Spring and End Support.zip
Good afternoon Bentley experts,
I have been reading this forum via google searches as I learn to use STAAD but ran into an error that no matter how much I google, I cannot figure it out. Attached is the .zip file with my model.
My model is a 2-D, Plane model, of a tapered beam with three pinned supports and some springs attached to it. I never made any user tables at all, though I did click on the user table button once and gave up trying to use that function
When I try to analyze my girder I get the frustrating error message of "**ERROR READING THE ABOVE USER TABLE # 1, section-name:, CHECK THE NUMBER OR VALUES OF PARAMETERS ENTERED." I have no idea what it is referring to as I never made or used a "user table #1".
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What I have tried:
1. Deleting any reference to user tables in the input file. This only made things worse and generated more errors.
2. Tried finding and editing the "upt1" file but there is no such file in my list of STAAD files.
3. Made sure user table is called out before anything else. I think it already is, but still, the error persists.
So, bottom line, I am completely stuck.
This is not the first time STAAD has given me frustrating errors. It happens with any structural analysis program, but the most frustrating thing with STAAD is that it does not seem to thoroughly check and edit the input file prior to analysis...if at all. It's almost as if it is writing stuff into the input file, but not deleting or editing it prior to analysis. The GUI is just a façade for inputting items into this command prompt looking file, and then if something goes wrong, your GUI could be perfectly correct, but some bug was written into the input file. Anyway, just complaining, but slowly figuring out what STAAD can and cannot do.
Thank you for your time.