Easy Mold Cooling Prediction
Confidently accelerate your plastic part and injection mold design processes.
SimForm's front-end thermal simulation offers a low-cost, user-friendly solution to predict temperatures and cooling time, and to optimize cooling channel placement.
The result? Improved quality, lower costs and shorter lead times.
Why cooling matters
An effective cooling strategy is a crucial, though often overlooked, part of plastic injection mold design.
After all, cooling affects dimensional stability, surface finish, and it makes up the bulk of cycle time. Optimizing your cooling design is key to avoiding low-quality parts, long cycle times, and high part-production and manufacturing costs.
With SimForm, you can easily address these challenges early in the design phase.
What is SimForm?
SimForm is mold flow simulation everyone can use. Enjoy pay-as-you-go pricing and web-based accessibility – no simulation expertise required.
Why choose SimForm?
Design better plastic parts
When you can identify what drives uneven cooling in your part design, you can make efficient and effective changes.
SimForm helps you optimize designs early on for cost-efficient manufacturing and to avoid expensive iterations late in the procurement process.
Produce quality parts faster
With visual evidence of where a part cools last, or where there is a risk of part warpage, ensure you develop a cooling strategy that works.
With SimForm, accurately predict cooling cycle range and guide designers on how to achieve it, ensuring greater production throughput and improved profitability.
Design a better mold faster
Molds that meet or exceed expectations for part quality, aesthetics, and injection molding cycle time boost client satisfaction.
Complement your existing tooling design software and eliminate unnecessary outsourced mold flow simulations. SimForm reduces development time and cost.
Stay on schedule and on budget
Quick and early mold design prediction saves you time, expense and effort. Stop wasting weeks waiting for results.
SimForm's state-of-the-art web interface and straightforward pay-per-use pricing comes with no financial risk or investment, requires no costly upgrades or updates, and needs no simulation training or expertise.
What can you do with SimForm?
Define your mold
- Import design geometry from any CAD package, from STEP and Parasolid
- Select the mold, or let SimForm define one for you
- Select plastic, mold, and insert materials
- Tag your cooling channels, including baffles and conformal cooling channels, or let SimForm use a “well-designed” mold Adjust water temperatures
- Vary your design parameters and pick your best design
Crunch the numbers
- Predict how both mold and plastic temperatures evolve over time
- Obtain results in minutes with dedicated cloud-based GPU hardware
- Keep your data safe and secure
- Access SimForm from your web browser – no installation required
- Skip the meshing or geometry cleanup
- Pay only for what you use
Gather insights
- Examine the freeze time view and pinpoint regions that are driving the mold cooling time
- Probe plastic surface temperatures and identify risk of warpage
- Animate the temperature as it evolves through the part and the mold
- Compare safe ejection times across design versions
- Identify ideal locations for drilled channels, baffles, inserts, and conformal cooling
What our clients are saying
"With what we have seen and tested so far, we believe SimForm has the potential to become a game-changer for mold cooling design optimization. The SimForm team is responsive and willing to release new useful features and improvements, which further make it promising as a key asset in our tool development process."
"…having a tool that would allow us to predict the hotspots and then maybe adjust for those hot spots in the tool, would be wonderful."
"At Synergy Molding Technologies, our business is based on being able to rapidly quantify the advantages of 3D printed tooling vs. conventionally built molds. Optimized thermal mold processing with 3D printed conformal cooling & heating channels is one of the 3 main benefits available for our prototype and production injection molds, and SimForm allows us to quickly evaluate customer part designs to rapidly determine whether there is any thermal processing benefit to be gained. These benefits include reduced injection molding cycle times, optimized flow of plastic material inside the mold, and improved quality of the molded plastic part."
The secret to higher part quality and optimal cycle times
An effective cooling strategy is a crucial, though often overlooked, part of plastic injection mold design.
After all, cooling affects dimensional stability, surface finish, and it makes up the bulk of cycle time. Optimizing your cooling design is key to avoiding low-quality parts, long cycle times, and high part-production and manufacturing costs.
With SimForm, you can easily address these challenges early in the design phase.
Answers in minutes, not hours
The cost of wasted time can’t be underestimated for your own operations nor those of your clients.
Produce better plastic parts, faster – and save time and money.
SimForm is mold cooling prediction made accessible – no more, no less.
See SimForm in action
Results are yours in only a few clicks. The user-friendly interface and intuitive workflow ensure a smooth path to at-a-glance mold cooling insights.
Our partners
Thermal expertise for the plastic injection mold industry
Drawing from over 40 years of thermal/fluid simulation software development, trusted and used by millions of experts worldwide, Maya HTT proudly presents SimForm, a solution tailored to the mold, tool, and die industry.
Our deep knowledge and experience in the field guarantee a powerful and reliable solution for your mold design needs.
