Forming Technologies Inc. (FTI), developer of software for the design, simulation, and costing of sheet metal components, announces the worldwide release of BlankWorks v4.3. BlankWorks provides SolidWorks 2011 users with a fully integrated tool for developing optimal flat patterns from complex 3D designs.

Forming Technologies Inc. (FTI), developer of solutions for design, simulation, and costing of sheet metal components, unveils FormingSuite’s Process Planner. Process Planner, unlike traditional bill of material or historical based products on the market today, is a product geometry feature-based and process-content driven system to determine the process layout and the cost of a die.