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Content about Autoform Engineering - Page 2
- From The Fabricator
Software offers cloud-based rapid blank shape determination, material cost estimation
- Oct 6, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Product Release
AutoForm Eng. offers its EasyBlank software in the cloud. The web-based application can be from the browser without having to install any piece of software. The results are provided within the browser and are available to the user in IGS CAD format, accompanied by a detailed report in Excel format....
- From The Fabricator
AutoForm appoints COO
- May 4, 2017
- Manufacturing Software
- News Release
AutoForm Engineering GmbH, Wilen b. Wollerau, Switzerland, a supplier of software for the sheet metal forming industry, has appointed Dr. Detlef Schneider as COO. He brings to the position extensive experience in business and management, having previously worked at Altair. Schneider holds a...
- From The Fabricator
Software provides validation for progressive dies, hot forming
- Feb 1, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Product Release
AutoForm Eng. has unveiled its latest software version AutoFormplus R7 for process simulation. According to the company, the software offers flexibility and efficiency in process setup and final validation for all forming processes in general and, in particular, for progressive dies and hot...
- From The Fabricator
AutoForm software chosen by Volkswagen’s tool shop
- Nov 7, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- News Release
Switzerland-based AutoForm Eng. GmbH, a supplier of software for the sheet metal forming industry, has announced the decision of Volkswagen’s tool shop to use AutoForm-ProcessDesignerforCATIA software for its process design. The software was developed in collaboration with Volkswagen. The main...
Software offers springback compensation in tube hydroforming
- Feb 8, 2016
- Hydroforming
- Product Release
AutoForm Engineering GmbH offers AutoForm Hydro 2016 software for rapid tool design for tube hydroforming processes and simulation of these processes. It includes new functionalities for springback compensation after bending and hydroforming operations. The bending compensation is achieved...
- From The Fabricator
Software enables definition, optimization of hemming operation
- Nov 10, 2015
- Bending and Forming
- Product Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH offers AutoForm-HemPlannerplus software, fully integrated in the AutoFormplus R6 version. The software enables users to define and optimize the hemming operation. In combination with AutoForm-Solverplus, this software offers efficient planning of hemming processes to meet...
- From The Fabricator
AutoForm and Engineering Technology Associates settle die design software patent disputes
- Dec 8, 2014
- Bending and Forming
- News Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH, Wilen b. Wollerau, Switzerland, and Engineering Technology Associates Inc., Troy, Mich., have reached a global settlement of their patent disputes and entered a consent judgment, ending a U.S. patent infringement lawsuit initiated by AutoForm against ETA. The respective...
Software simulates tube hydroforming processes
- Jul 15, 2014
- Hydroforming
- Product Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH has unveiled its AutoForm Hydro 2014 software for rapid tool design and simulation of tube hydroforming processes. The software allows users to carry out a complete, virtual tryout of the hydroforming process, which involves such steps as bending, preforming, hydroforming,...
- From The Fabricator
AutoForm opens office in Germany, names general manager
- Jun 24, 2014
- Bending and Forming
- News Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH, a supplier of sheet metal forming software in Wilen b. Wollerau, Switzerland, has opened a new office in Stuttgart, Germany. AutoForm Eng. Deutschland GmbH offers AutoForm products and services to the Germany postal codes 6 and 7, as well as Switzerland. Michael Rembrink has...
- From The Fabricator
Sheet metal forming software designed for digital planning, validation
- Oct 14, 2013
- Shop Management
- Product Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH has introduced AutoFormplus R5 software for sheet metal forming. It provides a variety of features for digital planning and validation of sheet metal processes and parts. New section plots allow for results to be charted along selected geometry sections, and a newly developed...
- From The Fabricator
Sheet metal forming software permits quantitative piece cost analysis
- Aug 1, 2012
- Shop Management
- Product Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH has unveiled its latest software version, AutoFormplus R4. It allows users to quantify and evaluate all planning aspects of stamped sheet metal parts, such as function, quality, lead-time, and cost. In this fourth major release of the product line, the user interface was...
- From The Fabricator
AutoForm files patent infringement lawsuit against ETA
- Nov 1, 2010
- Shop Management
- News Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland, has filed a lawsuit against Engineering Technology Associates Inc. (ETA), Troy, Mich., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The lawsuit involves AutoForm's United States Patent No. 7,623,939 (the 939 patent), entitled "Method for...
- From The Fabricator
Software facilitates process plan cost-optimization
- Oct 13, 2009
- Shop Management
- Product Release
AutoForm Eng. GmbH has developed a new software module that enables the rapid and transparent definition of cost-optimized process plans. AutoFormplusR1 users can rapidly evaluate different process alternatives and gain insight into related costs to identify a cost-optimized process plan. The...
- From The Fabricator
AHSS stamping simulation: All things being (not) equal
- By Eric Kam
- Aug 26, 2008
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Given complete and accurate material data, software should have no trouble simulating the stamping of advanced high strength steel.
- From The Fabricator
Clearing the springback hurdle
- By Eric Kam
- Sep 11, 2007
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Springback is a fact of life for stampers, but knowing what causes it and how to deal with it— through stabilization, compensation, and verification—can help them overcome the problem.
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