The latest release of Simpoe-Mold is orderable through DSx.Client starting on November 5, 2014.

The Simpoe-Mold product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for the design of plastic parts or injection molds or manufacture plastic parts. The product suite is made up of Simpoe-Mold ENG and Simpoe-Mold TOOL. Simpoe-Mold solutions  help users predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of part and mold design, eliminating costly mold rework, improving part quality, decreasing time to market and optimizing production cycle times.  The Simpoe-Mold plastic injection simulation solution is targeted towards all players involved in the plastic industry, whether they are product designers, mold designers, mold makers or plastic part manufacturers.  Simpoe-Mold allows simulation with shell and solid mesh, with or without inserts, and it can handle complex shapes.  Simpoe-Mold also allows simulation of more advanced processes, such as gas-assisted injection, co-injection molding, bi-refringance, overmolding, multi-shots or multi-domain injection.

Simpoe-Mold ENG Key Capabilities:

• Easy-to-use interface
• Import CAD in STEP/IGES/STL formats
• Import CATIA V5 and V6 files
• Solid and shell parts support
• Built-in customizable material data base that includes more than 5,000 materials
• Built-in customizable machine data base that includes more than 3,000 references
• Automatic surface including midplane and volume meshers
• Simulate filling and packing phases of injection molding process up to ejection or de-molding
• Identify common molding defects such as short shots, air traps, weld lines, fiber orientation and sink marks
• Predict required injection pressure and tool clamping force, enabling selection of an appropriate injection molding machine
• Display distributions of shearing and temperature growth due to shear heating, allowing designers to avoid material degradation and optimize fill times
• Predicts process cycle time
• Visualize melt front animation, weld lines, air traps, sink marks, fiber orientation, volumetric shrinkage, and temperature/pressure fields
• Automatic report generation with HTML, PPT and Word Formats

Simpoe-Mold TOOL Key Capabilities:

• Provide cooling system analysis, including multiple cooling channels, baffles and bubblers and conformal cooling
• Predicts part warping due to internal stress, temperature, and shrinkage
• Links to  structural analysis using Abaqus and other third-party software; export of deformed and counter deformed geometry
• Visualize warpage

For more information, please contact Jill DaPonte.