Course Summary:
Inspire Form makes it possible to improve sheet product design and
the manufacturing process, while reducing lead time for sheet metal
parts by enabling early consideration of form-ability, process
parameters, material utilization, and cost. This is an introductory
class for sheet metal forming simulation utilizing Inspire Form and is
intended for design engineers, manufacturing process engineers, and CAE
analysts.
Prerequisites:
None
Goals and Objectives
- Use
the feasibility module to check the formability of a part early in the
product design cycle and to predict the best blank nesting on the sheet
coil.
- Use the tryout module to iterate and simulate multi-stage forming, trimming and springback.
- Visualize potential defects such as splits or wrinkles and modify
the geometry to eliminate defects and improve overall design to generate
and analyze design concepts.
- Analyze typical results such as thinning, formability, press tonnage and many others