Autodesk WikiHelp Product help with community knowledge

2012
2013

Simulation Moldflow

Product
Language
Release

Simulation Moldflow

Installation and Licensing

Autodesk Simulation Moldflow Insight 360 Help

Getting Started

Import and Export

Molding processes

Analysis sequence

Analysis sequence (Procedure)

Analysis sequence (Quick Reference)

Analysis sequence icons

Choosing an analysis technology

Gate Location analysis

Prohibited Gate Nodes (Quick Reference)

Input Parameters

Selection option

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Fill settings

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Advanced options...

Fiber orientation analysis if fiber material

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Fill Settings for First Component Stage

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Advanced options...

Fiber orientation analysis if fiber material

Birefringence analysis if material data includes optical properties

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Advanced options...

Filling Control Profile Settings dialog

%Flow rate vs %shot volume

Stroke Volume Settings dialog

Machine screw diameter

Pressure Control Point Settings dialog

Velocity/pressure switch-over by pressure control point

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Fast fill Settings

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Maximum machine clamp force

Velocity/pressure switch-over

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Fill+Pack Settings

Advanced options...

Fiber orientation analysis if fiber material

Birefringence analysis if material data includes optical properties

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Fill+Pack Settings for First Component Stage

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Advanced options...

Fiber orientation analysis if fiber material

Birefringence analysis if material data includes optical properties

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Fill+Pack Settings for Overmolding Stage

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Advanced options...

Fiber orientation analysis if fiber material

Fill+Pack Analysis Advanced Options dialog

Molding material

Process controller

Injection molding machine

Solver parameters

Pack/Holding Control Profile Settings dialog

%Filling pressure vs time

Packing pressure vs time

Hydraulic pressure vs time

%Maximum machine pressure vs time

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Pack analysis

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Pack/holding control

Runner Balance analysis

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Cool settings

Mold surface temperature

Melt temperature

Injection + packing + cooling time

Cool solver parameters

Advanced options...

Cool Solver Parameters dialog

Method for calculating geometric influence

Mold temperature convergence tolerance

Maximum number of mold temperature iterations

Number of time steps for 3D cooling flux calculation

Include runners in automatic cooling time calculations

Use aggregated mesh solver

Calculate internal mold temperatures

Part Ejection Criteria dialog

Ejection temperature

Frozen percentage at ejection

Cool Analysis Advanced Options dialog

Molding material

Process controller

Solver parameters

Mold temperature options

Cool (FEM) Solver Parameters

Cool (FEM) Solver Parameters

Steady, part heat flux calculation

Number of time steps

Transient, part heat flux calculation

Transient mold temperature convergence tolerance for each time step

Maximum number of transient mold temperature iterations for each time step

Transient mold temperature convergence tolerance

Maximum number of transient mold temperature cycles

Fiber orientation analysis

Fiber Orientation Solver Parameters dialog

Calculate fiber orientation using

Calculate fiber orientation using

Apply fiber inlet condition at

Fiber inlet condition

Composite property calculation options

Fiber Interaction Calculation Parameters dialog

Fiber Orientation Model Parameters dialog

User-supplied inlet orientation dialog

Composite Property Calculation Options dialog

Closure approximation model

Fiber-filled property output

Micro-mechanics model

Thermal expansion coefficient model

Crystallization analysis

Process Optimization analysis

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Optim Settings

Relative weightings for quality criteria (Dialog item)

Advanced options...

Process Optimization Advanced Options dialog

Machine minimum melt cushion

Machine response time factor

Velocity phase pressure limit

Velocity phase flow rate limits

Process Optimization process settings dialog-Fill Analysis tab

Relative weightings for quality criteria (Dialog item)

Process Optimization process settings dialog-Fill+Pack Analysis tab

Relative weightings for quality criteria (Dialog item)

Molding Window analysis

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Molding Window Settings

Injection molding machine

Mold temperature range to analyze

Melt temperature range to analyze

Injection time range to analyze

Advanced options...

Molding Window Advanced Options dialog

Limits for calculation of feasible molding window

Limits for calculation of preferred molding window

Molding Window Input Range dialog

Mold temperature range

Melt temperature range

Injection time range

Stress analysis

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Stress Settings

Stress analysis type

Solver parameters

Stress result(s) to output

Consider gate surface and cold runners?

Molding material

Large Deflection Analysis Solver Parameters dialog

Apply imperfection to model to assist convergence

Relative convergence tolerance

Maximum number of load incrementation steps

Maximum load factor

Maximum load factor increase per step

Maximum number of iterations per step

Output stress results at

Load incrementation method

Reconstruct stiffness matrix

Buckling Analysis Solver Parameters dialog

Isolate cause of warpage

Number of eigenvalues to output

Convergence tolerance for eigenvalue calculation

Model Imperfection for Large Deflection Analysis dialog

Create imperfection in model by applying

Manual Load Control Settings dialog

Load factor increment at each step

Shrink analysis

CRIMS Model Coefficients dialog

Corrected residual in-mold stress (CRIMS) model coefficients

View/edit test information...

Residual strain shrinkage data: Parallel standard deviation

Residual strain shrinkage data: Perpendicular standard deviation

View/edit test information...

Critical Dimension dialog

Dimensional tolerance

Process Settings Wizard dialog-Warp Settings

Warpage analysis type

Solver parameters

Upgrade tetrahedral elements to second order

Stress analysis type

Consider gate surface and cold runners?

Consider corner effects

Include cold runners

Use mesh aggregation and 2nd-order tetrahedral elements/mesh options

Number of threads for parallelization

Birefringence analysis

Venting analysis

Wire sweep analysis

Paddle shift analysis

Materials and databases

Process settings

Running an analysis

Reference materials

Troubleshooting guide

Application Programming Interface (API)

Glossary of Terms

Community Scoring

Was this page helpful?

Tag Tags0

This page has no tags

Page statistics

818 views, 1 edit(s), 692 characters(s) Page last modified 16:23, 5 Jun 2012 by contentconnector

How to add your knowledge

Create new page
Edit page
Upload video
- Upload video
- Video overview

Include cold runners

Table of contents

No headers

You can include tetrahedral elements that have the property Cold runner (3D) in warpage calculations by selecting the Include cold runners checkbox on the Warp settings page in the Process Settings Wizard, then run a Warp analysis.

Comments0