Glintify
    Seams from STEP, throat a, ISO 2553

    Welding

    Glintify finds weld seams between the parts of a STEP assembly, measures their length and proposes throat thickness a from the wall thickness. The drawing's weld symbols to ISO 2553 and general weld notes are read in, and the estimator links them to the seams. The price is calculated in standard mode from length and rate, or in the detailed calculation from throat a, volume, arc time and post-processing. Anything without a basis gets no price until the estimator has confirmed it.

    // Detection

    What Glintify detects

    The system analyzes the part's geometry and extracts every manufacturing-relevant feature without manual input.

    Extracted data

    Contact pairs between solids, joint family, seam length per segment, wall thickness, modelled weld beads, corner seams at bends, purchased parts by designation

    // Automation

    What is calculated automatically

    All measurements are extracted directly from the geometry.

    Seams between the parts of the assembly, with length measured along the contact edge
    Joint family per seam: T-joint, inside and outside corner, lap, butt, edge, tube to plate
    Proposed throat thickness a from the thinnest wall (0.7 × t) until the drawing or the estimator says otherwise
    Welds on both sides from 8 mm wall thickness, marked as a house assumption
    Modelled weld beads are measured from their own geometry: leg length, throat a and length
    Corner seams on bent single parts, always confirmed before pricing
    Tubes and profiles against a plate give the full circumference as seam length
    // Quality

    Quality rules

    The system automatically checks whether the part fits within your capacity and flags designs that can cause production issues.

    A seam without throat a, or awaiting confirmation, gets no direct price
    The drawing states more welds than the geometry has: the price is blocked until the joint has been pointed out
    Material your welding processes do not cover, for example aluminium in a MAG shop, blocks the price instead of a guess
    Access to the seam is tested with a torch cone and flagged when both sides are blocked
    Welding done at a partner is marked in the calculation and flagged for lead time and surcharge
    // Setup

    Typical setup

    What a typical setup looks like for this operation.

    Standard mode: seam length, welding speed and minute rate, ready from the first file
    Detailed calculation: throat a × length gives deposited volume, arc time, tack welding and cleaning
    Extended model per company: process selection by ISO/TR 15608 material group, manual versus robot with break-even, post-processing and NDT
    The estimator confirms assumed seams, sets a for all seams or points out the joint from the drawing
    // Example

    Cost example

    Line-by-line breakdown of the part cost using your machine data and prices.

    Cost itemAmount
    Tack welding and cleaning, 8 seamsSEK 38.00
    Arc time 2.4 m, a3, MAG 135SEK 62.00
    Filler material and gasSEK 9.50
    Clamping and visual inspectionSEK 14.00
    Weld cost per assembly, illustrative exampleSEK 123.50
    // Costing in Monitor's format

    The same routing line as in Monitor

    On top of our time-based calculation, welding is also costed as a routing line ("beredningsrad") in Monitor's format: production group (work center), setup time, cycle time, allowance (F-time) and piece time, priced with the production group's cost factors. The line can be exported as an article with routing straight to your ERP system.

    Routing lineExplanation
    Production groupFetched from your ERP system or created from the machine park
    Setup timePer batch, not per piece — spread over the quantity
    Cycle timeThe technical time per piece, calculated from the geometry
    F-time %Allowance on top of the cycle time
    Piece timeCycle time × (1 + F-time %)
    Cost factorsMachine, wages + social charges and fixed manufacturing overhead in SEK/h, with a staffing factor
    Cost = setup time × rate + piece time × rate × quantity

    Markups for MO (material overhead), LO (subcontracting overhead), AFFO (general overhead) and profit are added at quote level — exactly as in Monitor's pre-calculation.

    // Related operations

    Other operations in Glintify

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