Hi,
I haven’t used the ETABS v2 connector for a little while, but when I try and open it, I am getting this error code:
I have tried a fresh install of the connector but still no luck.
Any help appreciated!
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Hey @Tom.Sargent,
What version of ETABS are you using?
I was trying ETABS 22. I do have other versions installed
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Right. v2 ETABS connector supports up to and including ETABS v21. So if you have other versions installed give those a go.
The Next-Gen Connector supports v22 
Ah, great - thanks @bjoern! I thought it may be something as trivial as that 
Noted on next-gen supporting ETABS 22 - I think i’ll stick to the legacy connectors for now as I want to explore the usage of exporting results from the ETABS model (unless next-gen now supports this?)
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Not yet, but @dogukan and I are actually looking at this as we speak (sneak-peak below) 
So this would be the perfect time to hear from you what workflows / results you are most interested in? Pier & Spandrel forces? Base reactions? Column forces? Interstorey drift? (please don’t say all joint displacements 
)
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Ah, this is great to see! I thought it wouldn’t be too long before this legacy feature was brought into the next-gen workflows.
I think for us, the list you have given is probably what comes to mind of data that we traditionally would want to extract from ETABS to use in design spreadsheets (and hopefully eventually automate functions).
One thing is that on some projects we do end up having a large number of combinations and envelopes. I do wonder how easy this will be to view in the Speckle viewer as it will feel like an endless list of data - could there be scope to potentially ‘group’ results?
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Gotcha, so we’ll keep the focus on the general element force extraction as I mentioned in the previous message.
The emphasis wouldn’t be on viewing results at all purely because of the complexity of result envelopes, which combinations etc. etc. It’s not as simple as a “color gradient according the member length” for example. But this shouldn’t be a blocker, things like PowerBI would be able to display this data in a very powerful way and as you mentioned, Automate could do the custom sorting, filtering according to your needs.
Step 1 - is to get that data out and available which is where we’re at. Will keep you posted!
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