Process for the automatic generation of a sequence of controls for a bending machine for metal sheets

Process for the automatic generation of a sequence of controls for a bending machine for metal sheets, characterised in that: it provides for a first plurality of configuration files of a respective plurality of bending machines, each file containing information on the configuration of the respective bending machine; it provides for a second plurality of files each referring to a respective bending machine and constituting a library of controls for the bending machine; it provides for a first database (1) of geometrical shapes of mechanical organs, containing a geometrical representation of mechanical organs of the bending machines; it provides for a second database (2) containing information on the behaviour of a plurality of materials when these are submitted to bending, said process comprising: a geometrical designing stage of a panel in a tridimensional CAD designing environment in which a geometrical design of a panel is defined; a configuration stage for the selection of a particular bending machine within said plurality of bending machines, in such a way as to select a first file among said first plurality of files, and a second file among said second plurality of files; a stage of acquisition of the geometrical design of the panel for the individuation of the bends provided in said geometrical design of the panel; a stage of preliminary verification of the panel geometrical design to verify the manufacturability of the panel by means of the selected bending machine; a processing stage in which, by associating the first file with the first database (1), a virtual tridimensional representation of the selected bending machine is obtained and said virtual representation of the bending machine is associated with said second file and with said second database (2), in order to obtain a tridimensional simulation of the bending process of a metal sheet, said simulation determining the sequence of bending operations that the bending machine must execute to obtain the designed panel; a stage of generation of the sequence of controls for the bending machine starting from the sequence of the bending operations, said sequence of controls enabling the bending machine to execute said sequence of bending operations.