Moldflow Plastics Insight 6.0

Moldflow Corporation announced release 6.0 of Moldflow Plastics Insight® (MPI®), the industry’s most powerful and widely used plastics design analysis software.

MPI 6.0 delivers new technologies and key enhancements that help users work more efficiently, significantly reduce solution time, interact better with CAD, structural analysis and other Moldflow applications, and better understand and communicate analysis results.

Two new technologies in MPI 6.0 bring significant breakthroughs for 3D filling and warpage applications. The new coupled 3D Flow solver is up to eight times faster, and renders more accurate temperature and shear heating calculations, new capabilities to predict air traps and to simulate gas penetration in 1D beam elements, and the first-of-its-kind capability to simulate jetting phenomena. Similarly, new 3D Warp solver technology delivers results up to 35 times faster.

Other key features:
• MORE EFFICIENT, PANEL-BASED USER INTERFACE – Reorganized display reduces screen clutter and allows more efficient workflow for most tasks with a new Tools panel and Toolbox, consolidated Project and Study Tasks panel, and single log window that consolidates most textual outputs.

• IMPROVED PRODUCT INTEGRATION - Export Part/Runner/Cooling model to CAD via IGES format, improved interfaces to ABAQUS® and ANSYS®, a new interface to LS-DYNA™, plus new capabilities to exchange design-through-manufacturing data between Moldflow Manufacturing Solutions and Design Analysis Solutions products. The improved integration between MPI and industry standard structural integration programs allows designers of high performance plastic applications to more accurately account for the effects of processing on the performance of injection molded plastic parts when subject to service loading.

• STREAMLINED DIAGNOSTIC AND COMMUNICATION TOOLS – Systematically validate mesh quality with directed diagnostics navigation. Generate reports in Microsoft® Word® or PowerPoint® formats, in addition to HTML format. Share information with a distributed design-through-manufacturing team by exporting Moldflow results files and creating comparison criteria files for viewing in the Moldflow Communicator utility.

• MORE INFORMATIVE RESULT DISPLAYS – Isolate warpage due to unbalanced cooling, non-uniform shrinkage and fiber orientation in 3D Warp, view mold internal temperature distributions in 3D Cool, see the plastic re-melt zone in 3D Overmolding, capture changes in the flow front due to jetting in 3D Flow, visualize the Von Mises stresses on the surface of the core in Core Shift, and isolate warpage due to corner effects for Midplane and Fusion Warp analyses.Moldflow Corporation is the leading global provider of design through manufacturing solutions for the plastics injection molding industry. Moldflow’s products and services allow companies to address part and mold design issues at the earliest stage and maximize productivity and profitability on the manufacturing floor.