Plastics

Easy-to-use and accurate simulation analysis for plastic parts and injection molds.

Simulate how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects so you can quickly evaluate part manufacturability while you design.
Eliminate costly rework and physical prototyping to improve part quality and decrease your time to market by validating your mold designs before production.
Quickly create and analyze single-cavity, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates, to deliver high-quality tooling more efficiently and affordably than through traditional means.
Determine maximum injection pressure requirements and machine size, balance runner systems, and estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size to optimize the feed system.

Which SOLIDWORKS Plastics package is right for you?

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Standard

Ensure parts are manufacturable during the design process. Easy to learn and use, the standard package is fully embedded within SOLIDWORKS CAD so you can analyze and modify part designs at the same time you optimize for form, fit, and function.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Professional

Builds on the capabilities of Standard to analyze mold designs. With easy-to-use tools, quickly analyze single and multicavity molds, as well as family mold layouts including sprues, runners, and gates. Estimate cycle time and optimize your feed system design.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Premium

Includes all the benefits and tools of Professional with added advanced simulation functionality to analyze mold cooling line layouts and part warpage. Optimizing the cooling line minimizes cycle times and decreases manufacturing costs.

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Standard

Professional

Premium

Ease of Use

Design Data Reuse

Materials Database

Meshing

Parallel Computing (Multi-core)

Filling Phase (1st Stage Injection)

Instantaneous Fill Time Plot

Sink Mark Analysis

eDrawings Support

Fill Time

Ease of Fill

Results Adviser

Pressure at End of Fill

Flow Front Temperature

Temperature at End of Fill

Shear Rate

Cooling Time

Weld Lines

Sink Marks

Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill

Clamp Force

Cycle Time

Symmetry Analysis

Packing Phase (2nd Stage Injection)

Runner Balancing

Runner Design Wizard

Sprues and Runners

Hot and Cold Runners

Multi-cavity Molds

Family Molds

Mold Inserts

Volumetric Shrinkag

Density at End of Pack

Exports STL, NASTRAN

Export with Mechanical Properties ABAQUS®, ANSYS, DigiMat®

Cooling Lines

Baffles and Bubblers

Conformal Cooling Channels

Runner Domain Category

Sink Mark Profiles

Mold Temperature at Cooling End

Displacement Due to Residual Stress

Customer stories

The know-how of the SolidXperience optimization service has enabled LDV to achieve its productivity objectives, carry out large-scale projects and remain competitive against the competition.

Vincent Alie Design Director

Since implementing PDM, we have the foundation in place that we need to automate our processes, eliminate waste, and remove unnecessary costs.

Chip MontgomeryTeam Leader

Our success rate is so high because we’ve validated close correlation between the results we get from SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional and actual production, using photoelastic and microscopic analysis tools to confirm the software’s simulation results.

Jeffrey NicollPresident

With SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D, we’ve reduced BOM generation time from hours to minutes, and the BOM information that we output is more accurate.

Shawn EckhardtControls Engineer

From incoming part lots to in-process assembly inspections, SOLIDWORKS Inspection software helps us catch more unacceptable parts and eliminate assembly issues.

Mark GerhartConfiguration Manage

With the automation that we’ve achieved integrating SOLIDWORKS with our ERP system, our designers only have to worry about working on the design and getting that job done properly... It’s much easier to visualize and model these designs in SOLIDWORKS, and we’ve been able to automate fabrication by employing MBD techniques.

Anderson ViecelliOwner and Engineering Manager

SOLIDWORKS Composer software gives us the capability to automate the creation of renderings and exploded views, which further enhances our understanding of the project.

Gary HagerSenior Project Manager/Engineer

What really sold me on SOLIDWORKS Visualize software was the ‘glass’ quality—how real it makes glass bottles look. We do a lot with glass and plastics, and we need a tool that provides the most photorealistic images possible. With the other packages, the glass quality was really not there, so we chose to standardize on SOLIDWORKS Visualize.

Jenny DeMarco StaabSenior Industrial Engineer

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Plastics

Easy-to-use and accurate simulation analysis for plastic parts and injection molds.

Which SOLIDWORKS Plastics package is right for you?

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Standard

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Professional

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Premium

Need a detailed comparison of Plastics solutions?

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