
This depends on what version you are running, in Excel 2007 go to the Windows button > Excel options> Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Add-ins and turn off the "Disable all Application Add-ins option. You need to set the MicroSoft Excel security settings to allow add-ins to run. The StructuralShapesTemplate.xls is located in the same data folder as the. xml structural shape files into Excel with the provided StructuralShapesTemplate.xls file.

If it finds it, the first value (before the comma) is used as the section name as it is defined in the current steel section file.įor example, when importing a file into Bentley Structural using us.stf or us.xml list all the section names in the file to be imported preceded by the comparable Bentley Structural steel section name. The Import command searches the file for the section name from the file to import after the comma on each line. txt extension, that is used to map steel sections from a section type that is not in the currently loaded Bentley Structural steel section file(s) to one that is included in the available steel section file. The Section Mapping file is a text file, having any name with. Section mapping file for analysis import/export Solution 500000013696 You may also want to find out whether Tekla can export CIS/2 as an alternative, just in case.

I found the information below in our KnowledgeBase so hopefully it will help - I haven't done much with the SDNF format in years. Rik, the mapping file is a standard ASCII text file.
