Dynaform versions

v5.9 [Mar 12, 2013]
Significant Enhancements
1. The function for ‘Auto-Position’, automatically position blank and tools for multi-stages.
2. Automatic Iterative ‘Trim Line Development’ add-on.
3. The Blank Development supports iterations of multi-stages.
4. Improved Utility Batch for 2D and 3D trimming.
5. ‘Hot Forming’ module add-on, supporting full process of Hot Forming: Gravity, Hot Forming and Press Hardening.
6. Improved Tube Rotary Bending, supporting the calculation of the tube (product) center line and to generate the bending process automatically.
7. Improved OP module, supporting the definition of the local region for optimization, as well as adding a restart function.
Capabilities, Features and Functions in the BSE Module
1. Added an Excel format option for the Nesting Report.
2. Added a default option for nodal result or element result with nodal result.
3. Added a default button in the Formability Report window, to recall the saved default configuration settings after making changes to the options for the specific cases.
4. Added the ability to tip the curve binder with the Sheet part.
5. Added the ability to calculate the mesh size for the Sheet part.
6. Changed the dialog for defining the material in BSE, to be consistent with the dialog in ‘AutoSetup’.
7. Added the ability to re-space the outline in ‘MSTEP’.
Enhanced Capabilities, Features and Functions in Sheet Forming.
1. Added a new function ‘Auto-Position’, to automatically position the blank and tools for multi-stages.
2. Added the ability to position models with vertical walls.
3. Added the ability to calculate the binder travel by automatically filling the binder.
4. Add the ability to support multi-stages in Blank Development.
5. Added the ability in ‘Blank Development’ for half of the blank.
6. Added the ability in ‘Blank Development’, to support a blank which is not in X-Y plane.
7. Added a new function ‘Trim Line Development’, using iterative approach to develop a trim line in the trimming stage, where the final result matches the defined target line.
8. Improved the parameters of the ‘Accurate’ and ‘Fast option’ in the Control page of ‘Sheet Forming’.
9. Added the ability to show the rotation center when transform blank in multi-stages.
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10. Added the ability to auto move the blank to the current stage when displaying the preview animation.
11. Added the ability to automatically move the blank to the current stage when switching to another stage.
12. Added the ability to tip the blank around the specified rotate center in Tool Position.
13. Added the ability to export and import the result of the theoretical equation in ‘Line Bead’.
14. Added the ability to allow the user to set the specific material’s relation between the draw bead shape and full lock force percentage in the ‘Draw Bead Shape Library’.
15. Added the import function in the Trimming stage, allowing the user to import a trim line.
16. Added a function “Replace current tool function’ in Preparation, allowing the user to import the tool geometry to replace geometry and elements of the selected tool.
17. Added rubber materials: *MAT_027/*MAT_Mooney-Rivlin_rubber, *MAT_077_O/*MAT_OGDEN_RUBBER and *MAT_127/*MAT_ARRUDA_BOYCE_RUBBER.
18. Added the ability to support Pre-Bending in Gravity.
19. Added the ability to run a gravity simulation by specifying the height from the ground.
20. Restored ‘Stroke vs. Force’ in the ‘Process’ dialog in ‘AutoSetup’.
21. Added six commonly used steel materials of *MAT_125: DP980 (NUMISHHET’08), DP780 (NUMISHHET’08), DP780 (NUMISHHET’11), DP600 (NUMISHHET’08), DDQ (NUMISHHET’08) and HSLA (NUMISHHET’08).
22. Removed ‘Shear Correction Factor’ in Section properties of Blank Definition.
23. Added material history variables for all materials
24. Changed the default control action of binder in drawing step to use velocity.
25. Fixed a bug in the motion direction definition of Hydroforming tool in the local coordinate system.
26. Fixed the deviation of the roller motion path in the Roller Hemming and optimized the trace curve and direction vector of the roller.
Enhanced Capabilities, Features and Functions in Hot Forming.
1. The new ‘Hot Forming’ module was added in AutoSetup, removing thermal analysis from ‘Sheet Forming’.
2. Added the ability to support full process of Hot Forming: Gravity, Hot Forming and Press Hardening.
3. Added the ability to support the thermal gravity loading simulation.
4. Added the ability to support thermal thick shells for the tools (TSHELL=1).
5. Changed the default friction coefficient to 0.46 for hot forming.
6. Added the ability to define the initial temperature for both the blank and the tools.
7. Added the ability to support *DEFINE_TABLE_3D for *MAT_106/*MAT_244.
8. Added an option of ‘TSF’, and changed the default value to 20.0.