SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION PLASTICS PACKAGES
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| Features | SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS STANDARD |
SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL |
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| CAD Integration | |||||
| SOLIDWORKS Native File Support | X | X | X | ||
| Associative with SOLIDWORKS | X | X | X | ||
| SOLIDWORKS-embedded | X | X | X | ||
| Plastics Material Database | |||||
| 4000+ Commercial Plastics | X | X | X | ||
| Customizable | X | X | X | ||
| General | |||||
| Wizard for mesh generation and analysis setup | X | X | X | ||
| Meshing | |||||
| Automatic | X | X | X | ||
| Boundary Mesh (shell) | X | X | X | ||
| Solid 3D Mesh | X | X | X | ||
| Global Mesh Refinement | X | X | X | ||
| Local Mesh Refinement | X | X | X | ||
| Simulation Capabilities | |||||
| Filling, Phase (1st stage injection) | X | X | X | ||
| Packing Phase (2nd stage injection) | X | X | X | ||
| Automatic Gate Location(s) | X | X | X | ||
| Instantaneous Fill Time Plot | X | X | X | ||
| Runner Balancing | X | X | X | ||
| Sink Mark Analysis | X | X | X | ||
| Mold Geometry Support | |||||
| Runner Design Wizard | X | X | X | ||
| Sprues and Runners | X | X | X | ||
| Hot and Cold Runners | X | X | X | ||
| Multi-Cavity Molds | X | X | X | ||
| Family Molds | X | X | X | ||
| Cooling Lines | X | X | X | ||
| Baffles and Bubblers | X | X | X | ||
| Conformal Cooling Channels | X | X | X | ||
| Mold Inserts | X | X | X | ||
| Analysis Types | |||||
| Plastics filling analysis | X | X | X | ||
| Gate location analysis | X | X | X | ||
| Sink marks prediction | X | X | |||
| Cooling quality analysis | X | X | X | ||
| Runner Balancing Analysis | X | X | |||
| Packing Analysis | X | X | |||
| Part Mass vs Time | X | X | |||
| Automatic Packing Time | X | X | |||
| Advanced Simulation Capabilities | |||||
| Co-Injection | X | X | |||
| Multi-Shot | X | X | |||
| Insert Overmolding | X | X | |||
| Gas-Assist | X | X | |||
| Fiber Analysis | X | X | |||
| Reaction Injection Molding (RIM; Thermosets) | X | X | |||
| Birefringence |
X | X | |||
| Valve Gates (sequential injection) | X | X | |||
| Automatic Valve Gates opening times | X | X | |||
| Cooling Line Analysis | X | ||||
| Conformal Cooling Analysis | X | ||||
| Warpage Analysis | X | ||||
| Results | |||||
| eDrawing Support | X | X | X | ||
| Fill Time | X | X | X | ||
| Ease to Fill | X | X | X | ||
| Results Advisor | X | X | X | ||
| Nominal Wall Thickness Adviser | X | X | X | ||
| Pressure at End of Fill | X | X | X | ||
| Flow Front Temperature | X | X | X | ||
| Temperature at End of Fill | X | X | X | ||
| Shear Stress | X | X | X | ||
| Shear Rate | X | X | X | ||
| Cooling Time | X | X | X | ||
| Weld Lines | X | X | X | ||
| Air Traps | X | X | X | ||
| Sink Marks | X | X | X | ||
| Sink Mark Profiles | X | ||||
| Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill | X | X | X | ||
| Velocity Vectors | X | X | X | ||
| Clamp Force | X | X | X | ||
| Cycle Time | X | X | X | ||
| Volumetric Shrinkage | X | X | |||
| Mold Temperature at Cooling End | X | ||||
| Displacement due to Residual Stress | X | ||||
| Mold Temperature at Cooling End | X | ||||
| Displacement due to Residual Stress | X | ||||
| Exports STL, NASTRAN | X | ||||
| Export with mechanical properties ABAQUS, ANSYS, DigiMat | X | ||||
| Language Support | |||||
| English | X | X | X | ||
| Traditional Chinese | X | X | X | ||
| Simplified Chinese | X | X | X | ||
| German | X | X | X | ||
| Korean | X | X | X | ||
| French | X | X | X | ||
| Japanese | X | X | X | ||
| Italian | X | X | X | ||
| Russian | X | X | X | ||
| Spanish | X | X | X | ||
| Computing | |||||
| Parallel computing (multi-core) | X | X | X | ||
| Report Generation | X | ||||
| Microsoft Word | X | X | X | ||
| Microsoft PowerPoint | X | X | X | ||
| HTML | X | X | X |