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What is Moldex3D Plastic Molding

The leading true-3D molding simulation software can be applied in a wide range of plastic molding processes. We can predict potential manufacturing defects, validates part/mold design, lowers mold development costs, evaluates manufacturability, shortens time-to-market, and greatly increases business value.

  • One single platform to run all powerful Moldex3D simulations
  • Integrated workflow to ensure accurate meshing and modeling
  • Support multiple processes by applications. Check out our solution

 

Why You Need Moldex3D

  • Shorten cycle time and time-to-market
  • Reduce number of mold trials and manufacturing costs
  • Increase revenue and ROI
  • Minimize product defects and extend mold life

Flow

  • Predict melt front and flow patterns
  • Optimize gate locations and designs
  • Diagnose short shots, air traps, weld lines, flow imbalance, and more
  • Simulate multi-component interaction

Pack

  • Evaluate gate-freeze time
  • Avoid sink mark or flash
  • Optimize packing profile

Cool

  • Improve cooling efficiency and reduce cooling cycle
  • Predict hot spots
  • Support multiple cooling / heating system, conformal cooling and CFD

Warp

  • Foresee final part shape
  • Identify warpage causes
  • Support residual stress, anisotropic, in-mold constraint effect analysis

CAD & Mesh

  • CAD conversion & repair tool
  • Modeling Capability
  • Powerful automatic & customized meshing technology

Advanced Analysis

  • Machine Response & Plastification
  • Advanced Hot Runner (AHR)
  • Stress & Viscoelasticity (VE)
  • Optics
  • In-Mold Decoration (IMD)

Computing

  • Parallel Processing (PP)
  • Remote computing
  • Windows and Linux HPC platform supported
  • Cloud-Connect: Cloud computing HPC toolkit

Automation

  • Report Wizard
  • Expert (DOE)
  • Moldex3D API

Solutions by Industry

Solutions by Application

Moldex3D Solution Add-on

Expert (DOE)

helps users evaluate the optimal process conditions, such as packing time, cooling time, or mold temperature. Moldex3D Expert creates analysis variations and provides graphical summaries automatically.

SYNC

brings a simulation-driven design environment. With its powerful analysis capabilities fully embedded in mainstream CAD software, CAD users can synchronize design changes and quickly validate plastic designs.

Moldex3D CADdoctor

enables multi-CAD data exchange, geometry simplification and verification, quality check, etc. CADdoctor helps users check and heal poor-quality BLM geometry, which will enhance mesh quality and analysis accuracy.

Fiber Reinforced Plastics

Fiber

visualizes fiber orientation and calculates process-induced anisotropic thermo-mechanical properties for long and short fiber-reinforced plastics. Users can predict warpage distribution and evaluate part strength.

FEA Interface

provides a series of FEA Interface modules integrated with industrial leading structural software, including ABAQUS, Ansys, LS-DYNA, Marc, Nastran, and Radioss. Users can export Fiber and Stress analysis results to calculate further structural performance.

Micromechanics Interface

allows users to output more material properties for nonlinear multi-scale material modeling with integration of Digimat and Converse before FEA software.

Moldex3D Digimat-RP

help users to correctly design their fiber reinforced plastic parts. Users can quickly get an accurate material model of reinforced plastics and apply to FEA model for structure analysis with a streamline workflow.

Advanced Analysis

Stress

provides stress distribution for parts and part inserts. Users can set boundary conditions, such as stress or force, to evaluate the structure quality of plastics and predict potential breakage or deformation.

Viscoelasticity Viscoelasticity (VE)

calculates viscosity and elasticity variations of plastic materials under different temperature conditions. Users can evaluate the effects on molecular orientation, residual stress, warpage, and optical properties.

Advanced Hot Runner

visualizes the filling pattern and temperature distribution of hot runners and moldbase. Users can evaluate the heating efficiency and uniformity to optimize hot runner design.

Optics

analyzes flow- or thermally-induced optical performance of plastics, including birefringence, retardation, fringed orders, and fringed patterns. Moreover, the integration with CODE V provides non-uniform refractive index prediction.

Molding Processes

Compression Molding (CM)

simulates the compression molding process in which the polymer is squeezed into a preheated mold cavity. Moldex3D helps users check potential defects resulted from heat and pressure, decide appropriate materials, and optimize process conditions.

Injection Compression Molding (ICM)

Simulates the injection compression molding process, generally applied to thin and flat plastics, such as light guide plates or compact discs. Users can observe the compression process over time in cavity and evaluate material properties and process conditions.

Powder Injection Molding (PIM)

visualizes metal or ceramic molding process. Users can observe the fluid flow behavior of the feedstock, consisted of powder and binder, and predict potential defects. You also can evaluate the effects of shear rate and optimize process conditions.

Gas-Assisted Injection Molding (GAIM)

visualizes the melt flow behavior when gas is injected into the mold cavity through the melt entrance or other specific gas entrance. Users can predict typical GAIM issues, such as fingering effect, blow-through, or corner effect.

Water-Assisted Injection Molding (WAIM)

visualizes the dynamics of water-assisted injection molding process for hollow plastics. With the visualization of fluid penetration behavior inside the mold cavity, users can define the overflow region and optimize process conditions.

Co-Injection Molding (CoIM)

visualizes the sequential injection molding process of skin and core plastic materials. Users can decide plastic material pair to optimize the combination of two material properties. You also can predict potential breakthrough on part surface.

Bi-Injection Molding (BiIM)

visualizes the molding process of two materials being injected independently into a mold cavity. Users can define material type, set independent filling and packing parameters for each material, and observe the flow rate variation from two melt entrances.

Foam Injection Molding (FIM)

simulates the nucleation and growth of microcellular bubbles when the melt flow is injected into a mold cavity. Moldex3D Foam Injection Molding helps users determine optimal processing parameters to eliminate potential defects and warpage problem.

Chemical Foaming Molding (CFM)

Chemical Foaming Molding (CFM) is a molding process that full-fill the cavity with gas produced by chemical reactions.

Total Metals

Total Metals is by far the world’s largest database for metallic material properties and sits at the core of the Total Materia product offering serving as the gateway for an unparalleled collection of datasets and modules which serve the global engineering community.

Focused on providing standard metal properties data, Total Metals provides you with a staggering 15,000,000 property records for over 350,000 materials from 74 countries/standards.

The Challenges

  • Finding equivalents to foreign materials and comparing alternatives side by side
  • Searching for materials worldwide by specific chemical composition or mechanical properties
  • Deciphering material specifications and finding the correct grade for a specific application
  • Finding precise traceable and reliable mechanical, physical and other property data for various conditions and temperatures
  • Following the ever increasing pace of changes to national and international standards

The Solution: Total Materia - Total Metals

Total Metals module provides you with the ultimate solution for metals properties, cross-referencing, and knowledge, by integrating information from 74 Standard Development Organizations (SDOs), and hundreds of producers and other sources into the most comprehensive database in the world, powered with a superfast search engine.

THE LARGEST, TOP-QUALITY DATABASE

From chemical compositions, cross-reference tables, mechanical and physical properties at room, elevated and subzero temperatures, to additional information such as heat treatment diagrams, metallography and machinability, Total Metals gives you the highest quality and reliability of the only certified database of its kind in the industry.

THE FASTEST AND MOST POWERFUL CROSS-REFERENCING

The most comprehensive cross-reference tables with more than 15,000,000 records for equivalent materials worldwide are systemized using a proprietary classification of similarity. In addition, patented SmartCross2 algorithm enables identification of unknown equivalents using similarity of composition, mechanical properties or their combination.

UNPARALLELED DEVELOPMENT & CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Total Metals materials and property information are updated every month, keeping you up-to-date with the newest standards developments, as well as upgraded with new datasets, new unique algorithms and new software features. All aspects of Total Materia are fully supported by a dedicated team of specialists with over 300 years of combined industrial experience that provides technical consulting support FREE of charge for all subscribers!

DataPLUS is a supplementary module providing data subsets covering joints information, lubricants and coolants, material dimensions, tribology, and coatings for thousands of metallic and non-metallic materials.

In synergy with the primary materials databases, Total Metals and PolyPLUS, DataPLUS supports and supplements key industrial application decisions by helping make accurate and considered choices relating to material selection and usage.

 

The Challenges

  • Material and consumables selection for successful welding operations
  • Finding coatings and their properties related to materials in one unified platform
  • Communicating between engineering and purchasing avoiding potential errors

 

The Solution: Total Materia - DataPLUS

DataPLUS covers a wide range of information within its five data sub-sets acting as a critical additional resource for the process of material selection. Completely integrated, DataPLUS connects seamlessly to other key information such as chemical composition, tables of equivalent materials, mechanical and physical properties, which means viewing the bigger picture is effortless.

 

WELDING INFORMATION FOR GLOBAL MATERIALS AND CONSUMABLES

Find critical welding information such as mechanical properties at joint, information for thousands of material combinations, base material property data, consumable characteristics and references to related welding methodologies.

 

LUBRICANT AND COOLANT MATERIALS AND TRIBOLOGICAL DATA

Make key decisions about suitable lubricants and coolants to reduce cost by ensuring optimized part life. In combination with tribological data for thousands of materials, a complete picture of surface interaction can be discovered.
Find tribological data to understand the friction and subsequent wear potential for thousands of international materials and to help avoid unnecessary power loss and part degradation through the correct lubricant and coolant selection.

FIND DIMENSION AND TOLERANCE INFORMATION IN SECONDS

A must have to bridge the gap between engineering and purchasing, the dimensions and tolerances dataset allows you to find information relating to specific material measurements, their permissible variations along with useful information about packaging formats.

SEARCH FOR COATINGS INFORMATION TO UNDERSTAND PERFORMANCE

Hundreds of coating designations available with multiple properties and test data to help drive accurate decisions relating to coating selection and performance. Using the simple search interface, find properties such as coefficient of friction, maximum working temperature, micro hardness and much more.

Drives more accurate material selection; Helps justify material placement according to application; Common tool for both engineering and purchasing helping to get it right first time

PolyPLUS

PolyPLUS is the non-metallic material properties dataset for thousands of plastics, ceramics and composites covering both proprietary and standard materials and including advanced property datasets.

Integrated with the Total Metals database which contains over 350,000 metallic alloys, PolyPLUS allows Total Materia to be used as a truly one stop solution for your material needs.

 

The Challenges

  • Finding precise traceable standard and proprietary material property data for polymers, composites and ceramics
  • Simultaneous comparison of different kinds of metallic and non-metallic materials and finding the best alternatives
  • Sourcing rare advanced properties information for FEA/CAE calculations including stress-strain and fatigue data
  • Inefficiency of working from multiple resources covering metals and non-metals and across multiple business departments and disciplines

 

The Solution: Total Materia - PolyPLUS

The PolyPLUS module from Total Materia offers non-metallic material properties data for thousands of plastic, ceramic and composite materials covering a wide range of standard and advanced property information.

 

ADVANCED PROPERTY DATA FOR NON-METALS

As well as housing a unique collection of advanced property data for metallic materials, Extended Range also offers a comprehensive set of stress strain curves and fatigue data for non-metals.

UNPARALLELED DEVELOPMENTS AND UPGRADES

Through our dedicated PolyPLUS team, new data and functionality upgrades are added on a monthly basis meaning that our growing library of non-metals is fast becoming an indispensable resource for the engineering community.

ULTIMATE ONE STOP RESOURCE FOR ALL MATERIAL PROPERTY NEEDS

In combination with the world’s most comprehensive metals properties database, PolyPLUS provides the all the benefits of the Total Metals database, but for non-metals including property information for thousands of plastics, ceramics and composite materials and all available at the click of a button!

 

The Benefits

One stop resource for all material properties data needs; new opportunities in design by comparing the performance of completely diversified materials

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