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RADAN Sheet Metal Solutions
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RADAN Sheet Metal Solutions

Product catalog summary
Overview
Radan is a comprehensive CAD/CAM solution tailored for the sheet metal industry, designed to enhance material utilization and reduce inventory. It offers innovative software applications essential for the design, manufacture, and control of sheet metal components and products.
Efficiency and Programming
Radan optimizes manufacturing capacity by understanding the limits of each machine tool. It provides a seamless interface for transferring data from CAD to NC code, allowing operators to make changes without repeating the entire programming process. The software is installed with a custom post processor to match specific machine tools, ensuring production efficiency.
Punching Solutions
Radpunch supports a wide range of machine manufacturers and is designed to reduce lead times and optimize punching machines. It integrates with Radprofile for punch, profile, and combination machine tools, offering tooling optimization and orientation-specific tooling to enhance material utilization and part removal processes.
Profiling Solutions
Radprofile is a leading solution for programming profiling machines, supporting major manufacturers. It optimizes tool paths, cutting technologies, and sequences to maintain part integrity and machine safety. The software supports automatic common line cutting and provides a flexible interface for manual control.
Multi-Axis Profiling
Radtube and Radm-ax are specialized for rotary and multi-axis cutting machines, particularly in the tube cutting industry. They offer libraries of standard tube and hole shapes, nesting options for multiple parts, and automated fixture design to reduce machine wear and optimize laser toolpaths.
Key Features
  • Drag and drop data input
  • Batch processing of DXF/DWG files
  • Automatic tooling/sequencing and part removal
  • Graphical program verification
  • Single part true shaped nesting
  • Project nesting with user-definable reports
  • Support for advanced machine features
  • Improved machine/tooling efficiency
Benefits
  • Maximized material utilization
  • High productivity and reduced lead times
  • Increased production flexibility
  • Consistent programming across machines
  • Efficient data exchange for subcontractors
Toolpath Optimization and Creation
Radm-ax optimizes toolpaths to reduce machine wear while maintaining feeds and speeds. Cutting operations are divided into inner and outer trims, with automatic toolpath creation. Users can manually refine toolpaths, including creating micro-joints and adjusting nozzle angles.
Toolpath Verification and Simulation
Radan provides toolpath verification, showing nozzle angles and detecting collisions. Trim-path parameters can be edited or automatically corrected to ensure safety and efficiency. Optimized toolpaths can quickly generate reliable NC code.
NC Code Simulation
NC code can be re-imported and simulated in Radan, allowing for verification before actual cutting.
Combination Technology
Combi integrates punch and profile technologies, allowing seamless part transfer and eliminating duplicate programming. It supports major manufacturers and offers a single solution for punch and profile machinery.
Tooling Optimization
Radcombi optimizes tooling for punch machines, supporting sophisticated tools and orientation-specific setups. It enhances material utilization and part removal processes, reducing programming lead time.
Seamless Programming
Radcombi integrates geometry creation, tooling, nesting, sequencing, and code generation, maintaining accuracy and consistency. It supports advanced machine features and reduces lead times.
Nesting Efficiency
Radnest enhances nesting for Radpunch or Radprofile, increasing sheet utilization and reducing material costs. It supports manual, semi-automatic, and automatic nest generation, improving machine efficiency.
Offline Programming
Radbend offers 3D-model simulation of bending processes, with automatic bend sequence calculation and tool selection. It reduces machine time and manufacturing costs by enabling offline programming.
3D Sheet Metal Design
Radan3D is a 3D design tool for sheet metal parts and assemblies, supporting rapid creation and modification. It allows import of various file formats and automatic unfolding of parts.
Overview: The document provides a comprehensive overview of Radan's software solutions for the sheet metal industry, focusing on design, manufacturing, and management processes. It highlights various tools and modules designed to enhance productivity, accuracy, and efficiency in sheet metal operations.
Key Sections:
  • Sheet Metal Unfolding: Radan3D allows for precise control over unfolding parameters, such as bend allowances, to ensure accurate flat blanks and high-quality products. The software can flatten complex models and translate them into simpler geometries for CNC machinery.
  • Assembly Modelling: Radan3D supports both Bottom Up and Top Down approaches for 3D modelling, allowing for the creation and management of complex assemblies and sub-assemblies.
  • eQuote: This module is designed for fast and accurate quoting of sheet metal parts, integrating with Radan's manufacturing capabilities to automate cost estimation and quotation processes.
  • e2i Production Management: e2i extends eQuote's capabilities by adding order management, stock control, and invoicing, providing a comprehensive solution for managing sheet metal production environments.
  • Radimport: This tool automates the import and processing of geometry data, converting files into tooled Radan parts and creating nest projects, thus streamlining the preparation process for nesting.
  • Support Solutions: Radan offers a robust support system, including a global customer service portal, hotline, e-support, and on-site expert assistance, ensuring maximum productivity and efficiency for users.
  • Global Presence: Radan is part of the Vero Software Group, known for its CAD/CAM solutions that enhance design and manufacturing efficiency. The company emphasizes continual software development and customer partnership.
Benefits Highlighted: The document emphasizes the benefits of using Radan's solutions, such as improved accuracy, reduced inventory, enhanced productivity, and the ability to handle complex manufacturing operations efficiently.
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Catalog excerpts

RADAN Sheet Metal Solutions-1

Sheet metal solutions Radan is the total CAD/CAM solution for the sheet metal industry

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RADAN Sheet Metal Solutions-2

The complete process... Radan is the total CAD/CAM solution for the sheet metal industry We understand that metal is precious in your business, and with our software your company can significantly reduce inventory and increase material utilisation, allowing you to realise true return on your investment. Our strength is in providing world class innovative solutions that give you the software applications that are essential to design, manufacture and control production of sheet metal components and products.

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: sheet metal solutions Efficiency is everything Understanding the sophistication and the limits of each machine tool individually is the key to driving it efficiently. Radan will assist your operators to optimise your manufacturing capacity to within those limits for all of your machines. Radan is a fast, modern programming application designed to assist a programmer in transferring data from CAD to NC code through its seamless interface and automatic processes. Unfortunately, in reality, production workflow is not always that consistent. Problems downstream, manufacturing change requests, and...

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Punching CNC programming for all your punch machines Radpunch is machine independent and supports all major manufacturers such as Amada, Baykal, Durma, Ermaksan, Euromac, Finn-Power, LVD Shape, LVD Strippit, Murata, Nisshinbo, Prima-Power, Pullmax, Rainer, Shape, Strippit, Tailift, Trumpf, Whitney, Wiedemann, Yawei Nisshinbo and many others. Radpunch is designed to provide operators with the tools they require to reduce lead times and optimise punching machines. Radan nesting extends Radpunch functionality to provide true shaped nests that produce high utilisation, manufacturable nests from sheets,...

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: sheet metal solutions Radpunch is the market leading solution for programming punching machines. With over 35 years of punching experience, Radan successfully drives thousands of punching machine tools worldwide. Tooling optimisation Optimising the tooling is paramount to the efficient programming of a punch machine, thus reducing the cost of manufacturing a part. Simply optimising conventional tools on a part and their location in the turret or tool rail is no longer sufficient, as tooling suppliers are providing more sophisticated tooling such as close to clamp slitters, wheel tooling, de-burring...

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Profiling CNC programming for your laser, plasma, water jet and flame cutting machines Radprofile is the market leading solution for programming profiling machines. Having driven the first profiling machines to be introduced to the market, Radan now successfully drives thousands of profiling machine tools worldwide. The Radan punch/profile solution delivers optimisation for punch, profile and combination machine tools. Radprofile intelligently applies the profile tool paths at the nesting stage to maintain the quality and integrity of your parts, whilst also optimising the cutting sequence and...

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: sheet metal solutions Radprofile brings advanced CNC profiling to the Radan family. Combining sophisticated technology with a high level of automation, Radprofile delivers maximum productivity for your engineering staff and machine tools. Process optimisation Optimising the tool path, cutting technologies and cutting sequence for a profiling machine is paramount to the efficient programming of the machine and thus reducing the cost of manufacturing a part. As profiling machines, particularly laser profiling machines become faster and more sophisticated, the integrity of the part in the nest...

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Multi-Axis Profiling Multi-axis laser technology for 3D sheet metal components Radtube is an industry leading Laser CAD/CAM system for rotary and multi axis cutting machines developed specifically for the tube cutting industry. Radm-ax has been developed specifically for the general engineering, automotive and aerospace industries with a wealth of in-built features that allow for the optimisation of the laser toolpath.

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: sheet metal solutions Radtube Library of standard tube sections Radtube supplies a library of parametric tube shapes that simplify the creation of the tube material to be cut. If a suitable section does not exist, the ‘freeform’ option is used to create the special shape section. Freeform shape tubes can even be created from one of the libraries of Radtube parametric shapes. If none of these standard shapes are suitable, the user simply draws the section centre line profile or outside / inside shape using the integrated CAD tools. Library of standard shapes In a similar way to tube sections,...

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Combination CNC programming for your laser, plasma, water jet and flame cutting machines Combi is the perfect solution for customers utilising both punch & profile technologies. Designed to satisfy independent punch & profile requirements and also providing a seamless transfer of parts between them. Having this flexibility allows customers to switch the manufacturing process to suit their production or even to eliminate capacity issues. Having a Combi solution ensures that customers no longer have to duplicate expensive programming time to transfer from one technology to another. Combi is machine...

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: sheet metal solutions Combi also offers a total solution for customers who use a single machine covering punch and profile technologies. The extensive functionality of both Radpunch & Radprofile are combined into a single solution for your current and future punch and profile machinery. Tooling optimisation Optimising the tooling is paramount to the efficient programming of a punch machine, thus reducing the cost of manufacturing a part. Simply optimising conventional tools on a part and their location in the turret or tool rail is no longer sufficient, as tooling suppliers are providing more...

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Nesting Efficiency Advanced true shape nesting Radnest is a highly efficient nesting package that enhances either Radpunch or Radprofile. Incorporating fully generalised nesting that analyses the true shape of components, Radnest can dramatically increase sheet utilisation and deliver substantial material cost savings. By using Radnest, you can expect to produce more components from less material a shorter time. The efficiencies gained have a significant effect on profit, enabling you to manufacture parts from material that would have previously been in the scrap bin.

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All RADAN catalogs and technical brochures

  1. RADAN e2i

    1  Page

  2. RADAN eQuote

    1  Page

  3. RADAN Radbend

    2  Pages

  4. RADAN3D

    2  Pages

  5. RADAN Radraft

    2  Pages

  6. RADAN Radm-ax

    2  Pages

  7. RADAN Radtube

    2  Pages

  8. RADAN Radnest

    2  Pages

Archived catalogs

  1. e2i

    2  Pages

  2. Genesis

    2  Pages

  3. Radprofile

    2  Pages

  4. Radnest

    2  Pages

  5. Radpunch

    2  Pages

  6. Radraft

    2  Pages

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