STAAD V8i - SS6 - Missing plate element section property and material setting on large model

Hi,

I have asked this 5-6 years ago on this platform to no avail.I even opened a thicket and was told that the developers are looking at the issue, but now its been ages and i'm still experiencing the same issues on large models? 

Please see attached .std file, its a typical model with only one type of plate element and column type. If you open the model you will see many plates with missing property, but these were all previously assigned on the graphic editor. Even if you select plate with missing property and assign all , save the file and reopen it you will still have many plates with missing property?  

The above obviously don't happen on smaller models, but for larger model version SS6 is really unstable or unusable.

.std file 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By6OZXncXf9KQ0QxZF8xd2tQMXc

  • Just adding a little more clarification on this issue.  In moving to the CONNECT Edition and a the 64-bit platform which is used for the analysis engine, the compiler used was updated which addressed the underlying issue.  The workaround for this limitation in Microsoft compiler that is used in the V8i builds is to number entities such that there are minimum gaps in the lists being assigned.  Hence rather than having the list of 6 entities as 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, but 1,2,3,4,5,6 so that the program can create an arrogated list 1 TO 6 , means that this issue can be avoided.  The Renumber tools can be a useful method for achieving that.