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Defect Visualization

You can look at a photo-realistic rendering of your digital prototype by exporting your model, and selected results, to a file and importing it into Autodesk VRED.

Autodesk Moldflow products are used to predict how well a certain mold design will fill, and where defects such as sink marks or weld lines might occur. To visualize how the part might actually look in real life, and to assess whether these defects are really of concern, the part model and selected results can be exported as an ASCII FBX file (*.fbx), which can be imported into Autodesk VRED.

Rendering of digital simulation predicting sink marks, and again following design optimization.

There are several options when exporting your file for import into Autodesk VRED. You can export

  • Part surface only,
  • Part surface with warpage,
  • Part surface with sink marks,
  • Part surface with both warpage and sink marks.

This feature is available for Dual Domain and 3D models.

Note: Because this feature requires surface geometry information from 3D CAD data, it is not available for Midplane models. The geometry model must be in one of the following formats for export:
  • STL
  • Surfaces
  • CAD bodies

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