If you don't have compatibility problems but wanna share your models with your clients or any stakeholder, Bentley Systems made available a new PLAXIS 2D / 3D standalone viewer, read more about it here. There is a Plaxis3DOutput 2012.02.exe program, still available in this Bentley's article.Īfter you have downloaded the Output program, you should copy it to your PLAXIS installation folder. In case you don't remember, the above folder is created when installing the PLAXIS 2D AE version.
You must use the PlaxOut.exe program, you'll find it inside the following folder: C: Program Files (x86)/Plaxis/PLAXIS 2D Classic The most likely scenario: You already uninstalled your old Plaxis version, and perhaps deleted its folder, so what to do next?. The ideal scenario: You look for the PLAXIS Output program inside your Plaxis installation folder (in case you didn't uninstall your old Plaxis version yet), you could use that program to view your results without modifying your previous results.
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The second one: Recommends you to read an article written by Micha van der Sloot, on how to deal with this problem.Īt first, I thought that the standalone viewer could open any PLAXIS version, but that wasn't the case, so after a bit of research I decided to write this article, I promise you this will save you a headache in the future.The first one: Says your project was created using an older version.The above story is real, I've got that error message, which popped up when I tried to open and old project using the new PLAXIS 2D / 3D standalone viewer program, and it has two key messages: