Siemens PLM’s D-Cubed software 2D Dimensional Constraint Manager (2D DCM) component has been integrated in to CAD, CAM and CAE solutions provider Vero’s VISI Progress software – a move that will help designers in the metal stamping industry, according to the companies.
VISI Progress, part of Vero’s VISI suite of applications for the mould and die industries, is a dedicated solution for the metal stamping industry, designed to enable design of progressive dies and press tools.
Progressive stamping is the process of creating parts by starting with a strip of metal and then, in progressive steps, applying a series of operations such as coining, punching and bending.
VISI Progress enables the 3D modelling of the dies and strip at each step in the process from blank to finished component.
The integration of the D-Cubed 2D DCM into version 17 of VISI Progress will help ensure the complex relationships in a model are accurately maintained when modifications to the strip layout parameters are made, Siemens PLM claims.
The user can make changes to the step length and strip width and VISI Progress will automatically update the previously constructed punch geometry and rebuild the strip.
This new integration joins Vero’s existing implementation of the D-Cubed 2D DCM inside VISI Parametric Page (formerly VISI Storyboard). Integrated into more than three million end-user products, the D-Cubed 2D DCM is one of the world’s most widely used 2D geometric constraint solver, the company claims.
“Using the D-Cubed 2D DCM in VISI Progress allows us to automate operations which would otherwise have required significant time and effort from the user,” said Gerard O’Driscoll, Research and Development Director for Vero Software.
“Without the D-Cubed 2D DCM the cost of developing these improvements would have been prohibitive.”