A courseware on sheet metal forming

Abstract Using hypermedia concepts, an educational software on sheet metal forming has been created to run on an Apple Macintosh computer. The software presents the user with several windows containing texts, equations, colour-illustrations, drawings and animation. The user can navigate between the windows using buttons. Provision is made also for the user to interact by performing particular sheet metal forming calculations. The software is divided into three sections, namely; blanking, bending and drawing. The software deals with various aspects on each of these topics, and should be useful to a student studying the manufacturing engineering course, and to the engineer practising in the sheet metal forming industry for reference purposes.