One Integrated System — from Product Concept to Production Tooling
AutoForm offers a fully integrated line of software modules for the design of sheet metal and hydroformed parts, and for the engineering of dies and processes for their production.
Specialized modules are available for each phase of the product development cycle:
to enable the design and engineering of robustly manufacturable product via reliable formability assessments from very early on through manufacturing release and initial die layout concept,
to rapidly and interactively accomplish detailed and parametric die and process layouts for prototype and production processes,
to validate and optimize these layouts and all associated process components through accurate virtual try-out simulations,
to establish process windows – in terms of die and process parameters – that guarantee robust manufacture of product, and
to manage, track and document complex product and process development projects.
The AutoForm-UserInterface provides a common and intuitive work environment that seamlessly integrates all the modules. This, together with the new project management capabilities, enables AutoForm users from different functional departments in an organization to share and exchange AutoForm data, further reducing development costs and lead times.
Fast, Accurate & Easy-to-Use
The unique combination of speed, accuracy and ease-of-use has made AutoForm the software of choice for:
Product Designers,
Formability Engineers,
Draw Development Experts,
Process Layout Specialists, and
Tooling, Stamping & Manufacturing Engineers.
AutoForm Software are designed to leverage specific domain/engineering expertise in the stamping and hydroforming areas; they empower engineers and experts in these areas to create designs and processes that ensure desired quality and cost in the least amount of development time. As such AutoForm Software require no FEA knowledge or FEA expertise for effective usage.
AutoForm Software offer direct interfaces to current versions of prominent CAD systems (UniGraphics and CATIA); besides, they are designed to work with almost all available CAD and CAE systems by accepting all common data formats.
AutoForm Software are available for all common compute platforms – UNIX, Windows and Linux.
