15 Sheet Metal—Soft Tooled

15 Sheet Metal—Soft Tooled

The Sheet Metal process group lets you estimate manufacturing times and costs for a wide variety of sheet metal fabrication processes and subsequent machining operations. This chapter covers all processes that do not require hard tooling. For information on other sheet metal processes, see the chapters Sheet Metal—Hard Tooled, Sheet Metal--Hydroforming, Sheet Metal—Transfer Die, and Sheet Metal—Stretch Forming.

The chapter includes the following sections:

• Cost Model Overview

• GCD Extraction

• Feasibility and Routing

• Cost Algorithms and Calculations

• User Inputs

• Process Defaults and Thresholds

• Design-to-cost Configuration for Sheet Metal