Plastic parts and injection mold
simulation software

SOLIDWORKS® Plastics makes it easy for companies that design plastic parts or injection molds to predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of design, eliminating costly rework, improving quality, and accelerating time-to-market.

Why Choose SOLIDWORKS Plastics?

SOLIDWORKS® Plastics delivers easy-to-use simulation for analysing plastic parts and injection molds. It simulates how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects so you can quickly evaluate part manufacturability while you design.

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Key Benefits:

Avoid hidden cost by optimising part wall thickness, gate locations, runner system size and layout

Reduce manufacturing defects and scraps by analysing design iterations at the earliest stages of product development process

Predict and avoid potential manufacturing defects before any mold tooling is cut,  reducing the time-to-market delays

Provides automated report generation tools that allow collaboration among development teams at different sites.

Choose the right SOLIDWORKS Plastics Software package for you

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard

Plastic Part Designers

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional

Mold Designers and Mold Makers

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium

Advanced plastic part simulation

Easy to identify and address potential defects by making changes to the part or mold design, plastics material, or processing parameters, saving resources, time, and money.

Gives designers or builders of injection molds an accurate, easy-to-use way to optimise them while quickly create and analyse single, multicavity, and family mold layouts.

An advanced simulation functionality that allows users to analyse mold cooling line layouts, optimise cooling system design, as well as part and mold design, material selection and predict molded part warpage.

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CAD- integrated
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Easy to learn and use
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Facilitates design team communication
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Advanced plastic material library
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Avoid costly mold rework
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Analyse mold layouts
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Feed system design
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Estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage and shot size
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Modeling enhancement
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Runner balancing
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Cooling line analysis
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Co-injection analysis
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Fiber analysis
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Reduce time and cost
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Improve overall process
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Warpage analysis

Choose the right SOLIDWORKS Plastics Software package for you

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard

Plastic Part Designers

Easily identify and address potential defects by making changes to the part or mold design, plastics material, or processing parameters, saving resources, time, and money.
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CAD- integrated
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Easy to learn and use
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Facilitates design team communication
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Advanced plastic material library

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional

Mold Designers and Mold Makers

Change the length of cooling time in the mold, or raising or lowering injection pressure during filling and packing. They may also adjust temperatures in the mold cooling system as part of their efforts to shorten cycle times.

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Avoid costly mold rework
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Analyse mold layouts
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Feed system design
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Estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage and shot size
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Modeling enhancement
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Runner balancing

SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium

Advanced plastic part simulation

Design and analyse simple or complex mold cooling line layouts, optimise cooling system design to minimise cycle times and decrease manufacturing costs and optimise part and mold design, material selection and processing parameters to reduce or eliminate molded part warpage.

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Cooling line analysis
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Co-injection analysis
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Fiber analysis
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Reduce time and cost
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Improve overall process

What is the feature difference between the packages?

FeaturesSOLIDWORKS
Plastic Standard
SOLIDWORKS
Plastic Professional
SOLIDWORKS
Plastic Premium
CAD Integration
SOLIDWORKS Native File SupportImageImageImage
Associative with SOLIDWORKSImageImageImage
SOLIDWORKS – embeddedImageImageImage
Plastics Material Database
4,000+ Commercial PlasticsImageImageImage
CustomisableImageImageImage
Meshing
AutomaticImageImageImage
Boundary Mesh (shell)ImageImageImage
Solid 3D MeshImageImageImage
Global Mesh RefinementImageImageImage
Local Mesh RefinementImageImageImage
Simulation Capabilities
Filling Phase (1st stage injection)ImageImageImage
Packing Phase (2nd stage injection)ImageImage
Automatic Gate Location(s)ImageImageImage
Instantaneous Fill Time PlotImageImageImage
Runner BalancingImageImage
Sink Mark AnalysisImageImageImage
Symmetry Analysis (New!)ImageImage
Mold Geometry Support
Runner Design WizardImageImage
Sprues and RunnersImageImage
Hot & Cold RunnersImageImage
Multi-Cavity MoldsImageImage
Family MoldsImageImage
Cooling LinesImage
Baffles & BubblersImage
Conformal Cooling ChannelsImage
Mold InsertsImage
Advanced Simulation Capabilities
Co-InjectionImageImage
Multi-ShotImageImage
Insert OvermoldingImageImage
Gas-AssistImageImage
Fiber AnalysisImageImage
Reaction Injection Molding (RIM; Thermosets)ImageImage
BirefringenceImageImage
Valve Gates (sequential injection)ImageImage
Venting Analysis (New!)ImageImage
Cooling Line AnalysisImage
Conformal Cooling ChannelsImage
Warpage AnalysisImage
Results (partial listing)
eDrawing Support (New!)ImageImageImage
Fill TimeImageImageImage
Ease of FillImageImageImage
Results AdviserImageImageImage
Nominal Wall Thickness Adviser (New!)ImageImageImage
Pressure at End of FillImageImageImage
Flow Front TemperatureImageImageImage
Temperature at End of FillImageImageImage
Shear StressImageImageImage
Shear RateImageImageImage
Cooling TimeImageImageImage
Weld LinesImageImageImage
Air TrapsImageImageImage
Sink MarksImageImageImage
Sink Mark ProfilesImage
Frozen Layer Fraction at End of FillImageImageImage
Clamp ForceImageImageImage
Cycle TimeImageImageImage
Volumetric ShrinkageImageImage
Mold Temperature at Cooling EndImage
Displacement due to Residual StressImage

SOLIDWORKS®️ products are easy to learn and use, and work together to help you design products better, faster, and more cost efficiently.

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