TopSolid’Progress provides all the required functions to help designers compute sheet metal part blanks, design the strip layout and dies far faster than with a standard CAD software.

The software manages all cutting, folding and forming stages of the sheet metal, creation of the die set, addition of standard components together with their machining processes, creation of punches, non-standard dies and draft creation.

Discover here what’s new in TopSolid’Progress 2011

Part preparation

• Automatically isolate lateral faces of a bend
• Unbend a part section using an arc of a circle

Strip creation

• Management of parts tangential to the borders of the strip

Management of complex parts

• New methodology for strip definition of parts with crushed bends (chamfered parts, fillets, etc.)
• Unbending for intermediate step
• Multi-body strip creation and replacement operation of a body on the strip by rapid insertion of previously defined intermediary geometries

Die bases

• Warning against involuntary deletion of die bases

Punches and dies

• Surface tools dedicated to the design of stamping surfaces
• New automatic process for punch movement: through Z axis
• Subtraction with clearance
• Punch head extension by grinding limited by a profile or a plan

Miscellaneous

• Definition of BOM indices via the construction tree in the design document
• Verification of collisions between punches
• Verification of stamping scraps evacuation
• Management of stocks with margins
• Inclusion of file with sets management and BOM properties