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Benefits And Features
Optimize design, feasibility and costing of sheet metal components.
All-in-one evaluation
Combine sheet metal part design, feasibility evaluation, material and tooling cost evaluation, process planning, and stamping simulation into one effective software solution.
Quick analysis
Utilize a fast and accurate method for creating and documenting process plans, verifying formability, developing blank shapes and coil nests, evaluating springback, and identifying product and process design changes in the early design stages that lead to substantial cost reductions.
Integrity of quotations
Cost Engineers can verify that suppliers are using material efficiently and charging market price based on production tooling costs (target costing).
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Reduce sheet metal spend and tooling costs
FTI FormingSuite is the premier cost engineering, early feasibility, and virtual process validation software for sheet metal components. It empowers engineers to design quality products the first time, optimizing material and tooling costs.
Frequently Asked Questions
FormingSuite 2021 System Requirements
This article outlines the system requirements for various FormingSuite configurations.
Error when generating Excel reports from FormingSuite
This article explains how to resolve the error message "Programmatic access to Office VBA project is denied" or "Error 1004 - Programmatic access to the Visual Basic Project is not trusted" when creating reports from FormingSuite.
How to configure FormingSuite 2021 to use MSC One Licensing
FormingSuite does work with MSC One licensing. However, additional manual configuration steps are required. With a default installation, FormingSuite will only look for a conventional FTI license. This article outlines the required steps.
FormingSuite freezes or crashes when opening, creating new projects, or displaying results plots, or runs slowly
FormingSuite should not crash during opening, new project creation, closing projects or when displaying results. Slow graphics performance, model rotation and/or slow overall performance may also be caused by the same issue. This article will discuss how to remedy this issue.
Problems installing or starting the FTI license server (non-MSC One)
This article outlines a number of potential solutions to problems starting an FTI license server for a floating FormingSuite license.
