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SPI SheetMetal for AutoCAD Overview

SPI SheetMetal AutoCAD® 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.
  
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Highlights

  • SPI SheetMetal AutoCAD 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 constructiontime. 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 of 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. Even unfolding of conical sur­faces is possible.
  • SPI SheetMetal AutoCAD allows the mo­di­fication of the used material and ma­terial thickness. The bend allo­wance will be re-calculated automatically.
  • 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.
 


 

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Creation of a sheet solid is easily done. SPI creates 3D solids from ar­­bi­trary 2D contours, among others from profiles that you can create using "sweep along path". The se­­lec­ted type of material and the thick­ness will control the de­sign to cre­ate a part ready for manu­fac­ture. During the design process, the desig­ner can easily change the type of material.
   


Material definitions and bend com­­pen­sation fac­tors drive the un­­­­fol­ding process. They are easily put into the techno­logy driven material ma­­nagement, which calculates the precise flat geo­metry according to the needs of the de­signer. He can edit correction factor and discrete shortening values and formula cal­­­culations in­flu­enced by type and thickness of material, type of manu­­­­factu­ring process, bend an­gle and bend radius. At the prototyping or pre-production stage, SPI’s ‘one-click’ solid model un­folding - in just seconds - leaves a flat pattern trans­fer­ab­le to laser or punch CAM programs and press­brake con­trol systems. The de­signer can start the un­fold command at any time to control the de­sign pro­cess. Du­ring the un­fold cal­­­cu­lation the part is analyzed. Any pro­­­­­­blem area is dis­played and re­ported. Common pro­blems de­tec­ted in­clude: over­­lapping of ma­terial (clash detec­tion), bend radius lower than critical minimum (break).