Design Adviser analysis (Tutorial)

In this task, you will use the Design Adviser analysis to check for areas of the part that are likely to cause problems during other analyses, or that would significantly increase analysis time.

You can use the Design Adviser analysis to check the geometry of a model if it is large and complex, to find fine features such as text and fillet, or areas of thicknesses which may cause problems with other analyses.

For Dual Domain models, Design Adviser analyses also assess the suitability of part thickness.

Select the Tasks tab from the Project panel.
Click (Home tab > Molding Process Setup > Analysis Wizard). The Analysis Wizard dialog appears.
Select the Design Adviser checkbox in the Sequence tab.
Note: You must clear any previous selected analysis types for the Design Adviser sequence to become available.
Click Analyze. The analysis begins. When the Analysis Complete! dialog box appears, click OK.

Design Adviser analyses output three results:

Nominal wall thickness: The model is checked for thickness variations that can increase the analysis time and possibly decrease the analysis accuracy. Ideally, parts should be designed with uniform walls in order to avoid warpage or surface defects. Variations in part thickness may cause flow variation such as race-tracking or hesitation and may also result in excessive warpage.
Draft angle: The model is checked for draft variations that might be needed to for easy ejection of the part. The angle tolerances are displayed as color bands, where blue represents surfaces that are parallel to the parting plane (XY plane), red represents surfaces with zero draft (perpendicular to the parting plane) and four colors (yellow, green, turquoise, and cyan) are used to represent various ranges of draft angles. Mold surface roughness or texture, part complexity and the depth of the part to be ejected are all factors that influence selection of draft angles.
Undercut: The model is checked for undercuts. Undercuts are either mistakes in the model, or features in the tool that require special tooling components such as sliders, lifters or collapsing cores for the part to be ejected. Undercuts are displayed in red, and shadowed areas are displayed in blue. Once undercuts are detected, the decision can be made to modify the tool design, or to use a more complex tooling component to form the undercut so that the part can be ejected.

If a model shows problems in any of these results, you should repair it using the original design application or a tool such as CADdoctor for Autodesk® Simulation

Look at each of the results. You can see that there are no problems highlighted by the Design Adviser analysis.