Moldex3D :: Plastic Injection Molding Simulation Software

Moldex3D Products Overview

Moldex3D is the world leading CAE product for the plastics injection molding industry. With the best-in-class analysis technology, Moldex3D can help you simulate the widest application range of injection molding processes to optimize product design and manufacturability, shorten time-to-market, and maximize product ROI.

Features

CAD-Embedded Pre-Processing
Superior Automatic 3D Mesh Engine
High Resolution 3D Mesh Technology
High Performance Parallel Computing

Moldex3D Mesh

Moldex3D Mesh supports various mesh types, including 2D triangular and quadrilateral, 3D tetrahedral, prismatic, hexagonal, voxel (brick) and pyramid meshes. Several mainstream meshing methods are available in Moldex3D Mesh: pure triangle surface meshing, quadrilateral dominate surface meshing, pure tetra generation, boundary layer meshing, pure voxel meshing, hybrid meshing method and midplane mesh extraction. You can choose among them to create the mesh model depending on your specific simulation needs.

Benefits

A pre-processing tool with robust meshing technologies and different mesh elements to boost work efficiency in solid mesh preparation.
Offer pure triangle surface meshing and quadrilateral dominate surface meshing Provide automatic tetra, boundary layer mesh, hybrid mesh, and voxel mesh generationEnable to generate very fine mesh for complicated 3D geometry.
Provide auto-check and auto-fix tools to ensure the mesh quality for accuracy of analysis.
The mesh input/output formats that are supported by Moldex3D Mesh are as follows.

Software	Solid mesh		Shell mesh
Software	input	output	input	output
ABAQUS		*.inp
ANSYS	*.ans	*.ans	*.ans	*.ans
FEMAP	*.neu
HyperMesh	*.ans		*.unv
IDEAS	*.unv		*.unv
Moldex3D	*.mfe	*.mfe	*.msh	*.msh
MSC.Nastran	*.dat	*.dat
MSC.Patran		*.pat	*.pat
Creo (Pro/Engineer)	*.fnf		*.fem
STL				*.stl

eDesign

Complete molding simulation tool with automatic meshing capability.

Professional

Efficient support under high-precision requirements with automatic meshing capability.

Advanced

Flexible extension for high-precision or special process simulation.

Product Portfolio and Features

● Essential features contained ○ Optional features

	eDesign Basic	eDesign	Professional	Advanced
Product Package & Mesh Technology
True 3D Mesh
eDesign	●	●	●	●
Boundary Layer Mesh, Tetra			●	●
Solid (Hexa, Prism, Pyramid, Hybrid)				●
2.5D Mesh
Shell				●
Standard Injection Molding
Solver Capabilities
Simultaneous Filling Analysis (max.)	1	1	1	3
Parallel Processing (PP)	4	4	8	12
Thermoplastic Injection Molding	●	●	●	●
Reaction Injection Molding (RIM)	●	●	●	●
Simulation Capabililties
Filling	●	●	●	●
Surface Defect Prediction	●	●	●	●
Venting Analysis	●	●	●	●
Gate Location	●	●	●	●
Cold & Hot Runners	●	●	●	●
Runner Balancing	●	●	●	●
Packing		●	●	●
Cooling		●	●	●
Transient Mold Cooling or Heating		●	●	●
Conformal Cooling		●	●	●
3D Coolant CFD		○	●	●
Rapid Temperature Cycling		●	●	●
Induction Heating		●	●	●
Heating Elements		●	●	●
Warpage		●	●	●
Insert Molding		●	●	●
Multi-shot Sequential Molding		●	●	●
Solution Add-on
CAD Interoperability
SYNC	○	○	○	○
Moldex3D CADdoctor	○	○	○	○
Moldex3D Cooling Channel Designer (CCD)		○	○	○
Fiber Reinforced Plastics
Fiber	○	○	○	○
Stress		○	○	○
FEA Interface		○	○	○
Micromechanics Interface		○	○	○
Moldex3D Digimat-RP		○	○	○
DOE
Expert		○	○	○
Thermal Management
Advanced Hot Runner		○	○	○
In-Mold Decoration (IMD)			○	○
Optical
Optics				○
Viscoelasticity (VE)		○	○	○
Special Molding Processes
Powder Injection Molding (PIM)	○	○	○	○
Foam Injection Molding		○	○	○
Gas-Assisted Injection Molding (GAIM)			○	○
Water-Assisted Injection Molding (WAIM)			○	○
Co-Injection			○	○
Bi-Injection			○	○
PU Chemical Foaming			○	○
Compression Molding (CM)				○
Injection Compression Molding (ICM)				○
Resin Transfer Molding (RTM)				○

Moldex3D SYNC supports PTC® Creo®, NX, and SOLIDWORKS ®.
Moldex3D FEA Interface supports Abaqus, ANSYS, MSC.Nastran, Nastran, NX Nastran, LS-DYNA, MSC.Marc, and Radioss.
Moldex3D Micromechanics Interface supports Digimat and CONVERSE.
Database: Thermoplastics materials, thermoset materials, molding materials, coolant materials, and mold materials.

System Requirements

A. Supported Platform

Platform	OS	Remark
Windows / x86-32		Support terminated expect Moldex3D LM Server
Windows / x86-64	Windows 10 family	Moldex3D Digimat-RP will support Windows 10 in the next release
	Windows 8 family
	Windows 7 family
	Windows Server 2008
	Windows HTC Server 2008
	Windows Server 2012
Linux / x86-64	CentOS 5 family	Linux platform is used for calculation resource only. Moldex3D LM, Pre-processor and post-processer do not support Linux platform.
	CentOS 6 family
	RHEL 5 family
	RHEL 6 family
	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

B. Hardware Recommendation

Minimum
CPU	Intel® Core i7 processor
RAM	16 GB RAM, and at least 1 TB of free space
Recommended
CPU	Intel® Xeon® E5 processor*
RAM	32 GB RAM, and at least 2 TB of free space

Intel Xeon E5-1620 is recommended and utilized for official benchmark (with 4x8G RAM). This CPU has four memory chan- nels the maximum memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. Each core in this CPU has one memory channel and average memory bandwidth of 12.8GB/s.
Note: In order to increase calculation efficiency and stability, it is recommended to switch off Hyper-Threading under RC/DMP structure.

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