Preferences: Inspire Form

Define preferences for Materials, Feasibility, Nesting, Tryout, and Die Design.

Materials

Preference Description
Material library Enter a default path to the material library .xml file.

Feasibility

Analysis Preference Description
Run history path Enter a default path to the directory where the run history is saved.
Shell solution Select to extrapolate the strain values to the top and bottom surfaces of the blank.
Run in model directory Enable this option if you want to store run history in the directory where the model is located rather than the run history path.
Marginal draft angle Enter a value for the marginal undercut draft angle. The default value set by Inspire Form is 10.
Element size Choose from Coarse, Medium, Fine, or Custom. For Custom, an additional field appears for you to enter in a custom default element size (mm).
Analysis Legend Colors Description
For each result type Choose the legend colors for plotting results.

Blank Nesting

Blank Nesting Preference Description
  • Max Coil Width
  • Min Coil Width
  • Coil Pitch
  • Part to Part Gap
  • Part to Carrier Gap
  • Carrier Width
Enter a value.
Note: If no value is entered, the coil width and pitch are optimized for maximum material utilization.
  • Part to Edge Gap
  • Sheet Width
  • Sheet Length
Enter a value.
Note: Sheet width and length are required for nesting on a given sheet stock.
Top # of Results Top number of results to published in the report.
DXF Format Export nested layout in the .dxf file format.
Costing Preference Description
Currency Choose the monetary currency by country.

Tryout

Preference Description
Disable Tryout ribbon on startup if license permits By default, the Tryout ribbon is enabled. Choose to disable it if you don't want to draw as many units.
Setup Preference Description
Automatic tool positioning Select for the software to automatically position the tools and blank relative to the bottom die upon manual or automatic identification. This option is selected by default.
Tool offset factor (*thickness) Default factor for automatic tool creation, spacer, and tool close position.
Analysis Preference Description
Run in model directory Enable this option if you want to store run history in the directory where the model is located rather than the run history path.
Run history path Enter a default path to the directory where the run history is saved.
Marginal draft angle Enter a value for the marginal undercut draft angle. The default value set by Inspire Form is 2.
Element size Choose from these options:
  • Coarse: default
  • Medium
  • Fine
  • Custom: Enter a value for the element size.
  • Adaptive: Enter a value for the minimum element size and the maximum adaptive level. During the forming process, this option refines the mesh to the maximum level that is specified in order to capture all of the features of the die geometry. The elements are refined to the minimum element size that is specified.
Geometry cleanup Select to remove imprints and duplicate surfaces and edges before running a simulation.
Solver run mode Choose:
  • MPI: Message Passage Interface (default) runs on all of the physical cores in your system.
  • SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing runs on all of the processors in your system.
Remote Server Description
Number of CPU cores Enter a value to specify the number of CPU cores the server allocates to run an analysis. Default = 16.
Number of CPU cores per node Enter a value to specify the number of CPU cores per node that exist in the remote server. Default = 16.
Memory allocated to the solver (MB) Memory the server allocates to run an analysis. Default = 8000.
Analysis Legend Colors Description
For each result type Choose the legend colors for plotting results.

Die Design

Preference Description
Studio executable Enter the path to the Studio executable.