Method of simulating a shaping process

A method of simulating a shaping process or a sub-process of the shaping process, wherein states of objects involved in the shaping process, in particular a shaping machine, a shaping tool and/or a material to be processed, are calculated in discrete and successive time steps with presetting of conditions, wherein the conditions represent input parameters of the shaping process, said method comprising:

• performing a simulated shaping process or a simulated sub-process of a shaping process;
• after a time step which is before the end of the simulated shaping process or the simulated sub-process of the shaping process, performing a check on the calculated states of the objects involved in the shaping process based on at least one quality criterion,
• if the check shows that the at least one quality criterion is not met performing at least one of the following further operations:
• (i) resumption of the simulation with repeated calculation of the time step and/or a preceding time step, and
• (ii)continuation of the simulation with calculation of a time step following the time step, and
• when at least one of the further operations is performed, at least partially altering the conditions.