UBECO PROFIL has been the standard software system for the design of cold rolled profiles and roll tooling for rollformers for more than 12 years, says the manufacturer. However, the developers have not rested. "Our new WINDOWS based system was designed with the specific aim of enabling experienced WINDOWS users to learn it through self-tuition", says UBECO-president Roland Brandegger and he continues: "This was the reason that users, worldwide, have accepted the system".

Let's take a look at the users' interface of PROFIL and you will see how UBECO achieved the goal: PROFIL is a CAD-system which considers the specific needs of designers of profiles. It calculates the developed length, the plastic deformation of the material in the bend and the spring-back. The great danger is the stress in the material edge; if the stress exceeds the yield point of the material, this will cause permanent, un-wanted, deformations which lead to problems of twist or waves in the profile. To avoid this, PROFIL displays the stresses in a bar diagram while the designer is developing the flower pattern and warns of the danger.

It is very simple to create the flower pattern; starting with the finished shape, click with the cursor onto the desired arc and bend step-by-step by using a "tool box". This tool box is a group of buttons on the screen. At the same time, the data for the shape of the profile and the bars of the stress diagram automatically change in separate windows.

To create the rolls, select the automatic method or define the contour manually in a small CAD drawing. You can split rolls, join rolls, add clearances and perform many editing functions quickly and easily. PROFIL generates the parts list (sawing list) and the NC-program.