AutoForm News
September 27, 2004:
AutoForm-DieDesigner New Version 4.0
At EuroBLECH 2004 in Hannover, Germany (October 26-30), AutoForm
will release a major upgrade to its AutoForm-DieDesigner software
solution for rapid die face design and tooling optimization.
New version 4.0 allows die engineers and tool makers to quickly
create the tool design and die faces for secondary forming operations
and to analyze the complete sheet metal forming process including
springback.
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The combination of the 3D-Die-Layout and the process simulation
leads to the new concept of the 4D-Process-Layout.
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According to Dr. Waldemar Kubli, CEO, AutoForm-Die Designer’s
new features provide the following main benefits:
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The users can create a complete tool design so rapidly – for example
in 30 minutes to one hour – that they have enough time in a single
day to develop and explore several different possible tool designs, and
to find the best one.
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The ability of version 4.0 to handle secondary forming operations means
that users can create tool designs not only for deep drawing operations,
but also for all subsequent forming and trimming operations. This is
required for an accurate prediction of springback at the end of the entire
process.
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Process planners and designers who use the software can easily
and efficiently create a 3D-Die-Layout of all the stamping operations
(including restrike and flanging). Modifications to intermediate operations
and even to the final part geometry are easy to make, and tooling
geometries are automatically and instantly updated.
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AutoForm-DieDesigner can automatically run tryout simulations of the
3D-Die-Layouts with Auto Form’s simulation modules, resulting in
the 4D-Process-Layout, which reflects the time sequence of the forming
process. This allows users to understand in depth and to validate the
process layout as a function of time, including sheet behavior influenced
by the different operations.
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Thus, AutoForm-DieDesigner version 4.0 provides users with a “full
process overview” of their sheet metal forming operations,
and allows them to develop unique insights to improve process efficiency
and tool and part quality. AutoForm-DieDesigner die faces can be
reimported in the CAD system through direct interfaces or exported
via STL interfaces for direct use in CAM systems (e.g. Tebis) and
for milling of prototype tools.
Press Release [pdf - 91 KB],
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Contact:
Dr. Markus Thomma
Director of Marketing
AutoForm Engineering GmbH
Technoparkstrasse 1
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland
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+41 43 444 6161 |
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+41 43 444 6162 |
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