One-Step Analysis
- Blanks shapes can be developed from drawn sheetmetal parts – for trim line layouts & material estimates
- Part thinning and thickening can be determined to identify hot spots
- Actual fractures and wrinkles can be predicted
- True material requirement can be determined based on part nesting on a coil
- Springback can be determined so corrections can be designed into a die process
- Material usage in progressive die strips can be determined
- Progressive die web attachment can be analyzed for edge to carier movement
- Material savings can be determined based on part edge movements.
MultiStage Analysis
With the announcement of Forming Suite’s MultiStage capability, forming analysis of one 3D part shape into a second is now possible because the need for the initial form to be a flat blank has been eliminated.
Benefits:
- Many alternative forming processes can be considered because one-step analyses run fast – typically taking no more than 3 minutes per station.
- Any process can have any number of form stations.
- Setup is extremely fast. The same proven easy-to-use interface used by FASTBLANK and FASTFORM has been expanded to include MultiStage functions.
Fast-Incremental Analysis
Once a viable sequential forming process has been identified using MultiStage, Forming Suite’s FASTIncremental module can be deployed to confirm a MultiStage design process with the accuracy of explicit incremental analysis.
- The Forming Suite FASTIncremental solver is based on the highly acclaimed and accurate LS-DYNA incremental solver.
- Setup is extremely fast. The same proven easy-to-use interface used by FASTBLANK, FASTFORMand MultiStage has been expanded to include FASTIncremental functions.
