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MoldflowWorks / MoldFlow Part Advisers (see comparison below)

MoldflowWorks

MoldflowWorks™ is an easy-to-learn, 3D solids-based plastics flow simulation product that allows plastics part designers to determine the manufacturability of their parts during the preliminary design stages and avoid potential downstream problems which can lead to delays and cost overruns. MoldflowWorks™ extends the functionality of MoldflowXpress, allowing users to realize the following benefits:

Optimize the part wall thickness to achieve uniform filling patterns, minimum cycle time and lowest part cost Identify and eliminate cosmetic issues such as sink marks, weld lines and air traps.
Determine the best injection locations for a given part design

MoldflowWorks™ gives you the ability to maintain the integrity of your product designs. It provides you the tools to quickly optimize part designs and check the impact of critical design decisions on the manufacturability and quality of the product early in the design process.

There is no need to:

Compromise the aesthetics of your design concept for manufacturability;
Go through a lengthy trial and error process to find the most suitable material to produce the part with the highest possible quality and the lowest possible cost;
Find out during trial runs that the produced part has visual blemishes, such as sink marks, weld lines, airtraps or burn marks.

There are two primary Moldflow Plastics Advisers products for SolidWorks channel: MoldflowWorks™ for part design optimization and Moldflow Mold Adviser for mold design optimization.

Fill Time Plot

Injection Pressure Plot

Confidence Of Fill Plot

Moldflow Plastics Advisers™

Created with the needs of part and mold designers in mind, Moldflow Plastics Advisers™ solutions enable you to identify and address critical manufacturability and quality issues in the earliest stages of part and mold design, to eliminate potential manufacturing problems downstream. Now, injection molded plastic parts can be designed for manufacturability as well as for form, fit and function.

Companies that identify and eliminate problems at very early, even conceptual stages of design, achieve significant tangible and intangible benefits, via time and cost savings, capturing market opportunities and repeat business.

Moldflow Plastics Advisers modules are solids-based to analyse CAD models directly. There is no need to translate geometry or perform complex FEA meshing tasks. The software is easy to learn and use and does not require extensive training or plastics expertise. Facilitate effective communication with Internet-ready reports, to communicate results among all members of the design-to-production team, regardless of location

Comparing MoldflowWorks with Moldflow Plastics Advisers
	MoldflowWorks	Moldflow Part Adviser	Moldflow Mold Adviser
Geometry Types
Part Models (Assemblies are not supported)
STL
IGES, STEP, PARASOLID, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA V5 Models Note: Requires Moldflow Design Link add-on module
Single Injection Location
Multiple Injection Locations
Sprue, Runner and Gate modelling
Hot and Cold Runners
Supported Gate types – Tunnel, Submarine, Cashew, and Tab
Cooling Channel modelling Note: Requires Moldflow Cooling Circuit Adviser add-on module
Analysis Types
Plastic Filling Analysis
Gate Location Analysis
Molding Window Analysis
Sink Mark Analysis
Cooling Quality Analysis
Runner Balancing Analysis
Cooling Circuit Adviser (Part + Mold + Cooling Circuits) Note: Requires Moldflow Cooling Circuit Adviser add-on module
Performance Adviser (Fill + Pack) Note: Requires Moldflow Performance Adviser add-on module
Performance Adviser (Warpage Indicator) Note: Requires Moldflow Performance Adviser add-on module
Material Data
Commercial Moldflow Material Database (7,800+ grades)
Material Database Tools
Search for Materials in the Database
Import New Material Data
Copy/Edit/Delete Materials
Setup Personal/User/ Project/Company Databases
View Grade-specific Material Data
View Material Testing Report
Compare Properties of Materials
Save a list of Frequently Used Materials
Process Conditions
Plastic Melt Temperature
Injection Mold Temperature
Automatically calculated Injection Time
Specified Injection Time
Maximum Injection Pressure Limit
Mold Open Time
Analysis Results
Predicted Fill Time with Animation
Indication of ease, difficulty or inability to fill the part
Plastic Flow Animation
Confidence of Fill
Quality Prediction
Weld lines
Air traps
Sink Marks
Injection Pressure
Pressure Drop
Flow Front Temperature
Material Skin Orientation
Cooling Quality
Freeze Time Variance
Surface Temperature Variance
Results Summary – Clamp force, Shot volume, Cycle time, etc.	Limited
Cooling Circuit Adviser* Analysis results: Part Surface Temperature Average Temperature Circuit Reynolds number Circuit Coolant Temperature Circuit Flow Rate Circuit Pressure Cooling Time * Add-on Module to Moldflow Mold Adviser
Performance Adviser* (Fill + Pack) Analysis results: Volumetric Shrinkage % Frozen Layer Average Temperature Cooling Time * Add-on Module to Moldflow Mold Adviser
Performance Adviser* (Warpage) Analysis results: Part Deflection Warpage Indicator, All effects Warpage Indicator, Cooling Warpage Indicator, Shrinkage Warpage Indicator, Orientation * Add-on Module to Moldflow Mold Adviser
Result Visualization Tools
Animation Controls - Play, Forward, Backward, Pause & Stop
Advanced Animation Control - Loop Playback & Flap Playback
Single or Accumulated Contour Display (toggle)
Banded or Smooth Contour Display (toggle)
Scale Results
Result Synchronization (between multiple windows)
Analysis Feedback
Part Manufacturability (including Short Shot warning)
Model suitability warnings
Part Quality Assessment
Dynamic Results Adviser
Query specific location on the model for result values
Engineering Collaboration
Create/Edit/View HTML Project Reports
HTML Report Customization
Save Result plots and Model views as Bitmap, JPEG & GIF
Connect to Consultants
Access to the Moldflow Community Center
Estimate Part Cost using Cost Adviser
Export to Moldflow Plastics Insight™ (MPI™)
Export to Moldflow Manufacturing Solutions™ (MMS™)
User Interface
Open multiple model windows
Split Window (Two-way and Four-way)
Display Model Scale (toggle)
Display Rotation Axes
Display Part Information
Section View (Clipping Plane)
Pre-analysis Check
Miscellaneous
Automatic Revision Update Feature

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