge is also a component based product. It is very popular, especially in the UK.

We are mature enough to realise that folk will buy the product that gives them the most satisfaction, and we accept that. However if you would like to know more you can go to our website: www.coade.com, or you could email me at support@coade.com and I would be happy to demonstrate the programme to you.