STEP2SDNF - Structural export interface for mechanical Design Systems (SDNF)

You are working with a Mechanical Design solution and created a structural design that needs to be analyzed or used within one of the Plant Design software solutions out there. In that case you would like to export the structural design including all its intelligence and information about members, columns etc. With a typical export to STEP only the geometry would come over and all intelligence would be lost.

Another scenario could be that you have a lot of 3D data of structural designs, but don’t have a license of the software or the original software has been replaced. In most cases that would mean that if you want to re-use your design that you have to re-model it which means not only loosing valuable time, but also the risk of making errors while re-modeling.

UNITEC recognized the challenge of these issues and developed an interface where you can take the 3D design of the structural model and generate a neutral format out of it, with recognition of the steel profiles and types used. The export from your mechanical design software can be done easily using the STEP format, our interface reads the STEP file, analysis the content and generates a Steel Detailing Neutral Format (SDNF) fi le which then can be used to re-create an intelligent structural model. The re-creation of the structural design can be done for most of the common plant design and analyzing software, including the required profi le dimensions, types, orientation and alignment.

Our UNITEC interface STEP2SDNF allows you to re-use your structural designs without the need for
re-modeling, saving you not only valuable time but also money.