MOLDEX3D - Plastic Injection Molding

: Moldability verification tool for plastic part designers

Incomplete fill, undesirable weld line location, improper wall thickness are some of the most common molding issues which plastics part designers often encounter. Moldex3D eDesign Basic Package offers designers a powerful tool to quickly verify the part design for manufacturability so as to avoid the above-mentioned molding issues. Plastics designers can utilize the unique auto-meshing function to prepare the model for analysis in no time.

Additionally, designers are able to obtain product insights in terms of the pressure required to fill the part, potential weld line and air trap locations, etc. Employing Moldex3D eDesign Basic Package upfront helps companies to design products without manufacturability issues, improve quality and efficiency, reduce development costs, and shorten time to market.

: Design verification and optimization tool for plastic part and mold designers

Moldex3D eDesign offers designers an easy-to-use package to validate their designs behind the desk. The interactive interface that facilitates the part and mold creation and provides auto meshing enables users to work in CAD with no need for advanced CAD knowledge.

The accurate 3D model allows you to gain product insights, visualize flow and thermal properties, and optimize processes before physical parts are built. Moldex3D eDesign helps companies to design products with quality, reduce development costs, and shorten time to market.

: Design verification and optimization tool for plastic part and mold designers with an efficient support for shell-like products

On top of eDesign Package, Moldex3D Professional Package offers designers tools to simulate all types of designs, from thin parts to complex models. The pre-processing interface facilitates the part and mold creation and provides auto meshing enabling users to work in CAD with no need for advanced CAD knowledge. In addition, its 2.5D modeling capabilities bring unique and accurate solutions for thin shell-like designs.

Users are able to obtain product insights and properties, and further to optimize processes before physical parts are built. Moldex3D Professional Package helps companies to design products with quality and efficiency, reduce development costs, and shorten time to market.

: Design verification and optimization tool for plastic part and mold designers with a flexible extension for advanced process simulation

Moldex3D Advanced Package offers all users, from product and mold designers to advanced CAE experts the ability to obtain the details of all types of designs, from thin-wall molded parts to complex models with fine features. The interactive interface that facilitates the part and mold creation and provides auto meshing enables users to work in CAD with no need for advanced CAD knowledge.

In addition, the diversity and robustness of elements ensure the fidelity of solutions. Combining the advantages of 2.5D and 3D modeling, Moldex3D Advanced Package ensures the accurate and efficient performance for every design. Users are able to obtain product insights and properties, and further to optimize processes before physical parts are built. Moldex3D Advanced Package helps companies to design products with quality, reduce development costs, and shorten time to market.

: Series of add-ons for specific process simulation

FLOW

Moldex3D Flow enables users to simulate the filling patterns of injection molding to help predict potential manufacturing problems, such as weld lines, air traps, short shots, sink marks, etc., and verify gate contribution for flow balance.

PACK

Moldex3D Pack incorporates the material compressibility (PVT changes) to fully simulate the density variation and melt flow behaviors during the packing process. It helps users precisely determine gate freeze time, efficient packing time and packing pressure, and warpage prediction to minimize high volumetric shrinkage.

COOL

Moldex3D Cool improves cooling system productivity and efficiency to optimize mold and cooling circuit designs and reduce cycle times, especially for complicated geometry parts simulation. Furthermore, the advanced transient cool feature is also supported to bring more accurate analyses for variotherm heating system, such as RHCM, and conformal cooling process simulation. Users can easily observe dynamic mold temperature and optimize cooling process.

WARP

Moldex3D Warp provides a reliable analysis capability to simulate the key issues of shrinkage and warpage behaviors, further controlling the blemishes of molded products.

MCM

Moldex3D MCM diversifies the development of plastic molded product. Its explicit analysis capabilities enable users to evaluate insert molding, overmolding and multi-shot sequential molding process, helps accurately observe interaction behaviors and minimize part warpage.

MESH

Moldex3D Mesh supports various mesh types, including 2D triangular and quadrilateral, 3D tetrahedral, prismatic, hexagonal, voxel (brick) and pyramid meshes. Several mainstream meshing methods are available in Moldex3D Mesh: pure triangle surface meshing, quadrilateral dominate surface meshing, pure tetra generation, boundary layer meshing, pure voxel meshing, hybrid meshing method and midplane mesh extraction.

MOLD DESIGNER

Moldex3D Designer, designers are able to verify and optimize design changes more effectively and more flexibly.

VIEWER

Moldex3D Viewer is a standalone and free tool that visualizes Moldex3D’s analysis results. It can generate reports automatically in HTML or PowerPoint format. With its extensive visualization capabilities, users can view pros and cons of all simulations and share identification with their teams, mold makers, engineers, executives, partners, and customers.

PARALLEL COMPUTING

all Moldex3D 3D solvers support multi-core and multi-CPU parallel computing to greatly shorten simulation time. Parallel computing can be done locally at your desktop or remotely on a computing cluster.