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3DQUICKPRESS SOLIDWORKS IN TOOLING INDUSTRIESPrecision Tool & Stamping, Inc.C U S T O M E R S S AT I S FA C T I O N I S T H E F I R S T P R I O R I T YPrecision Tool & Stamping, Inc. (PTS) isprice. I kept on monitoring the innovation infashion, but, with 3DQuickPress, I can nowlocated in a rural area of Clinton, NorthCAD software.finish the job much faster. The overall gain inCarolina, where you can find more tobaccosoftware was back in 1997. I read the variousproductivityfields than precision die shops. PTS is a locallyCAD magazines, and I realized SolidWorksimplementedowned company which controls the completewas getting very popular in the mechanicalSolidWorks environment. 3DQuickPress makesdie design to production process.design industries.everything a lot faster.My first purchase of 3DIt was easy to learn andwasalmost30%3DQuickPressafterintoImyeasy to use. We invested in the first seat thatPTS now uses over 23 world-class punchyear and I started to test the feasibility ofStrip layout design today is much easier. Holepresses ranging from 15 to 600 tons. Aapplying only SolidWorks to do the die designseries design is much quicker. User-definedcompletely equipped CNC facility is equippedjob in a timely fashion. The learning curve forfeatures in 3DQuickPress added value toto produce the dies to serve customers fromme was almost three months to get myselfSolidWorks for all of our design projects. In myindustries like electronics, electrical appliances,competent to use SolidWorks to do the dielast 12 months of daily use of 3DQuickPress, Ilawnmowers, furniture and parts used in outerdesign.found the distribution and support teamspaces. PTS has a very strong commitment tosupporting 3DQuickPress resellers in Northoffer the best service, designs and productsAmerica, Strategic Technology Solutions, isavailable. In order to achieve this, PTS needsgreat to work with. Their working attitude is theto react extremely fast to customer needsright solution to serve these very competitivewithout any errors. This is the ultimate goal ofindustries.” Tart Lee grows with the US metalany conventional die shop. Being an ISO9000manufacturing industry and has devoted overcertified company, PTS understands very well33-years in his career to apply new methods tothat communicating the metal die design in 3Dmake the US metal industries remain the mostat the earliest stage is extremely important tocompetitive entities in the world market. Whileavoid errors in production. PTS is committedthe world metal manufacturers are stillto spend much time and money to explore newmethods in die design.debatingthe benefits of using 3D for dieDieset design with 3DQuickPress.design, Tart has shown leadership to the worldI understood that there were no standard 3Dby his success in producing quality die designsTart Lee is the owner of PTS. HavingCAD tools to handle our specific needs in toolin 3D.committed himself in the die making industrydesign.for 33 years, Tart was a pioneer in applyingavailable in 3D CAD to finish my design.STS worked extensively with Precision Tool &computer- aided-drafting tools to the industrySolidWorks helped me complete the design inStamping during the first 12 months of theirback in 1987.“Initially, I tried to do the die3D, although it required more time than my3DQuickPress implementation. This successfuldesign in 2D CAD. There were problems andprevious 2D design approach. Using 3Dpartnership helped both Precision Tool andissues in the new tools. I had to go back to theSolidWorks was justified because it reduces3DQuickPress to further develop new designdrawing board to finish the job. It took severalerrors in the concept phase of the die design.methods and techniques for 3D progressive dieyears for me to try out new software tools.Today, we cannot afford to make errors whichdesign. The level of automation and reuse ofI moved back and forth between the computerresult in loss of time and reduced profit”. Tartdata has made the traditional 3D modelingand drawing board before I finally made thekept searching for better tools to speed upapproaches of other CAD solutions obsolete.migration from manual drafting to 2D CAD.SolidWorks for die design projects. He decided3DQuickPress is rapidly becoming the newto buy 3DQuickPress, a new solution partner ofcatalyst for design success in the metal formingIn 1991, I settled down in choosing AutoCADSolidWorks in progressive die design in Marchand stamping industries.as the design tool. I did make a number of2004 from a local SolidWorks reseller locatedmacros in the system to automate thein North Carolina. “After I got the training at therepetitive works which our die design needs3DQuickPress training center, I knew that Ithat cannot be found in a generic 2D CADmade the right decision to buy this newsystem. The world is changing and theproduct. Of course, I can manage to finish allindustries demand more in terms of speed andmy work in SolidWorks alone in a qualityI had to adapt to using the tools3

Best-in-classT OOL D EESSIGNI GN S OLUTIONOLU TIONUse The Power of 3D DesignKey Features:Powerful unfoldUser friendly strip layout moduleEfficient die set designOutput industrial grade drawings for manufacturingStandard & user definable components without programming

3DQUICKPRESS SOLIDWORKS IN TOOLING INDUSTRIESGodrej Tooling DivisionS E L EC T I N G 3 D Q U I C K P R ES S A S T H E TO O L D ES I G N P L AT FO R M FO R T H E N E X T D EC A D ELEADING TOOLING COMPANY IN INDIAcastings for automotive sectors, and various other segments. In the recentThe company caters to tooling needs of International quality. Thedecades, Godrej Tooling has been the pioneer in applying innovativeCompany is an ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 & OHSAS 18001:1999tooling technologies to India like CNC machines, workstation CAD/CAM,certified establishment, Certified by TUV-NORD, Germany and belongingparametric design technologies, etc.to world-wide well knownAssembly shop (Press tool) of GodrejGODREJ GROUP which isSEARCHING FOR THE BEST-IN-CLASS TOOL DESIGNoveroldWithin their sheet metal design group, they had been using 6 seats ofhaving a wide spectrum ofPro-E and 12 seats of AutoCAD. They planned to replace AutoCAD in aengineering and consumerperiod of 2 years with new tool design software which would satisfy theirproductsMachineneeds for progressive die design as well as other varieties of tools. GodrejTools/ProcessEquipment,was expanding their business of large progressive dies for the exportRefrigerators,Washinghundredlikeyearsmarket in parallel to the expansion of new design facilities.Machines, Office Equipment,Locks, IT Products, Soaps, Foods, Electric Motors, Construction etc. andenjoying reputation for excellent service after sales. Godrej Group is one teredatPirojshanagar in Vikhroli, Mumbai. The group is worth US 1.875 billion in2008. The Godrej Tooling is one of the largest and most sophisticated toolrooms in India. Established in 1935, the company has grown to one of themost organized and professionally managed tool room facilities capable ofhandling any challenge in design, manufacture, and testing of any kind oftool.Progressive die design process become fluent with 3DQuickPress.The email arrived at 3D QuickTools Ltd. on Feb. 3rd, 2005 from Godrejstated, “We are large Tool Room in the business of design & manufacturingof sheet metal stamping dies (all varieties). We are looking for a CADsolution for designing progressive and stage dies. Please send us thecontact details of a representative in INDIA,” After some discussion,Godrej manufactures mainly on stamping tools and die casting die.3DQuickPress was found to be the latest contender in their evaluationprocess. Godrej finished their benchmarking exercise with the progressiveThe product Line includes Stamping Tools, Die Casting Dies, Vaccumdie solutions from vendors like TopSolid and VISI.Forming Moulds. Impressive client list from India and abroad containsToyota, Honda, Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra, General Motors,SUPPORT OF SOLIDWORKS LOCAL RESELLERTata, etc; and local OEM’s. Wagon Automotive, Valeo, Benteler, LebarioWith a very short time frame and no representative in India, 3D QuickToolsbeing some of the European Clients. North American Clients like, LibertyLtd. could not deliver on-site demonstration to Godrej. Through the help ofSteel, Mercury Marine, Midwest stamping are some to name a few.TypesSolidWorks Asia Pacific and Addonix, SolidWorks reseller in Mumbai, aof press tools made by Godrej include transfer tools, progressive tools,complete customer profile was revealed to 3D QuickTools. To better serveautomobile panel tools, lamination dies and flexible punching tools. In dieGodrej in the tooling context, Godrej would negotiate the deal directly withcasting they are specialized in HPDC (250T to 2500T), Low & gravity die3D QuickTools with strong emphasis in training and support.5

3DQUICKPRESS SOLIDWORKS IN TOOLING INDUSTRIESGodrej Tooling DivisionS E L EC T I N G 3 D Q U I C K P R ES S A S T H E TO O L D ES I G N P L AT FO R M FO R T H E N E X T D EC A D EINTERNET: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIESBeing a subscriber of Webex since 2004, 3D QuickTools worked out aThe contribution of internet was significant, especially in the areas ofsmooth web meeting with Godrej Tooling. In 2005, 3D QuickTools wasafter-sales support. The technical support team in 3D QuickTools was ableamong the early birds to use Webex webmeeting to conduct businessto understand the problems of Godrej on the usage of 3DQuickPressdiscussion and technical demonstration over internet. After we fixed somethrough email, ftp, and webmeeting. The support frequency wasminor setup issues of computer speakers, microphone, and internetdiminishing while Godrej’s tooling engineers became competence in usingndconnection, a formal webmeeting was conducted on March 2 .3DQuickPress. Godrej planned to have the initial period of theWe demonstrated the full functions of 3DQuickPress over a distance of 4,3DQuickPress deployment focused on customization and automation306 kilometer and a time difference of 3.5 hours. By the time, Godrej hadworkflow to their tooling environment. Substantial custom libraries wereinstalled a big bandwidth to cater for their international business which wasinitially built to path their future 3D efficiency.exceptional in India by that time. Godrej was satisfied with the firstdemonstration. It gave the basic understanding to Godrej’s tool designersthe workflow of 3DQuickPress. Godrej started to conduct X-ray onGODREJ EXPANDED MORE3DQuickPress.By mid of 2007, Godrej Tooling expanded their usage of 4 seats of3DQuickPress to 8 seats. Being the largest Indian tooling company usingmany SolidWorks and 3DQuickPress seats, the export business ofautomotive parts was increased steadily. Apart from this production designenvironment of 3DQuickPress /SolidWorks,Godrejmaintainsvarious CAD systems like 2 seatsof Catia, & 6 seats of Pro/E. Thisfacilitates Godrej to take jobs indifferent CAD formats.TodayGodrej’s8seatsof3DQuickPress and SolidWorksProfessional are used in 2 shiftsadayeachwith16tooldesigners. They work round-theSome die sets of Godrej Tooling Division.clock to catch the tight toolingschedulemostmanufacturersAnother more specific demo was requested by Godrej to answer a list ofwant and also deliver on timetechnical specifics. This second live demo was scheduled on April 4th.every time. Godrej also investedIt took almost 5 hours which happened to be the longest live demo of 3DtheQuickTools. During the demo, further clarification was made on standardwith lots of memory and bestlibraries, customization tools, Godrej specific standards, hole charts ingraphics for their tool designers.drawing, specific drawing views, BOM customization, library driven punchThis is the reason why top worldclearances, and dimensioning practices in tooling industries. On the nextbrands are delighted to be theday, the respond from Vinay J. Gandhi, General Manager & Headcustomers of Godrej Tooling.Engineering stated, “Our impression regarding the software is good.” Afteranother round of questions and answers in deeper level on the features of3DQuickPress, Godrej determined to install 4 seats of 3DQuickPress.A visit was invited to their plant on June 29th to discuss on theimplementation of 3DQuickPress, number of initial seats, and training.Contract was officially completed on July 28th and one week training wasconducted in early September.6top-of-the-line workstationsThe checklist composed over 30 specifictechnical features of 3DQuickPress.

3DQUICKPRESS SOLIDWORKS IN TOOLING INDUSTRIESResearch Tool & Die Works, Inc.M A N U FAC T U R E R O F M A R I N E E L EC T R I C A L SYSTE M S H A R DWA R Eto do die design. My goal is to use SolidWorksnatural to me. Having achieved the firstas a day-to-day design tool. 3D part filemilestone in using 3D tool design, we are nowcommunication is emerging as a standardvery confident to share the skill sets with ourcommunicationtool design department. “A new user ofprotocolbetweenourcustomers.3DQuickPress will achieve competence withinone or two months in our company. The3DQuickPress helps RTD to increase productiverate by introducing a 3D design environment.SolidWorks is a good common interface, and toefficiency we have gained using 3DquickPressuse it in the downstream application such asis incomparable. Before having 3DQuickPress,tool design is our next logical step. If we keepwe could hardly finish a tool design in 3D. Inon using the same approach without change,the last six months, we managed to completewe will lose out. Speeding up the productionmore than ten projects using 3DQuickPress.time is not an option. We managed to completethis 2D to 3D transition in a year.” RT&D is afull service shop housing tooling, press, andResearch Tool & Die Works (RT&D) is aproduct services departments, and a staff forcemanufacturing firm with over fifty yearsof over seventy. “In the stamping industry, theexperiencesystemsturnover rate is less than four years. Most ofhardware. Their modern plant in Carson, Losour staff have been working at RT&D overAngeles, California, serves as the corporatetwelve years and many of them have beenheadquartershere for over twenty ing facility. It houses some of themostadvancedfabricationequipmentavailable. RT&D provides competitive dieThe final die set.design and metal stampings such as cabletrays, degaussing cable hangers, EMI Bonding3DQuickPress brings to RT&D not just a 3Dhardware, light hangers, stuffing tubes, anddesign tool, itself is a 5D design process,”more.shared Robert Konczal, President of STS, thedistributor of 3DQuickPress in North America.Kevin Perrault, Vice President of RT&D,“Stampingindustriestodayneed3Dacquired the 3DQuickPress software in April,communication and design power, plus 2D2005. “Manufacturing in US and California hasmachining and production environment.declined a lot in the last ten years. With goodMachinists in CNC workshop.ideas and experience in stamping, we continue“The rich contents of 3DQuickPress enable ourto grow and expand our business coverage“Our experience and modern manufacturingcustomers to solve their design problem in aaround the world. Being a global player in thetechnologies are the foundations of ourgoodmetal stamping industry, we have to be fast,success. We started to use Mazak fifteen yearsProduction-ready-libraries, auto drafting, andaccurate, and cost effective. We are using allago. Since that time, we have kept the steadyautomated assemblies are put together inpossible technologies to enable us to be fasterincrease of CNC machines in terms of number3DQuickPress to provide our users a highand better than our competition. Before Iand precision. To optimize our labor cost, weperformance mode. It is not difficult to achievestarted working full-time at RT&D, the companyincreased the use of progressive stampingsa time reduction of 75% in tool design after ourhad invested in SolidWorks software.many years ago.Today, my die design iscustomers have migrated completely into abalanceof3Dand2D.created 100% as 3D and we are in a much3DQuickPress production design environment.”In a testing period of six months, the toolbetter position in utilizing our CNC machines.Kevindesigner learned how to use the software andOur next step is to promote the 3D tool designProduction-Ready-Libraries, we manage totried to apply it in tool design jobs. Theapproach to all our tool designers. I am comingcomplete a die design process within a fewintricacy of the software is good for partsfrom a background of computer graphics.hours. That same process used to take us adesign, but requires much more specializationUsing 3DQuickPress in SolidWorks is verycouple of weeks using a 2D approach.”agreed,“Bymakinguseof7

3DQUICKPRESS SOLIDWORKS IN TOOLING INDUSTRIESBermo, IncBERMO IMPROVES DIE DESIGN THROUGHPUT AND ACCURACY WITHIN SOLIDWORKS AND 3D QUICKTOOLS“ As designers, we’re able to do a largervolume of work and eliminate human error.As a company, we’re also making betteruse of our materials. The overall result is asignificant improvement in performance.”Jay Suhsen,Manufacturing Engineer, Bermo, Inc.Wi reframe l ow er di e set.If it starts out as sheet metal, Bermo Inc. makes it, whether it’s a staircase“You can’t afford to stack up a lot of errors,” says Suhsen. “The flat blankleading up to a Kenworth cab, a fan shroud for a Detroit auto maker, or anyneeds to be very precise, and we don’t have time to develop multipleof a multitude of stamped, bent, punched, pressed, and extruded parts thatprototypes.”go into Toro mowers, Polaris snowmobiles, or John Deere tractors.Getting the flat blank right used to take an hour and a half and the stripThe 26 million Circle Pines, Minn., company bids competitively for thislayout two to three hours for a typical straightforward part. It required a lotwork and profits when it can perform more efficiently and intelligently thanof checking afterwardand still allowed human error. Since there is no timeits global competitors. In 2006, these imperatives led the company to adoptfor prototypes, Bermo would start production and check the first few parts.3D CAD software from SolidWorks Corporation and 3D tool & die designIf they were okay, the press would keep running. If not, it was time tosoftware from 3D QuickTools Ltd.redesign the part and hopefully cut losses.These tools help Bermo deal with the complexity in manufacturing parts as“Today, with SolidWorks and 3DQuickPress software, the flat blank canostensibly simple as, say, a bracket for a snowmobile suspension system.take less than a minute, the strip layout under an hour, and there are noAlthough the order comes to Bermo as a 3D CAD model, the physical parterrors,” says Suhsen. “3DQuickPress takes a part model designed inwill start out as a length of rolled sheet metal – steel, aluminum, brass, orSolidWorks and virtually unfolds it on the computer screen into the flatcopper – run progressively through a series of dies in massive pressesblank. It unfolds models that most CAD programs couldn’t. We don’t spendapplying up to 600 tons of force on the Bermo factory floor.time checking and double-checking any more because we haven’t found asingle case where 3DQuickPress unfolding has been wrong. It’s just rightTHE MANY FACETS OF UNFOLDING DESIGNSthe first time.”Manufacturing engineers like Bermo’s Jay Suhsen need a way to virtuallyunfold the design into a strip that can be cut from the rolled sheet metal.ECONOMY MATTERSThey need to lay out the strip in a way that makes the most economical useThe flat blank is only step one. The next step is virtually positioning multipleof materials; create the tooling that will precisely bend, punch, stamp,flat blanks on the unrolled sheet so they make the best use o

needs for progressive die design as well as other varieties of tools. Godrej was expanding their business of large progressive dies for the export market in parallel to the expansion of new design facilities. The email arrived at 3D QuickTools Ltd. on Feb. 3rd, 2005 from Godrej stated, “We are large Tool Room in the business of design & manufacturing of sheet metal stamping dies (all .

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