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SOLIDWORKS Value Upgrade Offers

Switch to Term Licensing & Save 50% on SOLIDWORKS

Move from a SOLIDWORKS Perpetual license to a Term license and you can save 50% on software costs for three years, and 25% thereafter.

 Promotion Highlights

  • Available to any SOLIDWORKS perpetual license owner, you do not need to be a current subscription service customer.
  • Promotion applies to a variety of SOLIDWORKS products including CAD, Composer, ElectricalInspectionMBDPlastics, and Simulation.
SOLIDWORKS Value Upgrade

What is Term Licensing?

Term Licensing is for individuals and companies that want access to SOLIDWORKS best-in-class design solutions with lower upfront costs compared to traditional perpetual licensing.

With a term license you can use SOLIDWORKS products with a quarterly subscription. A term license gives SOLIDWORKS users access to a variety of SOLIDWORKS applications with the same full version as a perpetual license — but with a flexible and affordable approach that’s easy on a software budget and easy to manage.

Why Rent SOLIDWORKS?

SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses are ideal for companies that need to maximize their cash flow, this could include the following:

  • Licenses are required for short term projects or for the specific phase of a project where specific software such as simulation is needed to validate a design.
  • Licenses are to meet staffing requirements such as contract staff or intern that require SOLIDWORKS for a short time period.
  • new division or project has been initiated and cash-flow is a concern.
  • start-up/new business requires SOLIDWORKS software at the minimum cost to get started.
  • Companies that need technical support and upgrades with their SOLIDWORKS license (Subscription Service is included with a term license)

New SOLIDWORKS Subscriber Benefits

Learn about the new Cloud Services available with Subscription Service

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SOLIDWORKS perpetual products that can be switched to term licensing

Term licenses are available for the following SOLIDWORKS perpetual licensed products (* NOTE: in some cases the upgrade will be to a 3DEXPERIENCE role):

  • SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software
    • SOLIDWORKS Standard
    • SOLIDWORKS Professional
    • SOLIDWORKS Premium
  • SOLIDWORKS Communication Tools
    • SOLIDWORKS Composer*
    • SOLIDWORKS Inspection
    • SOLIDWORKS MBD
    • SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard or Professional
  • SOLIDWORKS CAM software
    • SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard
    • SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional
    • SOLIDWORKS Machinist Standard or Professional
  • SOLIDWORKS Electrical software*
    • SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Standard
    • SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Professional
    • SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
    • SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional
  • SOLIDWORKS Simulation software*
    • SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard
    • SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional
    • SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium
  • SOLIDWORKS Plastics software
    • SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard
    • SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional
    • SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium
  • SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation software
    • SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
    • SOLIDWORKS HVAC Applications
    • SOLIDWORKS Electronic Cooling
Benefits

SOLIDWORKS Term License Advantages

Business Startup Assistant

Lower Upfront Cost

Start-ups, makers, individuals and small business often have cash flow constraints.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing allows companies to design new products with the world’s most widely used CAD software without the traditionally higher upfront costs of perpetual licenses.

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Budgeting

From year-to-year, your software budgets can change drastically.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing can increase budget flexibility as you can spread the cost of your CAD software over multiple years and calculate exactly how much you will pay.

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Flexibility & Scalability

Companies have fluctuating workforces with turnover and temporary employees or interns. Having the right tools for everybody can be challenging.

With SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing, companies can purchase explicit numbers of seats based on their needs. They can also choose term lengths that match their product or project schedules.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions about SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing

"The time we save using SOLIDWORKS and doing our own 3D printing helps us validate designs quickly to meet demanding project deadlines"

Ron Ryan, Fabrication Group Manager
Oceanic

"SOLIDWORKS has definitely brought something different to the Solar Industry. Our U.S. counterparts use 2D, but they will be switching to 3D soon"

Chris White, Design & Technical Manager
Sunrise Power

"I’ve been a believer in SOLIDWORKS PDM since day one because it’s been effective since day one"

Ray Minato, President
Inertia Engineering + Design

Why Subscribe With TriMech?

To enhance your current and future opportunities, it's paramount to maintain an up-to-date design and development environment that helps keep you competitive and improve your operational efficiency.

The TriMech SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service Program offers a smart, flexible way to protect your investment in the 3D design experience.

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Service Capabilities

Boost your design process and support your team with resources to help them work faster and smarter.

Support, upgrades, cloud services, certification - all designed exclusively for SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service program members. You can improve your performance and productivity with an intuitive 3D design experience for a competitive advantage.

Award winning Technical Support

Telephone, email and web support provided by our certified technicians. Includes remote desktop support service - support directly on your machine.

Software Upgrades & Service Packs

Download the latest version and upgrades plus early visibility (EV) access for testing purposes. Learn What's New in SOLIDWORKS 2024 »

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

All new SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD licenses now include "Cloud Services" as part of the subscription. Providing secure data storage and sharing, versioning and revision management; easy design reviews with other CAD users and nontechnical team members, and a single hub to keep everyone on the same page.

SOLIDWORKS Certification Exams

Take a certification exam for FREE as part of your annual service.

SolidProfessor On-demand Video Training

An online, video-based training resource designed for engineers. SolidProfessor includes a SOLIDWORKS add-in, which provides quick, on-demand access to over 15,000 searchable tutorials, broken into 3-7-minute videos. Learn more about SolidProfessor »

Authorized reseller

Enhanced Subscription Service Benefits

Good reasons why you should subscribe with TriMech

NEW Cloud Services

NEW Cloud Services

Take advantage of 3D design sharing, markup, data storage, design review, and collaboration with SOLIDWORKS Subscription:

  • Share and Markup: Need to share your designs with colleagues, contractors or clients? Now you can do so from directly within SOLIDWORKS.
    • Whoever you're working with can then view the files from any browser, no download or installation required.
    • Better yet they can add markup and comments directly to the shared file, making it easy to keep track of collaboration history.
  • Store and Revise: Access secure cloud based storage from within the SOLIDWORKS interface with the new tools available as part of SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services.
    • This isn't just Dropbox or Google Drive either, the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is CAD intelligent so it can understand how files relate and provides tools so that you can easily share, revise and review your files.
    • Collaborating with other designers is also streamlined with the ability to lock files your working on, revert to previous revisions and provide feedback attached to files.
  • Manage and Control: If your requirements grow more complex then it is easy to scale up with the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
    • At any point you can upgrade to gain access to advanced process, project and file management, allowing for better control over your data and workflows.
    • Plan projects, assign tasks, control engineering change, resolve issues and eliminate data silos by managing your CAD data on the 3DEXEPRIENCE Platform.
Stay ahead
Keep up-to-date
Community & Resources
SolidProfessor Videos
SolidProfessor Site License
SOLIDWORKS Visualize
SOLIDWORKS CAM
Free Certification Exams
Manufacturing Service Voucher ($500 Value)
SOLIDWORKS Training Voucher ($500 Value)
Client Care Visit (CCV)
Ask an Expert Session

Get a Quote

Complete the form below to contact us

Legal Terms and Conditions:
  • Offer valid until February 28, 2025, in the U.S, Canada and Mexico only.
  • SOLIDWORKS standalone or SOLIDWORKS Network licenses can be upgraded to a SOLIDWORKS Term license.
  • 50% off list price of applicable SOLIDWORKS license for year 1-3 and 25% off list price for year 4+
  • You do not have to purchase 3 years upfront to obtain the 50% off deal.
  • Educational and Research licenses do not qualify for this offer.
  • Anti-piracy and compliance cases do not qualify for this offer.
  • Other restrictions may apply. Contact us for more information.
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SOLIDWORKS Plastics https://trimech.com/solidworks-plastics-training-course/ Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:23:10 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=62521

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Predict how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Training Course Overview

The SOLIDWORKS Plastics training course teaches you how to use specialized simulation software tools to predict how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process. Predicting how the plastic will flow enables you to predict manufacturing defects such as weld lines, air traps, short shots, and sink marks.

By predicting these defects, you can change the part or mold geometry, the processing conditions, or the plastic material itself to eliminate or minimize them, saving energy, material, time, and money.

The SOLIDWORKS Plastics course covers all the features and functions of both SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional (for part designers) and SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium (for mold designers).

Course Duration

2 Days (7 hours/day)

Course Type

Practical Hands-on Training

Skill Level

Intermediate Level

Course Preview

Take a look at some of the studies you will be conducting in the SOLIDWORKS Plastics course

 

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Course Requirements & Benefits

Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the SOLIDWORKS course

Requirements

Attended SOLIDWORKS Essentials

At least 1 month using software

SOLIDWORKS Plastics software

Features Targeted

Applying Meshes

Fill results & weld lines

Inserts, Valve Gates & Hot Runners

Acquired Skills

Able to detect short shots

Able to run cooling & warpage analysis

Able to optimize injection locations & minimize sink marks

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Lessons

The following lessons are included in the course

Lesson 1: Basic Flow Analysis

  • Basic Flow Analysis
  • Stages in the Process
    • Units
  • Element Types
    • Shell Elements
    • Solid Elements
    • Manual or Automatic
  • Meshing
  • The PlasticsManager Tree
  • Material
    • Polymer
    • Using the Databases
    • Machines
  • Injection Location
  • Running a Flow Analysis
    • Flow
    • Pack
    • Warp
    • Cool
  • Flow Results
    • Fill Time
    • Weld Lines
    • Results Adviser
  • Exercise 1: Basic Flow Analysis

Lesson 2: Detecting a Short Shot

  • Detecting Short Shots
  • Stages in the Process
  • Fill Settings
    • Definition Fill Setting Parameters
    • Filling Time and Injection Pressure Considerations
    • Report Text File
  • Flow Front Central Temperature
    • Pressure at End of Fill
  • Design Changes
    • Plastics to Modeling
    • Modeling to Plastics
    • Thickness Change
  • Simulations After Design Changes
  • Exercise 2: Short Shots

Lesson 3: Automation Tools

  • Automation Tools
  • Stages in the Process
  • Duplicate Study
  • Copying Settings
    • Plastics File Management
  • Batch Manager
    • Batch Controls
  • Summary and Report
  • Exercise 3: Design Changes

Lesson 4: Injection Locations and Sink Marks

  • Injection Locations and Sink Marks
  • Stages in the Process
  • Injection Location Rules
    • Positioning the Injection Location
    • Single vs Multiple Injection Locations
    • Modeling for Injection Locations
    • Automatic Injection Location Selection
    • Predict Flow Pattern
  • Sink Marks
    • Measure
    • Minimizing Sink Marks in Ribs
    • Nominal Wall Thickness Advisor
  • Exercise 4: Minimizing Sink Marks (1)
  • Exercise 5: Minimizing Sink Marks (2)

Lesson 5: Materials

  • Material Properties
  • Stages in the Process
  • User-defined Database
    • Material
  • Resin Properties
  • Temperature Properties
    • Melt Temperature
    • Mold Temperature
    • Part Ejection Temperature
    • Glass Transition Temperature
  • Heat Transfer Properties
    • Specific Heat
    • Thermal Conductivity
  • Viscosity
  • PVT Data
  • Mechanical Properties
    • Thermal Expansion Coefficient
    • Elastic Modulus
    • Poisson’s Ratio

Lesson 6: Mesh Manipulation

  • Mesh Manipulation
  • Stages in the Process
  • Local Refinement of Mesh
    • Mesh Density
    • Gradation
  • Element Issues
  • Mesh Editing
    • Mesh
    • Mesh Analysis
    • Mesh Triangles
    • Mesh Nodes
  • Leader Lines
  • Solid Mesh
    • Solid and Shell Mesh
  • Solid Mesh Types
    • Tetrahedral Elements
    • Hexahedral Elements
  • Exercise 6: Mesh Repairs

Lesson 7: Detecting Air Traps

  • Detecting Air Traps
  • Stages in the Process
  • Air Traps
    • Dieseling Effect
    • Plot Ranges
    • Thickness Analysis
  • Venting
    • Venting Analysis
    • Venting Locations
  • Exercise 7: Air Traps

Lesson 8: Gate Blush

  • Gate Blush
  • Stages in the Process
  • Runner Elements
    • Domains
  • Gate Blush
    • Shear Stress
    • Reducing Gate Blush

Lesson 9: Packing and Cooling Times

  • Packing and Cooling
  • Stages in the Process
  • Flow/Pack Switch
  • Pack Stage
    • Pack Settings
  • Pack Analysis
  • Pack Results
  • X-Y Plot
    • Volumetric Shrinkage at End of Packing
  • Cooling Times
    • Temperature at Post-Filling End
    • Nodal Temperature
  • Exercise 8: Packing and Cooling Times

Lesson 10: Reducing Cooling Times

  • Reducing Cooling Time
  • Stages in the Process
  • Multiple Injection Locations
    • Clipping Plane Mode
    • Jetting
  • Exercise 9: Optimizing Cooling Time

Lesson 11: Multiple Cavity Molds

  • Multiple Cavity Molds
  • Stages in the Process
  • Mold Layouts
  • Channel Design
  • Runner Channel Design
    • Runner Types
    • Element Count
    • Searching for Polymers
  • Runner Wizard Channel Design
  • Family Mold Layout
  • Using Runner-Balancing
  • Exercise 10: Multiple Cavity Molds
  • Exercise 11: Runner-Balancing

Lesson 12: Symmetry Analysis

  • Symmetry Analysis
  • Stages in the Process
  • Case Study1
  • Case Study2
  • Symmetry Face

Lesson 13: Valve Gates and Hot Runners

  • Valve Gates and Hot Runners
  • Stages in the Process
  • Hot Runners
  • Valve Gates

Lesson 14: Reaction Injection Molding

  • Reaction Injection Molding
  • Stages in the Process
  • Reaction Injection Molding

Lesson 15: Using Inserts

  • Using Inserts
  • Stages in the Process
  • Cavities and Inserts
  • Materials for Inserts
    • Insert Settings
    • Hiding Cavities and Inserts

Lesson 16: Multi Shot Mold

  • Multi Shot Mold
  • Stages in the Process
  • Multi Shot Mold
    • Domain Order

Lesson 17: Gas Assistance Molding

  • Using Inserts
  • Stages in the Process
  • Gas Assist
    • Material Selection

Lesson 18: Cooling Analysis

  • Cooling Analysis
  • Stages in the Process
  • Cooling
  • Cooling Channels and Mold Bodies
  • Coolant
  • Mold
  • Cool Settings
    • Cooling Simulations
    • Cool Flow Field
    • Cool Pipe
    • Coolant Entrance
    • Mold Wall Temperature
  • Cool Analysis
    • Cool
  • Cool Results
  • Baffle
  • Bubbler
  • Exercise 12: Cooling Analysis

Lesson 19: Warpage Analysis

  • Warpage Analysis
  • Stages in the Process
  • Shrinkage
    • Reducing Shrinkage
  • Warpage
  • Warp Settings
  • Warp Results
  • Reducing and Fixing Warped Parts
    • Thermal Contributions to Warping
    • Typical Warp Shapes
    • Residual Stress

Training Methods

Choose the training method right for you

Training Promotion

Group/Public Training

Receive training as a group (limited amount per class) from certified instructors using vendor approved training content and methodologies.

Training is delivered either live online or in a traditional classroom environment.

Advantages
  • Cost effective training method.
  • More effective than video based training, with videos learners are often not as focused on the training and skip exercises.
  • Learn more through group questions and feedback.
3DEXPERIENCE Onsite Training

Private Training

This style of flexible training is perfect for teams or individuals who are faced with a specific challenge and require personalized courses with on-the-job coaching.

Training is available live online, in-person classroom or onsite at your location.

Advantages
  • Use our state-of-the-art mobile classroom at your facility.
  • Bring your team up to a consistent level of knowledge by having them take the same training at the same time.
  • Benefit from flexible scheduling options.

Upcoming Training Courses

Choose a scheduled SOLIDWORKS Plastics course

Date & Time
  • February 19, 2025 - February 20, 2025
  • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET
Location
Live Online
Language
English
Date & Time
  • April 9, 2025 - April 10, 2025
  • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET
Location
Live Online
Language
English
Date & Time
  • June 11, 2025 - June 12, 2025
  • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET
Location
Live Online
Language
English
Date & Time
  • August 20, 2025 - August 21, 2025
  • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET
Location
Live Online
Language
English
Date & Time
  • October 8, 2025 - October 9, 2025
  • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET
Location
Live Online
Language
English
Date & Time
  • December 3, 2025 - December 4, 2025
  • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET
Location
Live Online
Language
English

Are you using SOLIDWORKS to its full potential?

Enhance your skills and capabilities with a SOLIDWORKS Training Assessment from TriMech.

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SOLIDWORKS Plastics https://trimech.com/solidworks-plastics/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:45:00 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=62744

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Plastic parts and injection mold simulation software

What is SOLIDWORKS Plastics software?

SOLIDWORKS® Plastics makes it easy for companies that design plastic parts or injection molds to predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of design, eliminating costly rework, improving quality, and accelerating time-to-market.

Intuitive workflow and design advice

SOLIDWORKS Plastics works directly on your 3D model, avoiding translation issues. You see the impact of design changes right away. Powerful and fast state-of-the-art meshing covers geometries from thin-walled parts to very thick and solid parts.

An intuitive interface leads you step by step. Guided analysis, intelligent defaults, and automated processes ensure correct setup, even if you rarely use simulation tools. The SOLIDWORKS Plastics material database contains thousands of commercial plastics and is fully customizable.

Part designers get rapid feedback on how modifications to wall thickness, gate locations, materials, or geometry can effect the manufacturing of their part, while mold designers can quickly optimize multicavity and family mold layouts and feed systems—including sprues, runners, and gates.

Overview Demo

Get to know SOLIDWORKS Plastics

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Capabilities

SOLIDWORKS Plastics provides technical insights to engineers during the design process so they can innovate while reducing costs and time to market.

Optimize Plastic Part Production

SOLIDWORKS Plastics products can be used to optimize part wall thickness, gate locations, and runner system size and layout to ensure the mold works right the first time, reducing or eliminating the need for rework.

Scrap Reduction

SOLIDWORKS Plastics makes it easy to analyze design iterations at the earliest stages of product development—when the cost of change is least and the impact on manufacturability is greatest—increasing part quality and minimizing production scrap rates.

Reduce time to market

SOLIDWORKS Plastics helps to predict and avoid potential manufacturing defects before any mold tooling is cut, virtually eliminating the need for time-consuming and costly mold rework and ensuring project deadlines and ship dates are met on time and within budget.

Collaborate and Report

SOLIDWORKS Plastics provides automated report generation tools that facilitate the sharing and interpretation of simulation results, allowing increased collaboration among extended development teams.

"Evolve Design Solutions appreciates the excellent customer service, product knowledge and technical support provided by TriMech, our SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller (VAR).”

Aldo Balatti
Principal, Evolve Design Solutions

“Our engineering processes are well defined and well documented. I can tell new customers with confidence that we’re delivering on milestones because we’re tracking our performance on speed and quality every day.”

Ray Minator
Owner, Inertia Engineering + Design

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Features

Optimize your plastic part design process with a suite of easy-to-use solutions

Plastic Part Analysis

Intuitive simulation software designed specifically for Plastic Part Designers

The most cost-effective time to optimize plastic parts for manufacturability is during the initial stages of product design. Skipping this step often leads to an inefficient mold design with an extremely narrow “good parts” processing window, resulting in high reject rates and time-to-market delays.

  • CAD-integrated: fully embedded in the SOLIDWORKS 3D design environment so you can analyze and modify designs for manufacturability while you optimize for form, fit, and function
  • Easy to learn and use: takes only minutes to learn and does not require extensive analysis or plastics expertise
  • Facilitates design team communication: web-based HTML reports make it fast and easy to communicate simulation results and design advice to all members of the design-to-manufacturing team

Mold Design Analysis

Intuitive simulation software designed specifically for Mold Designers and Mold Makers

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional gives designers or builders of injection molds an accurate, easy-to-use way to optimize them. Quickly create and analyze single, multicavity, and family mold layouts.

  • Avoid costly mold rework: ensure molds will work right the first time to avoid time-consuming, costly, and unnecessary rework
  • Optimize feed system design: analyze sprues, runners, and gates to balance runner systems; optimize gate type, size, and location; and determine the best runner layout, size, and cross-sectional shape
  • Estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size: quote tooling projects quickly and accurately; size the injection molding machine for a given mold; optimize cycle time, and reduce plastics material scrap

Advanced plastic part simulation

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium includes advanced simulation functionality that allows users to analyze mold cooling line layouts and predict molded part warpage.

  • Cooling line analysis: Design and analyze simple or complex mold cooling line layouts
  • Reduce time and cost: Optimize cooling system design to minimize cycle times and decrease manufacturing costs
  • Improve overall process: Optimize part and mold design, material selection, and processing parameters to reduce or eliminate molded part warpage

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Packages

Three simulation packages to choose from

Package
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard

Ensure parts are manufactureable during the design process. Easy to learn and use, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard is fully embedded within SOLIDWORKS CAD so you can analyze and modify part designs at the same time you optimize for form, fit, and function.

Package
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional

Builds upon SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard to analyze mold designs. With easy-to-use tools you can quickly analyze single-and multi-cavity, and family mold layouts including sprues, runners, and gates, to estimate cycle time, and to optimize feed system design.

Package
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium

Includes SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional with advanced simulation functionality to analyze mold cooling line layouts, and part warpage. Optimizing cooling line minimizes cycle times and decreases manufacturing costs.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Matrix

Compare the different versions of SOLIDWORKS Plastics software

Capability SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Standard
SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Professional
SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Premium
Ease of Use
Design Data Reuse
Materials Database
Meshing
Parallel Computing (Multi-core)
Filling Phase (1st Stage Injection)
Instantaneous Fill Time Plot
Sink Mark Analysis
eDrawings Support
Fill Time
Ease of Fill
Results Adviser
Pressure at End of Fill
Flow Front Temperature
Temperature at End of Fill
Shear Rate
Cooling Time
Weld Lines
Air Traps
Sink Marks
Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill
Clamp Force
Cycle Time
Symmetry Analysis  
Packing Phase (2nd Stage Injection)  
Runner Balancing  
Runner Design Wizard  
Sprues and Runners  
Hot and Cold Runners  
Multi-cavity Molds  
Family Molds  
Mold Inserts  
Volumetric Shrinkage  
Density at End of Pack  
Exports STL, NASTRAN  
Export with Mechanical Properties ABAQUS®, ANSYS, DigiMat®  
Cooling Lines  
Baffles and Bubblers  
Conformal Cooling Channels  
Runner Domain Category  
Sink Mark Profiles  
Mold Temperature at Cooling End  
Displacement Due to Residual Stress  

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Boost product innovation

Grow market share and differentiate through groundbreaking product design.

Empower the engineering team with intuitive, powerful 3D simulation tools to compare design scenarios and new ideas to bring innovative products to market.

Decrease development costs

Reduce the need for costly prototyping by integrating virtual testing early in product development.

Reduce outsourcing costs by testing performance and functionality internally.

Improve production efficiency

Improve plastic part production performance, verifying part and mold designs in the earliest stages of development.

Make changes early

Reduce the challenge of determining how your part or mold design impacts manufacturing and how manufacturing will impact your design.

Looking for a Cloud Alternative?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured alternative to SOLIDWORKS Plastics for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

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