Plastics Professional
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional gives anyone who designs or builds injection molds an accurate, easy-to-use way to optimize them. You can quickly create and analyze single-cavity, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates. You can even balance runner systems and estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size, enabling you to optimize feed system design and avoid costly mold rework.
(SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard Capabilities Included)
Insert and Over Molding
Evaluate your inserts overmolding (made of metal or any other solid material). When Overmolding, also known as 2-component injection molding, two different cavities are filled sequentially.
Fiber Analysis and Birefringence
Simulate injection molding with fibers in the injected plastics. The fiber orientation can be visualized both in the core and the outer skin.
Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light. SolidWorks Plastics calculates values in all three planes, providing you with information about the property of birefringence of transparent plastic.
Gas Injections and Valve Gates
Simulate GID method, where it first fills the cavity with molten plastic, then gas is blown into the core to hollow it out. Control your injection locations with Valve Gates volume or time-based. With the use of gate valves, you can realize cascade filling, relocate weld lines or avoid air traps.
| SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard | SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional | SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium | |
| 4000+ Plastic Base Materials | X | X | X |
| Filling Phase Simulation (1st Stage) | X | X | X |
| Weld Lines | X | X | X |
| Sink Marks | X | X | X |
| Short Shots | X | X | X |
| Air Traps | X | X | X |
| Automatic Gate Locations | X | X | X |
| Multiple Gate Locations | X | X | X |
| Surface and Solid Mesh | X | X | X |
| Packing Phase Simulation (2nd Stage) | X | X | |
| Volumetric Shrinkage | X | X | |
| Gas Injection and Valve Gates | X | X | |
| Multiple Cavity | X | X | |
| Runner Balancing | X | X | |
| Runner Design Wizard | X | X | |
| Hot and Cold Runner | X | X | |
| Multicavity and Family Mold | X | X | |
| Co-Injection | X | X | |
| Insert and Over Molding | X | X | |
| Gas-Assist | X | X | |
| Fiber Analysis and Birefringence | X | X | |
| Reaction Injection Molding (RIM:Thermoset) | X | X | |
| Valve Gate (Sequential) | X | X | |
| Venting Analysis | X | X | |
| Cooling Analysis | X | ||
| Warpage Analysis | X |
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