SOLIDWORKS – Empowering Design Innovation
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Predict and avoid manufacturing defects in plastic parts and injection molds, eliminating costly rework, improving part quality, and reducing time to market.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics offers computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation tools that predict how molten plastic flows during the injection molding process—a manufacturing method used to produce more than 80% of all plastic products. The ability to predict how plastic will flow allows manufacturers to anticipate production defects. With the ability to predict these defects, users can modify mold geometry, processing conditions, or the plastic used to minimize potential defects, thereby saving energy, natural resources, time, and money.
Make sure that the details are manufactured during the design process. The easy-to-learn and use SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard program is fully integrated into SOLIDWORKS CAD, allowing you to analyze and modify part designs while simultaneously optimizing shape, fit, and function.
Based on the SOLIDWORKS Plastics standard for mold design analysis. With easy-to-use tools, you can quickly analyze mold layouts with single and multiple cavities, as well as families, including runners, gates, and sprues, to evaluate cycle time and optimize the feed system design.
Includes SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional with advanced modeling features for analyzing the placement of cooling lines in molds and warpage of parts. Cooling line optimization minimizes cycle time and reduces manufacturing costs.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics is fully integrated into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD for ease of use and data integrity. Using the same user interface (UI) as in SOLIDWORKS, in toolbars, menus, and context-sensitive context menus ensures quick familiarization. Built-in tutorials and online search assist in training and troubleshooting.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics supports SOLIDWORKS materials and configurations for convenient analysis of multiple loads and product configurations.
With over 4000 commercial grades of thermoplastics, you can browse and select the ones you need from the customizable built-in material library.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics includes the following mesh generation features:
3D Solver uses a multi-core processor (multiple threads).
Predicts how the material fills the cavity. The results include the distribution of pressure and temperature within the cavity, as well as the detection of possible short circuits and weld lines.
Automatically identifies up to 10 injection points in the cavity of the part. SOLIDWORKS Plastics adds injection points to the part based on geometry and an optimized balanced filling pattern.
Predicts the form of plastic flow through the cavity at the end of filling.
Predicts the depth of depressions after the part has been removed and cooled to room temperature.
Results can be exported to eDrawing®.
The time required to complete the entire form.
Displays the quality of the injection process with the inscription “filling reliability”.
User assistant for interpreting results.
Analyzes the thickness of the part and finds a high thickness coefficient.
Displays the maximum pressure for filling the cavity.
Displays the temperature history of the melting front.
Displays the cavity temperature field at the end of filling.
Displays the shift speed achieved at the end of filling for quality verification of the injection process.
Evaluates cooling time when analyzing fill time.
Displays the weld lines formed at the junction of two (or more) melt fronts.
Shows the place where high-pressure air can enter the cavity.
Displays the location of the weights.
Displays the share of frozen material in the part at the end of filling.
Displays the minimum clamping force for the current injection process.
Displays the cycle time for the current injection process.
Avoid modeling both cavities in a symmetrical mold layout, which saves computer time for modeling.
Evaluates the freezing process of the material in the cavity. Predicts the temperature for assessing hot spots, freezing gates, and cycle time. Results of pressure distribution, stress, and shrinkage are also available.
Defines the runner parameters for balancing the filling between parts.
Automates the process of creating common devices and flow control components, such as gates, guides, and runners.
Quickly and easily simulate the effects of runner and gate layout.
Hot channels are initially filled with hot polymer at the beginning of the filling simulation.
Simulates multiple cavities of the same part in a single mold.
Simulates a set of parts with various cavities in a single mold.
Enable the influence of mold inserts on modeling
Displays the volumetric shrinkage distribution at the end of filling or packing.
Displays the density distribution at the end of filling to check the quality of the packing phase.
Allows exporting the geometry of the part in STL or NASTRAN formats.
Exports the mesh, residual stress, fiber orientation, and material data for performing nonlinear analysis.
Simulates the flow of refrigerant inside for the analysis of mold cooling.
Special cooling line for a narrow channel into the cavity.
The cooling channel should follow the shape or profile of the core or mold cavity to ensure a fast and uniform cooling process.
The domain category assigned to the runner makes it easy to select the runner’s conditions.
Displays the location of depressions and their depth.
Displays the temperature distribution of the mold at the end of cooling.
Displays the distribution of displacement due to stress in the form.
