SHEET METAL Automatic Feature Recognition

Sheet Metal Automatic Feature Recognition is a backbone for the development of on-demand solutions for the sheet metal manufacturing industry. It's the right solution for whose who is working on a shop floor automation and looking for an API to:

question a CAD model if it’s a sheet metal part
question a CAD model about its manufacturing features
turn a CAD model into a flat pattern (unfolding) and drawings
… and many other handy things

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PRE/POST-PROCESSING

Automatic detection of specific surface types in a CAD model is an essential aspect of feature recognition, so in Sheet Metal Automatic Feature Recognition we imply the advanced algorithms for geometry processing such as canonical conversion, face maximization and realignment of a part based on the recognized features.

MANUFACTURABILITY

Among thousands of sheet metal parts you face quite a significant number that are designed with no manufacturing process in mind, and as a result, such products cannot be produced. Flat patterns self-overlapping, non-conventional variable thickness, mismatching bends, missing bend reliefs, and not appropriate distance of the closest cutting line to the bend are just some of the reported anomalies.

PROPERTIES

Sheet Metal Automatic Feature Recognition calculates all possible properties you might need to estimate a manufacturing cost.

A component: processing type, mass-inertia properties, volume, area, dimensions, total cutting length, number of cutting contours, tube length, and others.
Recognized features: cutouts type and cutting length, holes’ diameter and depth, tubes’ axes, bends’ axes, directions and angles, clearance and distances and many more.
A flat pattern: oriented and axis-aligned flat pattern width and length, outer contour area.

How it works

On-boarding AFR in minutes

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Get results

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Run Processing

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Pass your
CAD Assembly

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Our commitment to excellence is backed by rigorous testing and benchmarking:

Regular performance audits against each commit.
Continuous optimization based on real-world usage cases.
Transparent performance metrics and reporting.

We've been engineering our algorithms to deliver exceptional performance that sets new industry standards. Our cutting-edge solutions process data with remarkable efficiency, ensuring faster results without compromising accuracy.

Performant & Sustainable

Utilize SDK’s capabilities on desktop and in the cloud. Directly embed into C++, C#, or run in a separate process from any other language.

Deploy anywhere

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