Hi, I'm Roman. Welcome to Wizards of Flow. Today we're going to have a look at how to check for manufacturability during coating. For example, the part on the right is well drawn and it looks clean, but when we unfold it we see that these flanges interfere with the rest of the body of the part. As a result, if you had coated it as a normal sheet metal part, you’d be welding and angle grinding so you might lose money on this part.
We want to avoid this. With CADMAN-SDI we can automate the manufacturability check. The part we just saw would be included in the first check, just to check on the geometry. Try to unfold the part and if it can be unfolded properly, we know it's a correct, properly drawn sheet metal part. Next, we check material and thickness.
Then we do a manufacturability check: with your machines, with your tooling, with your press brakes in the database. This part, for example, is rejected. If we take a look at the parts, you can see it's a U feature, so it's a U bend with very long legs. Our gut feeling tells us the part will collide with the RAM.
The next part is more difficult. We see that the manufacturability check is okay but no bending solution has been found. It's not immediately clear why, so we can open this part in CADMAN-B and check the simulation. Right now the simulation is finished. We can advance the simulation to the next collision and then the system will show us where the collision occurred. Here we see that this part collides with the RAM. The solution right now is very clear. Just call the customer and ask if you can work something out. So by automating the manufacturability check you can protect your production and only put parts in production that you know for sure you can produce.
That’s it for this session of Wizards of Flow. See you in the next one.