Pipe Flow Expert 2013 version 6.38 is available now - released November 27th 2012. This is a major new release with powerful pump modelling updates. Tabbed Design Sheets: New Tabbed Design Sheets let you work on multiple systems simultaneously. Tabbed Sheets work just like Tabs in an Internet Browser. Tabbed Sheets work in both Design View and Results Mode. Switch between different system models with a single click. Easy to design, view, and compare results across multiple models. Easy to copy sections of drawings between different system models. Easy to demonstrate and review results for altered designs. No other pipe system design software has Tabbed Design Sheets like these. Pump Modeling: New Pump Modeling predicts performance across a range of speeds and impeller sizes. View Pump Graphs at different speeds and impeller size. Amazing predictive modeling capability from entry of a single curve. Efficiency predictions and drawing of Iso Line Efficiency curves. Import image of manufacturer's pump graph and click on points to model pump curve. Easy to fade imported pump graph, showing predicted curves on top. Easy to adjust predicted maximum impeller and minimum impeller curves. Easy to adjust predicted iso efficiency curves to match real pump performance. Easy to adjust predicted NPSH curves to to match real pump performance. Graph Options allow selection of curves: Efficiency line/iso, NPSH, System Curve Pump Database: New Searchable Pump Database. Over 100 example pumps included. Model your own pumps and easily add them to the Pump Database. Browse the Pump Database or Search a Pump Library for a pump. Search for pumps with specific design points such as flow and head requirements. Automatic searching across a pump's complete performance data, considering a range of running speeds and different impeller sizes. Pump Data Sheets: New Professional Pump Data Sheets in PDF format. Easily generate pump documentation with one click. High resolution pump graph with performance curves. Show Pump data, Fluid data, Design data, & Operating notes. Show Design point and System curve. Show NPSHr and Power curves. Edit Grid, Sheet View: New Enhanced Edit Grid with Additional Tabs for Control Valves, Components & Pumps. Filter Edit Sheets by data matches on 'equals', 'less than', 'more than', or 'starts with'. Update Items Value on mass across all rows listed in the Edit Grid. Edit Control Valve settings for FCVs, PRVs, BPVs. Edit Component settings for Cv values, Kv values and fixed losses. Edit Pump settings for fixed flow rate, fixed head increase, and fixed speed/impeller. Edit Pipe data, Tank data, and Node data. Additional Fluid Zones: Up to 20 fluid zones can be defined, each having different fluid properties. Calculations run against mass flow to ensure the overall system balance of flows and pressures according to the conservation of mass equations. Fluid Zone drop down now shows summary of fluid details. Drawing Interface: Modernised interface to support Windows Themed styles. Larger drawing grid, now supports 8700 x 6000 pixels (47% overall increase in size of grid). Scalable drawing items, such as large tank symbols. Graphic icons added alongside item description on menus. Auto Align Text Blocks on Drawing Sheet (left align to grid and top align to grid). Enhanced Mass Update of FCVs, PRVs, BPVs, Components, Cv values, Kv values, and Pumps. Tabbed Sheets for working with multiple systems. Automatic Sizing of Fittings: Automatic calculation of Nominal Pipe Sizes (based on Material and Pipe ID/OD). Automatic validation of consistent pipe data based on matching nominal size data. Option to automatically update pipe data based on associated nominal size data. Automatic check of fitting sizes against nominal pipe sizes. Automatic update and resize of fittings to match pipe sizes. Enhanced Calculation Engine: Improved warnings for over controlled systems. Improved reporting and logging of system design problems. Improved calculation convergence on large systems. Additional log messages Enhanced Pipe Database: New Pipe Material / Schedules files (in total now over 75 Materials/Schedules) Includes over 1000 rows of standard pipe material and size data for: Aluminium, Sch. 5s Aluminium, Sch. 10s Aluminium, Sch. 40 Aluminium, Sch. 40s Aluminium, Sch. 80 Aluminium, Sch. 80s Aluminium, Std Wall Brass, 16G Brass, 18G Brass, 20G Cast Iron (Asphalt Dipped), Class A Cast Iron, Class A Cast Iron, Class B Cast Iron, Class C Copper, DWV Drain,Waste,Vent Copper, Refrig. Service Copper, Table X Copper, Table Y Copper, Table K Copper, Table L Copper, Table M HDPE, SDR 7.3 HDPE, SDR 9 HDPE, SDR 11 HDPE, SDR 13.5 HDPE, SDR 17 HDPE, SDR 21 HDPE, SDR 26 HDPE SDR 32.5 PVC (ANSI), Sch. 40 PVC (ANSI), Sch. 80 PVC (ANSI) Chlorinated, Sch. 40 PVC (ANSI) Chlorinated, Sch. 80 PVC (AWWA), DR 14 PVC (AWWA), DR 18 PVC (AWWA), DR 21 PVC (AWWA), DR 25 PVC (AWWA), DR 32.5 PVC (AWWA), DR 41 PVC (AWWA), DR 51 PVC (Iron Pipes Sizes), SDR 13.5 PVC (Iron Pipes Sizes), SDR 17 PVC (Iron Pipes Sizes), SDR 21 PVC (Iron Pipes Sizes), SDR 26 PVC (Iron Pipes Sizes), SDR 32.5 PVC (Iron Pipes Sizes), SDR 41 PVC (Iron Pipes Sizes), SDR 64 PVC (Sewer Pipe), SDR 26 PVC (Sewer Pipe), SDR 35 Stainless Steel, Sch. 5s Stainless Steel, Sch. 10s Stainless Steel, Sch. 40s Stainless Steel, Sch. 80s Steel (ANSI), Sch. 10 Steel (ANSI) Sch. 20 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 30 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 40 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 60 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 80 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 100 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 120 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 140 Steel (ANSI), Sch. 160 Steel (ANSI), Std Wall Steel (ANSI), XS Extra Strong Steel (ANSI), XXS Dbl Extra Strong Steel (ANSI) Galvanised, Sch. 40 Steel (ANSI) Galvanised, Sch. 80 Steel (ANSI) Galvanised , Sch. 160 Steel (SANS 62) Galvanised, Medium Steel (SANS 62) Uncoated, Medium Steel (SANS 62) Uncoated, Heavy Steel (SANS 719) Uncoated, 4.5mm Wall Steel (SANS 719) Uncoated, 8 mm Wall Pipe Flow Expert 2010 version 5.12 - Released March 26th 2010. This is a major release with significant program enhancements. Customized PDF Report Generation: New Automatic PDF Report Generation Now supports generation of customized PDF reports Cover sheet generation with capability to add your own logo Scalable vector drawing of the pipe schematic for high resolution printing Customizable tabulated results for fluids, pumps, pipes, nodes and energy Create professional PDF report documents with just a few clicks of your mouse Great for customer presentations and documenting your pipe design Provides PDF vector drawing of your pipe system for high resolution printing Support for Cv and Kv Flow Coefficients: New Cv/Kv Component allows specification of Cv and Kv flow coefficients. Calculated solution solves for flow and pressure loss based on Cv/Kv value Warns of potential choked flow for gas flow with high pressure drop Includes helper for determining a Cv or Kv value based on flow / pressure loss New component symbols added for Cv, Kv and general control valve type. Increased Screen Resolution Capability: Support for large screen resolutions up to 1920 x 1260 pixels Provides enhanced experience for users with large wide screen monitors Enlarged Drawing Sheet: Supports drawing sheet scale of 7100 x 5000 pixels Increased size of drawing sheet now provides 2.75 times larger drawing area More space available when designing large scale system drawings Enhanced Fluid Database: Increased size of fluid database and number of fluid data points supplied. Now includes over 400 fluid data points in total. Fluid database can now be sorted using the fluid pressure field Enhanced Pipe Database: Increased size of pipe database and number of materials/sizes supplied. New pipe material / schedules for an additional 15 types of pipe Over 180 new rows of pipe material/size data in total Includes pipe data for steel schedule 10, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80 100, 120, 140 Includes pipe data updates for galvanized steel specifications Includes pipe data for SANS 62 and SANS 719 specifications Additional Free Text Annotations: Allows users to add up to 1000 Text Annotations per drawing Each Text item now supports up to 25000 characters (previously was 250) Support fast click & edit of text items without switching to text tool Other Updates: New Common Modelling Solutions Example with common pipe system scenarios Closed pipes now shown in pipe drop down list Double click .pfe files to automatically run Pipe Flow Expert and open the file