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Cadmould Warp-it! package includes:-
CADMOULD Warp-it! plastic flow software enables you to quickly view results from simulating the filling of the injection moulding process and to see the effect of cooling, warping and more. Cadmould Warp-it! includes Cadmould Fill-it! (Fill, Batch) PLUS: Pack, Fiber, Warp, Cool, 2K & Insert and Cascadic Injection.
Cadmould PACK enables simulation of the holding pressure and cooling phase of your component, building on the filling phase results from CADMOULD Fill. It computes the following results:
• Pressure distribution
• Temperatures
• Clamping forces
• Surface layer thickness
• Melt core in cross-section
• Volume shrinkage
• Thickness shrinkage / sink marks
• Cooling time and shot volume, incorporating the influence of the packing phase
Benefits
• Optimally specify packing pressure, clamping force, and cooling phase parameters
• Reliably determine freezing, sealing and demolding times
• Achieve uniform volume shrinkage distribution over the molded part
• Avoid sink marks
• Reduce part warpage through optimized shrinkage compensation (calculation of shrinkage and distortion results also requires the Warp module)
• Analyze temperatures and pressures to ensure reliable demolding
• Determine key data for part and tool costing by determining an optimized packing pressure and cooling phase with the software
• Optimize existing processes to achieve shorter cycle times, or in order to enable switching to a different injection molding machine
Cadmolud FIBER is an ideal complement to the Fill (simulation of filling), Pack (simulation of holding pressure and cooling phase) and Warp (simulation of shrinkage and warpage) modules. Cadmould FIBRE allows you to simulate the fiber orientation in your part. It calculates detailed results across time, and displays them averaged over the wall thickness, or in different layers:
• Fiber orientation direction
• Degree of fiber orientation
Benefits
• Precisely simulate fiber orientation direction and degree of fiber orientation
• Take into account fiber-related anisotropy when computing shrinkage and warpage2
• Solve warpage issues through the analysis of fiber orientation. Warpage can then be reduced through optimized gating points, wall thicknesses and process parameters2
• Export fiber orientation results to other software, e.g. FEM structural solvers, crash testing simulations, or acoustic engineering applications
Cadmould WARP is an ideal complement to the modules Fill (simulation of the filling phase), Fiber (fiber orientation) and Pack (simulation of the packing and cooling phase). WARP enables you to simulate shrinkage and warpage of any geometry. It computes the following results:
• Shrinkage
• Warpage
• Deformation
• Stress states (including frozen residual stresses)
• Temperatures after demolding
Benefits
• Precisely anticipate shrinkage and warpage
• Solve warpage issues by optimizing process parameters, adapting the mold design or changing wall thicknesses
• Use precise virtual measurement tools, to check compliance with dimensions
• Reduce sampling and waste, since warpage can be optimized beforehand
• As a result, better first-time right ratio and reduction of costly tool corrections. This results in significant time and cost savings
• The simulation results enable you to discuss options, advantages and disadvantages with your customers and colleagues
Cadmould COOL allows you to thermally design your mold and is the ideal complement to the Fill, Pack and Warp modules (simulation of filling, holding pressure and cooling phases, and of shrinkage and warpage). It computes detailed results concerning wall temperatures and the temperature control system:
• Number of cycles to the thermally stable state of the mold
• Local variation of cavity wall temperatures during the entire cycle
• Flow rate and pressure loss in the temperature control system
• Temperature change of the tempering medium
• Turbulence of the flow
• Temperature control efficiency
• Note: For full mold (as opposed to just cavity and cooling system) thermal simulation, also see our module T-Box
Benefits
• Optimal design of wall temperatures in the mold
• Safe design of temperature control systems
• Reduced sampling and less waste, as cooling times are already known and optimized
• Design cooling systems, without needing to go back to CAD
• Detect and eliminate hot spots due to mass accumulation or heat transfer processes in the mold
• Optimize cooling systems that are already in use, by determining optimal process parameters
• Reduce cycle times by optimizing the thermal system for the part and process
• Determine optimal cooling times
• As a result, better first-time right rate and reduction of costly mold corrections. This results in significant time and cost savings
• The simulation results enable you to discuss options, advantages and disadvantages with your customers and colleagues
enables you to simulate two-component and multicomponent parts. You can simulate parts that are produced by sequentially injecting different thermoplastics against each other, as well as parts with inserts made of different materials (such as metal). If these are techniques you use, then 2K & Insert represents an ideal complement to the modules Fill (simulation of filling), Pack (simulation of packing pressure and cooling phase) and Warp (simulation of shrinkage and warpage). 2K & Insert computes the following results:
• Filling of the part (with multiple materials / with inserts)
• Pressure distribution
• Temperatures (also inside the components)
• Flow speeds
• Deformation of inserts or core shift during the injection phase (in combination with the Structural FEM module)3
• Weld lines and air inclusions
• Freezing, sealing and demolding time
• Shrinkage, for 2K or insert parts
• Warpage
• Deformation
• Mechanical stress (including frozen residual stresses)
Benefits
• Optimally design multi-component processes
• Determine and optimize the thermal and mechanical influence of individual
components on the part
• Detect and eliminate filling problems in multi-component parts (air inclusions,
weld lines, etc.)
• Solve shrinkage and warpage issues in multi-component parts
• Identify ways to reduce the total warpage of multi-component parts
• Specify cycle times and optimal preheating temperatures of inserts
• Reduce sampling and waste, since the process parameters are already known
and optimized
• As a result, get a better first-time right rate and reduce costly mold corrections.
This results in significant time and cost savings
• The simulation results enable you to discuss options, advantages and
disadvantages with your customers and colleagues
CADMOULD Cascadic injection builds on CADMOULD Fill (filling simulation) and Pack (needed for packing pressure and cooling phase simulation).; it enables you to simulate cascade injection molding, and computes the same key results as the core CADMOULD modules, but with the capability of simulating sequential filling across multiple gates:
• Filling (including weld lines and air enclosures)
• Pressure distribution
• Temperatures
• Flow speeds
• Clamping forces
Benefits
• Optimal design of component filling by cascade injection molding
• Determine optimal cascade timing and gate switching criteria
• Determine the maximum injection pressure and identify ways to reduce this pressure by modifying the gate control schedule
• Compute packing and cooling phase results, as influenced by the gate control. Anticipate shrinkage and warpage (requires modules Cool and Pack)
• Anticipate and fix filling problems such as air inclusions, weld lines, etc.
• Rapidly and easily compare alternative gate control schedules. Discuss advantages and disadvantages with your customers
• Optimize process parameters for existing parts and molds, to reduce the maximum injection pressure, to optimize weld line positions, and to minimize warpage
