STAAD user table (UPT) error?

[justhumm]

Can anyone explain why I am getting these errors when trying to define member properties using an external user table (*.UPT)? And how to resolve it?

**ERROR- CHECK NUMBER OF PARAMETERS ENTERED OR SYNTAX IN UTABLE.

**ERROR- IN READING MEMBER PROPERTIES. CHECK DATA FORMAT CAREFULLY.

I am using STAAD.Pro CONNECT edition. And the UPT file was created "automatically" using the Section Wizard (File --> export...) and is saved in the same location as the STD file. The following are the only references to the user table in the input file (*.STD):

...
START USER TABLE
TABLE 1 Sections-Orford.upt
...
MEMBER PROPERTY
1 UPT 1 CompExt
2 UPT 1 CompInt
...​

Contents of UPT file is as follows:

UNIT INCHES
PRISMATIC
W33x130
38.2905 6710.0 218.0 7.370 0.0 0.0 33.08660 11.50790
CompInt
133.0160 59123.60 21902.90 4.80502e+43 0.0 0.0 44.08660 87.99610
CompExt
118.5040 37615.70 20021.80 4.80502e+43 0.0 0.0 44.08660 73.99610​

STD & UPT files are attached (staad.zip).

 

[justhumm]

I'm not considering this to be a solution, but defining the table internally within the STD file worked. <<eyeroll>>

 

[dozer]

You've got massively large IX values for those members. This is blowing STAAD's mind. I took out "e+43" from the two properties and it ran.

 

[dozer]

justhumm, did fixing IX work?