ASME Table Electronic Format

[tiz99]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of any way to get Tables from ASME Codes in electronic format, like a spreadsheet or database?
I am currently trying to make a spreadsheet for flange calculations, but I cannot find an efficient way to extract dimensional data from B16.5.

Thanks in advance,

Tiz

 

[pmover]

manual entry is likely best.

another technique is to copy the text from the pdf and paste in table or text editor, but there will be a lot of editing.

 

[XL83NL]

Such tables are non existent afaik.
I once created a digital B16.5 table using the pdf->word conversion tool in Nitro PDF. Takes some time to reformat certain data/pages as the conversion isn’t 100% OK, but the numbers are at least correct, so in the end the effort was small and the overall gain was very good.

Huub
- You never get what you expect, you only get what you inspect.

 

[tiz99]

Thanks guys, I was afraid that might be the answer.

Is there some way to suggest to the committee to provide such tables in future revisions? Or am I dreaming...

 

[XL83NL]

I’m on one of the B31 committees. It’s been a long term request to provide committee members, for their help/assistance in their committee work, with an electronic (Excel-like) version of e.g. ASME IID. So far that hasn’t succeeded.
B16.5 is a different story, let alone for the public. so one can imagine changed are poor. If you have good arguments, it might work to convince someone, but I doubt you are in any luck.

Depending on what you need, its something you can do yourself quite easily.

Huub
- You never get what you expect, you only get what you inspect.

 

[tiz99]

My only argument would be that it would likely take a similar amount of work to publish the standards as both PDF and tables, and that it provides much greater value to ASME Standards Subscribers. I can't think of a good reason to keep this data locked down, but maybe there are forces at play that I am unaware of.

 

[BJI]

Most of the stress tables of II-D are available (or were available) in excel. Committee members do get access to 'relevant' standards, I don't see why the II-D tables wouldn't be available. For others the conversion to excel can be problematic in terms of formatting, I have used VBA scripts to clean it up in the past. Some of the API 579 Part 9 tables were particularly challenging.