Moldex3D 2025
Molding Intelligence
Moldex3D 2025
Molding Intelligence
Moldex3D 2025 New Features
As the plastic injection molding industry moves towards greater efficiency and intelligence, how can businesses stand out in an increasingly competitive market? Moldex3D 2025 takes simulation accuracy and process support to the next level, enabling more precise defect predictions and faster analysis speeds, allowing engineers to make critical design decisions with confidence.
In addition, Moldex3D 2025 introduces automation and AI-powered collaboration. From process parameter settings to gate and mold design optimization, it provides intelligent recommendations, significantly reducing mold tryout and development time. This ensures smoother workflow while guaranteeing both efficiency and accuracy in product development. Explore Moldex3D 2025 today and experience the transformative power of smart simulation!
Key Features
Simulation
Automation
Intelligence
Simulation
Moldex3D 2025 has undergone a comprehensive upgrade in simulation capabilities: The solver has been optimized for hot runner injection pressure prediction and heat dissipation analysis with thermal pins, along with the addition of crystallinity output. The IC module now includes a gold wire delamination warning, providing more powerful IC modeling capabilities and enhancing preprocessing efficiency. In the Mesh module, Multi-Component Molding mesh construction has been improved, and a cooling channel curve connection repair tool has been added. Studio now offers more flexible viewpoint controls, standardized reports, and enhanced DOE capabilities, enabling users to perform simulation analyses more efficiently and accurately.
Comprehensive Hot Runner Injection Pressure Simulation Enhancements
Moldex3D has always provided accurate predictions for compressible flow calculations. In Moldex3D 2025, we have further optimized this functionality to more precisely simulate the behavior of molten plastic in ultra-thin parts and hot runners. These enhancements improve the accuracy of predicting pressure fluctuations caused by geometric thickness and fluid compressibility, effectively reducing their impact.
Additionally, cavity pressure prediction for amorphous materials has made continuous breakthroughs. By integrating material measurements into a digital twin process and considering the effects of pressure on viscosity, Moldex3D significantly improves the consistency between simulated and experimental cavity pressure during injection and packing. This enables engineers to precisely monitor molding pressure variations, further optimizing the manufacturing process and product quality.
Gain More Detailed Warpage Analysis with Crystallinity Output
In crystalline plastics, crystallinity significantly impacts product physical and mechanical properties and warpage during injection molding. In some cases, post-crystallization effects may even lead to quality issues.
To address these challenges, Moldex3D continues to refine its consideration of crystallization. It not only accurately simulates crystallization effects under high-speed cooling but also incorporates the Dual Nakamura model to enhance the realism of crystallinity calculations.
With the newly introduced crystallinity output feature, users can monitor crystallinity status in real-time during warpage and even annealing stages. This enables precise simulation of deformation caused by post-crystallization, helping users analyze and optimize the molding process to improve product quality and reliability.
New Thermal Pin Simulation Enhances Cooling Efficiency and Process Reliability
In modern injection molding, conventional cooling channels may not effectively dissipate heat in certain complex designs. In such cases, thermal pins become a crucial auxiliary tool to accelerate heat transfer and improve cooling performance.
Moldex3D’s latest thermal pin simulation feature allows users to easily construct cooling rod mesh through the Cooling Channel Wizard, accurately representing temperature distribution during displacement. This feature provides a more flexible heat dissipation solution, optimizing heat transfer efficiency, enhancing overall cooling performance, and reducing the risk of heat-related defects. Ultimately, it improves both product quality and process reliability.
Improve Multi-Component Model Processing and Analysis Speed
Multi-component molding is widely used in manufacturing, but the process often involves multiple inserts or different materials, leading to challenges in quality control.
Leveraging true 3D technology and precise analysis capabilities, Moldex3D accurately simulates the interactions between different plastic components, helping users optimize product design. For complex models requiring intricate mesh construction, the newly introduced auto-matching technology enables users to quickly assemble multi-component models. It also features a redesigned interface, improved stitching functions, enhanced display, editing, and warning mechanisms for contact surfaces. These upgrades significantly improve preprocessing accuracy and efficiency, making operations more intuitive and yielding more reliable analysis results.
New Mesh Processing Tools to Enhance Multi-Component Modeling Efficiency
Efficiency and accuracy have always been challenges in multi-component modeling, often requiring meticulous adjustments. Moldex3D’s newly upgraded mesh processing tools provide the most convenient manual repair solutions for common issues in traditional models, enabling users to complete component modeling faster and more precisely, significantly improving workflow efficiency.
Additionally, the new Moldex3D ensures precise model connections, while the newly added contact surface display and editing features allow users to easily inspect and correct potential errors, preventing any impact on molding analysis results. The system also offers real-time warnings for incorrect contact surfaces, helping users quickly identify and resolve issues, further enhancing model accuracy and stability.
Optimize High-Performance Cooling Simulations with the Cooling Channel Curve Connection Repair Tool
Cooling is a critical stage in injection molding, significantly impacting both product quality and production time. Designing an efficient cooling system is therefore essential.
To help users create more accurate cooling channel models, Moldex3D continues to enhance its cooling channel modeling capabilities. The Cooling Channel Wizard now enables quick fixes for curve connection issues, allowing faster layout design and modeling. It also features automatic detection and repair of disconnections, overlaps, and intersections, reducing manual correction errors and ensuring model integrity. Additionally, it supports extension, trimming, alignment, and merging functions, minimizing manual operations and streamlining both pre- and post-processing. This all-in-one cooling channel construction tool improves design efficiency and reduces modeling time.
Enhanced DOE Parallel Coordinates Prediction Feature
Since its introduction, Moldex3D's Design of Experiments (DOE) functionality has helped users identify optimal designs among multiple parameters using the Taguchi Method and Full Factorial Experiment Method.
In the latest version of Moldex3D, we now support real-time interactive prediction. Users can directly adjust control factor values and instantly observe changes in predicted results, gaining insights into how each parameter impacts the outcome. This eliminates the need for repeated simulations or recalculations, allowing for rapid optimization across different scenarios.
Anticipate Validation Status with Verification Template
Beyond the simulation process, interpreting results is one of the most critical aspects of molding analysis. Moldex3D allows users to customize simulation items and generate reports, providing enterprises with a standardized, intelligent, and automated method for result reporting. By using consistent evaluation criteria, teams can streamline communication and establish a standardized analysis framework.
Moldex3D 2025 takes this a step further by enabling users to define evaluation criteria during the simulation stage. By inputting custom threshold values, results are displayed in real time, making it easy to assess validation status at a glance. Additionally, commonly used result views, evaluation criteria, and report output settings can be saved as templates, allowing for quick generation of standardized CAE analysis reports.
More User-Friendly Optimizations
Moldex3D 2025 is focused on enhancing the user experience. In terms of display, it now supports elliptical visualization for fiber results and 3D rendering of flakes, providing clearer displays. Additionally, we've optimized viewpoint controls, making them more flexible. Users can customize the viewpoint, coordinate systems, angles, and posture, allowing for a clearer and more detailed inspection of every aspect of the model.
We have also streamlined Moldex3D’s file sizes. Users can choose to reduce the size of result files by up to 66%, and they can decide whether to retain specific result items, ensuring that every remaining result contains the most essential data.
Reduce Unsolder Risk with Wire Debonding Warning
In the IC manufacturing industry, one of the most challenging issues during packaging is wire debonding, which can cause the chip to malfunction or lose efficiency, leading to quality problems and increased costs.
Moldex3D continues to expand its support for IC applications, starting with wire bonding simulations last year and now introducing the Wire Debonding warning simulation. By entering customized pressure ranges and material types, users can predict the risk of wire debonding for each bond or even specific endpoints. Additionally, users can adjust the pressure limits by dragging the color scale, which visually displays the situation of wire debonding on different pressure conditions.
Enhanced IC Meshing Support Features to Simplify Processing
For the complex and time-consuming meshing tasks in IC simulations, we leverage our accumulated technical expertise to offer better support.
Moldex3D 2025 automatically detects the thickness and position of 3D geometries, preventing manual setting errors during meshing. It also simplifies models with complex cross-sectional variations, reducing meshing time while retaining critical design details, and significantly shortening preprocessing time. Additionally, we provide quick navigation of components, segmentation, and layer correspondence, support fast adjustments of thickness and position, and offer one-click repairs for geometry gaps and small segments. These features simplify the process, improve accuracy, and help users focus on the core tasks of simulation and design.
Optimize Optical Simulation Results with Ansys Zemax Integration
As optical components become increasingly smaller and thinner, issues in birefringence, optical path difference, and polarization induced by the molding process are emerging as significant bottlenecks. Throughout the product development cycle, from design to molding, various auxiliary analysis software is used to find the most suitable product parameters.
Moldex3D's optical analysis, built on true 3D solid technology, provides excellent control over birefringence caused by non-isotropic molecular alignment, resulting in more realistic and accurate analysis results.
In the latest Moldex3D 2025, we have strengthened our integration with Ansys Zemax, allowing users to directly export injection molding results to Ansys Zemax. Users can also set optical boundary conditions within Moldex3D to effectively address deformation and optical performance issues during the molding process. This integration ensures the acquisition of realistic surface profiles, delivering more accurate simulation results that closely align with real-world applications.
Automation
Access various apps, including Molding Window Advisor, on the Moldiverse Store to create automated workflows. Additionally, the Auto Launch feature of Intelligent Solution Lifecycle Management (iSLM) enables automated analysis and prediction, allowing you to quickly obtain mold design recommendations and improve work efficiency.
Moldex3D 2025 introduces several new API support features, providing flexible data retrieval and editing capabilities, including physical values, Shell Property information, injection molding machine specification management, template operations, and GLB output. These enhancements enable precise control from mold design to production, supporting businesses in advancing towards the future of smart manufacturing.
Activate Smart Assets with iSLM - Auto Launch for One-Click Design Validation and Optimization
iSLM has continuously helped companies accumulate valuable mold design, molding analysis, and mold tryout data, becoming the most trusted knowledge management platform. Now, it integrates Industry 4.0 and big data technologies, taking workflow automation to a whole new level.
The new iSLM allows users to upload CAD models with just one click, automatically creating projects and significantly simplifying the process. It eliminates the need for cumbersome parameter settings and manual intervention, enabling users to quickly validate and optimize designs. This effectively shortens product development cycles, reduces the risk of human error, and transforms iSLM from just a storage platform for smart assets into a dynamic system that extends to more intelligent applications and creates a dedicated data science platform.
Use Molding Window Advisor to Create an Efficient, Scientific Mold Tryout Plan
With the advancement of smart manufacturing, the plastic injection molding industry continues to pursue higher efficiency and more precise process optimization. Moldex3D leverages its latest patented technology to provide methods for optimizing molding conditions and a comprehensive molding system framework. This allows for seamless integration of CAE simulations with trial molding results, ensuring optimal molding parameter settings. As a result, companies can enhance production efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain stable product quality.
Furthermore, Moldex3D utilizes this patented technology to launch the Molding Window Advisor on the Moldiverse Store. This tool helps users quickly set up systematic CAE scientific trial molding conditions, identify the most suitable molding parameters, and establish molding windows as a reference for further adjustments and trial runs. By doing so, it significantly reduces the time and resources required for repeated testing and fine-tuning.
New API Support for Shell, Injection Machine, and Validation Templates to Enhance Performance
Since the launch of the Moldex3D Studio API, it has become the bridge between users and Moldex3D automation, allowing users to create customized automation workflows to speed up tasks, reduce manual operation time, and minimize potential errors, while also enabling intelligent molding analysis.
Moldex3D 2025 introduces powerful new API in three key areas: Shell, injection machines, and result reading. These APIs enable the retrieval of specific result value totals, improving data analysis accuracy. Additionally, it supports reading and editing Shell property information, facilitating further design optimization. Users can also add and edit injection machine specifications to quickly accommodate different machine requirements. Furthermore, the new API features support reading, applying, importing, and exporting validation templates, streamlining the validation process and improving cross-project application efficiency. Lastly, the added Shell information and result data export capabilities make data sharing and report creation more convenient.
Intelligence
In plastic injection molding simulation, the use of intelligent technologies can enhance both efficiency and accuracy of design and processes. Studio's AI Optimization Wizard offers smart recommendations for injection parameters, improving simulation quality. iSLM provides gate and mold discovery, allowing for more precise design and early prediction of molding outcomes, reducing the risk of errors. Additionally, the Moldibot feature on the Moldiverse platform offers quick answers to molding issues, making it easier to access the required information.
Let AI Optimization Wizard Assist in Efficiently Handling Multi-Objective Design Requirements
During the molding injection process, it is often necessary to find the optimal solution in a complex parameter space. While analysis can address this, traditional methods require manual parameter settings and multiple simulations, which are time-consuming and inefficient.
Moldex3D 2025 integrates intelligent tools that allow users to utilize more user-friendly optimization tools. AI dynamically adjusts the parameter settings to quickly find the best solution and provides parallel coordinate plots or the ability to export results as CSV files. This approach is not only suitable for single-objective designs but also effectively handles multi-objective design needs, significantly improving development efficiency and design quality while accelerating product innovation.
Locate the Optimal Gate Position through iSLM – Gate Design Discovery
Gate Design Discovery uses intelligent technology to solve the repetitiveness and inefficiencies in the gate design process, significantly improving design accuracy and efficiency. Through similarity comparison, the system intelligently applies past successful cases to new design projects, greatly shortening design time. The automatically generated gate designs are not only accurate but can also be further adjusted according to requirements, allowing designers to more easily complete complex designs and streamline the entire gate design process. By utilizing the capabilities of iSLM, design teams can quickly reference and apply existing cases, reducing unnecessary repetitive work while enhancing efficiency, saving valuable time and resources, and helping products reach the market faster.
Smart Application of Successful Cases, Efficiency Innovation with iSLM - Mold Design Discovery!
Mold Design Discovery uses intelligent technology to address key issues in the mold design process and improve decision-making efficiency. By utilizing the similarity search function, users only need to upload CAD files to quickly estimate key information such as the number of gates, machine selection, injection pressure, and clamping force distribution probabilities for new plastic part designs. This data can be used for product cost assessment and quotation estimation, helping users make more informed business decisions in the early stages.
The system also features a material filtering function that allows users to filter project data based on different materials, further improving the accuracy of the evaluation results. Additionally, iSLM can quickly apply successful cases, transforming data into actionable suggestions that support teams in efficiently making appropriate design and manufacturing decisions, providing enterprises with a greater competitive advantage.
The Intelligent Assistant - MoldiBot, Making Molding Problem Solving Easier!
Moldiverse introduces an intelligent assistant designed specifically for Moldex3D users—MoldiBot. It effectively addresses confusion and efficiency issues during the operation process, offering real-time support and guidance to help users quickly resolve molding analysis problems and provide operational suggestions, enabling them to make the most of Moldex3D’s capabilities. Through intelligent, interactive assistance, users can easily access the information they need without spending excessive time searching for data or learning operational details. MoldiBot not only enhances the efficiency of molding analysis work but also optimizes the user experience, making project development smoother.