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You'll find it surprisingly easy and reliable to import detailed SAP2000 structural models into CSiPlant which auto-connects with the piping model. CSiPlant is based on SAP2000. Once the combined pipe/structure analysis is run, piping code checks can be performed and selected pipe support loads/reactions can be automatically exported back into the SAP2000 structural model. Think about all the time, confusion and errors involved in with having to work with marked-up isometrics, spreadsheets and other manual methods which attempt to communicate pipe support loads from piping stress to the structural team. The structural team then needs to spend time deciphering that data and then manually type those piping loads into their structural analysis model, one support at a time.
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