3D CAD modeling of deep drawing tools based on a new graphical language

ABSTRACT

Increasing diversity of types and decreasing batch sizes along with a growing complexity of products manufactured by forming technology result in new challenges for developers and designers. The construction of a full parametric model of a deep drawing tool in a 3D CAD system is usually considered time-consuming and associated with high cost, and thus discourages many designers. In order to render this type of modeling easier and faultless, a new method for the model-driven design of deep drawing tools is developed. For this purpose the analysis of fully parametric 3D CAD models of deep drawing tools is necessary. This analyzing contributes to the newly developed graphical domain-specific language, which makes the modeling of deep drawing tools more flexible and time-efficient.

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS:

• parametric modeling
• graphical domain-specific language
• metal forming

ORCID

Sergej Koch http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5444-0656

Bernd-Arno Behrens http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6845-9975

Sven Hübner http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6552-5201

Robert Scheffler http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3015-0099

Gregor Wrobel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4234-0794

Matthias Pleßow http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1184-1967

David Bauer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1694-356X

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the financial support of the research project “Method for the Model-Driven Design of Deep Drawing Tools” (project numbers BE 1691/164-1 and PL 706/1-1).