Producing a Bolting Report

You can use Isodraft to produce a Bolt Report, either to your screen or to a file. This takes the form of an ASCII file with a page length defined by you. You can specify whether you want the bolting information to replace an existing file, or be added to an existing Bolt Report File (which is the default).

To produce the report you use the BOLTREPORT command. This command is similar to the DETAIL command in that the pipes to be detailed are scanned for bolting information. You can repeat the report whenever you want, interspersing the BOLTREPORT commands with DETAIL and CHECK commands as necessary. You will experience the same system checks when producing a bolt report as for detailing, but here only diagnostic information relevant to bolting will be produced. Therefore, you do not have to make sure that all piping geometry is correct before producing a bolt report. Note, however, that it is important to have the piping’s connectivity correct before producing a bolt report to make sure that all pipes are scanned properly.

You can include positional information in the report. This will give you the centerline position of either associated flange in the coordinate system (as currently defined by the AXES command). The format of the positional information will be determined by the UNITS command.

See Command Reference in the Isodraft Reference Manual for further information.