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Debut of new tube bending software

be a very nice fit for our commercial customers and dealers. Developing and supporting the tube and pipe bending industries is nothing new to us; our company has extensive experience in calculating pipe and tube layouts with our Bend-Tech Software series and its 15,000 plus customers.” The TS Enterprise software consists of the TS-Core and several designers and plug-ins. TS-Core is the backbone of the TS features, libraries, settings and calculations. In addition, TS-Core adapts the TS designers and plug-ins in the product grouping and has open slots for additional TS designers and plug-ins you may add in the future. The most prevalent designers and plug-in with TS Enterprise would be the XYZ Designer, LRA Designer, and the Import (Step & IGES) plug-in.

2020 Software Solutions, a worldwide provider of tube bending software, has announced the debut of a new program, TS Enterprise. TS Enterprise allows its user to take an XYZ or LRA document and convert it to YBC, LRA, or XYZ data. In addition, part designs can be imported from major CAD systems via STEP (.stp/.step) or IGES (.igs/iges) files. TS Enterprise also has several additional designers to make simple or complex jobs easy to handle. “When developing the TS series we focused on three major points; an easy-to-use graphical interface, product bundling for consumer needs and price points, and easy language adaptation,” said Cris Merry, president and manager of software development. “We have been working on this new series for several years and feel it will

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Each of these designers works with the TS-Core to calculate manufacturing data: cut length, bend locations, bend angles, spring back angles, rotations between bends, straight tube lengths, bend lengths, weight, LRA, YBC and XYZ values. 2020 Software Solutions, located in Minnesota, USA, is a software company for the tube and pipe industry founded in 2001. It serves a worldwide customer base with tube and pipe bending software. 2020 Software Solutions – USA Website: www.tubebendingsoftware.com

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