Design your progressive tools with precision. Ensure every step is secure. Accelerate industrialisation.
The design of cutting and stamping tools requires the management of significant technical constraints right from the earliest stages: sheet metal unfolding, strip preparation, simulation, assembly and preparation for manufacture. Every decision has a direct impact on the quality, productivity and reliability of the final tool.
TopSolid’Progress is a leading solution for the design of cutting and stamping tools. It covers the entire process, from the sheet metal part to be produced right through to the complete tool, incorporating industry-specific constraints right from the design stage.
Designed to address the growing complexity of industrial parts, it combines automation, advanced parameterisation and digital continuity to ensure the reliability of design studies and accelerate development cycles.
Fully integrated into the TopSolid ecosystem, it ensures seamless continuity with the design, manufacturing and technical data management modules.
Why choose TOPSOLID?
Speed up your design process
Automate critical design stages, from sheet metal unfolding to the creation of blanks and complete tooling.
Reduce design errors
Benefit from a robust parametric architecture linking part, strip and tooling to ensure your technical choices are secure.
Secure your projects
Work with centralised, traceable and controlled data thanks to native PDM integration.
Maximise the value of your expertise
Free up teams from repetitive tasks to refocus efforts on design and innovation.
TopSolid'Progress Features
Data Exchange
TopSolid'Progress opens and works with most types of CAD Data.
- Read Native and Neutral Formats
- Catia v4, Catia v5-6, Creo, NX
- Solidworks, Inventor, SolidEdge
- Parasolid, STEP, IGES
- Specific features to repair, clean and analyze imported geometries
- Conversion into sheet metal, identification of thickness and bends
Strip Layout Design
TopSolid'Progress makes Strip Layout Design easier with a set of specific Features:
- Unbending with loss management, global or local unstamping
- Specialized punching operation
- Bending and forming management
- Step-by-step calculation of intermediate unstamping steps
- Calculation of Forces
3D Tooling Features
TopSolid'Progress improves your design productivity with dedicated Tooling features:
- Die Base creation
- Cutting Punches and Dies
- Bending Punches and Dies, with overbending management
- Forming Punches and Dies
- Springs Wizard
Smart Components
TopSolid'Progress provides Smart Components libraries of major manufacturers
- MDL, Fibro
- Hasco, Meusburger, Rabourdin, DME Europe
- PCS, Progressive, DME Inch
- Futaba, Misumi
Smart Components make their own operations and features, called "Processes", ready to manufacture with TopSolid'Cam
Simulation
TopSolid'Progress provides specific kinematics features to animate and control Tooling movements.
- Visualize the complete open/close cycle of the Tool
- Check for possible collisions before going into Production
- Simulate precisely all type of Tool movements
- Punches, Stripper
- Angular Cams
- Gears, Racks, Hydraulic Cylinders
Documents for Manufacturing
TopSolid'Progress creates all necessary production-ready documents, such as:
- 2D Drawings
- Strip Layout views, punching areas, pilot holes, operations notes
- Specific "Open Book" Tooling Views
- Detailed views (dimensions, tolerances, drilling tables, ...)
- Accurate Bill of Materials:
- List of parts to manufacture
- List of components to buy
- Automatic Indexing
- Exploded Assemblies with Mounting/Dismounting steps
Integrated PDM
TopSolid'Progress is natively integrated with TopSolid'Pdm, providing a unique user experience.
- One Application, One User Interface
- Improves collaboration between sites, teams, and people.
- Reduces the risk of design and manufacturing errors.
- Manages Revisions of all types of documents (part, strip design, progressive die, etc.).
- Secure access to data (user's rights) and tracks all changes.
- Find documents by criteria, by references, by use cases.
Optimize your Production
TopSolid'Progress is directly connected to TopSolid'Cam and TopSolid'Wire.
Perfect integration between design department and the manufacturing department.
- TopSolid solutions are 100% compatible with each other
- Associative and parametric, no interoperability problems
- Easy to implement and flexible
- Work in a secure and collaborative environment
Find the Right TOPSOLID Solution for Your Business
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