Relief Valves - Turn off auto-sizing and define a vendor relief valve data
When modeling a relief valve, you can set the "Automatically Size" function to OFF and define the relief valve data as shown below.
When we then model this relief valve, the flow etc is calculated as shown in the results below:
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