sap2000 solid element issue

Hi Jon.

It is my first time with solid element and I wasn't able to import into sap2000 v18.0.1.

There is no error in the solid property import but I didn't see Node and element.

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solid prop issue.gh, 10 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on September 22, 2016 at 6:07pm

Hi Marco,

Thanks for the post. I can fix the element numbering refresh (thanks for pointing that out).

What I can't get to work is the creation of a solid element in SAP. It certainly worked when I implemented it (a few versions ago). I'll try and investigate further but this might take some time.

Sorry it's not better news.

Cheers,

Jon

Permalink Reply by Paul Laroque on February 24, 2022 at 3:25pm

This is quite an old thread but I was facing the same problem raised by Marco.

I found that the issue was the order of the vertices describing the solid. SAP has a weird way to define them and basically ABCD EFGH would become 1243 5687.

In other words CD and GH need to be flipped in the ggSAPCreateSolid input.

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