New Features in AFT Fathom 10
General interface
- Set defaults for your general unit system, language, pipe material and other preferences in the Startup Control window
- Import data from Excel using keywords
- Use Excel to make changes to multiple scenarios at once
- Load large models faster than before
- Add additional rows to the data tables (like Cv vs. Open Percent, etc.)
Model Import
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- Import from a CAESAR II neutral file
- Import from a Piping Component File (.pcf)
- Import or export a EPANET file
Excel Export
- Export output using the new Excel Export Manager
- Export single values, columns, rows or entire output tables
- Export data from a Graph List item
- Define specific starting cells and target worksheets
- Ability to include headers and units
- Automatically export data after the model is run or during a batch run of scenarios
Standards and Codes
- Ensure code and standard compliance through new output area
- Standard references are updated to current versions where applicable
Workspace
- Draw using an isometric grid
- Differentiate between scenario generation through additional background color options
- Alter background opacity levels to make annotations stand out
- Zoom and pan with new keyboard shortcuts
- Draw attention to pipes with fittings & losses through symbols
Pipes
- Automatically calculate free and forced external heat transfer coefficients for air and water
- Calculate buried pipe heat transfer
- Model trace heating on the pipe surface
- Enter intermediate pipe elevations as length from the pipe beginning
- Added many EN and DIN pipe standards to the available pipe materials
- Increased ability to select pipe materials in the Database Manager
Junctions
- Enter data more easily on the Pump Property window for rotodynamic (centrifugal) and positive displacement pumps
- Link pumps to simulate a pump with an intermediate pressure extraction flow
- Define a relief valve effective orifice based on API 526
- Calculate acceleration head loss for positive displacement pumps
- Enter the Preferred Operating Range (POR) and Allowable Operating Range (AOR) for a pump and display it in the Pump vs. System Curve
- Set Power or Efficiency as the default for pump curves
- Set default for Always Control Never Fail on Control Valves
- Gives a cautionary message if flow is outside of resistance curve range
Output
- Export data to specific cells within Excel
- Create Design Alerts by simply right-clicking on cell or column header to create a Design Alert, add to the Excel Export Manager, copy data, find on the Workspace, sort and change units
- Identify Design Alerts through highlights on the transient pipe, junction and summary tables
- Added additional heat transfer parameters
Model Data
- Create more accurate models through additional parameters such as insulation thickness
- Find any object on the Workspace by right-clicking a pipe or junction
Visual Report
- Toggle between image and data options in a user-friendly interface
Fluids
- Includes a new extensive fluid database NIST REFPROP which supports pure fluids and mixtures
Modules
- XTS
- Multi-condition event logic allows an event to be started based on logical conditions using ‘and’, ‘or’, and ‘not’
- New Event Manager allows events to be created, named and then used at many junctions at the same time