Sending Frilo plate file to email recipient

Module(s): Frilo Plate

You can use the Send Frilo Plate File to Email Recipient tool to save architectural components to an ASCII file, which you send by email. You can then import the geometric data of this file to the FE program for plates provided by FRILO Software GmbH, where you can use the data as the basis for calculations.

To save architectural components to an ASCII file, which you send by email

• Start the email program installed on your computer.

1. Click Send Frilo Plate File to Email Recipient (How).
   

   Activate Send Frilo Plate File to Email Recipient in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Frilo Structural Analyses Frilo Plate

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Frilo Plate

2. Select the architectural components you want to transfer.
   

   • To select a single element, click it.
   • To select elements in a region, use the left mouse button to open a selection rectangle around the elements you want to select
   • To include all the elements in the current document, click All in the Input options or press CTRL+A. Please note that this option is not available for all tools.

   For more information on the options available for selecting elements in Allplan, see Selecting elements, overview.

   When selecting elements, you can use the Filter Assistant to apply a filter based on element types and/or properties. For more information, see Filter Assistant.

3. Specify the path and file name.

   Note: Allplan saves the geometric data only when you have selected an architectural slab. Please bear in mind that you cannot transfer several slabs that do not intersect.

4. The email program opens automatically, attaching the ASCII file to the email. Enter a recipient and continue as usual.
   Windows MAPI messages
   
   

   Windows MAPI Messages

   The email program installed is opened via the Windows MAPI function. Depending on the program installed, MAPI error numbers might be displayed when a transfer error occurs.

   These numbers mean the following:

   1 Process terminated by user
   2 Undefined error
   3 Log on failed
   4 Hard disk full
   5 Not enough memory
   6 Access denied
   7 General error
   8 Too many sessions
   9 Too many files
   10 Too many recipients
   11 File attachment not found
   12 Error occurred when opening the file attachment
   13 Error occurred when writing the file attachment
   14 Unknown recipient
   15 Invalid recipient type
   16 No message
   17 Invalid message
   18 Text too long
   19 Invalid session
   20 Type not supported
   21 Ambivalent recipient
   22 Message being used
   23 Network error
   24 Invalid data entry box
   25 Invalid recipients

To use the file attachment for further calculations

1. Save the ASCII file attached to the email in any folder.
2. Start the FE program for plates provided by FRILO Software GmbH and import the geometric data using File - Import - ASCII.

   The program creates the system and the supports based on the architectural components.

3. Complete the entries in the FE program and calculate the data there.
4. Before you quit the FE program, export the results so that you can import them into Allplan using the Import FEA Files tool.

   If you want, you can email the asf-format file, too.