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AutoForm-AssemblySolver

AutoForm-AssemblySolver allows you to simulate BiW assembly processes guided by AutoForm’s intuitive user interface. An evaluation of the results obtained can be carried out using AutoForm-Explorer. The extent to which these results mirror reality depends on a variety of defined simulation parameters as well as on how closely the tool designs and process inputs for the simulation match with those in the real manufacturing process.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-AutoComp

With the increasing use of modern materials, such as high strength steels and aluminum, applying the most effective compensation strategy brings tangible benefits to users. AutoForm-AutoComp enables you to quickly evaluate and compare different compensation strategies and then select the one that is best suited to your needs.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Compensator

AutoForm-Compensator allows you to automatically modify tooling surfaces based on precise springback calculation or measured springback data. With this software, you can easily define compensation regions, which are automatically adjusted using springback results. The compensated geometry can then be used for rapid and accurate tooling validation.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-CostEstimator

AutoForm-CostEstimator is designed for OEMs and tooling suppliers to estimate tooling costs early on in the planning and bidding phases. With this software, each part detail which has an impact on tooling costs is automatically associated to a production step. With just a few mouse clicks, AutoForm-CostEstimator calculates tooling costs based on the defined production sequence. As a result, this software enables you to systematically evaluate alternative production concepts and rapidly identify the most cost-effective one.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-DieAdviser

AutoForm-DieAdviser allows you to determine the optimal tool layout and the most efficient wear protection concept based on AutoForm-FormingSolver simulation results. With this software, you can define the durability of tool materials, hardening and tool coating, taking into account the production quantity and press stroke rate.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-DieDesigner

Whether you are a feasibility or process engineer, process planner or tool maker, AutoForm-DieDesigner enables you to rapidly create alternative die face designs for the complete sheet metal forming process. Once you have generated a die face design, the software uses it for the process simulations with AutoForm-FormingSolver. The results can be evaluated with AutoForm-Explorer. The full integration of die face design with simulation and results evaluation allows you to evaluate multiple, alternative process and tool concepts in a very short amount of time as well as select the best one with regard to feasibility, quality and cost.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Explorer

AutoForm-Explorer makes it very easy for you to quickly set up simulations and evaluate the most important result variables. If you are a process planner or process engineer, AutoForm-Explorer enables you to easily define and evaluate in detail a manufacturing process intended for sheet metal part production. https://www.autoform.com/en/products/autoform-forming/autoform-explorer/

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-FormFit

AutoForm-FormFit allows you to modify part geometries to achieve dimensional fit in car body assemblies. By using AutoForm-FormFit in an early engineering phase, you can make design changes to one or multiple parts of an assembly and analyze the impact on the assembly’s dimensional accuracy. In this way, you can identify the cause of dimensional deviations of an assembly and then take measures to optimize the part’s design.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-FormingSolver

AutoForm-FormingSolver enables you to rapidly and accurately simulate the sheet metal forming processes, including drawing and secondary operations as well as springback and hemming. Once you have obtained simulation results with AutoForm-FormingSolver, you can then visualize them with AutoForm-Explorer, which provides you with in-depth information about all aspects of the forming process. With AutoForm-FormingSolver, you can simulate stamping processes involving line or transfer dies as well as progressive dies.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-HemPlanner

AutoForm-HemPlanner enables you to easily define and optimize the hemming operation as well as create the required tool geometries for the simulation. Since this operation affects surface appearance and surface quality, accuracy is crucial. With AutoForm-HemPlanner, the definition of the hemming process is streamlined. As a result, the design of your tool active faces is no longer merely based on experience and the costly principle of trial and error. This software supports roll and table top hemming and depending on the product development process phase, it supports two use cases, namely quick and advanced hemming.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Phase Plug-In

AutoForm-PhaseChange Plug-In in combination with AutoForm-Thermo Plug-In enables you to realistically simulate the hot forming processes of ultra-high strength steels. These processes have become very important for the automotive industry in order to meet specific requirements regarding a higher level of crash safety and a reduction of overall weight. With this plug-in, you can engineer components with high strength, challenging geometrical complexity and minimized springback effects in much shorter time and at lower cost.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Presenterplus

AutoForm-Presenterplus allows the user to open, share and view AutoFormplus files created either in-house or externally. The user can safely review AutoFormplus input files and results without the risk of overwriting or changing the consistency between them. The software allows for detailed viewing of the defined process input and the subsequent metal forming results. https://www.autoform.com/en/products/autoform-presenter-plus/

  • Platform SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-ProcessPlannerplus

AutoForm-ProcessPlannerplus software allows a wide range of AutoForm users to rapidly define alternative stamping processes and to evaluate their viability. The resulting process plans lead to the production of quality and cost effective parts within the guidelines and standards of their manufacturing operations. https://www.autoform.com/en/products/autoform-processplanner-plus/

  • Platform SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Sigma

AutoForm-Sigma allows you to analyze and improve the robustness of sheet metal products and processes. The software gives you deep insight and transparency into the forming process in the early engineering stage. It enables you to identify which design parameters influence part quality and to what extent. It also supports you in determining appropriate correction measures during tryout and production. In addition, it identifies the correction measures which have no effect at all and those which offer a real chance of resolving the particular problem at hand.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Solverplus

AutoForm-Solverplus enables rapid and accurate simulation of the entire stamping process including drawing and secondary operations as well as springback. The simulation of stamping processes by AutoForm-Solverplus combined with the results evaluation by AutoForm-ProcessExplorerplus provide the user with all the necessary information to design the process. AutoForm-Solverplus simulates line and progressive die stamping as well as hemming processes.

  • Platform SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-StampingAdviser

AutoForm-StampingAdviser enables you to quickly and easily evaluate part and process feasibility as well as determine blank shape, material utilization and blank cost. The software provides you with 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.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Thermo Plug-in

AutoForm-Thermo Plug‑In is used in connection with AutoForm-FormingSolver to consider general thermal effects in cold, warm and hot forming simulations. With this plug‑In, you can take thermal behavior into account while examining part and process feasibility, optimizing forming and production process parameters and conducting final validation analyses as long as there are no phase transformation effects to be considered. Taking temperature into account leads to increased accuracy of simulation results for both warm and hot forming of many automotive light metals such as aluminum alloys. Furthermore, you can also analyze the effects of real forming tool temperatures as well as temperature effects on the tribological system, and subsequently on the forming results.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-ThermoSolverplus

AutoForm-ThermoSolverplus enables users to realistically simulate hot forming and quenching processes. These processes have recently become important for the automotive industry in order to meet specific requirements regarding a higher level of crash safety and a reduction of overall weight. Components with high strength, challenging geometrical complexity and minimized springback effects can thereby be engineered in shorter time and at lower cost.

  • Platform SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-Trim

AutoForm-Trim in combination with AutoForm-FormingSolver is an essential tool for the determination of blank outlines and for the tryout of trimming dies used to find the optimum trim line. This software enables you to design trimming tools simultaneously with the draw die.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12, SLES 11
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights

AutoForm-TryoutAssistant

AutoForm-TryoutAssistant acts as a digital assistant during the physical tryout. In tryout, correctional loops on the draw die must be carried out until the die can be used to produce a part of the required quality. Since correctional work and modifications are inevitable, every correction loop that you can avoid offers an immediate advantage in terms of time and money.

  • Platform SLES 15, SLES 12
  • Hardware Architecture x86-64
  • Highlights