Reduce delays and gain insights with plastic part simulation

Moldflow® plastic injection and compression moulding software provides advanced tools to simulate potential challenges of manufacturing plastic injection moulded parts.

Products

Moldflow Adviser Premium

Moldflow Adviser Ultimate

At a glance

Analyse manufacturability of your design

Evaluate the presence of air traps and weld lines

3D analysis for parts with varying thickness



Includes Moldflow Adviser Premium, plus:

Mould filling, packing and cooling guidance

Causes of warpage

Fibre orientation

Runner balancing and cavity layout

Solver Capacity

Simultaneous local solving

Unlimited

Unlimited

Meshing

Dual Domain™ technology

3D simulations

Midplane

CAD Interoperability

CAD solid models

Parts

Assemblies

Simulation Advisers

Design advice

Design adviser

Results adviser

Cost adviser

Simulation Abilities

Filling

Packing

Fibre orientation

Sink marks and weld lines

Moulding window

Venting analysis

Crystallisation analysis

Gate location

Cold and hot runners

Design of experiments (DOE)

Cooling

Transient mould cooling or heating

Conformal cooling

Rapid temperature cycling

Induction heating

Heating elements

Warpage

Insert overmoulding

In-mould label

Two-shot sequential overmoulding

Core shift

Wire sweep, paddle shift

Moulding Processes

Thermoplastic injection moulding

Gas-assisted injection moulding

Injection compression moulding

Co-injection moulding

Bi-injection moulding

Chemical Blowing Agent (CBA)

Microcellular injection moulding

Microcellular injection moulding with core back

Birefringence

Structural reaction injection moulding (SRIM)

Powder injection moulding

Resin transfer moulding (RTM)

Rubber, liquid silicone injection moulding

Multiple-barrel reactive moulding

Reaction injection moulding

Microchip encapsulation

Underfill encapsulation

Compression moulding

Multiple-barrel thermoplastics injection moulding

Databases

Thermoplastic materials

Thermoset materials

Moulding machines

Coolant materials

Mould materials

Software Interoperability

Helius PFA (Advanced Material Exchange)

Simulation Mechanical (FEA)

Autodesk Nastran (FEA)

Abaqus (FEA)

ANSYS (FEA)

LS-DYNA (FEA)

CODE V (Birefringence)

VRED (defect visualisation)

Showcase (defect visualisation)

CADdoctor for Autodesk Simulation

Included software, architecture, engineering and construction collection

Helius PFA

Moldflow Communicator

SimStudio Tools

Vault