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
Data Export
ProStructures 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
Part Name tab
Setting | Description |
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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 ProStructures 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 $-sign which identifies them as variable. Then the format specifications for the desired dimension, unit system, display and accuracy follow in exactly this order.
Dimension | L | |
W | width of the part | |
T | ||
Units | c | output according to the unit system of the drawing |
i | output always in inches | |
m | output always in millimetres | |
Display | d | floating point number |
f | fraction (only with inches) | |
Accuracy | 0..8 | number of digits after the decimal point or parts of fraction (1/2n) |
Thus, the format variable ($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.