Die Design and Engineering
Every die we build starts as a 100% 3D solid constructed, 100% 2D detailed design in Vero VISI Progress.
Precise, Efficient Designs in Full 3D
Our experienced engineering staff has the technical knowledge to produce precise, efficient designs for Progressive, Line, Electrical Terminal, Transfer, Four-slide and Compound dies. All of the designs are 100% detailed and engineered in full 3D using the latest Vero VISI software.
VISI is acknowledged as one of the world's leading PC based CAD CAM software solutions for the Tool & Die industry. It offers a unique combination of applications: fully integrated wireframe, surface and solid modelling, comprehensive 2D, 3D and 5 axis machining strategies with dedicated high speed routines.
Vero Software offers dedicated solutions that eliminate the links between varying software suppliers and the solid-to-surface or CAD / CAM geometry conversions required by traditional systems, saving our customers time. Utilizing this state of the art software allows Loftis Manufacturing to offer many time-saving, and ultimately money saving, benefits to our customers.
Design and engineering are not handed off to a third party. From strip layout to final detail, every progressive die design is checked against the press it will run in — we build and try out tooling from 50 to 1,250 tons at our Romeo, Michigan facility — so what leaves engineering runs on the floor.
- Progressive, line and transfer die design
- Electrical terminal, four-slide and compound dies
- Integrated wireframe, surface and solid modeling
- Formability simulation available on request
Formability Simulation
Additionally, we also offer formability simulations upon request. Simulating material flow before steel is cut exposes thinning, splits and wrinkles at the design stage — where a correction is a model revision, not weeks of rework in the press.
Start With the Right Design
Send us your part data and we will quote a complete die design — 100% 3D solid constructed in Vero VISI and detailed for the press it will run in. Call 855-564-8665 or request a quote online.