World's best feature-based, parametric design and unfolding of sheetmetal parts and assemblies.

"We have better control of the manufacturing process now than at my prior company, where almost all manufacturing was done in-house. The parts go together like they’re an erector set. It’s amazing!" 
Richard Hagen (Cart America, Fullerton, Ca USA)

SPI - Sheetmetal for AutoCAD^® 2000i / 2002 brings sheet metal manufacturing knowledge up front into the design process, introducing dramatic productivity gains and cost savings in the design and manufacture of sheet metal parts. This is achieved through a unique combination of specialized sheet metal design capabilities. SPI leads to significant increase in ready-to-manufacture products and makes the design process instant, resulting in drastic time savings between conceptualization and the testing of actual parts. After all SPI drastically decreases the time-to-market.

SPI - Sheetmetal for AutoCAD^® is 100% integrated with current AutoCAD systems. It is used for conventional, non-parametric design and unfolding of sheetmetal parts and assemblies. An upgrade to parametric is with SPI - Sheetmetal Desktop is available. 3D-Solids are created based on a basic plate or profile by adding flanges and profiles, through profiles "sweep along path" or by shelling. The flat pattern of the 3D model is calculated in seconds. The designer can start the unfold command at any time to control the unfold process. Automatic dimensioning and a bendline table complete the work. At the prototyping or pre-production stage, SPI  - in just a few seconds - leaves a flat pattern transferable to e. g. laser or punch CAM programs and pressbrake control systems (special interface for Delem and Cybelec included) and to the bending simulation software SPI - V BEND.