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Permalink Reply by Dan on April 26, 2008 at 9:26am

I am trying to convert a SWMM RUNOFF file from 4.4 to 5.0 but it keeps giving me an error on ALL of the H1 cards. Not sure what the problem is. The file runs fine in 4.4h

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• CSO_SSO.txt, 75 KB

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Permalink Reply by Robert E Dickinson on April 26, 2008 at 9:43am

Hi Dan,

If you use the newer converter you get this SWMM5 data set., There seems to be something wrong with the rainfall data - which I will look at for you.

Here is the file I just converted:

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• dan_cso_SW5.INP, 235 KB

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Permalink Reply by Dan on April 26, 2008 at 9:55am

Robert,

Thanks for your help.

I noticed that the rainfall series were numbered from 2 to 19 instead of 1 t o18, not sure if this is a symptom of the problem. Where can I find the newer converter?

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Robert E Dickinson on April 26, 2008 at 10:01am

You will find it on the Forum item:

SWMM 3 and 4 Conversion Tools for SWMM 5

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Permalink Reply by Dan on April 26, 2008 at 10:24am

Robert,

I just downloaded it this morning from the Forum section under this description:

Updated Converters as of February 1st , 2008
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SWMM4to5_Converter.exe, 396 KB
XPtoEPA4_2005.exe, 488 KB

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Permalink Reply by Robert E Dickinson on April 26, 2008 at 10:30am

This is the file or executable I just used - I will look into the rainfall problem for you later;

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• SWMM4to5_Converter.exe, 580 KB

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Permalink Reply by Dan on April 28, 2008 at 8:05am

Robert,

I was able to debug by looking at another SWMM 5 file I had from another project. I have one question. The converter seems to have created a 'Calibration' section of the SWMM 5 input file that is not recognized by SWMM 5 when I try to open it. If I comment out that section it works fine. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Dan

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• elyria_SW5FULL.inp, 1.3 MB

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Permalink Reply by Robert E Dickinson on April 21, 2008 at 6:58pm

Yes that is an Extran file:

SW 1 0 0
MM 3 20 21 22
$EXTRAN

Add the same SW and MM lines and then you should be able to convert the runoff and extran files together.

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Permalink Reply by wes on April 21, 2008 at 7:13pm

I am getting run time error 52, bad file name or number. here are the two files i am using to convert.

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• 100yr24h Pre Extran.dat, 2 KB
• 100yr24h Pre.dat, 2 KB

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Permalink Reply by Robert E Dickinson on April 21, 2008 at 7:28pm

You cannot use a space in a directory name. I was able to convert it by putting the two files on the C drive and running the translation program:

Here is the SWMM 5 input file that was created.

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• 100yr24hPreExtran_SW5.INP, 5 KB

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Permalink Reply by wes on April 21, 2008 at 7:30pm

Thanks again, I knew it would be something silly like that. You saved me lots of time here.

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Permalink Reply by wes on April 21, 2008 at 8:14pm

I am trying to repeat your bit of magic here and can't. I took the spaces out of the filename and put the files on the C drive and I get the same error.

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