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Stamping Tutor

 

Overview

The Stamping Tutor helps students understand the relationship between sheet metal part designs and equired stamping stations. The student creates a design on a blank metal part and the tutor constructs the necessary animated stamping stations. The Tutor identifies design issues such as dissimilar features, closely spaced features, narrow cutouts and projections and bends.

It demonstrates how many stamping stations are needed for each design through both 2D and 3D animations. Then the student designs a part within an interactive environment, see Figure 3. Using an underlying internal representation of rules, the Tutor dynamically generates an animation of the proper number of moving stamping stations required to build the part. The Tutor also provides a non-intrusive critique explaining why the features chosen may result in an inefficient design. Currently, a cross-platform introduction, an interactive tutor, and 3D animations of stamping processes are available for distribution.

Details

It demonstrates how many stamping stations are needed for each design through both 2D and 3D animations. Then the student designs a part within an interactive environment, see Figure 3. Using an underlying internal representation of rules, the Tutor dynamically generates an animation of the proper number of moving stamping stations required to build the part, see Figure 4. The Tutor also provides a non-intrusive critique explaining why the features chosen may result in an inefficient design. Currently, a cross-platform introduction, an interactive tutor, and 3D animations of stamping processes are available for distribution.

Authors / Developers

Corrado Poli
Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering

Beverly Woolf, Ryan Moore, Nick Steglich
Department of Computer Science


University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Funding

This works was supported by an ARPA Technology Reinvestment Project administered as National Science Foundation grant No. EEC-9410393 to the Engineering Academy of Southern New England (EASNE), project no. UMA-UGC3-ITD2.