Tips & Tricks

How to use Blank Holder functionality in PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5

This video shows how to use Blank Holder functionnality to create mono surface Blank Holder shapes and combination of several Blank Holder patches.

How to create a complex blank holder with PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5

This video shows how the complex blank holder of a double action draw die can be created from multiple segments using a combination of standard CATIA and special PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5 functions all available inside the Blank Holder dialog.

Improve trimming with Overshoot

Trimming in PAM-STAMP can fail due to a too short trimming segment curve leading to not cut properly the blank mesh. This can be solved by using Overshoot option in PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5.

PAM-STAMP solver 2018.0.1 - Troubleshooting

Recommended file exchange in case of unexpected solver stop without error message. MPI change in case plateform mpi issue in DMP

Conversion Files .fdb in .erfh5 on Network Drive

It is not straightforward to do the conversion Files .fdb in .erfh5 on Network Drive in Visual Viewer. In order to make it work properly, it is necessary to map network drive to the local machine. In this way, the files on network could be handled like on local machine and the conversion from fdb to erf will be working properly.

Trim and Shear Angles

Explanations about Trim and Shear Angles

Material Properties visualization

Check material properties on model

Smart computing with PAM-STAMP

Tips and tricks to reduce computational time for PAM-STAMP input files.

Cross Section Tool in Visual-SYSTUS

Cross-section creation becomes easy using the brand new Visual-SYSTUS cross-section tool !

Boundary Layer Mesh tool demonstration

Easily creating a connection between a tetramesh and an hexamesh is possible, using Boundary Layer Mesh tool.