Abstract: The potential of TIPS-1version 77 for the designing and manufacturing of 3-D forgings and their dies are evaluated. Some improvements of TIPS-1 are introduced to correct the deficiencies which are noted, including the development of a part level operation system to produce die cavities, the enhancement of the capability to obtain sections, and the development of a new Processor to process the section data so that the equivalent bar diagram for a single forging or a group of forgings can be drawn.

Key words: 锻造, 计算机辅助设计