Reversing MECHANICA

[dmtl]

Hello,

I hope everyone is doing well.
I am currently employed at an engineering company and we
are having issues with one of the products. The product
is very simple but during the (shallow) drawing process,
issues appear.
I wanted to do an analysis on the product but I am not
sure how to do so.
The analysis I want to do is not on the final product but
an intermediate stage, as the product is being made by
the machinist (and the appropriate machines).

Basically, I have a component of this part that is bent.
It is the only difference. They are practically
identical.
I have the initial product, and the final product, after
the application of the force, modeled in PRO-E.
I know how to use MECHANICA, and have it tell me (after
material, constraints and loads have been assigned) what
the stresses and so forth are, but this time I want the
opposite.

I want MECHANICA to look at the initial product, look at
the final product, and tell me how much force/what load
should be applied, and through what vectors, so that I
get my final product from the initial product.

I hope you can help me.

Thank you for your time.

Edited by: dmtl