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
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM | |
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CAD INTEGRATION | |||
SOLIDWORKS Native File | |||
Associative with SOLIDWORKS | |||
SOLIDWORKS -EMBEDDED | |||
PLASTICS MATERIAL DESIGN
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM | |
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PLASTICS MATERIAL DESIGN | |||
4000+ Commercials Plastics | |||
Customizable | |||
Meshing
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM | |
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Meshing | |||
Automatic | |||
Boundary Mesh (shell) | |||
Solid 3D Mesh | |||
Global Mesh Refinement | |||
Local Mesh Refinement | |||
Simulation Capabilities
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM | |
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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
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM | |
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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
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM | |
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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)
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM | |
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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 | |||