Injection molding simulation analysis standard
Autodesk ? Moldflow ?

Autodesk ? Moldflow ? injection molding simulation software provides many tools that can help manufacturers prediction, optimization and validation of plastic parts, injection mold design and molding process.
Many industry leading companies all over the world are using Autodesk ? Moldflow ? Adviser and Autodesk ? Moldflow ? Insight software to help optimize parts and mold design, reduce the potential manufacturing defects, and innovation and fast speed to the market.
Autodesk Moldflow product line Autodesk Moldflow is committed to providing a wide range of dedicated injection molding simulation tools, helping CAE analysts, designers, engineers, mold makers and molding experts create designs for the entire injection molding process and launch higher-quality products at a lower cost. Validation and optimization of plastic parts now, almost all industries are using plastics to create better, cheaper products and zero parts.
Using fiber filled composites and innovative manufacturing techniques can help companies cope with growing pressures, reduce costs, lighten products and shorten time-to-market.
As a result, there has never been a greater need for a simulation analysis tool that can help them understand the injection molding process in depth.
Fusion connection and control pressure protection.
The flow simulation of plastic melt is simulated and analyzed to optimize the design of plastic parts and injection moulds, reduce the potential defects of parts and improve the molding process.
Part molding defects are analyzed to identify potential parts defects such as weld lines, trapped air and indentation, and then optimized to avoid these problems.
Mold filling is used to simulate the filling stage in the injection molding process, so as to pre-test the flow mode of the plastic melt, ensure that the plastic melt is evenly filled into the cavity, avoid short shot, eliminate or as far as possible avoid fusion wiring and trapped gas, or change its position.
The pressure maintaining curve in the injection molding process is optimized to realize visualization of volume shrinkage and distribution, so as to minimize the deformation of plastic parts and eliminate shrinkage marks and other molding defects.
Simulation of pouring system model and optimization of cold and hot runner system and gate design.
Improve the appearance quality of the parts, minimize the parts warping and shortening molding cycle. Gate location can be determined for up to 10 gate locations simultaneously.
In determining gate placement, minimize injection pressure and exclude specific areas (such as surfaces).
The runner design wizard creates a runner system based on the layout, size, and type of the input components (including the main runner, runner, and gate).
The zero balance flow channel balances the flow channel system in the single-cavity, multi-cavity and one-module multi-die layout so that all parts can be filled at the same time, reducing stress levels and improving consistency.
 The hot runner system evaluates simplified or detailed design of the hot runner system by constructing detailed models of the various components in the hot runner system (requiring detailed three-dimensional geometric models of each component) and setting the opening or closing speed of the sequence valve gate and its needle valve in order to eliminate fusion wiring and control pressure retaining.
Injection molding process simulation
Mold cooling simulation improves the efficiency of the cooling system, minimizes part warping, provides part surface gloss, and shortens the cycle.
The cooling system is modeled to analyze the efficiency of the die cooling system.
The models of cooling waterways (conventional or alien waterways), water baffles, sprinkler pipes, heating components, steam pipes, induction coils, die inserts and die frames are constructed.
The cooling system analyses and optimizes the mold and cooling loop design to achieve uniform cooling of parts, minimize the cycle time, reduce part warping and reduce manufacturing costs.Verify the application effect of advanced cooling technology and the design of waterways, such as calculation of conformal cooling, induction heating and transient cooling.
Rapid heat cycle forming (rapid cold and hot forming) analysis is based on the function of transient mold temperature analysis. By setting mold surface temperature change curve or mold heater (thermocouple, steam or electromagnetism, etc.), the mold can maintain a higher temperature in the filling stage to improve filling and smooth the surface and eliminate welding connection.
Reduce the die temperature rapidly to cool the parts and shorten the molding cycle in the pressure keeping and cooling stage.
Contraction and warping simulation
Evaluate plastic parts and injection mold design to help control shrinkage and warping.The shrinkage of parts is predicted according to the process parameters and material data of a certain grade, and the optimum die cavity size is determined to ensure that the parts meet the requirements of design tolerances.
Warping predicts product warping caused by forming stress.
Identify possible warping locations and optimize parts and mold design, material selection and process parameters to help control deformation.
The core displacement can find out the best technological conditions by optimizing the parameters such as injection pressure, pressure retaining curve, gate position, structure and fixation mode of the mold core, and predict and minimize the deformation of the mold core during the molding process.
Fiber orientation distribution and fracture through the latest long and short glass fiber solver, as well as advanced long glass fiber fracture analysis function, help users to predict and control the fiber orientation distribution in the injection parts, reduce the long glass fiber fracture during the molding process, so as to reduce the contraction and warping of the injection parts.
CAE data exchange. Use the non-linear data interface provided by Autodesk Helius PFA to make Moldflow and structural analysis software conduct data exchange and joint simulation, and help verify and optimize the design of plastic parts.
With Autodesk ? Simulation machine, Autodesk ? Nastran ? and Autodesk ? Helius PFA ?, using Abaqus software and ANSYS ? structure CAE software to realize data exchange, so as to realize the products according to the practical manufacture after the material properties to predict the actual performance of the plastic parts.
Simulation of special injection molding process

The flow analysis of thermosetting plastics simulates the injection molding of thermosetting plastics, RIM/SRIM, resin transfer molding and the injection molding of rubber composites.
The filling effect of thermosetting materials with or without fiber reinforcement is evaluated by reactive injection molding, to avoid short shot caused by resin curing in advance, and to predict gas trapped or weld connection problems.
Balancing the flow path system, selecting injection molding machine specifications and evaluating the selection of thermosetting materials.
Microchip packaging is used to simulate the packaging process of semiconductor chip and electronic chip.
Prediction of cavity deformation and lead frame displacement due to resin flow or uneven pressure.
The simulation of the chip packaging process is carried out to predict the material flow in the cavity between the chip and substrate.
Professional simulation analysis tools solve design challenges through simulation analysis.
Emulation analysis of embedded molding helps to determine the impact of mold insert or product insert on melt flow, mold cooling efficiency and part warping.
Professional simulation analysis tools solve design challenges through simulation analysis.
Emulation analysis of embedded molding helps to determine the impact of mold insert or product insert on melt flow, mold cooling efficiency and part warping.
Special molding process is used to simulate extensive plastic injection molding process and special process.
Analysis of gas-assisted injection molding to determine the location of the sprue and the inlet, the volume of the melt injection before filling, and how to optimize the size and arrangement of the airway.
The co-injection molding analysis realizes the visualization of the injection molding process of the cortical material and core material in the mold cavity.
Optimize material mix and maximize the cost performance of the product.
Injection molding or compression molding analysis of injection molding or compression molding process simulation analysis.
In this process, the injection of the polymer and the compression of the mold can be carried out synchronously or first.
Evaluate material selection, optimize part design, die design and process parameters.
CAD collaboration and grid partitioning
for local CAD model transformation and optimization tools.Autodesk Moldflow supports the application of geometric models of thin, thick and solid parts.
The user can select the appropriate grid type according to the required simulation precision and solution time.
CAD entity model, and from a Parasolid ? CAD system, Autodesk ? Inventor ? and Autodesk ? Alias ? software, CATIA ? V5, Creo ? Parametric, Pro/ENGINEER ?, Siemens ? NX ?, Rhino ? and SolidWorks ? software and ACIS ?, IGES and STEP gm file import entity geometry and its mesh.
Autodesk SimStudio Tools to quickly simplify and edit the geometric model to simulate in Moldflow.
SimStudio Tools can read a variety of CAD file lattices so that you can quickly verify a variety of design ideas by simplifying the model, removing unnecessary features, performing basic fixes to the model, or making design changes easily.
I error detection and repair scan the imported geometry, and automatically fix any defects that may occur when transforming the model from CAD software.
Import/export center lines from/to CAD software to export/import the pouring system and cooling channel center lines, thus helping to shorten the modeling time and avoid modeling errors of flow channels and cooling pipelines.
CADdoctor for Autodesk Simulation check, correct, repair and simplify the solid model imported from 3d CAD system to prepare and optimize the solid model for Simulation analysis.
3D solid mesh analysis USES solid tetrahedral finite element mesh technology to simulate and analyze complex geometric models.
The solid analysis technique of 3D mesh is the best choice, especially for connector, structural part with thick wall and geometric model with large wall thickness variation.
Double layer (Dual Domain) grid technology USES unique patent double level (Dual Domain ?) grid technology for thin wall parts entity model for the simulation analysis.
Direct use of 3-d solid CAD models makes it easier to simulate design changes.
This makes it easier to simulate design iterations.
The mesosurface grid technique is suitable for thin-walled parts to generate two-dimensional planar grids with specified thickness based on the provided solid geometric model or two dimensional neutral surface model.
Results evaluation and efficiency tools
The simulation results are visualized and evaluated, and Shared with stakeholders using the report creation tool.
Use tools such as material database and result analysis to improve work efficiency step by step.
Result interpretation and demonstration use a series of tools for model visualization, result evaluation, and demonstration.
Results the analysis tool queries different areas of the model to determine the main reasons of the short shot and the poor quality of filling or cooling.
Obtain Suggestions for improvement of parts, moulds or processes.
Photo visual defects and Autodesk ? VRED ? software together, will be through the Moldflow analysis of molding defects, such as shrink mark, deformation, etc.) generated rendering pictures of magnitude, thus the actual circumstances of the visual assessment of the forming defects, improve the level of quality assessment.
The report creation tool USES the report generation wizard to create web-based reports.
Easily share and evaluate analysis results with customers, vendors, and team members.
Microsoft Oce export function derived results and pictures directly into the default or custom report Word or PowerPoint template, so that the Microsoft ? Word reports and PowerPoint ? used in presentations.
Autodesk Moldflow Communicator using free Autodesk ? Moldflow ? Communicator software and production personnel, procurement engineers, suppliers and customers, strengthen the association.
The result viewer of Autodesk Moldflow Communicator supports users to directly export the analysis results from Autodesk Moldflow software, so that relevant personnel can more easily view, quantify and compare the simulation results.
Material data improves the simulation accuracy by virtue of accurate material data.
The material database USES a built-in plastic material database containing more than 9,700 kinds of material parameters for plastic injection molding simulation analysis.
Autodesk Moldflow plastics lab Autodesk ? Moldflow ? plastic lab with plastic testing services, professional services as well as the data fitting material to improve and update the database.
Productivity tools use built-in analysis tools and numerous help tools to increase productivity.
Cost analysis tools understand the factors that affect part costs in order to minimize part costs.
Forecast product cost based on selected materials, molding cycle, mold opening/closing time and cost improvement.
Design analysis tools quickly identify areas in plastic parts that conflict with injection molding process and design criteria.
Help provides assistance based on analysis results, including what parameters should be concerned and how to correct common errors.
Learn more about the principles of solver, methods for evaluating simulation results, and how to design better plastic parts and injection molds.
Automation and customization help users automate routine tasks and customize Autodesk Moldflow software to your specifications.
API tools application programming interface (API) tools enable you to automate common tasks, customize user interfaces, invoke third-party applications, and help implement enterprise standards and best practices.