SolidWorks-Based 3D Die-Design Software
January 1, 2011Comments Accurate Die Design, Inc., New Berlin, WI, partnered with Logopress Corp., Besancon, France, to introduce the SolidWorks-based Logopress3 2010 SP1 die-design software package, with a slew of new additions and enhancements. This latest software version can handle very large dies with several hundred different-shaped punches within the same die. It also features Logopress3 BLANK flat-blank prediction and FEA software designed to metalformers and die shops at the quotation stage and during die design. Native SolidWorks models as well as imported models can be used. The mesh is fully automatic but its size also can be adjusted. Among its key functions: manage native or imported data; manage solids and surfaces; material thickness management; customizable material database; allow defining pinched/locked areas; thinning and thickening information; and stress and strain information.
Accurate Die Design, Inc.: 262/938-9316; www.accuratediedesign.com
See also: Accurate Die Design Software, Inc., LOGOPRESS
Technologies: Software
