Moldflow® software helps reduce manufacturing defects through plastic injection molding simulation. Access tools for injection mold design, plastic part design, and mold processing.
Improve your productivity by meshing and analyzing 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.)
Analyze 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.)
Visualize 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 mold.(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 mold insert materials and mold block materials.
Simulate continuous fiber inserts made from composite materials or wood, and analyze any overmolded part defects.
Create or import advanced cooling layouts, such as conformal cooling, and analyze transient heat calculations.
Evaluate insert overmolding, two-shot overmolding, and compression overmolding sequences.
Simulate a charge or injected shot of material entering a cavity, followed by mold closing and compressing.
Analyze and evaluate the use of multiple injection molding barrels to fill injection molded parts.
Model gas channels and entry points to predict optimal timing and amount of gas needed to fill the part.
Analyze microcellular injection molding with constant density and fitted classical nucleation models.
Automatically determine the magnitude and duration of the packing pressure profile.
Inject 2 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 custom scripts.
Easy-to-understand user interface moves the user through setup, analysis, and result interpretation.
Review visual or text-based results such as fiber orientation, surface defect path traceability, and birefringence.
Export results through automated reports, hard data via scripts, warped geometry CAD export, and FEA formats.
