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SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional is for Mechanical engineers tasked with the intricate design of injection molds that require tools that predict potential manufacturing issues and offer solutions that optimize mold-making. SOLIDWORKS® Plastics Professional stands out as advanced simulation software designed to meet these needs, offering a comprehensive suite of features tailored for mold design analysis.

Advanced Simulation for Mold Design

  • SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional builds upon the foundation laid by SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard, offering enhanced features aimed explicitly at mold design analysis. This includes quickly evaluating single, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts. The software facilitates the examination of sprues, runners, and gates, providing engineers with the data needed to estimate cycle times accurately and optimize the feed system design for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Optimizing Feed System Design

  • One of the most beneficial features of SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional is its capacity to aid in optimizing feed system design. By analyzing and simulating plastic flow through the mold’s feed system, engineers can make informed decisions about sprues, runners, and gate layout. This optimization not only ensures the quality of the final part but also contributes to reducing material waste and manufacturing time, leading to a more sustainable and cost-effective production process.

Seamless Integration with SOLIDWORKS CAD

  • Like its counterpart, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional fully integrates within SOLIDWORKS CAD, offering a unified platform for part and mold design. This integration facilitates a smooth workflow, allowing engineers to make design adjustments and simulate outcomes in real time. The ability to perform these tasks within a single environment enhances productivity and fosters innovation by enabling more iterative design exploration.

Why SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional?

For mechanical engineers specializing in mold design, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional is not just a tool, but a powerful ally. It offers a unique combination of advanced simulation capabilities, optimization tools, and seamless integration with SOLIDWORKS CAD. This enables the detailed analysis and refinement of mold designs before any physical tooling is created, a significant step forward in efficiency, cost reduction, and product quality. In a market where the margins for error are increasingly slim, and the demands for sustainability and speed are ever-growing, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional is not just an investment, but a necessity for plastic part and mold engineers. For the engineer designing the plastic part only consider SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard. If you need to simulate cooling and reduce mold cycle times step up to SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium
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Ease of Use

SOLIDWORKS Plastics is fully embedded in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD for easy use and data integrity. Using the same user interface (UI) as SOLIDWORKS in toolbars, menus, and context-sensitive right-click menus ensures rapid familiarization. Built-in tutorials and searchable online help aid learning and troubleshooting.

Design Data Reuse

SOLIDWORKS Plastics supports SOLIDWORKS materials and configurations to analyze multiple loads and product configurations easily.

Materials Database

With 4,000+ commercial thermoplastic grades, you can browse and select the desired from the customizable built-in material library.

Meshing

SOLIDWORKS Plastics includes these meshing features:

  • Wizard for mesh generation and analysis setup
  • Automatic Mesh
  • Local Mesh Refinement
  • Global Mesh Refinement
  • Boundary Mesh (Shell)
  • Solid 3D mesh

Parallel Computing (Multi-core)

The 3D Solver benefits from a multi-core CPU (multiple threads).

Filling Phase (1st Stage Injection)

Predicts how material fills the cavity. Results include distributions of pressure and temperature within the cavity and detection of potential short shots and weld lines.

Instantaneous Fill Time Plot

Predicts the plastic flow pattern through the cavity at the end of the fill.

Sink Mark Analysis

Predicts the depth of sink marks after the part has been ejected and cooled to room temperature.

eDrawings Support

Results can be exported to eDrawing®

Fill Time

Time needed to fill the whole mold.

Ease of Fill

Displays the quality of the injection process with a 'confidence of fill' legend.

Results Adviser

User assistant for interpreting results.

Pressure at End of Fill

Displays the maximum pressure to fill the cavity.

Flow Front Temperature

Displays the melt front temperature history.

Temperature at End of Fill

Displays the Cavity Temperature field at the end of fill.

Shear Rate

Displays the shear rate reached at the end of fill to check the injection process quality.

Cooling Time

Estimates cooling time at fill time analysis.

Weld Lines

Displays weld lines formed at locations of the part where two (or multiple) melt fronts meet.

Air Traps

Shows where high-pressure air may be trapped inside the cavity.

Sink Marks

Displays the location of sink marks.

Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill

Displays the fraction of frozen material into the part at the end of the fill.

Clamp Force

Displays the minimum clamp force for the current injection process.

Cycle Time

Displays the cycle time for the current injection process.

Symmetry Analysis

Avoid simulating both cavities in a symmetrical mold layout, saving computer time for the simulation.

Packing Phase (2nd Stage Injection)

Evaluates the material freezing process in the cavity. Predicts the temperature to evaluate hot spots, gate freeze, and cycle time. Distributions of pressure, stress, and shrinkage results are also available.

Runner Balancing

Determines the runner parameters to balance filling between parts.

Runner Design Wizard

Automates creating common flow control devices and components such as sprues, runners, and gates.

Sprues and Runners

Quickly and easily simulate the impact of the sprues and runners layout.

Hot and Cold Runners

Hot runners are initially filled with hot polymer at the start of the filling simulation.

Multi-cavity Molds

p>Simulates multiple cavities of the same part in the same mold.

Family Molds

Simulates a set of different cavities parts in the same mold.

Mold Inserts

Include the impact of mold inserts on the simulation

Volumetric Shrinkage

Displays volumetric shrinkage distribution at the end of fill or pack.

Density at End of Pack

Displays density distribution at the post-filling end to check the pack phase quality.

Exports STL, NASTRAN

Enables you to export part geometry in STL or NASTRAN formats

Export with Mechanical Properties ABAQUS®, ANSYS, DigiMat®

Exports mesh, residual stress, fiber orientation, and material data to run non-linear analysis.

Cooling Lines

Simulates the coolant flowing inside for the mold cooling analysis.

Baffles and Bubblers

Specific cooling line for the narrow channel into the cavity.

Conformal Cooling Channels

Cooling passageway follows the shape or profile of the mold core or cavity to perform rapid uniform cooling process.

Runner Domain Category

Domain category assigned to the runner allows easy selection for runner's conditions.

Sink Mark Profiles

Displays the location of sink marks and their depth.

Mold Temperature at Cooling End

Displays the mold temperature distribution at the cooling end.

Displacement Due to Residual Stress

Displays the displacement distribution due to in-mold stress.

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