D3PLOT 22.1
UTILITIES, DIE_CLOSURE
UTILITIES, DIE_CLOSURE
The "Die-Closure" command set, found in the
menu creates and controls the special
data component.
This data component calculates the distance remaining before a "workpiece" makes contact with its "die".
The terminology implies metal-forming, and the most common use of this will be to determine how much further a deformable blank has to be pressed in order to achieve its desired shape. But any problem requiring the distance between two pieces of 2D/3D structure to be calculated can be solved here, and it has application to many cases in which "distance to contact" needs to be known.
