Pipe Tables

Every friction number traces back to a pipe table: materials, diameters (nominal and actual ID), Hazen-Williams C values, and fitting equivalent lengths. CaidentCalc ships with the Caident Fittings table and lets you build your own.

Viewing

Pipe Tables → View opens the viewer: pick a table, pick a material, and read its C value and the fitting grid — one row per diameter, one column per fitting ("Elbow (E)", "Tee (T)", …).

Creating and importing

• New — name it and optionally base it on an existing table (start from Caident Fittings to tweak the standard values). The built-in's name is reserved.
• Import — bring in a Caident .cpipe or a HASS .pip table.
• Delete — with a confirmation; the built-in table can't be deleted.

Tables live in C:\CaidentCalc\PipeTableData\ (shown read-only in Settings). Each project remembers which table it uses — the selector above the segments table (chapter 5).

Editing

Edit opens the editor on any table except the built-in (to customize that one, create a New table based on it).

• Pick or add a Material; set its Name and C Value (restricted to values between 40 and 200).
• The grid edits like a spreadsheet: + Add diameter row, + Add fitting column (each column has a name and a short letter code — that letter is what fitting strings like 3R5T refer to), numeric cells throughout.
• Delete Material and the row/column − buttons use a two-click confirm — the button re-labels to "Click again to delete" and disarms after three seconds.
• Save Pipe Table validates everything first and reports problems before anything is written.