The General tab of this dialog is used to specify values for certain inputs common to all thermoplastics processes.
| Molding material | Select and edit the material to analyze. |
| Process controller | Allows you to select and edit a process controller to control the injection molding process during the analysis. |
| Injection molding machine | Select and edit an injection molding machine to simulate your molding machine during the analysis. You can 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. You can 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. For example, you can configure intermediate results, mold/melt convergence criteria, and analysis restart settings. |
| DOE control | Allows you to select and/or edit default inputs for a Design of Experiments analysis. |
| Process optimization control | Allows you to select and/or edit default inputs for a Process Optimization analysis. |
| Compression press controller | Allows you to select and/or edit a predefined compression press controller to be used for the Injection-compression analysis. |
| Material B | Allows you to select and/or edit the material used by Controller B in the analysis. |
| Process controller B | Allows you to select and edit a process controller to control the second-material related processing conditions of the analysis. |
| Injection molding machine B | Allows you to select and/or edit the injection molding machine used to inject polymer B in the Co-injection process. |
| Orientation set | Specifies a direction by means of a vector, where X, Y and Z refer to the global axes and the sign of a component corresponds to the +ve or -ve direction on that global axis. |
| Molding window control | Allows you to select and/or edit default inputs for a Molding Window analysis. |
| Runner balancing control | Allows you to select and/or edit default inputs for a Runner Balance analysis. |
| Minimum thickness ratio | Use the Minimum thickness ratio to automatically exclude extremely thin regions from being considered as positions for injection locations. |
| Minimum design injection pressure | Specifies the maximum injection pressure to be used in the gate location analysis. The gate location algorithm will take this limit into consideration when searching for feasible gate locations. |
| Maximum design clamp force | Specifies the maximum clamp force to be used in the gate location analysis. The gate location algorithm will take this limit into consideration when searching for feasible gate locations. |