Reactive Molding Advanced Options dialog

This dialog is used to specify the Reactive Molding analysis related advanced options for the selected analysis sequence.

To access this dialog, ensure that you have selected one of the Reactive Molding processes and an analysis sequence that includes, at a minimum, Fill. For Reactive Injection-Compression Molding, this is the only option. For Reactive Molding this includes Flow (Incompressible). Click (Home tab > Molding Process Setup panel > Process Settings), and click Advanced options to open the Reactive Molding Advanced Options dialog. You may need to navigate to the next page of the Wizard to find the Advanced options button.

Note: Some of the links below may not be available on this dialog. This is dependent on the mesh type, molding process, and analysis sequence.

General settings

Molding material

Select and edit the material to analyze.

Click Select to select a material from the database. Click Edit to make changes to the selected material.

Process controller

Allows you to select and edit a process controller to control the injection molding process during the analysis. Click Edit to control the filling phase, velocity/pressure switch-over point, pack/holding phase, mold temperature and mold-open time.

Compression press controller

Allows you to select and/or edit a predefined compression press controller to be used for the Injection-compression analysis.

Click Select to select a compression press controller from the database. Click Edit to make changes to the selected compression press controller.

Note: The properties stored with the compression press controller are the same as those specified on the Compression Settings page of the Process Settings Wizard.

Injection molding machine

Select and edit an injection molding machine to simulate your molding machine during the analysis. Click Edit to configure the injection unit, hydraulic unit, and clamping unit.

Mold material

Allows you to select and edit the mold material to be used during the analysis. Click Edit to specify the density, specific heat, and thermal conductivity of the mold material.

Solver parameters

Allows you to select and edit the solver parameters to be used during the analysis.

Click Edit to make any changes to the selected solver parameter.

For example, you can configure intermediate results, mold/melt convergence criteria, and analysis restart settings.