Solver Application Programming Interface (API)

For some analyses you can create your own C functions for a solver to call when it needs to calculate a property, such as the melt viscosity during a Fill analysis. This gives you the flexibility to develop your own material models when the supplied native Moldflow models are inadequate.

This feature is available for all Thermoplastic processes except Microcellular analyses, for the following mesh types:

Supported Analysis Types

Solver	Analysis Type
3D Flow	Fill
3D Flow	Fill+Pack
3D Flow	Cool (FEM) when Flow analysis on every iteration has been selected in the Cool (FEM) Solver settings of the Process Settings Wizard
3D Warp	Analysis sequences that include Warp when both the Solver API option, and the PVT option are selected in the Process Settings.

Using this API requires you to be able to compile a shared library object and to copy it into the binary directory of your Insight installation. You may need to have administrator privileges on your computer to do this. If you are sending the analysis to a remote computer then you may need administrator privileges on that machine too.

Tip: Access the Solver API Reference documentation from the application help menu. Click the small triangle next to the Help question mark in the top right-hand of the Autodesk Moldflow Synergy - User Interface, then select Solver API Reference from the drop-down menu.

Alternatively, using Windows Explorer, navigate to the installed product directory, typically C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Moldflow Insight 20XX, then into the help directory. The API reference is available in solverapi.chm.