Part Design - eXplorer
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The unprecedented crisis and
competition are pressing global industries to review the
competitiveness for meeting various customer demands of
better quality, lower cost, eco-friendly and so on. People
keep looking for more cost-effective and smarter ways to
improve the efficiency and profitability. If potential
quality problems like air traps and weld lines can be
figured out in the design phase, the overall production
effectiveness would be greatly enhanced.
Finding quality problems and learning solutions from
trial-and-errors is a traditional and very cost-consuming
workaround. To ensure better position in this era of
uncertainty and economic slowdown, an efficient engineering
tool becomes more and more necessary to increase
competitiveness via saving costs and enhancing quality - by
simulating the filling process of injection-molded parts.
Moldex3D eXplorer ensures both originality and
manufacturability in the design phase. Design teams can
easily use Moldex3D eXplorer as a great assistance to figure
out the potential problems and solutions in the CAD/CAM
graphic environment. The seamless integration leads a
way to optimizations for not only part designs, but also
manufacturing process parameters. Critical quality
issues such as air traps, weld lines, hesitations now can be
easily simulated and observed for improvements in the
beginning.
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Design in 3D, Analyze
in 3D
Moldex3D
eXplorer is a true 3D integrated tool for designers to perceive
different part design and mold design options during early
stage. Many designers are designing plastic parts with
significant 3D characteristics and wall thickness variations by
using 3D CAD software. In the past, they need to simplify the
models into 2D before performing analysis. The simplification
inevitably compromises analysis accuracy and often leads to
significant errors. Moldex3D eXplorer seeks to provide a
user-friendly interface for every CAD users to access Moldex3D’s
leading true 3D flow simulation results. With Moldex3D eXplorer,
CAD users can easily setup analyses with only a few clicks in
their familiar CAD environment. In other words, no additional
training, CAD conversion or meshing job are needed. Moldex3D
eXplorer is currently available in Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks and
NX. It will soon be available in most of the mainstream CAD
software.
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High Performance
Parallel Computing
Moldex3D
eXplorer supports parallel computing technology. It is
capable of reaching the maximum acceleration by fully
utilizing each core of the modern CPU architecture
(maximum 4 cores). After analyses are done, report
generator then enables users to share reports with the
product design team, clients, suppliers and the molders.
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Automatically Meshing and Injection Knowledge
Moldex3D eXplorer’s proprietary automatic meshing
technology generates high quality 3D mesh automatically.
No user intervention is needed! Moreover, designers can
learn more about plastics and injection molding
technology while the meshing engine is running.
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Benefits and Key Features
? Fully embedded
in mainstream CAD, no additional training is needed.
? Fully automatic 3D mesh generation, no user intervention and
CAD conversion are needed.
? Accurate 3D results rendering, smart animations and automatic
HTML report generation.
? High performance 3D filling simulation supported by parallel
computing up to 4 cores.
? Complete plastic material database (>5,000 grades) and
friendly interface for setting molding parameters.
? Capability of optimizing gate location for improving product
quality and appearance.
? Capability of identifying potential molding problems such as
short shots, air traps and weld lines, etc.
? Capability of improving design quality and reducing cycle
times and avoiding rework of molds.
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Requirements
Platform
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Windows
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XP, Vista, XP-64bit, Vista- 64bit
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Software
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Pro/ENGINEER
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Wildfire 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0
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SolidWorks
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2008
SP5 / 2009 / 2010
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NX
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5.0
/ 6.0 / 7.0
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Recommended
Hardware
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CPU
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Intel P4 2.8 GHz or higher
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RAM
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2.0 GB or higher
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Hard disk
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60 GB or higher
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Display card
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OpenGL function supported
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