Steel Standards Mapping Files

There are two situations for choosing whether a particular steel profile is permitted or not. The situations are Default or MulTiple.

The default steel standard is that listed as the first entry in the Steel Standard mapping file. This is the preferred standard.

If the profiles come from the other listed standards, they are deemed to be acceptable. In this case, a warning message will be output to the log file. Profiles taken from standards which are not in the list are flagged as errors.

The Steel Standards mapping files may be project or company specific. The identification convention used in the first line of the file, by which we identify the file, is similar to that mentioned above for other internal mapping files. It is the second entry on the first line which is critical. In this case, it is composed of two parts. The first part is either the three-letter name of the project, for example: TST, or it is the word ANY signifying that the file is company specific; that is for ANY project. The second part, STD, is compulsory.

The lines are * separated pairs (with no spaces), only the first value of which is used internally. The second value can be for information, as these files will be listed as comments in the exported file. The first value of each entry must be the country code for the profile standards, as recorded in the external Profile mapping files and as suggested in the section discussing the format of the Profile mapping files.

The sequence of search is for a project-specific mapping file, and then a company-specific file.

A project-specific mapping file for the TST project might look like:

TSTSTD*TSTSTD

EUR*Euronorm

BRI*British

AME*American

A company-specific file for ANY project might look like:

ANYSTD*ANYSTD

EUR*Euronorm

BRI*British

AME*American

GER*German

CAN*Canadian

JAP*Japanese