SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM

Top Level Injection Molding Analysis Software

The Ultimate Mold Cavity Analysis Simulation Software

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 optimize cooling system, part and mold design to minimize cycle times and decrease manufacturing costs. Additonal features allow designers to change material selection and processing parameters to reduce or eliminate molded part warpage.

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SOLIDWORKS Plastics PREMIUM

The ultimate plastic flow simulation testing software available.  SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium includes all the tools of SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard and Professional but with the addition of advanced features for optimizing your mold cavity design.

  SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium Tools featuring Cooling Lines

Runner Domain Category

Can assign the modeled runner system domain to allow for easy selection for runner condition settings.

Baffles and Bubblers

Additional cooling channel components used to direct cooling fluid flow closer to the part cavity.

Mold Temperature at Cooling End

Shows the temperature scale on the mold base of the end of the cooling cycle.

Conformal Cooling Channels

The cooling channel follows the shape or profile of the mold core or cavity to perform a uniform cooling process.

Baffles and Bubblers

Additional cooling channel components used to direct cooling fluid flow closer to the part cavity.

Sink Mark Profiles

Displays the location and depth of sink marks on the molded part.

Cooling Lines

Analyzes the effect of cooling channel layout, diameters, temperature, and flow rate.

ALSO INCLUDES:
Design Data Reuse
Materials Database
Meshing
Parallel Computing (Multi-Core)
Filling Phase (1st Stage Injection)
Automatic Gate Location(s)
Instantaneous Fill Time Plot
Sink Mark Analysis
eDrawings Support
Fill Time
Ease of Fill

Symmetry Analysis
Packing Phase (2nd Stage Injection)
Runner Balancing
Runner Design Wizard
Sprues and Runners
Hot and Cold Runners
Multi-Cavity Molds

Results Adviser
Nominal Wall Thickness Adviser
Pressure at End of Fill
Flow Front Temperature
Temperature at End of Fill
Shear Rate
Cooling Time
Weld Lines
Air Traps
Sink Marks
Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill
Clamp Force
Cycle Time
Family Molds
Mold Inserts
Volumetric Shrinkage
Density at End of Pack
Exports STL, NASTRAN
Export with Mechanical Properties ABAQUS®, ANSYS®, DigiMat®

Frequently Asked Questions

No, SOLIDWORKS Plastics is a purchased add-in that will run on any level of SOLIDWORKS CAD.
Yes, with the use of duplicate study and the batch manager, you can setup multiple studies and choose to run them in a batch. While the batch analysis is running, SOLIDWORKS can be shut down and the solver will continue to run.
Yes, you can export and save individual results as an eDrawing file.

Other SOLIDWORKS Plastics Packages

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard Offered at GoEngineer

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard is the premier mold cavity testing software for part designers. It contains analysis tools that allow plastic part designers to validate and optimize part designs for the injection molding process. This is a great tool for the plastic part designer to use to detect potential molding defects before manufacturing begins.

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SOLIDWORKS Plasics Professional Offered at GoEngineer

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional is the next step up in mold cavity injection testing. Developed to assist mold designers and mold builders to optimize the mold design that will result in a consistent processing window. Includes additional tools such as multi-cavity design and runner systems to prevent costly rework by minimizing tooling adjustments.

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