The SimForm Advantage
|
SimForm Feasibility |
SimForm Design | Traditional Mold Flow Simulations | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities |
For part design
For quoting injection molding jobs |
For mold design iterations
For design validation | |
| Cooling Phase | |||
| Warpage Analysis | |||
| Cold Runners | |||
| Hot Runners | |||
| Explicit Mold | |||
| Default Mold | |||
| Well-Designed Mold | |||
| Explicit Cooling Channels | |||
| Explicit Heating Elements | |||
| Conformal Cooling | |||
| Cooling Channel Features (Baffles, Pins) | |||
| Explicit Inserts | |||
| Thermoplastics Injection Molding | |||
| Thermoplastics Compression Molding | |||
| Thermosets | |||
| Cooling Cycle Time Prediction | |||
| Frozen Layer Post-Processing | |||
| Mold Temperature Post-Processing | |||
| Cooling Recommendations | |||
| Filling Phase | |||
| Packing Phase | |||
| Venting Analysis | |||
| CAD Interoperability | |||
| Native CAD Import | |||
| Neutral CAD Import | |||
| Material Database | |||
| Meshing and Solver | |||
| Automatic Meshing | |||
| Manual Meshing | |||
| 3D Voxel Mesh | |||
| 3D Tetrahedral Mesh | |||
| Cloud Solving | |||
| Local Solving | |||
| Parallel Processing on GPU | |||
| Parallel Processing on CPU | |||
| Pricing | |||
| SimForm Credits per Project | 3 | 10 | |
| SimForm Simulations per Project | 5 (1 during free-trial) | 12 (5 during free-trial) |
See the benefits of front-end simulation with SimForm
Take advantage of front-end simulation at any stage of the procurement process. Watch the video or click on your persona to find out more.
Faster, smarter mold design in minutes
With SimForm Design, you’re free to iterate mold designs without the need
for frequent input from the simulation team.
Gain immediate and valuable insights into how to optimize your mold
cooling designs:
- See the evolution of the cooling phase with transient part and mold temperature results
- Find the estimated safe-ejection time across the surface of the part with freeze-time plots
- Adjust the temperature range to reveal areas that remain molten or have high temperature gradients
- Coming soon! Visualize temperature-induced part warpage
- Predict a cooling cycle range
- Support design decisions with numbers
Easy, early design exploration
With SimForm Design, import a new version of the CAD with only a couple of
clicks.
SimForm is fast, it fits easily into your existing design process, and it
requires no simulation expertise.
- Enjoy an intuitive user interface tailored to the injection mold industry
- Explore what-if scenarios: See the impact of adding a mold insert material (aluminum, beryllium copper), shifting a water line location, or running conformal cooling lines
- Define cooling circuits with specific commands for baffles and thermal pins
- Auto-detect drilled channels in your mold based on CAD surface color
- No mold, no problem! Generate a default mold block directly in SimForm
Intelligent designing and quoting
With SimForm Feasibility, front-end simulation is available to you from the start – at the part design and quoting phases.
- Upload your plastic part directly – no need for a mold design
- With transient part temperature results, identify hot spots and areas with high temperature gradients where inserts or other special cooling features will be needed
- For quoting purposes, predict a cooling cycle range based on the assumption of a “well-designed mold”
- Identify hot spots and areas with high temperature gradients where inserts or other special cooling features will be needed
- Coming soon! Generate a proposed cooling design that balances cycle time and temperature uniformity
Flexible pricing, low per-project costs
Start by discovering SimForm with a free trial.
Then, when you’re ready to lock in the benefits of SimForm, select the
payment option that is right for you.
- No complicated licensing
- Pay-as-you-go or subscription
- Define cooling circuits with specific commands for baffles and thermal pins
- Credit-based payment plan – use the same credits for any SimForm project
- Share credits within your team
- Pay only for what you need
- Options for budgets of all sizes
- But first, a free trial
Scientific molding powered by simulation
Built on modern technologies, SimForm delivers speed and convenience.
- Upload your plastic part directly – no need for a mold design
- With transient part temperature results, identify hot spots and areas with high temperature gradients where inserts or other special cooling features will be needed
- For quoting purposes, predict a cooling cycle range based on the assumption of a “well-designed mold”
- Identify hot spots and areas with high temperature gradients where inserts or other special cooling features will be needed
- Coming soon! Generate a proposed cooling design that balances cycle time and temperature uniformity