Our COPRA RF roll tool design package has been the steadfast solution for almost 40 years now, used by companies around the globe. However, a few years ago, our developers decided to make things even quicker, easier and simpler, with a tool that would revolutionise the way roll design was conducted forever:

And so SmartRolls was born!

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For this reason, we have dedicated session 14 of our COPRA Virtual Conference to the use of SmartRolls in the modern COPRA RF Workflow. In this 20-minutes presentation, Carl Stephenson will show you a state-of-the-art approach to Roll Design with SmartRolls. The feature that allows designers to create almost the entire roll design fully automatically based on the profile cross-section.

Now, as you may know, Carl has been designing roll tools now for nearly 30 years with COPRA RF in the AutoCAD environment, so we had to set him a challenge. Taking him completely out of his comfort zone, Carl will be using BricsCAD with COPRA RF for his presentation. With the upcoming COPRA RF release 2025, we now fully integrate COPRA RF with BricsCAD as an alternative package to AutoCAD.  Don’t worry AutoCAD users, the commands and process are exactly the same! Carl too was astonished at this. So this session is not to be missed.

Following the presentation, our team is looking forward to answering your questions during the Q&A session.

Presenter

• Carl Stephenson 

  first started his Roll Forming career in 1994 as an apprentice with the former Equator Wheels and Sections. He worked firstly as a roll form machine operator, followed by time spent in their tool room as a lathe and CNC operator manufacturing roll tools, prior to joining the design and development team where he began his COPRA journey. 

  Since then, he became a Bachelor of Engineering in Manufacturing Engineering, (dissertation upon Roll Tool Design and Development), whilst continuing his Roll Forming career, in both the design and development of steel partition systems with EWS.

  Following a short stint with the Hadley Group, he then joined data M to head up our UK operation and North American sales and COPRA training.  He is also very active within the design and development area, providing roll tool design and analysis service to the UK, North American and beyond, with well over 2000 tool sets under his belt, he certainly likes a challenge and utilizing the many benefits of both COPRA RF and COPRA FEA RF within service projects.