Hsinchu, Taiwan – Dec. 20, 2011 – CoreTech System, the “True 3D” CAE simulation solution innovator, announced the latest release of plastic design and analysis software for high-end injection molding simulations, Moldex3D R11.0. This release brings several breakthrough new features and enhancements that lead designers and manufacturers to better validate and optimize product designs with advanced 3D simulation results and high-speed processing capabilities at every stage of industrial molding processes.
When facing severer molding challenges and cost competition, global enterprises are always seeking for more accurate and more efficient solutions. Moldex3D R11.0 has been developed to help customers overcome this kind of difficulties between ideal market demands and physical manufacturing factors. “The core value of Moldex3D is to provide our customers accurate, high-performance, and attentive service. We have re-positioned Moldex3D R11.0 as four solution packages, including eDesign Basic, eDesign, Professional, and Advanced, to satisfy more exclusive needs from our customers in every level of process complexity,” said Dr. Venny Yang, President of CoreTech System. Moldex3D R11.0 offers industrial users the most complete injection molding simulations. It also adds innovation for better user experience and faster computing capabilities. The ability to have professional simulation results and predictions will encourage more effective product cycle management and increase profitability, which brings companies greater global competitiveness.
Building upon the previous releases and the powerful simulation capabilities, Moldex3D R11.0 provides new features and enhancements including:
Advanced Support for Pre-Processor
Moldex3D R11.0 adds several friendly tools that enable users to design various feeding and cooling systems depending on individual needs more easily. It also highly improves the quality of mesh generation, which will help users better portray unique model features with complicated geometry and acquire more accurate simulation results.
Improvements on Accuracy for Simulations
This release supports a venting analysis that helps users solve potential incomplete fills in cavities more effectively. It also supports a core shift analysis to simulate the deflection results of part inserts due to imbalanced pressure in the filling process. Additionally, the Standard Cool solver adds visualization of 3D coolant flow in cooling channels for evaluation of baffle, bubbler and conformal cooling designs. The expanded Transient Cool analysis improves predictions of cooling inefficiency problems and can directly benefit conformal cooling circuit design. As for reactive materials, Reactive Injection Molding (RIM) modules support PVTC models for more accurate warpage and volumetric shrinkage predictions. For encapsulation projects, users now can analyze wire crossing models and identify related troubles. Moreover, Gas-Assisted and Water-Assisted Injection Molding modules allow users to define an overflow region, which will lead to more realistic process simulations. Finally, FEA Interface modules increase transferable file formats and data distributions into structural analysis software.
New Simulation Capabilities
Moldex3D R11.0 also introduces several new modules, including Advanced Hot Runner, Co-Injection Molding, Microcellular Foaming (MuCell®), and Underfill Encapsulation (Underfill), to accurately simulate the 3D molding phenomena in these special injection molding processes. Key process parameters can be investigated, and major molding defects can be predicted for design verification and process optimization. Another useful module is Expert. It uses the Design for Experiment (DOE) method to help users evaluate optimal analysis results systematically instead of using the conventional trial-and-error method.
Enhanced Efficiency for Simulations
Improving user friendliness and efficiency has also been the major focus in Moldex3D R11.0. We redesigned the user interface of Process Wizard as the real control panel on an injection molding machine. It will guide users to define and setup process conditions more easily and intuitively. Moldex3D Project adds predictions of gate contribution for users to measure the flow field from each gate as a reference for optimizing gate location designs. At the same time, it supports more result displays on surface, including velocity vector and volumetric shrinkage, which allow users to evaluate 3D analysis results more conveniently. Moreover, users can compare XY plots from different selected run results and import or export these data curves as a CSV file for further discussion. In parallel to the release of R11.0, a brand new result visualization tool, Moldex3D Viewer, is ready for beta testing. Users are able to export selected result items with a very compact file size for sharing design and simulation knowledge over Internet among the team, suppliers and customers.
High Performance Computing
Moldex3D R11.0 employs Intel® MPI Library as the parallel processing communication protocol. Its computing speed will increase by 5-10% in comparison with that in Moldex3D R10.0 under the same CPU cores. At the same time, it also adds support for the parallel processing capability of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). It can accelerate the computing speed by 10-20 times for a Standard Flow analysis and by 2-4 times for an Enhanced Flow analysis.
For detailed information, please refer to What’s New in Moldex3D R11.0, An Overview.
Moldex3D R11.0 is available now. For pricing and more detailed product information, please contact your local sales representatives. Further technical information also can be found at www.moldex3d.com.