An innovative solution for rapid stamping tool design within CATIA V5

ESI Group (ISINFR0004110310), a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes, announced today the new release of PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5, seamlessly integrated workbench providing a trade-oriented solution for rapid stamping tool design.

PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5 version 2009 allows users to quickly evaluate the part’s formability thanks to its rapid and iterative parametric approach. It generates a realistic simulation model and a unique high quality surface model, thus efficiently supporting the die design process from early feasibility to machining.

The solution takes full benefit of the seamless integration of advanced simulation algorithms within CATIA V5, allowing a rapid surface design, in particular the binder surface and the die addendum starting from the part, based on parametric generative modeling. “It reinforces the collaborative engineering approach within the continuous improvement process,” declared Mark Vrolijk, Diemaker Product Manager at ESI Group. “The solution combines the benefits from rapid surfacing techniques with the accuracy, precision of surface quality and efficiency of CATIA‘s data management. As a consequence, version 2009 ensures a consistent, safe and traceable geometric dataflow from the part’s CAD model to the PAM-STAMP 2G physics-based simulation environment. This software is distributed and supported by ESI and Dassault Systèmes PLM Market Place network”.

“For SEAT’s Prototype Center of Development (CPD), the release of tools integrated into CATIA V5 such as PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5, allows a rapid and accurate development of die design,” declared Javier Diaz Martinez, Manager of the Prototype Center of Development (CPD) at SEAT S.A. “It is very valuable to be able to perform the appropriate geometrical changes and to have these evolutions simultaneously available for machining within CATIA. This represents a tremendous advantage in terms of productivity as well as for the final quality of our design, giving us the opportunity to perform our work in a common environment during all process phases.”

PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5 version 2009 is an update of the first industrial version developed in 2008. A number of new key features and improvements have been introduced to improve user-friendliness and automatic update of the model during design iteration.