FormingSuite v10.0 software embraces customer’s demands of delivering productivity enhancements whilst improving the speed and performance of all simulation solvers (CHI, dFIT, LS-DYNA, Springback, and Nesting). “These developments continue our mission to supply the stamping industry with the world’s easiest to learn and easiest to use wizard-based stamping software. This new software release signify a major step in FTI analysis capabilities. Our focus of ‘accuracy on demand’ and ‘cost knowledge for all’ gives our customers a huge competitive advantage”, said Dan Marinac, Director Business Development at FTI. “Those benefits, coupled with continuous improvements in our core strengths in cost reduction, blank development, stamping simulation accuracy and springback prediction, deliver great value to FTI’s customers”. This latest release includes several new features, such as:

- Advancements in Springback Simulation
New forming constraints to simulate clamping for positioning in jig and fixture tooling
New Springback alignment feature to position the results relative to the original part
Improved NAS and STL file export for CAD springback compensation
- New Measuring Tools for FormingSuite to eliminate the need for users going to CAD dimensional information
- Optional direct 3D CAD data translators for reading NX, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, JT, Pro/ENGINEER, etc.