Scarborough-based
Unison Ltd has announced that it will be launching Opt2Sim Tube — the latest addition to its Opt2Sim advanced tube simulation software suite at
Fabtech 2022, taking place 8-10 November in Atlanta, USA. Also highlighted will be the company’s latest ranges of electric and hybrid tube-bending machines. Visitors to the stand will also be able to enter a competition to win one of several Opt2Sim Tube software licenses.
Alan Pickering, Unison’s joint managing director, said: “In developing Opt2Sim Tube, our goal was to offer a tube simulation product that would make it simpler and more straightforward than ever before to create virtual parts ready for bending data to be uploaded to the bending machine.
“In Opt2Sim Tube, we give users the ability to drag and drop STEP files into the software program and extract tube data instantly. Parts can also be drawn by simply entering X/Y/Z or Y/B/C coordinates and then viewed in 3-D. Bend data is quickly converted into printable reports and individual tube data can also be extracted. An exceptional piece of tube simulation software, Opt2Sim Tube is incredibly intuitive.”
Unison’s new Opt2Sim Tube software sits within the company’s wider Opt2Sim suite of 3-D simulation software programs. Perfected for ‘Design to Manufacture’ production strategies, Opt2Sim tube-bending simulation software uses machine and component data to provide a precise, virtual insight into the tube-bending process before a single part is bent.
Enhanced collision detection Products within the Opt2Sim software suite include a version where both CAD modelling capability and control engine are used to not only provide accurate simulation, but also enhanced collision detection. Believed to provide unique capabilities for enhanced batch processing, simulated bending takes place on an exact CAD representation of the Unison Breeze or Synergy machine that will be used.
Mr Pickering concluded: “We are confident we now offer the most comprehensive suite of tube simulation software available. Unison Opt2Sim makes importing and extracting tube data easy and offers stepped software enhancements that take simulating the bending process, creating batch files and scanning tube coordinates to the next level.
“Opt2Sim provides users with a complete end-to-end solution, from taking 3-D STEP files to bending tube within a single software suite. Opt2Sim Tube Scan takes the functionality of measurement software further than ever before – and is competitively priced when compared to scanning arm technologies.”