Support Span — Companion Article
1. What this tool does
The recorded description says the page calculates practical support spacing and reviews support requirements for piping systems.
The tools register keeps the live chart-based span tiles separate from Rack and Process Spans. Tool #8 in that register, a support span with a code table, a calculated span, and a legacy history layer, is planned. It is not this article’s calculation.
2. When to use it
Use the page when the work is the support-span page already on the site. Use Pipe Span for that other chart-based page. Use Rack and Process Spans for the beam-theory screen. This article does not choose among them.
3. Inputs
The repository does not record the inputs on this page. This draft does not add fields.
4. How it works
The repository does not contain this page’s calculation. This article does not supply a formula, a chart, or a span.
Tool #8 waits on a licensed copy of an ASME table named in the register, and on pipe properties. This article does not copy that table and does not state the table’s spans.
An archived support-span package is listed as evidence only. The register says not to deploy it. This article does not copy it.
5. Understanding the result
No result layout is recorded for this page in the repository. This draft does not describe a number the page has not recorded.
6. Engineering considerations
Line spacing and support span stay separate. This page does not return a centre-to-centre pipe spacing.
Rack and Process Spans does not read this page’s chart. A beam-theory span from that page is not a result of this page.
The data block on a licensed table remains. A companion does not remove it.
7. Example
No worked result for this page is recorded in the repository. This draft does not add one.
8. Standards/references (licensed vs interim)
No standard is named for this live page in the repository. This draft does not class a source as licensed or interim, and it does not paste a table.
The register says tool #8 waits on a licensed table. That table is not in this article. The interim pattern in the owner decisions log is ASME B36.10-2022 Table 2-1. This draft does not apply that pattern to a span chart.
9. Limitations/disclaimer
- The method, the chart, and a worked result are not in this repository. This article does not invent them.
- The README data block stays. This draft does not clear it.
- This page is not Pipe Span and it is not Rack and Process Spans.
- The archived support-span package is evidence only.
The disclaimer text on the live page is not in the repository. This draft does not write one for it.
10. Use the tool
Calculate now: Support Span Calculator
How this calculation works: companion path TBD.
That return link is not on the tool page. This draft does not add it. The public article path is TBD because this file is not published.
The article stays public if the tool is restricted. A visitor with no entitlement sees a lock message on the tool, not a bare “Access denied”. The copy is in the Companion Article standard. This draft does not place that lock on the page and does not mark the tool free, Pro, or Enterprise.
Related tools
Pipe Span, at /tools-training/pipe-span-calculator/, is the other chart-based directory page. This article does not calculate it.
Rack and Process Spans, at /tools-training/rack-process-spans/, is the beam-theory page. The repository records that it does not read this page’s chart.