New mould analysis tools - for free

Simpoe is planning to deliver a basic injection mould filling simulation tool, called "e-Simpoe " including melt front animation, for free, as a download. It can also be used as a viewer to interact with simulation results performed with any of the commercial Simpoe softwares, whether they are filling, packing, cooling and/or warpage simulation results.

No dates on delivery yet, but with SolidWorks pulling MoldFlowXpress out of SolidWork due to a lack of sales conversions a couple of releases ago, the Autodesk/MoldFlow acquisition at an early stage, there's a gap in the market for a mould filling tool - while it may not be a fully fledged tool for moulders, facts are that having a simple tool to run designs through, to verify your 'Design for Manufacture' related work, makes a lot of sense.

Oh and we're going to be looking at the SolidWorks integrated tool, SimpoeWorks, in the next issue of DEVELOP3D.

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New SolidWorks Integrated mould filling analysis

I got a release through from UK SolidWorks VAR, New Technology CADCAM about it adding SimpoeWorks to its product portfolio. I recently talked, following the Autodesk/Moldflow acquisition, about how there were limited options for those looking to perform injection moulding simulation, citing the only other code I was aware of being Vero's VISI-Flow. It seems I was wrong and SimpoeWorks is "fully featured general purpose plastic injection simulation software for plastic injection analysis." It's a SolidWorks Gold Partner Product offering "complete filling, packing, cooling and part warpage simulation"

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