Design office – CAE

Design office – CAE

FORGINAL medical, your supplier for forgings

The task of the design office is to transform your drawings of finished parts into drawings of as-forged parts.

Each customer part is reproduced in 3D using Solidworks™ in order to incorporate the information needed to manufacture in the forging process. Various technical points are checked at this stage (draft, radii, parting lines, dimensional tolerances, form tolerances, etc.).

After validation by the customer of the forging drawing, the design office designs the various tools required at each stage of the production process. The machining path for the creation of each forging tool is simulated to ensure the best possible appearance after forging.

How is a tool prepared ?

The rules for designing a forging tool are not limited to a single forming cavity. An in-depth study is necessary in order to :

Project manager

The project manager is a member of the CAE team. He/she is responsible for your project from beginning to end, from the design of your part right through to its series production.

CAE team

There are 5 people in the design office.
They are all trained in the use of design and machining software.
They all have technical qualifications and have at least 5 years’ professional experience.

CAE equipment

• In-house data sheets :

These are FORGINAL medical’s in-house rules for designing tools. They are a mixture of traditional forging rules and FORGINAL medical‘s specialist skills, capitalising on knowledge gained from the company’s 35 years’ experience.

• SOLIDWORKS™ software
• MASTERCAM™ software
• FORGE 4™ software