3DQuickForm
Inverse Forming Simulation for SolidWorks
3DQuickForm is a powerful SolidWorks add-in application for inverse forming simulation. High speed, accuracy, and full associativity with SolidWorks data make 3DQuickForm the ideal production design tool for die designers. Users can either import different types of CAD data or build die geometries in the SolidWorks environment for forming studies.
3DQuickForm helps OEM manufacturers, material suppliers, and die manufacturers to deliver precision tooling in the shortest time and with minimum physical try-outs.
3DQuickForm Features & Benefits
Design Feasability Studies
The built-in mesher is automatic and allows user adjustment to meet needs in different situations. Tool designers can fully concentrate on the die design processes and virtual try-outs. Simulations are run in a project driven manner and support multiple projects; thus streamlining design feasibility study, process simulation, and optimization.
Process Simulation & Optimization
Simulation results are displayed to show initial blank shape, different material thickness, and stress/strain distribution. A customizable material database allows you to test your design's formability with different materials.
3DQuickForm Functions
Fully integrated with SolidWorks, 3DQuickForm is easy to use and rich in functions:
- Full range of CAD interfaces to read both imported 3D data or native data
- Special modeling tools for cleaning data
- Powerful modeling functions
- Fast & accurate blank shape generation
- Short learning curve
- Get blank contours of parts which cannot be folded/unstamped in traditional ways
- Fully integrated with SolidWorks to allow strip design in fully associative process
- Better communication results in less engineering changes
- Quickly compare multiple solutions for a stamped component
- Handle complex blank shapes and forming features
- Based on ESI technologies in metal forming
- Facilitate the material usage calculation in quotation phase
- Support fixed edges/faces
- Graphical plots of thinning and thickening of materials, stress/strain, etc.
- Report generation
- Customizable material database
- Complete integration with 3DQuickPress providing the blank shapes for die design process
3DQuickForm Professional
- All features in 3DQuickForm
- Part unfolded to non-planar initial blank
- Symmetrical Boundary Conditions
- Support Flanging
3DQuickForm Advanced
- All features in 3DQuickForm Professional
- Boundary conditions like drawbeads
- Support multiple-steps, blank holder, trim line
- Forming Limit Diagram (FLD)
- Springback calculation
- Stress report
