Course Name

• Basic Flow Analysis
• Element Types
• Meshing
• The Plastics Manager Tree
• Material
• Injection Location
• Running a Flow Analysis
• Flow Results
• Exercise l: Basic Flow Analysis

• Detecting Short Shots
• Fill Settings
• Flow Front Central Temperature
• Design Changes
• Simulations After Design Changes
• Exercise 2: Short Shots

• Automation Tools
• Duplicate Study
• Copying Settings
• Plastics File Management
• Batch Manager
• Summary and Report
• Exercise 3: Design Changes

• Injection Locations and Sink Marks
• Injection Location Rules
• Modeling for Injection Locations
• Sink Marks
• Exercise 4: Minimizing Sink Marks (l)
• Exercise 5: Minimizing Sink Marks (2)

• Material Properties
• User-defined Database
• Resin Properties
• Temperature Properties
• Heat Transfer Properties
• Viscosity
• PVT Data
• Mechanical Properties

• Mesh Manipulation
• Local Mesh Refinement
• Mesh Editing
• Leader Lines
• Solid Mesh
• Exercise 6: Mesh Repairs

• Reaction Injection Molding

• Detecting Air Traps
• Air Traps
• Venting
• Exercise 7: Air Traps

• Gate Blush
• Runner Elements
• Shear Stress

• Packing and Cooling
• Flow/Pack Switch
• Pack Stage, Analysis and Results
• X-Y Plot
• Clipping Plane Mode
• lsosurface Mode
• Exercise 8: Packing and Cooling Times
• Exercise 9: Optimizing Cooling Time
• Multiple Injection Locations

• Multiple Cavity Molds
• Mold Layouts
• Channel Design
• Runner Channel Design
• Clamping Force
• Runner Wizard Channel Design
• Family Mold Layout
• Using Runner-Balancing
• Exercise 10: Multiple Cavity Molds
• Exercise 11: Runner-Balancing
• Exercise 12: Clamp Force

Gas Assisted Molding

• Valve Gates and Hot Runners
• Valve Gates Geometry and Mesh based
• Hot Runners

• Symmetry Analysis
• Case Study l: Runner Design
• Case Study 2: Symmetry Face
• Exercise 13: Half Symmetry

• Using Inserts
• Cavities and Inserts
• Materials for Inserts

• Multi Shot Mold
• Domain Order

• Cooling Analysis
• Cooling Channels and Mold Bodies
• Coolant and Mold
• Cool Settings
• Cooling Simulations
• Cool Results
• Baffle
• Bubbler
• Exercise 14: Cooling Analysis

• Warpage Analysis
• Shrinkage
• Warp Settings
• Warp Results
• Reducing and Fixing Warped Parts