The COPRA® Professional Design Module for Sections is the worldwide leading software package for every roll form designer. It allows you to do a really professional roll form design for simple as well as most complex shapes. It includes functions like...
project manager and data archive
section design library
'punched holes' function
static properties calculation
strip width calculation
design of the flower pattern
COPRA® bending sequences for automatic flower design
Design of flowers for combination tool sets
interactive tube unfolding functions
3D wire frame model for theoretical strain calculation
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COPRA® for Trapezoidal Sections (M2)

COPRA® also offers a software package for the roll form designer working with corrugated or trapezoidal sections.
It includes similar functionality as the Section Design Module above, plus
calculation of an optimized forming sequence (for trapezoidal shapes)
calculation of horizontal material movements
and contains also semi automatic roll tool design
(only in combination with H1 - module for roll design)
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COPRA® Tube Mill Roll Design Center (M3)
(COPRA® for round and rectangular tubes)

The COPRA® Professional Tube Mill Roll Design Center is the worldwide leading software package for tube mill roll design. The leading tube producers and machine manufacturers have been using this software module for many years.
It includes features as...
Project manager
Data base archiving
Machine data setup
Setup for forming methods (circular, 2-radius, W-forming, 4-radius, oval welding shape and others...)
Forming strategy setup
Setup of forming parameters
Roll design setup
Automatic flower design
Automatic roll design
Parametric roll modification
and ...
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COPRA® Software Module for Shaped Tubes (M4)

COPRA® Professional Design Module for Shaped Tubes allows you to calculate calibrating passes from round tubes to special shapes.
COPRA® Professional Design Module for Shaped Tubes allows for a quick and accurate design of calibration forming steps
Calibrating to shaped tubes is usually (but not necessarily) starting from a round tube.
The individual calibrating steps are calculated and optimized on the computer as a basis for the following roll design.
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COPRA® Design Module for Drawing Rings - 2D part (M5)

COPRA Professional Design Module for Drawing Rings
(2D Part) calculates the forming steps required to draw a tube into special shapes.
COPRA® for Drawn Tubes is still the only software available for this specific problem
It includes functions like:
Design of the final cross section (2D)
Calculation and design of individual forming steps (2D)
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COPRA® Design Module for Drawing Rings - 3D part (M6)

COPRA® Professional Design Module for Drawing Rings
(3D Part) calculates the forming steps required to draw a tube into special shapes.
COPRA® for Drawn Tubes is the only software available for this specific problem
It includes functions like:
Design of the drawing ring surface
Design of the actual drawing ring
This COPRA® software module requires Autodesk Mechanical Desktop (not included in this package)
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A: COPRA® Standalone Option

AutoCAD OEM Version for COPRA® software (available in combination with a COPRA® Module or update only). 

COPRA® Roll Design Functionality (H1)

Enhanced COPRA® Roll Design features are completing respective software modules and are offering assistance especially for...
Effective design of roll tooling
Interactive as well as highly automatic functions
Automatic roll dimensioning
Automatic assembly plan dimensioning
Design of combination tool sets
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COPRA® Deformation Technology Module (H2)
(1st step of simulation)

COPRA® Deformation Technology Module (DTM) is a roll form simulation software package which enables the designer to verify and optimize his forming strategy. COPRA® DTM takes into account parameters like material, forming geometry, tooling diameters as well as the so-called forming geometry.
Does not have the inaccuracy of the "strip edge strain/stress calculation" (being used in other commercial software packages) as it especially takes into account additional parameters like basic tool diameter, forming geometry, shaping geometry or material
COPRA® DTM is based on extensive FEA calculations and research results performed at data M over the past decade
COPRA® DTM is a  "third generation" software solution
COPRA® DTM is being used by major roll forming and tube mill manufacturers worldwide - in more than 50 countries
Only COPRA® DTM allows you to optimize a roll set - even if you are planning to go for a finite element analysis in a second step. COPRA® DTM is a prerequisite for a later FE analysis as it already determines an almost optimum forming solution - even before having started a FEA job.
COPRA® DTM gives you highest accuracy!
COPRA® DTM will increase your product quality!
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COPRA® Roller Technology (H4)

COPRA® Roller Technology offers you an effective tool box for the roll design.
It includes features like:
Finished roll weight calculation
Raw material/ roller blank list
NC interface file for various formats
Interfaces to data base management systems, quality inspection systems 
and simulation software programs (like COPRA® Roll Scanner,
COPRA® Profile Checker or COPRA® FEA RF)
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COPRA® CNC Technology (H5)

CNC technology for turning lathes in order to manufacture roll forming tools.
Automatic creation of complete CNC data from COPRA®'s data base
Automatic tool selection and collision control
Post processors on request
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COPRA® DBMS Data Base Management System (H6)

COPRA® Data Base Management System handles sections, flower patterns and rolls, includes a part retrieval algorithms with customized criterions (geometry, material, roll number) as well as  Fourier analysis algorithms (not in the standard software package) in order to find similar or repetitive parts. This software package has been used by major tube mill- and profile manufacturers. It is available in a PC-based as well as an Unix-based version (HP UX) in order to achieve highest performance.
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COPRA® Cage Forming: the latest feature of COPRA® software
The straight forming method enables the possibility to design and model any type of rolling cage. A cage forming system is a continuous forming process by groups (beams) of single simple rolls and additional supporting outer and inner roll tools.
COPRA® allows for a modeling of various types of straight edge forming systems due to its parametric structure. The lineal beams are either predefined or - if there are single mounted rolls - each roll and respective position is defined in specific database tables.
In order to achieve a proper forming result it is important to have a smooth strip entry into the forming cage. Therefore it is important to optimize both entry passes as well as the position of forming and guiding rolls in the forming line. Such tasks have to be done by 'trial and error' and are usually quite time consuming and pretty costly.
There are comfortable input dialogue boxes for designing the cage tools and references for proper positioning. There is also a 3D collision check available where the user can verify if roll tooling and sheet strip match.
There are some obvious advantages to perform a mill setup on the computer rather than on the mill by practical trials. These include the possibility to add, edit or remove any cage station (straight edge forming system) within the current tube mill roll tool layout. This is done via the built-in tool browser where the forming lineal can be positioned between the existing forming stations.
The cage beams are defined in a spreadsheet-like manner where every cage beam is treated as an independent part. Once such a forming lineal has been defined in the software database it can be re-used in any other design project as well.

COPRA® FEA RF (2nd step in the simulation chain)

A two-step concept for the simulation of the roll forming process based on an optimised MSC.MARC solver.
Based on our long term experience from practical usage and research projects with FEA packages (also some international research projects) and the know how of the leading company for simulation technology - MSC Software - we have managed to develop COPRA® FEA RF. You are profiting from the experience of both of our companies. Very important for a successful implementation of finite element analysis technique is the use of COPRA® DTM (Deformation Technology Module). Thus you can - in a first simulation step - to quickly develop an almost optimized roll tool set which can be verified in a following FE analysis with regard to possible defects in the final product.
The possibility to detect final product defects at an early stage avoids costly down times during the production process - a decisive step towards higher product quality.
data M's FEA solution has been proven in a large number of customer projects.

Automatic generation of simulation model which is required for the non-linear and high accurate FEA process - based on the current COPRA® flower pattern roll design model
Automatic mesh refinement and distribution of FEA elements 
Wizard driven definition of process parameters and set-up configuration
Manual (interactive) modification of computer internal model if desired
The main philosophy is, that the user doesn't need to be an FEA expert. The FEA simulation is being started directly from the COPRA® software package. 
User already having their own experience with FEA simulation or even with MARC/ Mentat may modify the data model according to their own wishes
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COPRA® for Wire Rolling and Massive Forming

A lot of company-specific experience about forming strategies is hidden in old manufacturing drawings and tooling /templates.
Re-engineering of these strategies allows a recreation of lost know-how.
COPRA® Massive Forming now offers a way for:
  archiving your hidden knowledge from the past (scanning and storing of your templates)
retrieving of respective know-how by using intelligent retrieval algorithms (similarity/ retrieval check etc.)
Quality control of your tooling and templates by on-line comparison of scanned contour and geometry stored in the data base
easy way for new designs.
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COPRA® Roll Scanner

COPRA® Roll Scanner is an automatically working roll inspection machine for quality control, reworking or archiving of existing roll sets. This high quality video inspection system is a state-of-the art profile projector which allows to store the scanned rolls immediately in the COPRA® Data Base Management system or forward it to CAD systems by means of standardized interface files (DXF). COPRA® RollScanner is the ideal tool for quality control or the analysis and rework of existing tool sets.
data M Software + Engineering also offers scanning services to you plus troubleshooting and optimization of existing roll tool sets.
Please tell us your needs!
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Service at data M Software + Engineering

Customer service is of highest importance at data M.
A comprehensive service package completes our product range.
COPRA® Software update service - protects your investment on a long term. You will get the most actual COPRA® software versions.
COPRA® Hotline-Service in case you have urgent questions or need assistance in the use of our software programs or even roll forming issues.

Trainings (also company specific) and workshops
software development, consulting services - both also customer specific
design and development of complete sets of roll tooling; manufacturing and putting them into operation
You haven't found your problem listed? Call us!  We are looking forward to discussing a way to find also your solution.
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