Moldflow® software helps reduce manufacturing defects through plastic injection moulding simulation. Access tools for injection mould design, plastic part design and mould processing.
Improve your productivity by meshing and analysing your model in one step. (video: 1.30 min.)
Moldflow includes Fusion 360 in-product push to help with quick CAD simplification and repair. (video: 3.06 min.)
Collaborate using cloud-connected devices to share results, comment and design recommendations. (video: 2.12 min.)
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Runner balance analysis guides users in sizing multi-cavity runners for even pressure and fill time. (video: 2.29 min.)
Automate cooling channel creation with a wizard, import from CAD curves or manually draw circuits. (video: 2.09 min.)
Analyse part warpage and evaluate potential design flaws to improve part quality. (video: 2.14 min.)
Use the Simulation Compute Manager (SCM) to solve analyses locally, on a server or on the cloud.
Simulate foaming of thermoplastic and thermoset materials (including polyurethane).
Include controlled and sequential valve gates within simulations, along with hot runner layouts. (video: 1.22 min.)
Visualise part quality concerns to identify causes of warpage and apply shrink compensation factors. (video: 3.17 min.)
Use automated design of experiments and parametric analysis to locate the best process and design. (video: 1.37 min.)
Run a coolant flow analysis to review coolant properties as it flows from the pump to the mould. (video: 2.56 min.)
Built-in database with information on thousands of tested thermoplastic and thermoset materials.
Pre-loaded materials increase accuracy with assigning part and mould insert materials and mould block materials.
Simulate continuous fibre inserts made from composite materials or wood and analyse any overmoulded part defects.
Create or import advanced cooling layouts, such as conformal cooling and analyse transient heat calculations.
Evaluate insert overmoulding, two-shot overmoulding and compression overmoulding sequences.
Simulate a charge or injected shot of material entering a cavity, followed by mould closing and compressing.
Analyse and evaluate the use of multiple injection moulding barrels to fill injection moulded parts.
Model gas channels and entry points to predict optimal timing and amount of gas needed to fill the part.
Analyse microcellular injection moulding with constant density and fit classical nucleation models.
Automatically determine the magnitude and duration of the packing pressure profile.
Inject two materials into one cavity and determine the relative distribution and location of materials.
Predict wire sweep and paddle shift with tools for designing the encapsulation package, tool, lead frame and wires.
Application Programming Interface (API) automation tools let you quickly create customised scripts.
Easy-to-understand user interface moves the user through setup, analysis and result interpretation.
Review visual or text-based results such as fibre orientation, surface defect path traceability and birefringence.
Export results through automated reports, hard data via scripts, warped geometry CAD export and FEA formats.
