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Autoform plus R8

AutoForm-StampingAdviser enables users to quickly and easily evaluate part and process feasibility as well as determine blank shape, material utilization and blank cost. By using AutoForm-StampingAdviser, product designers and engineers as well as process and die-face designers can achieve better product design, improved initial quality and reliable long-term design performance. The software allows them to reduce not only development and manufacturing costs but also total time to market.

AutoForm-StampingAdviser provides valuable feedback on key stamping quality issues, such as risks of splitting and excess thinning, potential for wrinkling and developed blank shape with its associated material costs. The software can be applied based on part geometry alone, with added simple assumptions for tooling or with full tool geometry during the process definition and evaluation phases.

AutoForm-ProgSim allows progressive die makers to efficiently design, simulate, validate and correct their strip concept. Strip concept validation is essential for any progressive die maker as it prevents costly trial and error adjustments as well as costly prototype design and creation.

AutoForm-ProgSim simulates the entire progressive die stamping process including drawing, flanging, forming and trimming operations as well as springback evaluation. The efficient simulation is achieved through incremental simulation technology. Once the tool geometry is defined in Cimatron, it can be easily exported to AutoForm-ProgSim enabling the user to simulate the entire stamping process and validate the results. The results generated, such as optimized trim lines and springback, can then be exported back to Cimatron for tool adaptations. The tailored data exchange between Cimatron and AutoForm-ProgSim leads to fast and reliable results. What is more, the optimization of trim lines leads to the elimination of laser-trim tryouts later on in the process significantly reducing lead time and costs. AutoForm-ProgSim is an ideal software complement for designers of progressive dies and can greatly benefit their daily work processes.

The AutoForm-Sigma software module is specialized for analyzing and improving the robustness of sheet metal products and processes. It serves to improve and validate the forming process, and to reduce or eliminate part rejects.

With AutoForm-Sigma, products and processes can be designed so that the resulting manufacturing process is most efficient and stable while meeting desired quality targets. The influence and sensitivity of design parameters are easily analyzed which leads to improved process know-how and shorter development times. In addition, statistical process control techniques can already be applied in the design phase, taking into account the noise and variability that are inherent in the forming process. Therefore, sheet metal formers can address and solve key manufacturing problems much before going into production, with obvious advantages.

Product:Autoform PLUS R8
Version: 2019 v8
Supported Architectures: x64
Language: english
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer
Size: 1DVD