The Parallel shrinkage result indicates the percentage of shrinkage in each element in the local orientation direction, before warpage is calculated.
The local orientation direction is the direction of fiber orientation for fiber-filled materials and the direction of material orientation (flow direction before freezing) for all other materials.
This result is produced by a Shrink analysis based on predicted shrinkages from the specified material shrinkage model (residual stress, CRIMS, or residual strain).
This result shows the shrinkage computed without considering the structural influence of the surrounding part.
Use this result to find out whether differential shrinkage is likely to cause warpage. Differential shrinkage may be caused by differences in shrinkage values between different regions of the part, or by large differences between the parallel and perpendicular shrinkage.
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Look for regions in which there is high differential shrinkage. These regions are more likely to deform.