The Advance Steel API requires profile names to be formatted a certain way.
When creating elements or changing the profile assigned to an element, you may want to assign a specific section profile, rather than a default profile. To generate a string with the correct format, follow these steps.
To access the correct profile class name and section size, you will need to browse the Advance Steel profiles database. There are two ways to do this:
After opening the profiles database, open the "ProfileMasterTable" table which describes all the available profiles types and the tables in which all the sizes for each profile can be found.
The profile name to use when creating a new element or assigning the profile name for an existing element will be the a concatenation of the profile class name (from 1), a fixed string separator "#@§@#", and the section size (from 4). For example "AISC 14.1 W Shape#@§@#W10x12".