Predict and avoid manufacturing defects in plastic part and injection mold designs, eliminating costly rework, improving part quality, and decreasing time to market.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard enables plastic part and injection mould designers to optimize parts & Mould for manufacturability or defects in the early stages of design. Easy to learn and use, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard is fully embedded within the SOLIDWORKS CAD environment so you can analyze and modify designs at the same time you optimize for form, fit, and function and reduce time to market.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard

For plastics part designers, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard enables you to optimize parts for manufacturability in the early stages of design. Easy to learn and use, SOLIDWORKS plastics standard is fully embedded within the SOLIDWORKS cad environment so you can analyze and modify designs at the same time you optimize for form, fit, and function.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional gives anyone who designs or builds injection molds an accurate, easy-to-use way to optimize them. You can quickly create and analyze single-cavity, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates. You can even balance runner systems and estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size, enabling you to optimize feed system design and avoid costly mold rework.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium includes everything in SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional plus advanced simulation functionality that allows cae analysts and mold designers to analyze mold cooling line layouts and predict molded part warpage. Users can design and analyze simple or complex mold cooling line layouts, optimize cooling system design to minimize cycle times and decrease manufacturing costs and optimize part and mold design, material selection and processing parameters to reduce or eliminate molded part warpage.

CAD INTEGRATION


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CAD   INTEGRATION
SOLIDWORKS Native File
Associative with SOLIDWORKS
SOLIDWORKS -EMBEDDED


PLASTICS MATERIAL DESIGN


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PLASTICS MATERIAL DESIGN
4000+ Commercials Plastics
Customizable


Meshing


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 Meshing
Automatic
Boundary Mesh (shell)
Solid  3D Mesh
Global Mesh Refinement
Local Mesh Refinement


Simulation Capabilities


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Simulation Capabilities
Filling Phase (1st stage injection)
Packing Phase (2nd stage)
Automatic Gate Location(s)
Instaneous Full Time Plot
Runner Balancing
Sink Mark Analysis
Symmetry Analysis (New!)


MOLD GEOMETRY SUPPORT


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MOLD GEOMETRY SUPPORT
Runner Design Wizard
Sprues and Runners
Hot & Cold Runners
Multi-Cavity Molds
Family Molds
Cooling Lines
Baffles & Bubblers
Conformal Cooling Channels
Mold Inserts


Advanced Simulation Capabilities


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ADVANCED SIMULATION CAPABILITIES
Co-Injection
Multi-Shot
Insert Overmolding
Gas-Assist
Fiber Analysis
Reaction Injection Molding (RIM; Thermosets)
Birefringence
Valve Gate (sequential injection)
Cooling Line Analysis
Conformal Cooling Analysis
Warpage Analysis


Results (partial listing)


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RESULTS(partial listing)
eDrawing Support(New!)
Fill Time
Ease of Fill
Results Advisor
Nominal Wall Thickness
Pressure at End of Fill
Flow Front Temperature
Temperature at End of Fill
Shear Stress
Shear Rate
Cooling Time
Weld Lines
Air Traps
Sink Marks
Sink Mark Profiles
Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill
Clamp Force
Cycle Time
Volumetric Shrinkage
Mold Temperature at Cooling End
Displacement due to Residue