ISM Material Mapping

Question

Hello! 
 I am new to ISM, and am experimenting with it as a central repository for Prostructures design and STAAD Engineering data. It seems to work at first attempt, but I am having an issue with materials. It seems that the mapping of materials from Prostructures to STAAD is not configured by default. When I set a material in Prostructures, STAAD seems to have issues with it. 
 Additionally, when I leave material undefined in Prostructures, then set one in STAAD, I get a dialog like below asking me to map the material. 
 
 Where can this list and also the mapping of these items between Prostructures and STAAD be modified? I saw a post referring to an ISMMAPPING text file in the Prostructures installation file under DATA, but no such file exists. Any help is appreciated.. 
 Thanks! 
 Jesse

Seth Guthrie · Accepted Answer

I've been working with pre-release versions of ProStructures SS6 and STAAD.pro SS5 for so long I forgot they were not live yet. That is probably the difference. Those versions should be out fairly soon though. 
 It's also possible that the mapping file does not exist until the first time you map a material through the ProStructures interface.

Seth Guthrie · Answer

I wrote a short wiki about mappings here, it might help you: 
 communities.bentley.com/.../prostructures-ism-section-and-material-mapping.aspx 
 But since ProStructures does not store specific material properties and does not assign them to the ISM repository, some properties will have to be defined or a new material assigned in STAAD.pro typically.

Seth Guthrie · Answer

Yes, we put quite a bit of effort into this workflow (for both applications) in the current development cycle. We also posted some best practices that can help (also requires the upcoming versions though) 
 communities.bentley.com/.../modeling-and-node-generation-best-practices.aspx