I spoke with our AIA and he said you can't alter the flange. In his opinion to use the altered flange you must design per appendix 2.
I'm in the process of confirming this from those higher up the ladder.
Our customer has request a pressure vessel with an altered B16.5 Flange. They need 2 counterbored holes drilled radially through the outside diameter of the flange, between the bolt holes, similar to an oriface flange. Are there code calculations to verify, i.e. area replacement, or min. wall...
I am trying to find some information on how a pipe that is filled with concrete will affect it's strength with relation to bending. How will filling a pipe affect it's moment of Inertia?
In Mechanical Desktop 5.0 all you need to do to generate a 2d drawing is make a layout of whatever you want to export. While in drawing mode use the command AMVIEWOUT. This will export the view you select to a location of your choice.