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GSA allows you to open/import CAD drawings stored in DWG or DXF formats.

Normally GSA is used to build and analyse models, but on occasions it is useful to bring results into GSA which may have been generated in some other program. This can be done with the Import > Results command, which uses a GWA format and requires some keywords to create a dummy analysis tasks and cases.

This dialog is accessed from the File > Import > Text (GWA file) menu command or from the Data explorer: Paste special command and specifies the options to be applied to the GWA import. Data is imported either from file or from the clipboard in text format, GWA syntax into the existing model. For details of the GWA syntax see GSA text (ASCII) file. Options that would invalidate existing analysis results are disabled.

PDisp data (PDD) files from Windows PDisp 17.7.2 or earlier version can be imported into GSA. The analysis results in PDisp data will be ignored in the importation since they are meaningless when imported into GSA.

Three different file extensions can be used: