Hey Toby! I’m facing a challenge I haven’t encountered before. I need to design a progressive stamping mold for turning copper sheets into a rectangular bowl shape. I am using thin copper sheeting so I really need the thickness of the finished part to be consistent. Is there any features inside of solid works that could help me design the properly shaped stamps? I’m thinking starting small, then slowly drawing the material to the final shape, but knowing which geometry will pull the most material from the sheet is what I’m struggling with.
The only tool in SOLIDWORKS to do this (that I know of) is surface flatten. This is available for any SolidWorks users who have the top tier solution - SolidWorks premium. (however, if you do some digging on message boards you'll find there are ways for non-premium users to access this handy feature). The correct solution to this challenge is to use a third party tool. There used to be a tool called ExactFlat - but it looks like they do more "textile" solutions now and less Sheet Metal Deep Draw. www.exactflat.com/exactflat-for-solidworks . But you'll be looking for a tool like that that uses a mesh and has tools specifically developed for deep draw sheet metal scenarios to generate correct and accurate flat patters from a DEEP DRAW. good luck!
Hey Toby! I’m facing a challenge I haven’t encountered before. I need to design a progressive stamping mold for turning copper sheets into a rectangular bowl shape. I am using thin copper sheeting so I really need the thickness of the finished part to be consistent. Is there any features inside of solid works that could help me design the properly shaped stamps? I’m thinking starting small, then slowly drawing the material to the final shape, but knowing which geometry will pull the most material from the sheet is what I’m struggling with.
The only tool in SOLIDWORKS to do this (that I know of) is surface flatten. This is available for any SolidWorks users who have the top tier solution - SolidWorks premium. (however, if you do some digging on message boards you'll find there are ways for non-premium users to access this handy feature).
The correct solution to this challenge is to use a third party tool. There used to be a tool called ExactFlat - but it looks like they do more "textile" solutions now and less Sheet Metal Deep Draw. www.exactflat.com/exactflat-for-solidworks . But you'll be looking for a tool like that that uses a mesh and has tools specifically developed for deep draw sheet metal scenarios to generate correct and accurate flat patters from a DEEP DRAW. good luck!
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