AutoForm Forming R13 – Enhanced Simulation Reliability in Sheet Metal Forming

AutoForm Forming R13 offers advancements and new options for the stamping process feasibility phase. This release introduces new result variables that enable accurate wrinkle detection, giving users deeper insight into the appearance and development of wrinkles during all forming operations and springback. Users can also easily track wrinkle evolution as well as visualize and evaluate wrinkle behavior throughout the entire forming process. New result variables allow for a more streamlined and reliable assessment of wrinkling behavior.

This latest software release introduces an enhanced strain-based friction model for better friction prediction. The model accounts for changes in surface roughness occurring during the forming process. Surface roughening is now integrated into the contact and friction models used in TriboForm, which is particularly important for aluminum parts where surface changes significantly influence formability.

AutoForm Forming R13 also brings major improvements in data continuity and usability during the process design phase. The software allows users to automatically transfer concept tool geometries from AutoForm-DieDesigner to AutoForm-DieDesignerPlus, where they can be refined into high-quality CAD surfaces for manufacturing. The seamless data flow combined with process plan information from the earlier concept development phase, enables users to achieve a new level of efficiency in the process design phase.

Dr. Markus Thomma, CMO of the AutoForm Group, stated: “With AutoForm Forming R13, we provide our users with new enhancements and features which are important for the sheet metal forming process chain. These new options were developed to enhance simulation reliability and enable more precise engineering decisions.”