SPI
- Sheetmetal for Mechanical Desktop 5.0 provide
designers and manufacturers dramatic improvements in the design
process for ready to manufacture products. This is achieved through
a unique combination of specialized sheet metal design capabilities.
The result is significant cost savings and shorter design cycle.
What's
new ...
in 5.0?
- Parametric bend feature
- Video based online help system
- Filleting and chamfering of sheet metal
corners
- User defined parametric punch and stamp
tools
- New standard stamp tools
- Virtual corner splitting for curved
edges
- New measurements method for angle
between faces
- SPI material and unfolding data added to
BOM
- Tooltable shows coordinates and angle
- Interface to SPI - V BEND
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Additional
Highlights
- features to create parametric plates
- fast creation of a parametric box
- split attributes with selection of the
corner type
- sheetmetal face split
- real-time previews
- unfolding of freeform surfaces, once
created with lofting or filleting
- unfolding of plate-, cylindrical-,
conical- or other faces, that are not part of the sheetmetal
design
- direct positioning and rotating of the
unfolding
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 Solution:
SPI
- Sheetmetal Desktop 5.0 is 100% interoperable with Mechanical
Desktop 5.0. Thus
modifications of global parameters are 100% considered - no matter
if you built the model with Mechanical Desktop and/or SPI -
Sheetmetal Desktop functions. It
supports the designer with several design features e.g. apply
flanges with automatic filleting and notching, shortening,
stretching, free choice of bending angle, flatten sharp cornered
parts. With a comfortable set of functions to design corner areas,
SPI saves a lot of construction-time. Automatic creation of bend
reliefs reduces the designers workload. The initial selection of the
manufacturing capabilities ensures that only the materials, tools
and process available are recommended to the designer, avoiding
rejection on non-manufacturable parts and the resulting rework. The
automatic flat generation provides fast, accurate flattening of 3D
sheet metal parts to create the complete 2D flat information needed.
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.
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CAD/CAM/CAE
Solutions