Cute Thermowell Files

Author: Alex Borisov
 
Copyright (c) 2011 Alex Borisov
 
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under 
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software 
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later 
version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more 
details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with 
this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


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* Cute Thermowell - Qt-based Thermowell Design Program *
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This thermowell design calculation program is based on the latest standard 
ASME PTC 19.3 TW - 2010 and uses material data from ASME II, ASME VIII, 
ASME B16.5, ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, ASME B36.10 and others. Cute Thermowell 
performs thermowell dimensional verifications, vortex shedding (wake frequency) 
calculations, steady-state and dynamic stress calculations and hydrostatic 
pressure calculations. Some steel material, flange and pipe data are provided 
which can be easily added, edited or deleted. Cute thermowell performs 
calculations in SI units and will perform calculations for flanged and threaded 
thermowell types incl. tapered, straight and step shank designs in straight, 
angle or elbow installations.

Ver. 0.7

Features:

- Tapered, Straight, Step thermowells
- Flanged and threaded connections
- Straight, Angle and Elbow installations
- Material and flange data up to 300 deg C
- Pipe data up to DN300
- Add/Edit/Delete material, flange and pipe data
- View/Print/Save calculation results
- Save/Export As ODT, PDF, HTML, TXT
- Integrated Cute Converter - SI Unit Converter
- SI System of Units
- Written in Python and Qt
- OS independent (Tested in Linux and Windows)
- Minimalistic and simplistic approach
- Licensed under GPL3


Prerequisites:

- Python-2.6+ (please note Python-3.x is not suitable)
- Qt-4.6+

For Windows users:
- Python: http://www.python.org/download/
- Portable Python: http://www.portablepython.com/wiki/Download
- Qt: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
  (For Portable Python on Windows, PyQt has to be installed in ..\PortablePython\App)
- Make sure PyQt version matches Python version
  (e.g. if Python-2.7.* is installed, then install corresponding PyQt-Py2.7-*, otherwise it will not work)


To start Cute Thermowell, run 'QtThermowell.pyw'.