CoreTech Announces Official Release of Moldex3D R11.0

By DE Editors

CoreTech System has announced the latest release of its plastic design and analysis software for high-end injection molding simulations, Moldex3D R11.0. This release brings several new features and updates to assist designers and manufacturers to better validate and optimize product designs with 3D simulation results and high-speed processing capabilities.

Building upon previous releases and simulation capabilities, Moldex3D R11.0 includes several tools that enable users to design various feeding and cooling systems depending on individual needs. For example, this release supports a venting analysis that helps users solve potential incomplete fills in cavities. The new build 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. As for reactive materials, Reactive Injection Molding modules support pressure-volume-temperature-cure models for warpage and volumetric shrinkage predictions. For encapsulation projects, users now can analyze wire crossing models. Gas-Assisted and Water-Assisted Injection Molding modules allow users to define an overflow region.

Moldex3D R11.0 also introduces several new modules, including Advanced Hot Runner, Co-Injection Molding, Microcellular Foaming (MuCell), and Underfill Encapsulation, to simulate the 3D molding phenomena in these special injection-molding processes. The Expert module uses the design for experiment method to help users evaluate analysis results.

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 the surface, including velocity vector and volumetric shrinkage, which the company says allows users to evaluate 3D analysis results more conveniently. Users can compare XY plots from different selected run results and import or export those data curves as a .CSV file for further discussion.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.