Predict and avoid manufacturing defects in plastic part and injection mold designs, eliminating costly rework, improving part quality, and decreasing time to market.
Ensure precision and quality in your plastic part design and injection molding process with SOLIDWORKS® Plastics — the industry-leading simulation software. Effortlessly simulate how molten plastic flows inside your molds to identify potential defects before manufacturing. Save time, reduce costs, and boost your product’s manufacturability by catching problems early in the design phase.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics is a powerful simulation add-in for the SOLIDWORKS CAD platform, specially designed for plastic part designers, mold makers, and manufacturers. It visually predicts how molten plastic will fill a mold cavity, allowing you to optimize mold design and avoid costly manufacturing errors.
By simulating the injection molding process upfront, you gain critical insights to improve product quality and accelerate time to market.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard is the premier mold cavity testing software for part designers. It contains analysis tools to validate and optimize plastic part design for the injection molding process. This is a great tool for a plastic part designer to use to detect potential molding defects before manufacturing begins during early product development and design stages.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional is the next step up in mold cavity injection testing, with features that assist mold designers and builders to optimize mold design for a consistent processing window. It includes additional tools such as multi-cavity design and runner systems to prevent costly rework by minimizing tooling adjustments during the mold development process.
SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium is the top-level injection molding analysis software tool available on the market. Plastics Premium gives you access to all of the tools to perform Plastics simulation. The advanced cooling and warp analysis tools are one of many advanced features used together to get the most accurate shrinkage and warp prediction possible.
| SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard | SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional | SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium | |
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Ease of Use |
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Design Data Reuse |
✔ |
✔ |
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Materials Database |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Meshing |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Parallel Computing (Multi-Core) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Filling Phase (1st Stage Injection) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Automatic Gate Location(s) |
✔ |
✔ |
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Instantaneous Fill Time Plot |
✔ |
✔ |
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Sink Mark Analysis |
✔ |
✔ |
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eDrawings Support |
✔ |
✔ |
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Fill Time |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Ease of Fill |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Results Adviser |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Nominal Wall Thickness Adviser |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Pressure at End of Fill |
✔ |
✔ |
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Flow Front Temperature |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Temperature at End of Fill |
✔ |
✔ |
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Shear Rate |
✔ |
✔ |
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Cooling Time |
✔ |
✔ |
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Weld Lines |
✔ |
✔ |
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Air Traps |
✔ |
✔ |
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Sink Marks |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill |
✔ |
✔ |
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Clamp Force |
✔ |
✔ |
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Cycle Time |
✔ |
✔ |
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Symmetry Analysis |
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✔ |
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Packing Phase (2nd Stage Injection) |
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✔ |
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Runner Balancing |
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✔ |
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Runner Design Wizard |
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✔ |
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Sprues and Runners |
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✔ |
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Hot and Cold Runners |
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✔ |
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Multi-cavity Molds |
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✔ |
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Family Molds |
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✔ |
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Mold Inserts |
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✔ |
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Volumetric Shrinkage |
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✔ |
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Density at End of Pack |
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✔ |
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Exports STL, NASTRAN |
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✔ |
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Export with Mechanical Properties ABAQUS®, ANSYS, DigiMat® |
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✔ |
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Cooling Lines |
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✔ |
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Baffles and Bubblers |
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✔ |
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Conformal Cooling Channels |
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✔ |
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Runner Domain Category |
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✔ |
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Sink Mark Profiles |
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✔ |
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Mold Temperature at Cooling End |
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Displacement Due to Residual Stress |
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Reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate your plastic product development with SOLIDWORKS Plastics. Contact us now to learn more about the right package for your business and how SOLIDWORKS Plastics can revolutionize your injection molding process.