LogoPress Company

Since 1989 when the company was formed, the primary business LogoPress has conducted has been the development of die design software. With more than 30 years in this field, LogoPress holds the distinction of having been developing die design software longer than any other 3D die design software developer in the world. Their products are sold in over thirty countries.

Other software developers feel that it is best if they develop the CAD software, the CAM software, the die design software and even many other software packages beyond these. A lot of people disagree with this position and feel that, as in the case of a doctor for example, you are in the best position by having a specialist that does one thing better than anyone else in the world, as opposed to someone that does everything. By using SOLIDWORKS (known worldwide as being a leading 3D CAD software package) as its base, the LogoPress R & D team can focus their time on the specific needs of the tool & die designer. LogoPress’ success and stability for more than 30 years would seem to confirm this strategy.

The History of LogoPress

In 1988 a company by the name of Dimeco (www.dimeco.com) hired a young engineer (with a science degree in micro-mechanical, robotics and CAD) by the name of Yves Thizy in order to select and implement their first CAD system. In the same business network as Dimeco was a tool & die company by the name of Presse Etude (www.presse-etude.com/en/) along with a die design company by the name of JPME. All three of these tool & die and metal stamping related companies were based in Besançon, France, which is considered to be the capital of the metal stamping business in France.

Knowing this was only a one-year project, the then president of Dimeco suggested to Yves that after this project he should consider starting a business developing CAD software for die design. Ultimately, providing financial backing and serving as both shareholders and mentors would be the company Dimeco Holding, the owner of Presse Etude (who had started his company as a die design company), and the owner of the die design firm JPME. Yves Thizy would become the main shareholder and the Managing Director (president) of the company. Logopress was formed in late 1989 and within the first year in business they made their first sale of a product that would become known as Logopress2, a 2D die design software package.

In 1997 Logopress began the development of a 3D die design software package to eventually replace their 2D die design software, and in 2000 they chose SOLIDWORKS as the solid modeler that they would integrate it into. They named this 3D die design software Logopress3 in order to differentiate it from their 2D die design software that then became known as Logopress2.

Notably, in 2005, on the day that Logopress was awarded Gold Certification for two of their three Gold Certified products, Brian Houle (the Solution Partner Program Manager for SOLIDWORKS at the time) said the following in regard to the audit/review of Logopress3 and 123GO: “This is the 1st time in our history of conducting design reviews [for Gold Certification status] that not a single issue requiring changes was found!”

In December 2018 Logopress was acquired by AutoForm Engineering. While AutoForm has served the tool & die industry with its leading FEA software for over 25 years, Logopress has served the tool & die industry with its very popular die design software for over 30 years. The merger of these two companies was not only natural from a technical standpoint, as the two product lines are extremely complementary, but also from the standpoint of team philosophy: both companies rank stability and reliability as top priorities. Additionally, it is a major benefit that both development teams are located in close geographical proximity.

In 2021 Logopress renamed their Logopress3 software to Logopress – dropping the ‘3’, and in 2023 the capitalization of Logopress was changed to LogoPress. Now both the company and the software have the same name – LogoPress!

Note about the name LogoPress

(In French, “pressing” translates to metal stamping, and a “pressing machine” in France is a punch press here in the United States. "Logiciel" in French means software and “outillages de presses” means dies for presses. So, the company was named LogoPress because this translates to "software for dies in punch presses".)