CNC Machine File Format DSTV

[ray_m]

When will Autodesk Inventor have an option to export the more CNC machine file formats?

It has been around for more than 8 years. My customer will only accept these file types for their machines.

DSTV format is an industrial standard defined by the German Steel Construction Association. AKA .NC1

Thanks

Seriously Lost In Outer Tekla Space! 

[Mark.Lancaster]

@ray_m

This is mainly a user based public forum and even if there was a plan it wouldn't be discussed here until its released.  I would recommend that you either join the Inventor Beta team and see what's coming or suggest this in the Inventor Idea forum and have users vote on it.

https://beta.autodesk.com/welcome/

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/v1232

Update:  I heard this company https://strucsoftsolutions.com/ offers a product that will make the conversion from Inventor to the format you require https://strucsoftsolutions.com/cms/.

[swalton]

This may be a bad workaround but:

It looks like Autodesk Structural Detailing supports DTSV exports....

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-structural-detailing/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/clo...

Here are the Inventor File import instructions: 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-structural-detailing/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/clo... Inventor file

[ray_m]

You are right - Bad work around - Also Very Old - Kudos for that!

I am posting this as an idea  for "Inventor" specifically  "frame generator" and perhaps after an assembly has been converted to a Weldment to export files in the DSTV NC1 file format. 

[mcgyvr]

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@ray_m wrote:

You are right - Bad work around - Also Very Old - Kudos for that!

I am posting this as an idea  for "Inventor" specifically  "frame generator" and perhaps after an assembly has been converted to a Weldment to export files in the DSTV NC1 file format. 

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@ray_m

Ray,

The "Inventor Ideastation" is here..

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/v1232

Please post your idea there then come back to this post and add a link to it..

[kelly.young]

Hello @ray_m as stated prior Autodesk Structural Steel does seem to have the capability.

A quick search shows a few alternatives are:

Struc Soft Solutions

Steel Projects

If you create an Inventor Idea be sure to post back here for others to vote up. 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post solves your issue or answers your question.

[karthur1]

Ray,

We also have the need for DSTV and NC1 file conversion.  It would help us out (and others as well) if this was available in Inventor.

Kirk

[jtylerbc]

A friend of mine (former coworker) left my company to go to a fabricator that uses a combination of Inventor and Tekla to do their design work.  In the past, he and I had struggled with getting an acceptable format for CNC tube cutters out of Inventor (what they really wanted was DSTV, which obviously we couldn't do).  For us at my company, it was something we've needed to do a handful of times in the company's history.  For him in his new position, it would be a constant need.

I know nothing about the software myself, so I am not necessarily recommending or endorsing this.  But he is currently testing software called "CMS", which apparently includes an add-in DSTV exporter for Inventor.  He's not very far into testing it, and I haven't talked to him for a few days so I'm not sure how it's going for him.  But if this is something you have a need for often, it might be worth checking into.  I'm mostly just aware of it because he asked me to provide him with models for some of the parts we had struggled with in the past, so he could use them as part of his validation of the software.

See link below.

https://strucsoftsolutions.com/cms/

Edited:  I had initially missed that a couple of people had already mentioned what appears to be the same software.  My friend always refers to it as "CMS" - I didn't realize until I looked at the URL that it was the same software you guys were already talking about.

[karthur1]

For us, the need for this comes from different directions.  We need to be able to produce DSTV format files so that we can easily produce parts on the CNC machines we have. Most of the time, these parts are 3D models that we have created with Inventor.  Sometimes, these parts are solid models that are given to us by our customers in the iges (or stp) format.  Sure Inventor can read-in these files, but I am not so sure that StructSoft (CMS) can create the DSTV from them.  From what I have read about CMS is that is has to have a sketch of the profile and then a feature.

It would be really nice not have to purchase a 3rd party application to do this (such a CMS).

Thanks,

Kirk

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