Costing module

Newly available in version 2.1 is the costing module, which - as the name suggests - is used to calculate cost estimates of the finished machined parts.

In the configurator of the costing module, you can define all parameters that have an influence on the costs. These are, besides different types of machining, also limiting, cost and time factors, the machines and tools used.

Machines

Drilling, sawing, milling, laser or plasma cutting - the machine park can sometimes be large and the use of different machines causes different costs. In the configuration of the costing module you can create as many machines as you like and thus on the one hand keep the overview and on the other hand you get precise cost calculations, because they calculate with the real parameters of your machines.

Tools

The appropriate tools can be assigned to each machine. When defining the tools, limits such as the smallest and the largest hole diameter with this tool are specified in addition to the cost factors. The specification of the limits ensures that the system works even in case of inaccuracies in the templates (e.g. hole with diameter 16.005 mm instead of 16.000 mm). In this way, the costing module achieves a high degree of automation in the cost calculation, because the appropriate tools can thus be automatically assigned to the machining operations.

Time saving

Cost estimates and quotations are part of everyday work, but unfortunately they are also real time-consumers. The costing module completely takes over the calculation of the operations to be carried out - in a matter of seconds. Due to fluctuating daily prices for raw material, transport and other items, there are still enough additional entries that have to be included in the quotation by other means. However, counting and adding up "X holes of diameter Y and Z notches of type A" etc. are completely eliminated and become a thing of the past.

Visual appearance

The icons of the menu bar in the DSTV Assistant have been revised and now fit much more comfortably into the rest of the SOLIDWORKS look and now also support the Dark Mode.

Formatting of NC data

Countersink depth for oblong holes

Export options

User defined profile cross sections

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