SAP2000 Coupling Tool

RE: SAP2000 Coupling Tool

Abdirahman Yasin — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:07:21 GMT

Actually it is not a shame. PLAXIS will work on it in the near future. They are a hardworking and problem solving group, at least my experience with them has been fruitful.

RE: SAP2000 Coupling Tool

Brian Boye — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:02:22 GMT

No. Not really. They don't have a solution that is compatible with SAP2000. great shame

RE: SAP2000 Coupling Tool

Abdirahman Yasin — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 01:47:58 GMT

Were you assisted, I would like to know, as I want to do a soil structure analysis using the combination and loads from SAP2000 transfer it to PLAXIS 3D.

RE: SAP2000 Coupling Tool

Brian Boye — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:15:06 GMT

I have raised Service Request number 7001011884.

RE: SAP2000 Coupling Tool

Micha van der Sloot — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:04:54 GMT

Dear Brian

Can you submit a Service Request here to see if we can help you out for your case:
https://apps.bentley.com/srmanager/ProductSupport

Thanks!

Micha

RE: SAP2000 Coupling Tool

Brian Boye — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:02:32 GMT

It is a bit late in the project to change structural modeling software and re-do all our models. So Staad.Pro is not a practical option. And client has already accepted SAP2000, too late to put a different software forward.

We using SAP2000 version 19 and version 21.

Regards,

Brian.

RE: SAP2000 Coupling Tool

Micha van der Sloot — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 12:57:09 GMT

Hi Brian,

We still have a structural coupling tool available: we offer the structural coupling tool with Staad.Pro:
https://communities.bentley.com/products/geotechnical1/w/wiki/46134/using-the-plaxis-coupling-tool

In the past, we indeed released the older coupling tool (as a free, courtesy) external add-on to PLAXIS 3D 2016. Now we were not able to keep an open coupling with SAP2000 compatible with recent versions, and so we could not guarantee a smooth and robust operation. Because of this, we had to make a decision not to release the structural coupling tool with a connection with SAP 2000.

Could you also use Staad.Pro to enable the coupling of the geotechnical and structural model? If this is not possible, could you tell us what version of SAP2000 you are using?

Thanks

Micha