Solidworks and STAD

Seeing if anyone knows of a program called STAD and if there is a
compatible file format I can save a model in SW to be exported into
said STAD. I'm limited to have only had experience with AutoCad and SW
and have only exported models as IGES and STEP; I believe those where
to be opened using ProE. I haven't even heard of STAD so any insight
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Shaggy,

We use both SW and STAD here. We have never had any luck going either
way. Although I haven't spent a whole lot of time messing with it,
yet.

Zuccus

 

What the heck is STAD? Which software vendor? From which period? and so
on..........

 

STAAD? http://www.reiworld.com/Product/Products.asp

 

Kind of looks like it can take DXF files ...

 

STAAD.... Thanks for the website that helps a bunch. It does look like
it takes DXF files so we'll start there.

 

There really isn't a way. STAAD is a structural shape FEA packages
that does it's analysis based upon beam theory and really isn't a
general purpose FEA package with traditional elements.

In the past I've build 3D frames in AutoCAD and used them in STAAD to
determine sizes and such and then manually transcribed the geometry
into SolidWorks.
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Chris

 

But would it be possible to take a design from SW, export it as a DXF,
and open it in STAAD and perform a FEA? Not worried about getting it
back to SW as you said any changes would be manually done to original
model in SW.

Is that possible?

 

Did you check their Site for an Email support address & ask?