QForm UK is an advanced engineering simulation platform for the simulation, analysis and optimisation of metal-forming processes, with outstanding reliability. It serves manufacturers large and small, as well as research and educational institutions, and is designed for cold, warm and hot die forging, open-die forging, rolling, profile extrusion and more. Additional modules — microstructure prediction, heat-treatment simulation and user subroutines — extend it further. Backed by 30 years of metal-forming experience, QForm is the only software on the market with a highly adaptive, fully automatic mesh generator, giving it among the fastest simulation times with pre- and post-processing in one platform.
Process coverage
- Forging — cold, warm and hot die forging, plus open-die forging.
- Extrusion — profile extrusion with coupled die-deformation analysis.
- Cold forming — cold forging, upsetting, orbital forming and thread rolling.
- Ring & wheel rolling — dedicated ring- and wheel-rolling simulation.
General metal-forming capabilities
- Coupled thermo-mechanical analysis of the workpiece–tool system.
- Any number of tools and workpieces — even multiple materials — in a single model.
- Spring-loaded tools and load holders; both implicit and explicit integration.
- Visco-plastic, elastic-plastic and thermo-elastic-plastic deformation.
- Import of casting results (ProCast, MagmaSoft) and a direct JMatPro interface for material rheology and TTT/CCT diagrams.
- Microstructure and phase-transformation interfaces (MatILDa).
- Automatic mesh generation and remeshing during simulation, typically with no user intervention.
- User-defined functions (UDF) and special boundary conditions for workpieces and tools.
Why DDSPLM
We pair the software with forming-process engineering know-how — calibrating material data for unusual alloys, structuring multi-stage models, and helping teams read results in production terms (tonnage, die wear, scrap), not just colour plots.