substantially softened and ductility will have substantially increased as well after heat treating metallic material 12 is positioned in forming apparatus 40 which may comprise a drawing machine once properly positioned localized heat treated region 22 of metallic material 12 is then drawn shaped in forming apparatus 40 into the desired shape as noted while the invention is described with respect to drawing other processes are likewise contemplated accordingly it is contemplated that forming apparatus 40 may alternatively comprise any one of a variety of material forming machines including but not limited to a punch press a stamping press and a forging press after forming the shaped component is subjected to hardening by natural or artificial aging the hardening that results may approach or exceed the original hardness of the workpiece material in support of the ability to draw stamp various metallic materials without cracking for metallic materials which would otherwise result in cracks several tests were conducted in reliance upon the process of the present invention the first test compared drawing characteristics of different materials in a ball punch test the ball punch test apparatus was a conventional gries model 131 test machine using a 0 873 34 diameter ball a 1 110 34 diameter ring and a 500 kg clamping force a ball punch test pushes a 34 ball 34 under considerable force into a specimen creating a dome like deformation in the specimen the resulting dome like deformation heights are measured and from these measurements the material with the best formability characteristics can be determined in such a test three aluminum alloy specimens including a 6061 t4 alloy and two 6061 t6 alloy.