For those ME professionals/students or any car enthusiast who have their own and/or reverse engineered mechanical part designs and want to verify/optimize its manufacturability via the Forging process in a virtual simulation environment here's the download links for a good software I found that might accomplish this task.
Transvalor Forge v2008 | 770 MB
FORGE is dedicated to the simulation of hot, warm and cold forging of both 3D parts (* steering knuckles, crankshafts, * twin connection rods, lower arms, *constant velocity joints, bevel gears,* aircraft landing gears, fan blades, engine mountings, and wing components ) and 2D geometry parts ( axisymmetric (revolution) parts and parts with high length-to-width ratios such as:
cylinders, impacts, extrusions, axles, shafts, gear blanks, rings, fasteners and wire drawing
aircraft disks, blades and wheels, * bearing cages, railway wheels ) Using the software with different process settings and/or different die designs, the user can optimize part production at low cost, compared to usual trial-and-error testing. FORGE is used for rational decision-making and ultimately, leads to production cost reduction.