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New formability software

July 1, 2004
Forming Technologies has released the latest version of Catform R12 CAA V5 Based that includes enhanced forming simulation with geometrically associative and generativeformability results fully embedded within the Catia V5 environment. Users get fast form

The latest version of Catform R12 CAA V5 Based includes enhanced forming simulation with geometrically associative and generative-formability results fully embedded within the Catia V5 environment.

Forming Technologies has released the latest version of Catform R12 CAA V5 Based that includes enhanced forming simulation with geometrically associative and generativeformability results fully embedded within the Catia V5 environment. Users get fast formability analyses to evaluate and validate stamped components. Engineers and designers can determine whether a design is suitable for forming by predicting issues including splitting, wrinkling, thinning, excess stretch, and poor surface strains that cause poor-quality stampings.

The updated release lets shops determine product cost and piece weight by providing the flat pattern required to manufacture a part. Results, based on component geometry, account for material properties, friction, tip angle, and forming conditions.

Integrated-formability-analyses technology within a Catia V5 interface provides a powerful tool that leverages the generative analysis functionality with the Catia V5 framework. Analyses require no data translation and automatically update after a design change is made. And since all data stores in the same Catia V5 database, analysis files automatically integrate into the Catia PLM environment.

Forming Technologies Inc.
Oakville, Ont.
forming.com