SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium (2-Day)

WHAT IS THE SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM CLASS?

This two-day course includes the fundamentals of the SOLIDWORKS Standard course and also covers the setup and usage of the additional abilities that are in included in the SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium software. This includes the Flow, Flow + Pack, & Flow + Pack + Warp Plastics study solvers.

WHO IS THIS COURSE DESIGNED FOR?

This course is designed for plastic part designers and mold makers who would want to simulate more advanced aspects of the mold setup extending passed the cavity of the mold. These aspects include simulating cooling lines, baffles and bubblers, and mold size dimensions. Mold material properties and cooling channel fluids can also be specified and optimized. These are capabilities available only in Plastics Premium.

WHY SHOULD I TAKE THE SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS PREMIUM TRAINING COURSE FROM DASI SOLUTIONS?

This course covers the main assumptions and limitations used in SOLIDWORKS Plastics. It also covers the workflows needed to start, setup, and interrogate the results of a plastics study for both qualitative and quantitative results.

HOW MUCH DOES THIS COURSE COST?

Standard classroom training costs $1,195 per student.

TRAINING CLASS AGENDA

1 Basic Flow Analysis

Element Types
Meshing
The Plastics Manager Tree
Input Options
Injection Location
Running a Flow Analysis
Flow Results

2 Detecting Air Traps

Air Traps
Switching Modes for Design Changes
Design Changes
Parts Created Using Mold Design Tools

3 Detecting Short Cuts

Fill Settings
Flow Front Central Temperature

4 The Model Manager

Using the Model Manager
Copying Parts and Results
Batch Manager
Summary and Reports

5 Injection Locations and Sink Marks

Injection Location Rules
Sink Marks

6 Multiple Cavity Molds

Mirroring Cavities
Sketching Runners
Runner Design
X-Y Plots

7 Runner - Balancing

Local Refinement of Mesh
Using Runner - Balancing

8 Gate Freeze

Solid Mesh
Pack Settings
Flow and Pack Analysis
Pack Results

9 Symmetry Analysis

Case Studies in Symmetry Analysis

10 Optimizing Cooling Time

Using Multiple Injection Locations

11 Using Inserts

Cavities and Inserts
Materials for Inserts

12 Mesh Repairs

Element Issues
Editing the Mesh

13 Warpage Analysis

Shrinkage and Warpage
Warp Settings
Flow, Pack and Warp Analysis
Warp Results

14 Cooling Analysis

Cooling
Cool Settings
Cool Analysis
Cool Results