Tutorial: Injection molding simulation

This tutorial leads you through how to interpret Injection molding simulation results, then modify your study setup to improve the outcome.

The plastic components of many consumer products are manufactured by injection molding. Before commissioning a mold, which can be very expensive, you need to be confident that the design can be injection molded to produce a quality part. If there are visual defects, the consumer may choose not to purchase it. If it warps excessively, it may not connect with other components in an assembly.

In this tutorial, you

• Create an Injection molding simulation study to determine whether your part will fill
• Review results, to determine if there will be visual defects and the extent to which it will warp
• Review the suggestions for how you might improve the outcome
• Create a new simulation model with more uniform rib thicknesses, to find a design fills better
• Compare and interpret the results of the new injection molding simulations.

Animation showing the fill pattern of the original study setup	Animation showing the fill pattern of the modified study setup