KISS-Interface
The KISS interface (Keep It Simple Steel) provides for the exchange of parts list data between programs, which are able to interpret this format. Therefore, only export is possible here.
File Format: ASCII text file with the extension *.kss
- Backstage:
Data Export
OpenBridge Modeler is able to export the parts list data of single parts such as shapes and plates. Since the KISS format only indirectly supports the group structure, you can determine the belonging to a certain group by means of dispatch number, but this is lost in case of similar parts in different groups because each part is only exported once with its total amount.
Settings tab
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| File type | The US-mark-number of the corresponding group the
part is assigned to is exported as shipping number. Otherwise, the position
number of the group the part is belonging to will be exported.
When the component part doesn?t belong to a group, no shipping number will be exported. When it belongs to different groups, the selected number of the group which was found first will be exported. |
| Notes | Sets which part data have to be exported as note into
the file.
|
| Finish | Sets part data have to be exported as surface into
the file.
|
| Use Standard material description | When checked, uses the standard description for the material of objects being exported. |
| Export bolt details | When checked, the bolt details too are exported. |
| Use Ship No. as Park mark.. | When checked, the shipping number is selected instead of the position number of the part and entered into the position number. |
| Use Ship No. as ABM code.. | When checked, the shipping number is selected instead of the original position number of the part and entered into the ABM code. |
Part Name tab
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Format Default | Here you specify the output format of the part
designation depending on the indicated part type as a combination of format
variable and constant terms.
The output can be set separately for flat steel, plates and standard shapes. |
| (Checkmark) | If the switch is checked, the program uses the format default specified by you. Otherwise, the standard export designation of OpenBridge Modeler is used instead. |
| [X] | When set, the format default is reset to a given standard value. |
| Input field 1 | Sets the format description for the name of the part, e.g. ($Tif3)x($Wif3). |
| Input field 2 | Sets the format description for the length of the part, e.g. ($Lmd1). |
Description of Format Variables
All format variables are in round brackets and inside of these brackets, they start with a $-sign which identifies them as variable. Then the format specifications for the desired dimension, unit system, display and accuracy follow in exactly this order.?
| Dimension | L |
length of the part |
| W | width of the part | |
| T |
height or thickness of the part |
|
| Units | c | output according to the unit system of the drawing |
| i | output always in inches | |
| m | output always in millimetres | |
| Display | d | floating point number |
| f | fraction (only with inches) | |
| Accuracy | 0..8 | number of digits after the decimal point or parts of fraction (1/2n) |
Thus, the format variable ($Lif3) means
that the length of the part is exported in inches with fraction display and an
accuracy of 1/8 inch, e.g. 10-3/8.
If you require e.g. the specification of a plate with
the thickness in inches as fraction (with an exact accuracy of 1/16 inch) as
well as with metric dimensions for width and length having each one digit after
the decimal point in the form PL3/4x200.0 or for the length 300.0, you have to
set the default
PL($Tif4)x($Wmd1) in the first input field and
the default ($Lmd1) in the second input field.