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Today, sheet metal processing demands state-of-the-art production techniques combined with the use of modern materials. Housings, facade sheets, containers and pipelines used to be made from multiple parts, but now complex parts can be produced from a single formed component.
This increasing complexity is one of the main reasons for incorporating 3-D design into sheet metal processing, providing clearer design visualisation and enhanced functional and operation checking, leading to more trouble-free production.
HiCAD Sheet Metal, our fully integrated solution for sheet metal design and manufacturing, complies with these modern requirements whilst offering a high potential for design rationalisation.
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Specific sheet metal functions allow you to embrace these modern techniques and include many automated procedures to ensure a rapid progression from conception to finished sheet metal product.
Functions for the creation of corners and notches, automatic blank dimensioning, Add/Bend functions as well as automatic development functions are available to the user, as well as a broad range of variants for the design of pipes, vessels, funnels or Y-pipes. Sheet metal blanks provided with all production-relevant information can be transferred directly to CAM workstations.
Especially for complex sheet metal parts, HiCAD offers a generation procedure enabling the automatic derivation of fully developed 3-D models from exact 2-D representations of developed sheet metal parts, thus enabling time savings of up to 90% compared with conventional reconstruction techniques.
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The Highlights
- A broad range of sheet metal parts, incl. housings and facade sheets
- Adding of various flange types
- Convenient Corner/Notch/Mitre cut functions
- Derivation of 3-D models from 2-D developments
- Automatic sheet development
- Automatic blank dimensioning
- Bending simulation
- Punching and forming tools
- Pipes, vessels and funnels
- Collision check and analysis tools
- Strip development (optional)
- Direct link to production department
Use the advantages of HiCAD from the concept to the fully developed 3-D sheet to secure your competitive edge!
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