New Software Version for Stamping Simulation of Sheet Metal Components
April 26, 2021Comments
Forming Technologies, a division of Hexagon Manufacturing
Intelligence Canada Ltd., has made FormingSuite 2021 available for download.
This release offers several new features and enhancements, including 3D
Addendum Generation, which provides a rapid and simple approach to first-form
geometry creation that enables improved accuracy in cost estimation of drawn
components, precise details for process planning and improved feasibility evaluations.
Another feature, Trim Line Development, evaluates trim conditions and unfolds
flanges, hems and extrusions onto the 3D addendum geometry. This reportedly
allows for improved blank-development accuracy, and determines, for each point
on the trim curve, the possibility of trimming in a given direction. Another
enhanced feature, Binder Generation, creates, positions and morphs binder
geometry, which enables improved feasibility evaluations and provides a pre-requisite
for 3D addendum generation.
And, speed-of-use enhancements in FormingSuite 2021 tackle symmetry for cut scrap, scrap merging and pilot-hole creation.
See also: Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Technologies: Software
