topic Re: SAF compatibility in Collaboration with other software

SAF compatibility

Ahmed_K — Sun, 29 May 2022 12:29:54 GMT

Hello,

In my country, structure engineers uses autocad / revit for strucural drawing, and autodesk robot for analysis,

An engeneer asked me if there is a connection between Archicad and robot, so i can transfer the saf format to him for analysis

Thanks

Re: SAF compatibility

ispyridis — Sun, 29 May 2022 15:15:39 GMT

Re: SAF compatibility

Ahmed_K — Sun, 29 May 2022 13:48:11 GMT

Interesting, and how is it ?

Do you faced some incompatibility of some shapes, transfer problems ?

Do you have any advice for modelling in Archicad to have a good SAF file for robot ?

Thaanks

Re: SAF compatibility

runxel — Sun, 29 May 2022 20:30:02 GMT

That's SAT with a "T", not SAF, with an "F" 😉

@Ahmed_KLook at the official website.

Robot has no native support for SAF. There is a converter, but even then Robot can only import as per today, not export.

So, no roundtrips for you...

Re: SAF compatibility

ispyridis — Sun, 29 May 2022 15:00:38 GMT

runxel is correct I tried to edit the posts and delete these images. I found two links. about the .str file that is text file so someone could export from excel to this type of file using a macro. Read the following article from Tekla,

Export a model to Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis | Tekla User Assistance

and the syntax of the file but in older version

R97 Mod 01 | PDF (scribd.com)

Re: SAF compatibility

ispyridis — Sun, 29 May 2022 15:10:07 GMT

Also the SAF site that @runxel cited has converter for Dlubal and Robot.

SAF converter (structuraltoolkit.com)