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There are old TriForma Structural Models. When opening the model, a dialog box (Structural element upgrade utility) for conversion of structural objects appears, but it does not convert the TriForma structural shapes to ProStructures Shapes. Note: Upgrade wizard utility is available in Openbuildings Designer Update 7 onwards. How to convert TriForma Structural models properly to the new structural objects?
Solution
With manually attaching DataGroup instance data to the existing TriForma members using any legacy-based catalog item, the ProStructure upgrade process scans them. Hence, the TriForma Elements can be converted easily to ProStructure Elements. 1. Open TriForma model and ignore the dialog box of (Structural Element Upgrade Utility) as it won’t upgrade the model as legacy TriForma Structral elements does not have Datagroup data.
2. In Building design workflow go to “Data/ Reporting” > Add data tool > Add instance data as per the TriForma model. eg. If its beam, select any beam catalog item > Identify the element. (To change large number of elements, one can use Select by Attribute tool) 3. Now, if you go to Building Element Info, you can see the “DataGroup Data” option attached to TriForma element. 4. Go to Files > Utilities > Data Utilities > Upgrade Structural Elements, Follow the upgrade wizard step by step and conversion will be done to the ProStructures elements.
5. Check the Building info of the element, it has converted to Prostructures element.
Here is a short video that explains the workflow:
Also see: ProStructures "Configuration Audit Alert" message after opening Update 7 for the first time
Configuration Changes to Support ProStructures Interoperability
New and modified files in OpenBuildings Designer Update 7 datasets