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SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS

OBJECTIVE
®
For companies that design plastic parts or injection molds, SOLIDWORKS Plastics helps users predict and avoid
manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of part and mold design, eliminating costly mold rework,
improving part quality, and decreasing time-to-market.

OVERVIEW CAPABILITIES
SOLIDWORKS Plastics offers Computer-Aided Engineering
(CAE) simulation tools that predict how melted plastic flows
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard
during the injection molding process—the manufacturing SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard is easy-to-use plastics
method used to produce more than 80% of all plastics injection molding software that guides part designers through
products. The ability to predict how the plastic will flow the process of optimizing their part designs, improving part
allows the prediction of manufacturing-related defects. By quality, and decreasing time-to-market.
being able to predict these defects, users can change mold
geometry, processing conditions, or the plastic material used SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional
to minimize potential defects, thus saving energy, natural SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional guides mold designers
resources, time, and money. and mold makers through the process of optimizing their
designs, eliminating costly mold rework.
BENEFITS
• Avoid Hidden Costs: SOLIDWORKS Plastics products can SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium
be used to optimize part wall thickness, gate locations, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium guides mold designers and
runner system size, and layout to ensure the mold works mold makers through the process of optimizing their designs,
right the first time, reducing or eliminating the need for analyzing injection mold cooling line layouts, and predicting
rework. molded part warpage.
• Reduce Manufacturing Defects and Scrap: SOLIDWORKS Not all capabilities are available in every package or for all
Plastics makes it easy to analyze design iterations at the studies.
earliest stages of product development—when the cost
of change is least and the impact on manufacturability is SOLIDWORKS Design Support
greatest. This improves part quality and minimizes scrap • Native SOLIDWORKS files
rates.
• Associative with SOLIDWORKS geometry
• Reduce Time-to-Market Delays: SOLIDWORKS Plastics
• Fully embedded in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
helps to predict and avoid potential manufacturing defects
before any mold tooling is cut, virtually eliminating the
General Analysis and Meshing
need for time-consuming and costly mold rework and
ensuring project deadlines and ship dates are met on-time • Wizard for mesh generation and analysis setup
and within budget. • Automatic, Local Mesh Refinement
• Avoid Inefficient “Islands of Automation”: SOLIDWORKS • Global Mesh Refinement
Plastics provides automated report generation tools that
• Boundary Mesh (Shell)
facilitate the sharing and interpretation of simulation
results, allowing increased collaboration among • Solid 3D mesh
development teams at different sites.
Mold Geometry Support • Instantaneous Fill Time Plot
• Runner Design Wizard • Runner Balancing
• Sprues and Runners • Sink Mark Analysis
• Hot and Cold Runners • Symmetry Analysis
• Multi-Cavity Molds
Advanced Simulation Capabilities
• Family Molds
• Co-Injection
• Cooling Lines
• Multi-Shot
• Baffles and Bubblers
• Insert Overmolding
• Conformal Cooling Channels
• Gas-Assist
• Mold Inserts
• Fiber Analysis
• Runner Domain Category
• Reaction Injection Molding (RIM); Thermosets
Results (partial listing) • Birefringence
• eDrawings ® support • Valve Gates (sequential injection)
• Fill time, Ease of Fill, Results Adviser • Automatic Valve Gates (opening times)
• Nominal Wall Thickness Adviser • Venting Analysis

3D EXPERIENCE® , the Compass icon, the 3DS logo, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, ENOVIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, GEOVIA, EXALEAD, 3D VIA, 3DSWYM, BIOVIA, NETVIBES, IFWE and 3DEXCITE are commercial trademarks or registered
• Pressure at End of Fill • Cooling Line Analysis

trademarks of Dassault Systèmes, a French “société européenne” (Versailles Commercial Register # B 322 306 440), or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners. Use of any Dassault Systèmes
• Flow Front Temperature, Temperature at End of Fill, Mold • Conformal Cooling Analysis
Temperature at Cooling End
• Warpage Analysis
• Shear Rate
• Cooling Time Language Support
• English
• Weld Lines, Air Traps, Sink Marks, Sink Mark Profiles
• Traditional Chinese
• Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill
• Simplified Chinese
• Clamp Force, Cycle Time
• German
• Volumetric Shrinkage, Density at End of Pack
• Korean
• Displacement due to Residual Stress
® • French
• Exports STL, Nastran
® • Japanese
• Export with mechanical properties ABAQUS , ANSYS ® ,
Digimat ® • Italian
• Russian
Plastics Material Database
• Spanish
• Database: 4,000+ commercial thermoplastic grades
• Customizable material

Simulation Capabilities
• Filling Phase (1st stage injection)
• Packing Phase (2nd stage injection)
• Cooling Analysis
• Warpage Prediction
• Automatic Gate Location(s)
or its subsidiaries trademarks is subject to their express written approval.
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