Problem Description

Older custom steel section databases created by users do not show up within the Section Database for the STAAD.Pro Connect Edition.

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Copy the older section database file (let’s say “aiscsections_ml_SLS.db3”) into the Sections folder of the installation [C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition\Sections]
2. Go to Specification > Section Database and the new database does not show up

Workaround

1. Go to the user profile folder “C:\Users\<user profile name>\AppData\Local\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition\Default\Sections”
2. Open the “Custom.ini” using Notepad or Worpad
3. Search for ‘[CustomDBFlags]’
4. Under the above section, Set ‘1’ against ‘AISCSections’
5. Next, search for ‘[CustomDBNames]’
6. Under this section, Set ‘aiscsections_ml_SLS’ against ‘AISCSections’
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8. Now, copy the ‘aiscsections_ml_SLS.db3’ database to ‘C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition\Sections’
9. There are a couple of more copies of the “Custom.ini” file within the following folders.
10. C:\Program Files\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition\STAAD\Sections
11. C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition\Sections
12. In case you do not see the same entries updated in those files, please go ahead and manually change the data as suggested in steps 3 to 6 in these files too.
13. StaadPro should now pick up sections from the above user database.

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Solution

The problem will be addressed in the STAAD.Pro Connect Edition Update 3 .