3DQuickForm Certified as SolidWorks Gold Product

New Version 3 expands the forming simulation capabilities with rich results.

Hong Kong – 3D QuickTools Ltd. today announced 3DQuickForm certified as SolidWorks Gold Product. Together with 3DQuickPress, 3DQuickForm is the second product in the family becoming a SolidWorks Gold Product. The latest version, 3DQuickPress Version 3 is now available for the world market. Today there are over hundred metal stampers enjoying the benefits brought by 3DQuickForm since its introduction in 2005. Top up with new functions like unfolding undercut regions, equivalent stress/strain plot, and animation of forming and thinning process, 3DQuickForm will meet most of the forming calculation in die design phase as well as quotation preparation.

Today 3DQuickForm customers are mainly located in U.S.A., Canada, Germany, and Japan. The key industries they are serving include automobile parts and electronics. Over 90% of the users are existing 3DQuickPress users who need a highly integrated forming simulation workflow in tandem within the die design process. Users share the same appreciation 3DQuickForm is tightly integrated in SolidWorks environment to give a very intuitive user interface. SolidWorks Corporation also recently granted the Certified Gold Product status to 3DQuickForm. Many stamping companies have put 3DQuickForm simulation as the standard design procedure for every forming part because the tool crunches out result in seconds. It helps their sales operation to quickly develop the right stamping strategies for complex forming. Playback control of the forming and thinning animation allows users to deliver a very vivid presentation to their customers.

"User friendly as it can be, some of the best software that I have ever seen,” said Michael Moore, Exedy America. Beginning from 2006, Exedy America, the world leader of performance sports and racing clutches, started to use 3DQuickForm in the die design process for different clutch kit and transmission components.