Simulate the flow of different plastics under a variety of real-world conditions and get results designers and injection mold manufacturers can use to validate and optimize their products, without expensive iterations of physical prototyping.
Easy-to-use and accurate simulation analysis for SOLIDWORKS Plastics parts and injection molds.Â
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.Â
Eliminate costly rework and physical prototyping to improve part quality and decrease your time to market by validating your mold designs before production.Â
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. Â
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.Â
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.Â
SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Professional
Builds on the capabilities of Standard to analyze mold designs.With easy-to-use tools, quicklyanalyze singleandmulticavity molds, as well as family mold layouts including sprues, runners, and gates. Estimate cycle time and optimize your feed system design.Â
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.Â
Need a detailed comparison of Plastics solutions?
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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