Use Inventor to Make Punch Programs

[Anonymous]

Hello, We are currently switching over to Inventor and I have a question about the capabilities of Inventor. We currently use AutoCad for our sheet metal drawings and we bring the drawing into a program called Striker to set up the program to punch the sheet metal on our LVD punch press. Can someone shed some light on Inventor if there is a way to make the programs using the Inventor software? I did try the Part Share add on which is used with the Striker software. The Part Share is OK but I was wondering if there was anything that Inventor has that would be better. Thanks in advance

[swalton]

Base Inventor does not make any CNC code.

The Product Design and Manufacturing collection includes Inventor Nesting which will nest 2d shapes onto material sheets.  It outputs a dxf/dwg I think.

The Collection also includes Inventor CAM, which does 2.5-5D CNC programming, but not punch presses.

Fusion Manufacturing does 2.5-5D CNC programming, but not punch presses.

I don't think Autodesk offers any solution for programming punch presses.  

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the information.

[javiar]

Hi @Anonymous ,

As Swalton mentioned, neither Inventor nor Fusion includes embedded tech. to drive punch presses. However, our more advanced Nesting solution - Autodesk TruNest - allows you to import models (ipt, iam, dxf, dwg, and other formats), generate optimized nests, and create postprocessed nc code to drive punch presses. And it does a lot more. Please visit https://www.autodesk.com/products/trunest/overview for more details on TruNest.

Regards,

Ravi J

[swalton]

@javiar 

The Autodesk Product Page that I thought listed all Autodesk manufacturing offerings does not show Truenest.

https://www.autodesk.com/products?filters=pdm-products--manufacturing-production&sorting=featured&me...

Should it?

[Anonymous]

Thank you Ravi for the information. I did look at the link but I didn't see anything about being able to post process to a punch press. We typically run a single part on a sheet and do a grid pattern of the part. How would the tooling be determined for my machine for the nesting? Hopefully you can shed a little light on my question.