This is an efficient tool based on true 3D technology that analyzes the following aspects of the design phase:
Moldex3D Cool is also a troubleshooting tool that detects possible mold cooling system defects, such as:
In addition, it can accurately evaluate cooling efficiency to optimize your cooling system design and reduce cycle time.
This feature involves calculations of the following:
Included in this analysis are calculations of the following:
This feature involves an analysis of the Reynolds number along each cooling channel and calculations of the following:
With the help of this feature, you can easily estimate the required cooling time of your systems.
This feature lets you incorporate the heat flux results from flow and pack analyses for cooling calculations. It also improves the accuracy of flow, pack, cool, and warp analyses.
Aside from helping you predict the temperature variation history of your system’s mold cooling stage, this feature supports the following:
This software product lets you perform true 3D warpage analysis on thick plastic parts and parts that have extreme thickness changes. It does this based on the filling, packing, and cooling analyses conducted by the Moldex3D Flow, Pack, and Cool products.
Warp helps improve the quality of your plastic parts while optimizing their design. It also predicts the anisotropic shrinkage and warpage of fiber-filled material by incorporating fiber composite theories and the fiber orientation results from Moldex3D Fiber. In addition, it links to I2 modules to interface with structural analysis software.
This analysis involves calculating the final plastic part’s shape due to material shrinkage as the temperature and pressure change from process settings to room conditions.
When a manufactured plastic part is ejected, it shrinks and deforms into an equilibrium shape. At this point, the remaining stress inside it is called process-induced residual stress. Moldex3D Warp lets you calculate the residual stresses developed during the molding cycle, including temperature and pressure distribution effects, material orientation, and geometric features.
Anisotropic properties are calculated based on the material orientation tensors obtained from flow analysis. These properties are then transferred to general structure CAE software for a part structure analysis involving process-induced properties.
Before a plastic part is ejected, the deformation of warpage has been developed inside the mold. However, the mold’s rigidity prevents the part from shrinking and deforming freely. Moldex3D Warp lets you calculate the warpage induced by in-mold constraint to enhance the accuracy of its analysis.
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