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Autodesk® Moldflow® Insight : AMI
Autodesk® Moldflow® Insight advanced plastics injection molding simulation software provides in-depth analysis and optimization of plastic parts and molds. Autodesk Moldflow Insight has productivity features that enable efficient, expert-level design and simulation of plastic parts. Geometry support ranges from thin-walled parts to thick and solid applications and you can even experiment with "what if" scenarios before committing to a final design.
Autodesk® Moldflow® Insight :
Feed System Design
Meshing Technology
Mold Cooling Simulation
Plastics Flow Simulation
Structure Integrity Simulation
Specializing Molding Processes
Thermoset Flow Simulation
Results Documentation, Customization , and Learning Resources
CAD Connectivity Products
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With tools for modeling and optimizing almost all types of runner systems and gating configurations, Autodesk Moldflow Insight gives tooling engineers the capability to improve surface appearance, minimize part warpage, and reduce overall cycle times.
- Gate Location—Automatically identify up to 10 gate locations at once. You can minimize injection pressure and exclude specific regions of the geometry when determining gate location
- Automatic Runner Balancing—Balance the runner systems of single-cavity, multicavity, and family mold layouts—so all parts fill at the same time, minimizing stress levels and reducing the volume of material required by runners.
- Hot Runner Systems—Model the components of a hot runner system, and set up sequential valve gates to eliminate weld lines and gain more control over the packing phase.
- Dynamic Feed Systems—Simulate the Synventive Molding Solutions' Dynamic Feed® hot runner system, which provides independent melt pressure-based process control for up to 32 nozzles in a single mold.
- Centerline Import/Export—Import and export feed system centerlines between CAD software and Autodesk Moldflow Insight, decreasing modeling time and avoiding runner-placement errors.
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Meshing Technology
Choose the optimal analysis mesh type, taking into account analysis accuracy and solution time.
- 3D—Perform true 3D simulations on complex geometry using a proven technique based on a solid, tetrahedral finite-element volume mesh. Ideal for electrical connectors, thick structural components, and geometries with extreme thickness variations.
- Autodesk Moldflow Dual Domain™ Technology—Analyze solid models of thin-walled parts using patented Dual Domain technology. Dual Domain enables users to work directly from 3D solid CAD models without the need to create a finite element mesh analysis model, making it easier to analyze multiple design iterations and perform more in-depth analyses.
- Midplane—Generate two-dimensional planar surface meshes with assigned thicknesses for traditional thin-walled plastic parts.
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Improve cooling system efficiency and molded part surface appearance, minimize part warpage, and reduce overall cycle times.
- Cooling Component Modeling—Analyze the efficiency of your mold's cooling system. Model cooling circuits, baffles, bubblers, mold inserts, and mold bases around the part.
- Cooling Simulation—Help to optimize mold and cooling circuit designs to achieve uniform part cooling, minimize cycle times, eliminate part warpage due to cooling factors, and decrease manufacturing costs.
- Rapid Heat Cycle Molding—Set up variable mold surface temperature profiles for processes that maintain warmer mold temperatures during filling to achieve a smooth surface appearance. Switch to a colder mold temperature in the packing and cooling phases to help freeze the part and decrease cycle time
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Simulate how melted plastic will flow through your mold to optimize part and mold design, reduce potential manufacturing problems, and improve the molding process.
- Thermoplastics Filling—Simulate the filling phase of the thermoplastics injection molding process to predict the plastics melt flow pattern. Help mold cavities fill uniformly, avoid short shots, and eliminate, minimize, or reposition weld lines and air traps.
- Thermoplastics Packing—Enables optimization of the overall packing profile and visualization of the magnitude and distribution of volumetric shrinkage. Doing so helps you minimize part warpage and reduce defects, such as sink marks.
- Molding Window—Quickly evaluate multiple gating schemes, part thicknesses, and materials. Determine recommended processing conditions and use your findings to conduct in-depth filling and packing analyses.
- Design of Experiments—Run a sequence of automatic analyses that vary processing parameters—including mold and melt temperatures, injection time, packing pressure and time, and part thickness—to optimize processing conditions and the quality of the molded part.
- Insert Overmolding—Run insert overmolding analyses to determine the impact of mold inserts on melt flow, cooling rate, and part warpage.
- Two-Shot Sequential Overmolding—Simulate the two-shot sequential overmolding process. In this process, one part is filled, the tool is opened and indexed to a new position, and a second part is molded over the first.
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Structure Integrity Simulation
Evaluate part and tool design to control shrinkage and warpage—and to test the structural integrity of molded products.
- Warpage Prediction—Uncover and isolate the primary causes of warpage that results from process-induced stresses. Identify where warpage is likely to occur, and optimize part design, material choice, and processing parameters to control part deformation before building the mold.
- Core Shift—Minimize the movement of injection mold cores by determining ideal processing conditions for injection pressure, packing profile, and gate locations.
- Shrinkage Prediction—Meet critical part tolerances by accurately accounting for molded part shrinkage, based on processing parameters and grade-specific material data.
- Fiber Orientation—Understand and control the orientation of fibers within fiber-filled plastics to reduce shrinkage variations across the molded part and to minimize or eliminate part warpage.
- Autodesk® Moldflow® Structural Alliance software—Exchange mechanical property data between Moldflow Insight and ANSYS® or ABAQUS® structural analysis software. Account for the effects of processing on the performance of fiber-filled, injection-molded plastic parts subjected to service loading.
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Specializing Molding Processes
Simulate virtually all plastics molding processes and state-of-the-art process applications.
- Gas-Assisted Injection Molding—Determine where to position polymer and gas entrances, how much plastic to inject prior to gas injection, and how to optimize the size and placement of gas channels.
- Co-Injection Molding—Visualize the advancement of skin and core materials in the cavity and view the dynamic relationship between the two materials as filling progresses. Use co-injection results to optimize material combinations while maximizing your product’s overall cost/performance ratio.
- Injection-Compression Molding—Simulate simultaneous or sequential polymer injection and mold compression. Comprehensively evaluate material candidates, part design, mold design, and processing conditions.
- Microcellular Injection Molding—Evaluate the feasibility and benefits of Trexel MuCell® microcellular foam injection molding and extrusion technology, in which a supercritical fluid, such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen, is mixed with molten polymer and injected into the mold to produce microcelluar foam.
- Process Optimization—Perform an injection-molding machine-specific analysis, taking into account machine response time, maximum injection velocity, and the number of steps that can be programmed for velocity and pressure profiles on the machine controller. Help to achieve uniform flow front velocity and temperature profiles through the injection molding machine nozzle, mold feed system, and part cavities.
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Simulate processes such as thermoset injection molding, RIM/SRIM, resin transfer molding for fiber-reinforced plastics, and rubber compound injection molding.
- Reactive Injection Molding—Predict how the mold will fill, with or without the presence of fiber-reinforced pre-forms. Avoid short shots due to pre-gelation of resin, highlight potential air traps, and identify problematic weld lines. Balance runner systems, select the proper molding machine size, and evaluate thermoset materials for various applications.
- Microchip Encapsulation—Simulate the encapsulation of semiconductor chips with reactive resins that protect against hostile environments and heat dissipation, and the interconnectivity of electrical chips.
- Wire Sweep & Paddle Shift—Predict bonding wire deformation within the cavity and shifting of the leadframe resulting from pressure imbalances during the microchip encapsulation process.
- Underfill Encapsulation—Simulate the pressurized underfill encapsulation process (flip-chip encapsulation) to predict the flow of the material encapsulated in the cavity between the chip and the substrate.
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Results Documentation, Customization, and Learning Resources
Use automatic documentation tools to prepare analysis results and share them with team members.
- HTML Reporting—The report generation wizard can help you create web-based reports so you can quickly and easily share analysis results with customers, vendors, and team members.
- Microsoft® Office Word Software & PowerPoint® Software—Easily export results and images to these Microsoft Office 2007 programs for use in formal reports and presentations.
- Autodesk® Moldflow® Communicator—Collaborate with other designers and suppliers by exporting results from Autodesk Moldflow Insight into Autodesk Moldflow Communicator. This solution enables stakeholders to easily visualize, quantify, and compare analysis results.
- API Tools—Application programming interface (API) tools expand the scope of the software by enabling you to automate common tasks, customize the user interface, interface with third-party applications, and implement standardized corporate protocols and best practices.
- Workspaces—Customize the user interface and application features to meet the needs of team members. Set up profiles for novice users to guide them through the analysis process and identify common problems. Create profiles with additional functionality and flexibility for more experienced analysts.
- Help System—Get help with solver theory, interpreting analysis results, and designing better plastics parts and injection molds.
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CAD Connectivity Products
Explore complementary products that offer native CAD model translation and analysis model optimization.
- Autodesk® Moldflow® Design Link—Directly import and mesh solid geometry data from Parasolid®-based CAD systems, Pro/ENGINEER®,and CATIA® V5.
- Autodesk® Moldflow® CAD Doctor—Check, correct, heal, and simplify solid models imported from 3D CAD systems in preparation for analysis using Autodesk Moldflow Insight.
