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COPRA® RF 2013 – Release Notes

COPRA® RF 2013

Compatible with AutoCAD 2014

Database-MODULE:

COPRA® RLM Roll Lifecycle Management

As well as in other industries, roll forming companies have to find effective ways to reduce

their expenses in order to ensure competitive pricing on their products. Therefore data M

offers a comprehensive toolkit for its roll form design software COPRA®, enabling roll form-

ing companies to save tooling cost by flexible re-use of existing roll tools.

The COPRA® RLM database enables roll forming designers to store complete toolsets to a

database in order to easily find and re-use rolls for other projects. The database is based on

the industry standard Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 which allows for fast searching even in

huge environments with a large number of rolls. The functionality of the RLM database has

been fully integrated into the COPRA® workflow and could therefore be used with a minimum

of additional effort.

The COPRA® RLM database provides tools to search for existing rolls based on easily de-

fined search criteria, and to use the found rolls in future designs. Further functions were im-

plemented to create a bill of material of rolls to order (or rolls to produce), based on the cur-

rent stock of rolls. This ensures that only the rolls needed additional to the rolls already on

stock will be ordered or produced.

Beyond that, there are features to manage the company’s stock of rolls, e.g. to “check out”

defective rolls and release rolls for re-working, etc.

By integrating measuring data from the COPRA® RollScanner, it is also possible to monitor

the wear of rolls over a particular period of time, or to assess the general deploy-ability of

particular roll tools.


One more application in this context is the “Recycling” module inside the COPRA® RLM da-

tabase: Rolls can be marked as “Obsolete” and are therefore available for re-working for

future projects and no longer for profile production. Instead of manufacturing rolls from “new”

blanks as usual, those obsolete rolls can then be used to produce new rolls from them.

The system will search for suitable recycling rolls for entire new projects at the touch of a

button, based upon geometry.

Compared to the classic production of rolls from blanks, apart from the material cost, it is

possible to save some process steps such as sawing, drilling or driving of the bore groove.

1) General Information

Database engine: Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008

Functions completely integrated into the COPRA® RF workflow

2) Managing the stock of rolls

Automatic creation of ordering Bills of Material considering the current inventory of

stock rolls

Grouping commonly used rolls in "Combi Rollsets"

Stocktaking functions: check out defective rolls, release rolls for re-working etc.


3) Use existing rolls for new Designs

Easy-to-use search functions for common roll geometries

Searching rolls by means of relevant contour entities

Highly customizable roll lists

Comfortable functions to insert existing rolls into new designs including preview

Cross Reference List for rolls


4) Project Optimization

Rolls with the same geometry are detected automatically and can be assigned to a

common “mother roll” (roll family). The advantages are the followings:

Modification of rolls: each roll of a roll family is modified automatically if one roll out if

it has changed

Bill of material: You only get one entry with the corresponding quantity for a roll family

Manufacturing documents: You only get one manufacturing document for the whole

roll family

Stock-keeping: All rolls belonging to the same mother roll can easily be grouped in

storage and can be found or exchanged much for efficiently.


5) Extended roll attributes

Differentiated definition of roll attributes

Constantly visible panel

6) Bill of Material

Highly customizable Bills of Material

Rolls order List considering the current stock

Project Bill of Material considering assembly positions

7) Recycling roll search

Searching “Obsolete” rolls for re-work in new designs

Transferring measuring data from the COPRA® RollScanner to the database

Customizable search (considering bore, max. difference in roll width, min. extra

material for re-working etc.)


MODULE:

COPRA® RF Tubes

Functionality:

Wall Thickness Variations

The new version COPRA® RF 2013 provides the possibility to create and maintain any num-

ber of variants for Tube Mill projects.

The individual variants are essentially independent projects within COPRA® RF, i.e. in each

variant all functions of COPRA® like automatic dimensioning, assembly plan, Inventor inter-

face, DTM and FEA are available.

Variants are required for an effective and comfortable adjustment of a basic roll tooling for

different wall thicknesses. Inside a COPRA® RF project a basic roll tooling for the nominal

wall thickness is created.

For any other wall thickness that is to be made with this basic roll tooling, a variant project

will subsequently be created. All important parameter will be transferred automatically.

For any of these variants the user now has the possibility to adapt the basic roll tooling au-

tomatically or manually. Various options are available to do so.

The result is a basic roll tooling that is adapted to the respective wall thickness. Of course

the target is to modify as few rolls as possible of the basic roll tooling.


COPRA® makes use of parametric in Inventor®

From a COPRA® project, the complete design can be created at the push of a button. All

rolls will be built as parametric parts and are positioned at the correct place in the final as-

sembly. With COPRA® RF 2013 the 2D manufacturing drawings are automatically generat-

ed. The time consuming process of creating them manually is not necessary anymore.

The drawing templates for the rolls can be adjusted to the company standards and neces-

sary dimensions can be set.

Each roll type must only be dimensioned once. Up to now, in each project every single roll of

a type had to be dimensioned individually. In all projects, using this roll type, the time and

effort becomes reduced to control the automatically created manufacturing drawings.

The assembly, each single roll and each drawing is completely parametric. Necessary

changes in the COPRA® design (change roll data, distance between stations etc.) will be

updated automatically without the need to recreate the manufacturing drawings. The adapta-

tions in the drawing already made are not lost, they are also conserved.

For an efficient design the following tools available.

Automatically created assembly

Parametric rolls as 3D parts

Automatically created 2D manufacturing drawing of each roll

Automatically dimensioned 2D manufacturing drawing

Configurable templates for 2D manufacturing drawings (company standard)

COPRA® bore attributes as parametric features

Display of profile, bearings and retaining rings

On / Off switch for profile, bearings and retaining rings

Change the alignment of the design in the CAD system


Turn stations (switch left / right defining the machine side)

Change direction of profiling

Visibility of profile, bearings and retaining rings (top, bottom, left, right) customizable

Special selection of profile, bearings and retaining rings (top, bottom, left, right) avail-

able

Collision detection with multiple possibilities (per station, multiple stations, only rolls,

rolls with bearing, station - station, …)

Intelligent COPRA® – Inventor® – Interface

Predefined roll types

Parametric 3D roll drawings

Borehole details as parametric feature

Automatically created 2D drawing of a roll

Automatically dimensioned 2D manufacturing drawing

Configurable templates for 2D manufacturing drawings (company standard)


Display of profile, bearings and retaining rings

On / Off switch for profile, bearings and retaining rings

Change the alignment of the design in the CAD system

Turn stations (switch left / right defining the machine side)

Change direction of profiling


Easy control of visibility of profile, bearings and retaining rings (top, bottom, left, right)

customizable)

Easy selection of profile, bearings and retaining rings (top, bottom, left, right) availa-

ble

Collision detection with multiple possibilities (per station, multiple stations, only rolls,

rolls with bearing, station - station, …)


COPRA® RF AutoUpdate With COPRA® RF 2013 a new function is available to automatically check during loading of

the application for new versions or service packs. The availability is shown directly in the

respective menu.

The user defines when COPRA® RF should be looking for new versions or updates.

Releases

If a new release is available the user can select to automatically be connected with the data

M homepage. On this page you can check which improvements and bug fixes are available

for the new version.

Updates / Service Packs / Patches

If a service pack or patch is available then the COPRA® RF AutoUpdate can be loaded au-

tomatically. In the next step it will display which new version is available and which version is

currently installed. In addition a list with all adaptations, improvements and bug fixes com-

pared to your version will be displayed. Should you would like to make use of this update,

the process is started automatically. The COPRA® RF AutoUpdate will download all neces-

sary files and automatically update the COPRA® RF version installed. This available

AutoUpdate process now allows the possibility to apply service packs or patches more often.


COPRA® FEA RF 2013

The focus of the development work for our FEA solution was this time lying on the develop-

ment of a new user environment. Furthermore, many preliminaries has been developed to

allow the introduction of the automatic remesh in the subsequent version.

New user Environment in COPRA® FEA RF 2013 The user environment available until version 2011 is on one hand very efficient for the use of

the program, but it of course has some “optical deficits” as it is no longer complies with up-

to-date standards. With version 2013 to the software goes with a new, Windows-oriented

user interface.

Windows “Look and Feel”:

Use of icons, dock able windows, Pull-Down menus, File-Browser, Copy & Paste of

objects

Multi window display allows to show result model and result diagrams parallel

Menu history allows well structured and effective investigation of results

Toolbars with preferred functionalities like station browser or show and view menu

Interactive help menu


Improved Navigation through the virtual roll forming machine

New functionality in the “Station Browser” and the “increment Scan” allows a comfortable

navigation through the virtual roll forming machine. Additional Information of the station

names (directly form the COPRA® design), allows an easy orientation. Furthermore, the in-

tegration of the selection of visible stations into the station browser allows a better control of

the view of the machine already during the navigation and eliminates this typical second

step.

Both Solver and Interface as native 64bit available

The new Interface is available for 32bit and 64bit

New Python version

An update of the new Python version enables a wide usage of up-to-date packages which

are integrated in the software for precise and fast investigation of the results.


M6 COPRA® FEA RF Import: interface to FEA for 3rd party systems

Today, it is essential for roll forming companies to be able to crosscheck a roll design prior to

the tooling being manufactured and the set-up being completed on the machine.

Simulating a roll design in a professional manner requires an integrated process chain. A

simple transfer of the roll design data, together with a fast automated model preparation, that

is connected with minimal user inputs, short calculation time and a comfortable post-

processing operation are essential prerequisites for a good solution.

Today these conditions are already fulfilled by the COPRA® RF and COPRA® FEA RF

product family. Although if flower and roll designs are completed with a different package, it

is quite often difficult to achieve the same synergy. data M has thus collected a lot of know-

how for the conversion of existing “A N Other” designs into COPRA® RF.

With this know-how a new Module has been developed: COPRA® FEA RF Import

Besides the COPRA® Software approach, a professional integrated process chain from

design to simulation is hard to find. To also allow users of 3rd party systems the COPRA®

FEA RF Import interface was consequently designed. Fast facts are as followed:

Automatic flower and roll transfer from commercial 3rd party systems to COPRA® RF

Automated, pass by pass transfer of a roll design from CAD drawings to COPRA®

RF, thus enabling the import and simulation of older designs that only exist as CAD

drawings.

Definition of punch hole pattern for the automatic mesh generation

Quick modification of an existing tooling

with the integrated COPRA® RF Roll Design Module

With this solution it is possible to make use of COPRA® FEA RF without changing the in-

house roll design software! No need to learn 2 news systems in one go, but make use of the

benefits of FEA!

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