Temperature profiles enable you to specify the surface temperature of a specific zone of the mold during the molding cycle.
Temperature profiling has the following uses:
- Enables the input of measured temperatures into an analysis.
- Enables the temperature variation of different zones within a mold to be more closely represented.
- The Cool solver only represents the average temperature of the mold surface throughout the injection cycle. The mold surface temperature variation through the injection cycle can be represented by a temperature profile, but at the expense of additional computational time.
- Rapid heating and cooling techniques can be simulated.
You can select a zone on the mold surface where you want to apply a profile. It is possible to define up to 2500 different zones, each with its own profile.
Note:
- A profile can have temperatures that increase and decrease, but if the temperature drops below the transition temperature (Ttrans) of the material it must remain below this value for the rest of the profile.
- If the cycle time is longer than the specified profile, the last temperature specified will apply for the balance of the cycle.
The following three mold temperatures can be used:
- Cool analysis temperature result
- Local temperature profile
- Global Mold surface temperature as set in the Process Settings Wizard
If you have run a Cool analysis, the resultant mold temperature will override any temperature profiles you have set, and it also will override the global Mold surface temperature.
A temperature profile will override the global Mold surface temperature in the zone to which the profile applies. Outside that zone, the global Mold surface temperature applies.
Note: Mold temperature profiles do not support hot runners.