Csi (Etabs, Safe, Sap) Softwares Analysis Files Extensions

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CSI (ETABS, SAFE, SAP) SOFTWARES ANALYSIS FILES EXTENSIONS

CSI (ETABS, SAFE, SAP) SOFTWARES ANALYSIS FILES EXTENSIONS

After running the structural models they create numerous analysis files with very strange file extensions. Here I am talking about CSI softwares; ETABS, SAFE and SAP. These analysis files contain information about matrices and analysis results.

More information about the file extensions can be found on CSI official webpage:

https://wiki.csiberk...analysis models

or

https://wiki.csiberk... settings files

When sending the model files to someone you dont need all those temporary analysis files rather just 2 files; one model file and another its text file.

Why we need to delete the files? Well, one thing is there are lot of files which we dont recognize, and the major issue is they take too much of space. A single model may be upto 10MB or less or more, but after analysis, the folder size reaches sometimes upto 1GB, using hard disk resources. So its not wise to just leave them as is because once you have model file you can get the results on any machine after running it.

For example for a simple model!

An increase of about 62 times!

Deleting the Files

1) From program

To delete the analysis files of the model, there are many ways and techniques:-

Open the model, goto File>Delete analysis files>

There are 2 options; one for deleting analysis files of that model only and another to delete files of all the models in that specific directory. Here it can't delete the files of models in sub directories. Just imagine if you have a large project containing many buildings having at least 2 models, all in separate directories, so would have to open all of them one by one and delete files this way.

2) Manually Deleting the Files

Another method is to search and delete the files yourself. Unfortunately, I could not find on internet a complete list of all the extensions of analysis files. So I just created sample files for each of the program and then converted by some means those extensions into a text file. I will for your convenience put all those extensions here.

So just goto windows search explorer and just copy paste the extensions text string the file name box of search window and delete all the files in one go.

If I have missed some extensions of mixed it with other programs, please correct me.

3) The best method

While writing this article, I came across a very interesting method to do all that crap. There is file called Eat.bat in ETABS and SAP program files.

When I opened these files in MS DOS, I found out that this DOS files deletes all the analysis files in that directory and you can get the list of all the extensions of the files if you try to edit it. Well that would be the official extension list of analysis files from CSI. The extensions I published below were extracted by me so they miss some extensions. I will later update those.

This Eat.bat is found in ETABS and SAP folders but not in SAFE. I dont know why CSI people havent included this in SAFE.

So I came up with an idea to modify the program so that it can do following:-

1) Delete all the analysis files, not just in that specific directory rather in all sub directories too and for all programs like ETABS, SAFE and SAP. I will just add all the extensions and a switch for deleting files inside other directories:-

ERASE /S /Q *

This program can be downloaded from here.

Soon it will also be available in standard EXE format. Keep looking http://www.sepakistan.com/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/tongue.png

Extensions of CSI softwares:-

1) SAP

*.MSH, *.MSH, *.K , *.K_?, *.K~?, *.Y??, *.$$?, *.C1, *.D1, *.F1, *.K1, *.M1, *.C3, *.D3, *.F3, *.K3, *.M3, *.T3, *.C4, *.D4, *.F4, *.K4, *.M4, *.T4, *.C5, *.D5, *.F5, *.K5, *.M5, *.T5, *.C6, *.D6, *.F6, *.K6, *.M6, *.T6, *.C8, *.D8, *.F8, *.K8, *.M8, *.T8, *.C9, *.D9, *.F9, *.K9, *.M9, *.C11, *.D11, *.F11, *.K11, *.M11

2) ETABS

*.$$?, *.$$?, *.BRG, *.BXL, *.BXP, *.BXR, *.CSE, *.CSG, *.CSP, *.CSJ, *.F1 , *.F3 , *.F4 , *.F5 , *.F6 , *.F8 , *.F9 , *.F11, *.FUN, *.ID , *.IDS, *.JCJ, *.JCP, *.JCT, *.JOB, *.K , *.K_?, *.K1 , *.K3 , *.K4 , *.K5 , *.K6 , *.K8 , *.K9 , *.K11, *.KSB, *.L3 , *.LBK, *.LBL, *.LBM, *.LBN, *.LIN, *.M1 , *.M3 , *.M4 , *.M5 , *.M6 , *.M8 , *.M9 , *.M11, *.MAS, *.MSH, *.MTL, *.NPR, *.P1M, *.P1S, *.P3 , *.P4 , *.P5 , *.P6 , *.P61, *.P8 , *.P9 , *.PAT, *.PDE, *.PDU, *.PPD, *.R , *.RSI, *.RU , *.SCP, *.SEC, *.SEV, *.SHS, *.SPC, *.T3 , *.T4 , *.T5 , *.T6 , *.T8 , *.XMJ, *.XYZ, *.Y??

3) SAFE

*.$sf, *.$sf, *.C4, *.C9, *.D9, *.F9, *.fbk, *.ico, *.K~0, *.K~I, *.K~J, *.K~L, *.K~M, *.K9, *.M9, *.xsdm, *.Y, *.Y$$, *.Y~, *.Y~1, *.Y00, *.Y01, *.Y02, *.Y03

If you are using all of these programs, you will most probably like to search one time all of these extensions. So here I have merged them

*.MSH, *.MSH, *.K , *.K_?, *.K~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sf, $sf, C4, C9, D9, F9, fbk, ico, K~0, K~I, K~J, K~L, K~M, K9, M9, xsdm, Y, Y$$, Y~, Y~1, Y00, Y01, Y02, Y03

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[Waqar Saleem]

it is nice information.

[midooatef]

thanks, proffesional information

[EngrJunaid]

AOA !

 

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