Enterprise is compatible with machines from Lincoln Electric (Vernon Tool), HGG, Machitech. pre-2020 Watts machines, and most recently Lone Star Cutting Solutions. If you’re purchasing a brand new Lincoln/Vernon, it will come standard with Enterprise. Enterprise is an added-cost option for other brands of machines.

If you’re interested in upgrading an existing machine with Enterprise, it’s relatively simple to tell if it’s compatible with Enterprise. Most any machine from Machitech or Lone Star is compatible. Enterprise is also compatible with both the current generation Lincoln/Vernon VMD machines (serial numbers 7000+) as well as the prior generation VP machines (serial numbers 6211-6999).

If you’re interested in upgrading a pre-2020 Watts machine with Enterprise, please contact PypeServer. Between our software and the mechanical and electronic upgrades available from our partners, we can bring your older Watts machine up to better-than-new performance for a fraction of the cost of a new machine.

If you have an unsupported machine and are interested in using it with PypeServer, let us know!

Yes. You can use multiple CAD or BIM tools and configure Enterprise and Lyte to accept data from all of them. PypeServer products are designed to easily adapt as you upgrade or change your design software over time (e.g. adding BIM software, changing Revit plug-ins, etc.) and scale up as your shop grows and adds new machines.

In addition to running the machine, factory software typically lets you program a part or two and import a few CAD file formats. However, even if you’re using one of those file types it can be cumbersome, error-prone, and time-consuming to get your parts and spools into the machine, nest them, cut them accurately, label them, and track their status.

PypeServer’s solutions are designed to solve all these problems. Both Enterprise for pipe profilers and Lyte for straight cutting come with our free Connect plugins and free Cloud service that make it easy to select parts in your CAD and BIM models, send them to your machines for immediate fabrication, and track cutting progress in real time. We also fully integrate with Revit, GTP STRATUS, MSUITE FabPro, eVolve Mechanical, Trimble SysQue and Connect2Fab, BuildCentrix, Victaulic Tools for Revit, SDS2, Tekla, Codeware COMPRESS, AutoCAD, CADWorx, SolidWorks, SpoolCAD, Acorn/Spoolfab, and others. Our connections to STRATUS, MSUITE, Connect2Fab, and BuildCentrix are API-based and fully bidirectional. Of course, we also support the broadest range of flat file imports in the industry, including PCF/Isogen, PCD, PSVR, CSV, DSTV, STEP, and others.

In addition, both Lyte and Enterprise are intelligent. Enterprise will automatically create properly sized holes for o-lets as well as saddles and holes where pipes intersect, even accounting for non-90 mate angles, centerline offsets, and other challenging situations. When nesting, Enterprise automatically rotates saddles and miters to fit into each other and can nest pipe right up to the chuck or ground clamp to save lots of material with every stick of pipe. Both Enterprise and Lyte can use all your odd-length drops and Lyte can bundle stock so you can cut and label up to 10 hanger components or other thin items in a single operation.

Finally, both Enterprise and Lyte feature flexible and easy to use label printing for parts, drops, and joints. Create new label templates in minutes using our WYSIWYG drag-and-drop label editor, including text, QR codes, and images. Label data can include any of your CAD or BIM model parameters in addition to information generated in PypeServer’s own software.

Enterprise runs on a small, dedicated server computer that’s typically placed near your pipe profiling machine for use by your machine operator. Both the Enterprise computer and your pipe profiling machine are networked together. After selecting which parts are to be cut and nesting them, Enterprise will write a control file to the machine computer. The file is selected for processing, the torch is positioned, and the parts are then cut in a single operation.

By joining Enterprise to your company network, any authorized user in your design office or elsewhere on your network can run Enterprise remotely without having to go down to the shop floor. This is convenient if you want your designers to be responsible for pulling spools into Enterprise and/or nesting the parts before cutting.

No. For maximum reliability Enterprise runs locally on its own computer and doesn’t require internet connectivity, not even for its extensive built-in help catalog of videos and documents.

We do recommend that you connect Enterprise to the internet, if available, for troubleshooting, software updates, license renewals, and Cloud access.

It takes about 30 minutes to physically assemble the Enterprise stand-up desk and computer. Once that’s done, the computer is connected to your network and given access to the pipe profiler’s shared network folder. These tasks don’t impose any downtime on the machine and even after everything is set up, the pipe profiler’s factory software will continue to function as a backup.

Because Enterprise runs with its own dedicated computer and communicates with your pipe profiler over the network, it’s simple and relatively inexpensive to transfer an existing Enterprise installation to a different machine.