DSTV-Product Interface Data Import

OpenBridge Modeler is able to evaluate the CAD-system data for standard shapes and plates, i.e. the position of the parts in the space without detailing processes and connection elements. Plates, the contours which are transferred as polygons if displayed correctly. If the shape was, however, created by cuts or similar things, this information would be lost and only the mostly rectangular basic solid would be displayed.

Accessed from:

Backstage: File > Import > ProStructures File Types > Import > Interface: DSTV Product Interface

In addition, the static system for standard shapes can be read, i.e. the position of the parts in the space including eccentricities.

After file selection, it is verified whether this is a valid file of this interface. Then the header area is read and displayed in the appearing interface dialog. The import can still be interrupted here, if you recognize that the wrong file was selected.

Click on the OK button of the dialog to continue the import. The data record is analyzed and the function recognizes itself whether it is a matter of CAD or static data or whether both data types are together in a common file.

Before the actual model generation will take place, you once again have the possibility to make individual import settings. You start model generation by once again clicking the OK button. You could e.g. select which data type has to be preferred at a common file or whether a working area has to be created, etc.

Setting	Description
Data Type
Input Fields	Here, you enter the variable header area data or the part code (authorization). The Authorization is entered in the header area and builds – together with a time mark – the code for the origin resp. the modification of a component part.

Options tab

This page shows the entries of the exchange file header and doesn’t accept any further settings. You can only interrupt the import process if it isn’t the required file.

Setting	Description
Ignore unsupported Entries	Unknown interface commands of the current implementation degree are ignored and cannot be re-exported. This means that only those entries remain in the file, which can be processed by OpenBridge Modeler. This option is provided for a later implementation degree of the interface. In this degree, it will be possible to manage modifications and to transfer unknown data 1:1. If need be, the references will be up-dated.
Adopt Position Numbers into element	The imported position numbers are adopted into the parts properties.
Adopt Control Entries into element	The reference numbers and codes of the exchange file parts are adopted into the shape properties. This facilitates finding mistakes or incomplete data resp. controlling the origin of modifications.
Prefer CAD data if both types	At mixed data, the CAD elements (component parts) are preferred and any possible static analysis data are only evaluated as additional information.
Prefer Calculation data if both types	At mixed data, the static elements (bars) are preferred and any possible CAD data are only evaluated as additional information. This is an option for a later implementation degree.

Dialog Controls

Icon	Description
OK	Closes the dialog and save your changes.
Cancel	Closes the dialog without saving changes.
Help	Opens online help.
Template	Saves and retrieve (Using Templates) settings to be used on other projects.
Load Mapping Table	Loads by selecting an existing exchange list for import or export.
Edit Mapping Table	Opens Names at Data Exchange dialog, used to process an existing exchange list for import or export or select another list.
File View	Displays the read or created interface file in an ASCII-text file.
Error Report	Opens to view an error report, if it is created by the selected interface command. In this error report, you are e.g. informed whether errors have occurred in a read file or whether certain data cannot be evaluated by OpenBridge Modeler.

Key-in: PROSTRUCTURE IMPORT DSTV