Moldflow 2023

Hanno van Raalte

Product Manager for Injection Molding Simulation products

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Moldflow 2023
 Autodesk Moldflow 2023| What’s New
Market Impact
• Easier to manage and install: Combined
installers for Moldflow Adviser and Moldflow
product, install all components at once.
• Named user product offering:
• More flexibility
• New simplified offering
• Includes Fusion Sim extension for
Moldflow Adviser (Named User)
• License time out feature (specifically useful for
flex)
Productivity & Workflow
• Shrinkage compensation result property applied
only on visible cavities (useful for multi-cavity
moldings)
• 3D Grill Element (for faster analysis of sockets and
speakers)
• Enhancements for Midplane Injection
Compression: (Time series Thickness result & allow
final thickness to be less than the nominal design
thickness)
• Improved 3D/Surface meshing speed on large
complex models with many CAD faces.
• Solver API Enhancement to support user HTC and
Heat Source options
• SCM updates provide improved Cloud solve
performance and robustness
Technology leadership &
Accuracy
• Improved accuracy for 3D Warp (particularly for
materials which low modulus or high Poisson’s
ratio)
• Improved 3D fiber orientation prediction in core
layer
• Improved Warp (MP/DD) accuracy – symmetric
deflection on symmetric parts by improved
automatic constraints
• Improved Cool (Boundary Element) accuracy when
cooling circuits or feed systems are close to the part
surface
• Improvements to 3D Sink Mark predictions
New/Updated in Scandium Tech Preview:
i. STAMP 3D warpage improvement for
unfilled materials
ii. Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity 3D flow
(particularly useful for high conductivity
fillers such as carbon fibers)
User Interface
Improvements
User Interface | Shrinkage Compensation per Cavity
Multi-Cavity Molds

▪ Previously: Shrinkage Compensation was applied across all cavities

▪ Including the distance between cavities
▪ AMI2021.2: Shrinkage Compensation is only applied on visible cavities

Not representative
User Interface | 3D Meshing Improvements

▪ 20% speed improvement for 3D

tetrahedra meshing Adviser 2021.2 Adviser 2023

▪ Adviser 3D meshing upgraded to

Advancing Layer meshing
technology (same as Insight)
▪ Fix problem of bad mesh structure
for fine surface mesh
 Adviser 2021.2 Level 3
User Interface | 3D Meshing Improvements

Adviser Meshing retains good aspect ratio for all mesh levels
▪ Less aggressive refinement for Level 2 and Level 3

Adviser 2023 Level 3

 Solver
Improvements
Solver Improvements | Improved 3D Fiber Orientation
Improved transverse orientation prediction in core layer.

Stronger transverse
orientation predicted in
the core; Better
agreement with
measured data
 Solver Improvements | Improved 3D Fiber Orientation
Improved transverse orientation prediction in core layer.
Long glass fiber PP Orientation in flow
direction.

Measurement location

Moldings and measurement: Bushra Parveen, University of Bradford, 2014

Solver Improvements | New 3D Grill Elements Attribute
Subject of a Patent Application
Approximate the effect of
many small holes without
modelling each hole:
▪ Fill pattern
▪ Pressure
▪ Temperature / Frozen layer
▪ Fiber Orientation
▪ Warp

Omit holes from the model:

▪ Easier CAD model preparation
▪ Less nodes/elements
▪ Faster computation
▪ 6 hours v.s. 10 minutes LCP Intel CPU Socket from Foxconn. INEMI,
▪ Lower memory requirement Intel, Celanese collaboration project
Solver Improvements | New 3D Grill Elements Attribute
Subject of a Patent Application
Approximate the effect of
many small holes without
modelling each hole:
▪ Fill pattern
▪ Pressure
▪ Temperature / Frozen layer
▪ Fiber Orientation
▪ Warp

Omit holes from the model:

▪ Easier CAD model preparation
▪ Less nodes/elements
▪ Faster computation
▪ 6 hours v.s. 10 minutes LCP Intel CPU Socket from Foxconn. INEMI,
▪ Lower memory requirement Intel, Celanese collaboration project
Solver Improvements | New 3D Grill Elements Attribute
Describe hole spacing & size

▪ Hole Type: Through hole or Blind hole

▪ For Blind holes, apply this property to elements on only one side
▪ Hole shape: Round, Square, Other
 Solver Improvements | New 3D Grill Elements Attribute

Speaker Grill Example: Hole spacing is greater than thickness

Full Model Model without holes Model without holes

(AMI 2021.2) (Assign Grill Property)
Injection Pressure: 135 MPa Injection Pressure: 110 MPa Injection Pressure: 136 MPa
Solver Improvements | 3D Sink Mark Prediction
▪ Remove runners from sink mark display

▪ Improvement in consistency
2021.2

2023
Solver Improvements | Cool BEM improvement
More accurate solution when large beam elements are close to cavity surface
Moldflow Insight 2021 Moldflow Insight 2023
 Solver Improvements | Midpl. Inj. Compression
Midplane Analysis

▪ New Cavity Thickness Evolution

Result

▪ Final cavity thickness cam be less

than design thickness

Nominal design
thickness
Solver Improvements | New Solver API functions

▪ User Routine: Heat source: SolverUserHb3dTemperatureIncrementAtNode()

▪ Useful for modelling reactions and latent heat of solidification for crystallization
▪ Can now be enable/disabled & supports a parameter text input

▪ User Routine: Local Heat Transfer Coefficient: SolverUserHb3dHTC()

▪ Can change for each time-step / element
▪ Useful for researchers who want to try alternative heat transfer schemes
Scandium Tech Preview
2023 Update
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Scandium Technology Preview | What is it?
Project Scandium provides access to new functionality that
is still in development and which we could use additional
feedback. Scandium capabilities may or may not make it into
commercial form. The technology preview is free, but uses
commercial licenses.

Scandium features include:

• Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity (NEW!)
• Assembly analysis
• Anisotropic Thermo-Viscoelastic Residual Stress Model
• Tiger Stripe Prediction
• Underflow diagnostic
• Fiber concentration
• Annealing analysis with viscoelastic material properties for midplane
and DualDomain
• STAMP shrinkage correction for 3D Parts
• Thickness shrinkage scheme for residual stress accuracy improvement
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STAMP | Shrinkage Test Adjusted Mechanical Properties
MIDPLANE & DUAL-DOMAIN
▪ Fit CRIMS & Residual Strain model by
offline calibration of model coefficients
before each major releases
▪ Analysis adjusts residual stress
prediction for improved prediction
accuracy
▪ 30 years' worth of molding data
3D STAMP MODEL
▪ Shrinkage Test Adjusted Mechanical
Properties (STAMP)
▪ Uses the measured shrinkage data to
calibrate thermo-mechanical properties
at run time
▪ Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE)
▪ Modulus (anisotropic)
▪ Available in Technology Preview
▪ Initial introduction 2021.2
STAMP | Example (non-fiber filled grades)

Shrinkage Tag moldings of 2.0, 1.5 & 3.0 mm

STAMP | Validation case for PP tray

3D Residual Stress

Molded Part shows buckling 3D STAMP Tech Preview

shape / twisting

Maximum z-deflection
measured: 17mm
Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity | Filled Polymers

▪ 3D Flow Solver

▪ Consider different Thermal Conductivity in

different directions according to the local fiber
or filler orientation prediction
▪ Most significant for highly conductive fillers
(e.g., Carbon Fiber)
▪ Lower conductivity in thickness direction
▪ May delay solidification

▪ Estimate pure polymer conductivity from

anisotropic composite conductivity
measurements
▪ Additional procedure required during testing
Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity | Molding data
Shrinkage tag molding:
PA46, 15% Carbon Fiber
Thermal Conductivity influences
prediction of Cavity Pressure decay
(due to solidification)

Measured Data
Anisotropic Conductivity
Standard Conductivity
Flow Direction

Thickness Direction
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