Bills and CNC files

In this exercise we look at the generation of Bills, Dstv files and DXF files for plates.

- Open the drawing Bills.dwg

- Click on Sheets manager

- Double-click the bill Position list Classic using the mouse

The bill will be generated and then opened in the current default program for spreadsheet files such as Microsoft Excel, Open Office, Parabuild spreadsheet or Notepad.

- Click on the button and then on Generate Dxf files

- Click on

- Click on

- Click on the button and then on Generate Dstv NC files

- Click on

- Click on

Generation of Dstv files is disabled in some trial versions. If this the case then you can contact us to acquire an unlimited test version.

- Click on the button and then on Generate Bills

- Click on

- Click on

We will now export the 3D Model as an Ifc file.
This file type can be used to exchange the 3D Model with other software such as Scia Engineer, Revit, ArchiCAD, ...

- Click on the button Export BIM to file

- Make sure that the export type is Ifc 2x3

- Click on to write the file

- Open Windows Explorer and go to the folder of this drawing, for example :

C:\Parabuild v3\Exercises\English\Bills\

All files that we generated are collected in this folder that has the same name as the DWG file of the 3D drawing.