Importing a .s2k/.str file format

[rhernandez]

I am trying to export from Etabs 9.5 to Robot 2012 as a complete model.  So I exported from Etabs in a .s2k format as a common format in order to import it in Robot 2012.  Robot converts the file in .str and making the final import process shows an error massage Error:Syntax incorrect - line ignored.  Those errors appear several times, but everything looks ok on file.

Attached files and .png whith the problem.

Rafael Hernandez

[Artur.Kosakowski]

The errors are linked to the materials defined in Etabs that are not defined in Robot. In such case you should either define them in Robot before reading the s2k file or create them modifying the generated str file:

instead of  modifying the existing material             

„ExistingMaterialNameWithDigits”
               E = ….. Ro = ….

you should create it

               E = ….. RO = …. NI = ….. LX = …..  NAMe „MaterialNameWithDigits”

It is also necessary to provide list of elements to which a declared material is assigned (if there is no such elements then delete the definition of the material from the str file)

               „MaterialInfo”
               „Non-empty element list”

Mind that when you modify the existing material (the material 'name' that is already declared in Robot) you can change one of its properties

E, or RO, or NI, or LX.

but creating it you have to define all of them

E, and RO, and NI, and LX.

I'm attaching the corrected str file with comments ($$$ ERROR).

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