DSTV Assistant for SOLIDWORKS - The intelligent DSTV Exporter | Klietsch GmbH


Automation in steel trading companies

The daily tasks in steel trading companies have changed significantly in recent years, customers are becoming more demanding and processing times are becoming shorter and shorter. A few years ago, for example, profiles were simply cut off and shipped, today customers often expect complete processing of the parts, including mitres, bores, notches, countersinks and much more.

In many cases, however, the customer is not able to deliver the DSTV NC data that the processing machines could read in directly. Instead, the steel trading company receives countless file formats from the end customers' different CAD programs and has to manufacture the individual parts as quickly as possible. With the help of the DSTV Assistant for SOLIDWORKS you are able to generate the DSTV NC data directly from a CAD volume models of your end customer with just a few clicks. You avoid laborious reconstruction of the parts or even the manual creation of the DSTV NC data. This saves time, avoids errors and saves expensive material.



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DSTV NC data in a few minutes

The DSTV Assistant automatically checks all parts in the assembly to determine whether they are a steel profile or a sheet metal part. Of cause in this process the same parts are combined directly and the required amount is written in the header of the NC file. After all parts have been recognized, all that remains is to assign a storage location and an order number and the DSTV NC files are exported within a few seconds. The names of the files are created according to your specifications and you can forward the data directly to production.

Different CAD files

Handling different CAD files from different programs is no problem for the standard CAD program SOLIDWORKS. Whether native CAD files from Siemens NX, PTC Creo, Inventor, SolidEdge, Parasolid and many others or whether it is neutral CAD files such as STEP, IFC, IGES or SAT. Basically you can say: If SOLIDWORKS can open the CAD files, the DSTV Assistant can create the DSTV NC files.

closed process chain

By using standardized products such as the SOLIDWORKS CAD, the DSTV Assistant or the SOLIDWORKS PDM, it is possible to close the entire process chain in your company.

For example: If the sales department receives an order from the end customer, they can store the order including the end customer's CAD files in the (existing) ERP system. Thanks to an intelligent link between the existing ERP system and the SOLIDWORKS PDM (PDM = product data management), the CAD files can be saved directly including the automatic assignment of the order number into the PDM system with the status "to be processed". If the DSTV NC files were generated with the help of the DSTV Assistant, they are also saved in the PDM system with the given status "released". This means that the work preparation department knows that the profiles and sheets can be processed and that all files are correct. Once the processing of the parts has been completed, the data in the PDM system is given the status “completed” and the ERP system receives the information via the intelligent link that the order has been completed and the invoice can be send to the end customer.

The example roughly shows the options for integrating the DSTV Assistant into your company. Of course, other or completely different automatisms can also be generated, such as the automatic creation of offers or a direct interface to your website or online shop. Just talk to us and we will jointly develop the best solution for your company.



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