PIPENET VISION releases

Welcome to PIPENET VISION 1.12.0! – February 2024

We are delighted to inform you that PIPENET Vision® 1.12.0 is already out. The download link has been sent to all the customers with active PIPENET Maintenance, Updates and Support and/or active short-term licences. Please do contact us if you have not received the link or did not manage to download the files for any reason.

If you are not a current customer and you would like a copy of PIPENET VISION 1.12.0, please contact us at pipenet@sunrise-sys.com

We are pleased to deliver great enhancements across all modules to save time and make the PIPENET experience even better. Among the prominent new features:

PIPENET Vision 1.12.0 New feature: Templated Report Generator

  • The new Templated Report Generator allows the user to browse, save and customise the style of the PIPENET report
  • Standalone editor which requires no external text editor like MS Word and allows export in PDF format.

PIPENET Vision 1.12.0 User Interface and Output

  • The Sunrise user data folder is now selectable to avoid problem with the Documents folder under Office 365.
  • The root folder for the scenario manager is now selectable.
  • New feature: It is now possible to export the schematic to EMF file.
  • Enhancement of the management of units in output files.
  • Enhancement of the data display in Data window and Schematic window.

PIPENET Vision 1.12.0 Transient Module

  • 14 new Suter curves have been included in the turbo pump library.
  • A new model has been developed: simple turbo pump model.
  • A new function has been introduced: smart run-in time.
  • New force files for stress time-history analysis. It is now possible to set the output time of the force files, set the unit, and the output files are split into several DIF files containing only one force to reduce the post-processing for stress analysis.
  • Direct setting of elevation via nodes.
  • The dry pipe model has been improved to speed up calculation and improve stability.
  • The initial guess file (IGF file) has been improved to include data for grid points and flow nodes.
  • The switch model has been improved to speed up the calculation during run-in time.
  • The numerical stability of the transfer function model has been improved.
  • The numerical stability for the initial steady state calculation has been improved.

PIPENET Vision 1.12.0 Spray/Sprinkler and Standard Modules

  • The calculation of the pressure at nozzle has been improved when the velocity pressure option is enabled in Spray/Sprinkler module.

PIPENET Vision 1.12.0 Licensing

  • The legacy drivers are no longer required for HASP keys.
  • FlexLm has been updated to 11.19.4 for network licenses.

Welcome to PIPENET VISION 1.11.0!

We are delighted to inform you that PIPENET Vision 1.11.0 is already out. The download link has been sent to all the customers with active PIPENET Maintenance, Updates and Support and/or active short-term licences. Please do contact us if you have not received the link or did not manage to download the files for any reason.

If you are not a current customer and you would like a copy of PIPENET VISION 1.11.0, please contact us at pipenet@sunrise-sys.com

We are pleased to deliver some fabulous enhancements across all modules to save time and make the PIPENET experience even better. Among the prominent new features:

PIPENET Vision® 1.11.0 Transient Module

  • A new discrete gas cavity model (DGCM) is now available. The new model considers the effect of a small quantity of free gas in continuous liquid.
  • The vacuum breaker model has been improved to speed up calculation and enhance numerical stability in extremely large systems.
  • The force results output file format has been improved for enhanced compatibility with stress analysis programs.

PIPENET Vision® 1.11.0 Spray/Sprinkler and Standard Modules

  • Spray/sprinkler Overboard Dump Valve improved.
  • All calculation elevation warnings and errors are clearly reported, rather than only the first.

PIPENET Vision® 1.11.0 Transient, Spray/Sprinkler and Standard Modules

  • New Auto-backup functionality and manager application – avoid losing data through power-cuts or other system errors.
  • Improved output browser page navigation.
  • More accessible Scenario Manager results presentation.
  • Enhanced support for Asian locale in dialogs.
  • New, separate user guides for Scenario Manager and Auto-Backup Manager.
  • Netutil licensing utility no longer requires elevated privileges. This simplifies network licence client configuration.
  • Handling of system libraries improved.
  • Measure and calculate using ‘litres per second’ in all modules

PIPENET VISION 1.10.0 Release – November 2019

We are pleased to deliver some fabulous enhancements across all modules to save time and make the PIPENET experience even better.

PIPENET VISION 1.10.0 is being sent to all customers with active PIPENET Maintenance, Updates and Support and/or active 5-year and 1-year licences. Please contact us if you do not receive it by the middle of December. If you are not a current customer and you would like a copy of PIPENET Vision 1.10.0, please contact us at pipenet@sunrise-sys.com.

Among the prominent new features:

 Transient Module

  • Dry Pipe 2 Model – a new powerful feature for dynamic modelling of air volume in pipes
  • New air valve component
  • The Scenario Manager facilitates easy comparison of a range of scenarios on one screen
  • Improved searching in Forces dialog
  • Improvements to the graph viewer
  • RES2CSV utility now includes option to export to Excel

 Spray/Sprinkler Module

  • Improved formatting of the NFPA report
  • Updated Chinese Standard

 Standard Module

  • Non-Newtonian power-law fluids can now be modelled in the Standard Module

 All Modules

  • Measure and calculate using ‘litres per second’
  • Improved output formatting
  • Module name displayed in title bar

Read more details in the latest PIPENET News – Autumn 2019 issue.

PIPENET Vision 1.9.0 – latest version of PIPENET released in December 2017.

PIPENET Vision 1.9.0 has a new interface, runs hydraulic calculations faster, and includes more than 100 new features.

PIPENET Vision 1.9.0 has been sent to all customers with active PIPENET Maintenance, Updates and Support. We hope you are already enjoying using it. If you would like a copy of PIPENET Vision 1.9.0 please contact pipenet@sunrise-sys.com.

PIPENET Vision 1.8.1 Released Nov 2016

There were more than 150 new features included in PIPENET Vision 1.8.0 released in April 2016.

PIPENET Vision 1.8.0 is an excellent release with a very few bug fixes required. These have been included in PIPENET Vision 1.8.1, making PIPENET Vision 1.8 even better! The PIPENET graph viewer has been enhanced too.