Computer Aided Education in Closed Forging Dies

Forged products are one of the most products which represent heavy industry in the countries. Forging die design is a kind of art used to produce accurate and net-shape products in this field. As its related only to heavy industries, it’s not available in many countries and many of students have not the background about this kind of die design. This paper discusses a proposed CAD software have 2 kind of applications. The first is industrial application as used to design a closed forging die for six products "Shaft, Flange, Flange with neck, hook, connecting rod, and crank shaft". The second application is to support education process, as the CAD system build in steps to show the students the steps of closed forging design process. The system build using Visual basic for application "VBA" add-in to SolidWorks Programming. The system supposed to be used in Faculty of engineering campus or similar and also to be used in Design department in Forging companies.