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AutoForm R8.0.1 – Release Notes

AutoForm R8.0.1 – Release Notes .........................................................................................1

1 General Information.........................................................................................................2

2 Installation Instructions ....................................................................................................3

Front-End and Back-End Windows ..............................................................................3

Prerequisites ........................................................................................................3

Download of Installation Files ...............................................................................3

Installation ............................................................................................................4

Silent Installer Windows ...............................................................................................4

Back-End Linux ...........................................................................................................4

Download of Installation Files ...............................................................................4

Installation ............................................................................................................5

3 Release Content .............................................................................................................6

New Features .......................................................................................................6

Modified Features ................................................................................................6

Fixed Bugs ...........................................................................................................6

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1 General Information

AutoForm Forming R8.0.1 is the first released patch version of AutoForm Forming R8.

With the AutoForm Forming R8.0.1 patch several significant bugs in AutoForm Forming have
been fixed. For more detailed information, please refer to section 3 Release Content.

NOTE: It is mandatory to update front-end and back-end modules in order to ensure mutual
compatibility! There are no changes except bug fixes in AutoForm-Solver R8.0.1 which
means that simulation results are identical to those of AutoForm-Solver R8!

The compatibility of data files between AutoForm R8 and AutoForm R8.0.1 is bi-directional,
meaning that data files created with AutoForm R8.0.1 can be processed in AutoForm R8 and
vice versa.

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2 Installation Instructions

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is mandatory to update front-end and back-end modules in order to

ensure mutual compatibility!

Front-End and Back-End Windows

Prerequisites

The Windows patch installer updates a few files of the previously installed AutoForm Forming
R8. The patch installer will not change any configuration (installation folder, license server
configuration, etc.).

NOTE: It is essential that all AutoForm Forming R8 applications are closed before starting
the patch installation!

Download of Installation Files

1. Start AutoForm Forming R8.

2. Right click on title bar of AutoForm Forming R8 window and select the command Check
for Updates….

3. AutoForm Software Updates download page is opened in the internet browser.

4. Select the link to download AutoForm Forming R8.0.1 Windows 64 bit patch installation
file.

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Installation

1. Download the installation file AutoForm Forming R8.0.1 Patch Installer EN.zip as
described above.
2. Log in using an administrator account.
3. Unzip the installation file.
4. Execute file AutoForm R8.0.1 Patch.exe.
5. Select Install in the Welcome dialog.
6. Depending on your user account control level, you are asked for administrator privileges.
7. After the patch installation is finished, quit the installer by clicking on the Finish button.

Silent Installer Windows

Command line for the patch installer:

msiexec /I "[AF_PATCH].msp" /quiet /passive /qn /norestart
LIC_HOST="[LIC_SERVER_VAR]" LIC_HOST="[LIC_SERVER_VAR]"
MAIN_INSTALL_LANG="[ProductLanguage]" REINSTALLMODE="ecmus"
SINGLE_INSTALL="set" /L*V [TempFolder]debug_patch_R8.log

Example:
msiexec /I "AutoForm Forming R8.0.1 Patch Installer.msp" /quiet /passive /qn /norestart
LIC_HOST="2375@licenseservername" LIC_HOST="F" MAIN_INSTALL_LANG="1033"
REINSTALLMODE="ecmus" SINGLE_INSTALL="set" /L*V
[TempFolder]debug_patch_R8.log

Back-End Linux

NOTE: It is essential that all AutoForm Forming R8 applications are closed before starting
the patch installation!

Download of Installation Files

Open AutoForm Updates download page in your internet browser:
http://www.autoform.com/en/products/software-updates/

1. AutoForm Software Updates download page is opened in the internet browser.

2. Select the link to download AutoForm R8.0.1 Linux 64 bit patch installation file.

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Installation

1. Download the installation file AFForming_R8_0_1_Remote_Linux64.tar.gz as described

above.

2. Login in as root

3. Create the AutoForm installation directory (in the following /opt/AutoForm/AFplus is

assumed to be the installation directory, but any directory will do)
mkdir –p /opt/AutoForm/AFplus

4. Copy the archive into the AutoForm installation directory:

cp AFForming_R8_0_1_Remote_Linux64.tar.gz /opt/AutoForm/AFplus

5. Unpack the archive in the AutoForm installation directory:

cd /opt/AutoForm/AFplus
tar zxvf AFForming_R8_0_1_Remote_Linux64.tar.gz

6. Run the installation script:

cd R8F/installation ./install [nobody|root]

For more information see Installation Guide R8.

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3 Release Content

New Features

The version R8.0.1 does not contain any New feature.

Modified Features

The version R8.0.1 does not contain any Modified feature.

Fixed Bugs

General

Export Results as solid Export sheet (Export>Results>Simulation>Add Mesh Format: AF)

as solid mesh in AF format crashed.

Application Menu>New With AF_LICENSE_TYPE_FORMING=N no additional window was

Window opened.

Kill jobs in queue Simulation jobs in the queue could not be killed.

Opening design Open design including material line projected along sheet boundary
including material line crashed.

Enlarge Designer area In seldom cases application does not work anymore after having
increasing Designer area by mouse.

Export and Re-Import Position of Trim Curves of Second Part was wrong after exporting
Trim Curves of Second and re-importing them again.
Part
Material Thickness in Material thickness in exported results file
Export>Results (PAM) (Export>Results>Simulation>Format/Type: PAM) contained too less
decimals.

Part

SOLIDWORKS 2019 SOLIDWORKS 2019 native files could not be imported into R8.

Step Import from Creo Tools imported in Step format from Creo were wrongly positioned.

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 Adding radius crashed Application crashed when adding a radius in Part stage>Modify
page.

Modifying radius Application crashed when modifying a radius in Part stage>Modify

crashed page.

Replace Part geometry Application crashed when changing tip point of the replaced part
and edit tip point geometry in Part stage.
crashed
Tab key on Tip page When editing the tip angle values using the tab key, the cursor is
not properly positioned on the Y field after changing the X field.

Material & Lubrication

Visibility of Encrypted Parameters of encrypted lubrication file were visible (e.g. on

Lubrication File Process Stage>PL>Lube) when doing the following steps:
Parameters
 Replace material file, with reference to encrypted
Lubrication file, by a Material file with no reference to an
encrypted Lubrication file or no reference at all
 Confirm "Keep Lubrication Definition?" with "Set to default"

Plan

Automatic Trim Plan in With Tool import and Process defined indicating Automatic Trim
Tool Import crashed Plan crashed.

Component Mounting Using R7 designs and activating Mounting Plate component (new in
Plate and R7 designs R8) resulted in random assignment of Mounting Plate to either each
OP or random shared between OP.
Now, Mounting Plate component is always shared thru Die set.

Component Mounting Reset function was applied for only one operation instead the whole
Plate and Sharing die. And Sketch view still had Mounting Plate component present.

Wrong Calculation for By choosing Mounting Plate Option in Die Set Settings for the
Milling Amount First Variant Cast, the calculation of first Pass Milling did not depend on
Pass for Component Mounting Plate Size and lead to result of 12 h for every setup.
Cast Mounting Plate

Wrong Tooling Settings The wrong options were removed from Production Line tab.
options within

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 Production Line

Part Replace within Strip If part replacement was done (with the same geometry) cost result
Concept (2 mirrored or 2 deviation was significant.
identical Parts)

Bend plan & Progressive When doing the following steps the first station in Bend plan is not
Dies - missing rotation of rotated as defined on Strip page, but as defined on Tip page:
Strip page for first
 Part stage
station o Import part geometry in Product coordinate system.
o Tip the part on tip page, assign material.
o Formchk>Bend Parts.
o Ceate strip concept.
 Plan stage
o Create Plan with ProgDie Press.
o Bend Plan>Unbend.

Bend Plan & symmetry Bend Plan didn`t work with symmetry options defined in Strip page.

Cutting tool for Blank Generation of cutting tools defined thru Blank Plan didn`t work.
Plan

Change Stitching After changing Stitching Distance value and update Formchk,
Distance & Plan stage flanges in Plan stage were not properly updated.

3D View for Blanking OP In symmetry cases only half view was shown in 3D View for
in symmetry cases Blanking OP.

Apply Tooling Size By using "Apply Tooling Size" during Setup the connection to the
interrupted Calculation database for calculating Machining Categories assignment got lost.
Routines This could lead to an inconsistent stati without having a chance to
identify the cause.

Wrong CNC-Machining User defined setting "Machining Category for CAM/Filler = large" in
category for component Tooling Cost Standard was not considered and therefore had no
CAM/Filler influence on milling costs. Cost were still based on "automatic", e.g.
small milling machine.

The effect of the bug on cost results: milling costs for component
CAM/Filler might have been too high.

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 Press Converter Press conversion caused wrong names in zip file. And property
"Press Actuation" was not converted in the same manner as it was
done in R7 press standard. This lead to different costs in R8.

Die Face

Displaying Reference Application crashed when reference binder was displayed before
Binder crashed trimming the part geometry in the Binder>Modify page.

Morph with Replace Application crashed when changing Morph Rigid Region strategy
option crashed from Modify to Replace .

Wiper flange bottom For small part geometry, the bottom radius of wiper flange tool was
radius not properly modeled.

Part boundary after Unexpected part boundary displayed after applying Trim function in
trimming DieFace>Modify page.

Blank

Embed/Nest - Pitch When nesting two blanks pitch in 2D plot (Blank

Dimension in Coil Plot stage>Embed/Nest) was shown doubled in size.
for nesting two blanks
Constraining line Constraining line (Blank stage>Outline>Constraints / Cut Outs)
were passed with wrong constraint conditions to Solver.

Process

Drawbead Curves Drawbead Curves have been wrongly shifted when

wrongly shifted
 Binder was curved
 Drawbead Curve>Edit...>Curve Editor "Drawbead": Some
control points (in Curve Editor) were not located/projected
on Binder, e.g. above binder surface
 Curve Editor "Drawbead">OK

Copy Drawbead crashed Copying Drawbead crashed when

 Design Standard with model "Profile Based 3D Bead &

Adaptive Line Bead" was defined as Standard or Default
and
 Drawbead model, which was copied, was also "Profile
Based 3D Bead & Adaptive Line Bead"

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 Copy symmetrical When symmetrical drawbead was copied position and restraining
Drawbead forces were wrong.

Editing Drawbead Restraining Forces of current segment were not updated.

Segment

R7 design with Step When R7 design with "Adaptive Line Beads" and Type "Step" was
beads opened and Model changed to "Profile Based 3D Bead" application
crashed.

Drawbead Cross Section Deleting "Drawbead Cross Section" in 3View might have caused
crash.

Update R7 design re- When R7 design, with pilot group, was updated in Die Face all
positions all pilots pilots were positioned in the center of coordinate system.

Evaluation

Backdraft analysis of Backdraft analysis did only work for tools on the imported side.
Tools did not work Offset Tools got only "No value".

Springback adjustment Crash occurred if best fit zone was defined completely outside the
with local best fit sheet. This could happen e. g. if the zone was defined on the
crashed imported geometry for progressive dies but not on the current
position of the sheet.

Layer options were Layer option did not work correctly to visualize (Ref) Surface Lows
blocked for (Ref) only on the upper or lower side of the sheet. Since the issue was
Surface Lows caused by a bad Evaluation Standard it might be necessary to Load
and Set an updated Evaluation Standard available in the new
R8.0.1 package.

Export Forces from Tool Columns "Position force work-dir ..." was shown in N instead of mm.
View

Reopen after labelling Crash occured when

Issues crashed
 Labels were set e. g. by "Issues All" or "Issues Current
Type" but one of the Issues was already cut off in the
current time step.
 Reopen design

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 Confusing behaviour of At Draw-In Containment Issues the behaviour of the labels was
Issue labels confusing (e. g. getting two labels at the same time or missing
information in an Issue label).
Now, the labels work correctly.

Adding an Issue crashed Application crashed when moving time slider while creating an
Issue.
Now, time slider is disabled as long as the Issue Definition dialogue
is open.

Inconsistent behaviour When calculating Skid Lines and changing time steps and Skid Line
of Undo after calculating parameters an Undo could lead to inconsistent visualization of Skid
Skid Lines Lines.

Standard (Yellow ) Result variable settings controlled by a Standard could become

indication of result yellow due to different internal handling of layers of result variables.
variables on Settings
page

Entering Draw-In page Crash occured when

crashed
 Reopen design while Solver was still running.
 Draw-In evaluation was already done for the drawing OP.
 After Solver has finished design was reopend again.
 Time step was set to the very last time step of a M-OP.
 Entering Draw-In page of the Evaluation stage.

FLD>Select History Crash occured when

crashed
 Select history of a sheet element (Evaluation
Stage>Splits>FLD Plot>Select History)
 Go to another Stage
 Go back to Evaluation Stage.

Solver

Writing data to restart Hemming simulation stopped when trying to write restart file. This
file failed problem occurred when using large complex inner parts with large
number of elements.

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Error in material routine: Simulation of a process stopped due to error in material routine.
Material integration The error occurred in different use cases:
failed
 in case of very thick sheet materials
 for hydromechanical processes
 when using kinematic hardening model
 in case of severely deformed material
 when using materials with very low value of strain-hardening
index

Unrealistic behavior of Usage of spacers in combination with columns and cushion pins
spacers in combination resulted in wrong behavior of binder model and unrealistic binder
with columns and pressure. The problem occurred when the resulting binder force
cushion pins was transferred off center, leading to some tilting of the tools.

Incorrect initial blank Initially generated blank mesh had too few elements. Control
element size parameters used to define the initial mesh are now respected.

Hotforming Solver Hotforming simulation with overlapping patchwork blank stopped

termination with without meaningful error message.
overlapping patchwork
blanks

Sigma

Loading Sigma standard Crash occurred when a Sigma standard file was used without
and enabling variations anything regarding material parameter variation and then enabled
from material file the option "Enable Sigma Variation from Material File" to define
crashed material parameter variations.

Sigma failed during The precomputation of the Draw-In analysis failed when computing
precomputation of Draw- mesh outlines of meshes which had extremely elongated triangles.
In This problem led to an endless loop later on during the Draw-In
precomputation.

False Sigma variable If a Sigma standard included the option "Enable Sigma Variations
color & change in color from Material Files" (but the material file did not include any
after pressing Cancel variation) was set no Sigma Variables were created as expected.
But after opening the Sigma Variables dialogue of these material
parameter variables and then clicking "Cancel" these Sigma
variables were colored in yellow as they would deviate from the
standard, although they did not.

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"Use Line DVs"-function The error was not always thrown on the first attempt but if the "Edit
cannot be applied due to Line DVs Limit" dialog box was opened and closed a few times this
error "Invalid Limits: Min error appeared. This occurred with multiple different values
>= Max." including the default (+/-100%).

"Use Line DVs"-function For the evaluation of a Sigma analysis the grouped drawbeads
highlighted different based on the "Use Line DVs"-function can be highlighted in 3D view
affected drawbeads by selecting the box on the right to the corresponding group name
on the Resolve-page. This highlighting did not show all the time the
correct drawbead segments.

No simulation results Sometimes several Realizations did not show simulation results and
and log information log information.

Issue label did not For the evaluation of a Sigma analysis the issue labels in 3D view
update the result contain the local process window and (after clicking the rotate
according to current button) the current value of the defined result variables according to
slider configuration the current slider settings on the Resolve-page. If this local process
window was displayed and slider settings were changed on Resolve
page the issue label showed all the time a constant value instead
the updated value.

Resolve page ignored On Resolve-page at the issues types the background traffic light
"Evaluation Areas" color showed the result based on the complete sheet instead only
for the "Evaluation Areas", which led to inconsistent result
representation.

No options in search bar In search bar on the "Simulation/Sigma" page the drop-down did
on Sigma log page not contain any options like "completed", "failed" etc.

Trimline Optimization

Trimline Optimization Trimline Optimization stopped at 4th iteration.

stopped

Trimline Optimization did For a very rare case, Trimline Optimization did not start with an
not start error message.

Trimline Optimization Trimline Optimization failed on Linux hosts due to invalid

failed on Linux modification of restart simulation input in previous locked
operations.

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Reporting

Report Manager - Reporting Views (Forming>Designer>Issues / Views>Views) did not

Reporting Views work.

Report Manager - Evaluation Limits were not available.

Evaluation Limits

Report to PowerPoint - Report to PowerPoint did not work for Office 2013 and Office 2016.
Office 2013/2016

QuickLink

Share via QuickLink... - When rotation order is different to XY'Z'' and this tipping information
Tipping information is transfered via AutoForm-QuickLinkforCATIA or AutoForm-
QuickLinkforNX to CATIA or NX, the resulting tipping direction is
wrong.

Share via QuickLink... - In some cases geometries, e.g. binder or reference geometry, were
unwanted geometries exported even it was not defined in QuickLink Export Standard.
exported

Progressive Dies

Export...>Geometry all In some cases, application crashed when exporting all tools.
tools crashed
Formchk>Draw Parts - For some materials patches in draw geometry in Formchk were
Missing patches missed.

Invalid Strip - Meshing Strip became invalid after changing Meshing Tolerance (Part
Tolerance stage>Import>Tolerances & Settings).

Invalid Strip - CATPart For some rare cases, imported Catia Part geometries (CATPart)
generated invalid strip layouts.

Invalid Strip - Margins Some margin values were not respected and resulted sometimes in
invalid strip layouts.

Current part after strip After optimization of strip layout current part became invisible.
optimization

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Symmetric Strip layout - Snap in Advanced... (Tipping) did not work for mirrored part (Single
Snap in Advanced part import, symmetric layout defined in strip).
Tipping
Symmetric Strip layout - Trim plan was not available for mirrored part (Single part import,
Trim plan symmetric layout defined in strip).

Symmetric Part Setup - Trim plan functionality was unstable and lead to wrong Trimcheck
Trim plan results for symmetric parts (Single part import, symmetric part setup
on Part stage>Import page).

Symmetric Part Setup - Bend plan functionality was unstable for symmetric parts (Single
Bend plan part import, symmetric part setup on Part stage>Import page).

"Half Input, Symmetrical" Trim tools were not created correctly for "Half Input, Symmetrical"
- Trim tools parts.

Trim plan - Two Trim plan was wrongly expecting two draw-in lines, which caused
Trimchk failure.

"Copy pilot to all "Copy pilot group to all other stations" took values from standard
stations" with wrong instead from copied pilot.
values

Hemming

HemPlanner - 2D Plot In some specific cases when a control point in the Final Steel
and 3D View different geometry definition was added visualization in 2DPlot and 3D View
was different.

HemPlanner - Wrong In some specific cases in DieFace > G > Tools page warning "No
warning "No flange flange geometry is defined on plan stage for current tool" even if
geometry in Plan Stage" flange was correctly defined.
in Die Face

"Save" didn't work On Process stage, when a roller or a steel was moved from one
Rolling/Forming operation to another Rolling/Forming operation
"Save" didn't save the changes.
But "Save as" worked fine.

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