Part

The part is the plastic product you are modeling. You should optimize the modeling of the part, before you model the mold and the feed and cooling systems.

When you have finished modeling your part, you can run the following analysis sequences to help you determine an appropriate analysis set-up:

• Design Adviser analysis to check for problems caused by complexity in the model
• Gate Location analysis to locate and set an appropriate gate location
• Molding Window analysis to find the optimal processing conditions

When you have selected the gate location and appropriate processing conditions, select a material; set the injection location; select a Fil analysis; and start the analysis.

Before determining the optimal solution, you may be required to run analyses that use several variations or combinations of process settings, injection locations, cooling configurations, and so forth. You can save copies of a study at various points during the analysis to help you manage this process more efficiently. These copies can be used as baseline data to test different settings and variations of the same model.