Warp

Moldex3D/Shell-Warp provides users a simulation tool for thin-walled parts to analyze the causes of shrinkage and warpage before the mold is built.

Moldex3D/Shell-Warp helps users to predict the final part shape and investigate the causes of warpage, such as unbalanced cooling, unbalanced shrinkage, fiber orientation…etc. With Moldex3D/Shell-Warp, users can easily control the part dimension and optimize part and mold designs accordingly.

Capabilities
Moldex3D/Shell-Warp allows you to

	Predict final part shape before actual molding
	Predict sink marks
	Evaluate unbalanced cooling effect
	Evaluate material orientation effect
	Evaluate in-mold constraint effect
	Evaluate orientation induced anisotropic material properties
	Query any two points to determine the linear shrinkage ratio
	Define the reference plane for better measurement of deflection
	Separate total displacement into x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis displacements to show the deformation in each direction
	Export warpage shape in STL format
	Export inverse warpage shape in STL format
	Evaluate both single cavity and multi-cavity molds
	Simulate multi-component molding process, including insert molding and multi-shot sequential molding (Moldex3D/Shell-MCM module is required)

Features

	Part warpage analysis
	Calculate final part shape due to material shrinkage due to the temperature and pressure drop from the process settings to room conditions
	Material anisotropic analysis
	Material anisotropic characteristics are related to molding induced material orientations
	Anisotropic properties are calculated with the material orientation tensors of Shell-Flow analysis or the fiber orientation results from Shell-Fiber analysis
	Anisotropic properties are passed directly to advanced structure CAE software for use in analyzing the part structure (Moldex3D/Shell-I2 module is required)
	In-mold constraint effect analysis
	Before the part is ejected, the deformation of warpage has been developed inside the mold. However, it can not shrink and deform freely due to constraints by the rigid mold
	Calculate the in-mold constraint induced part warpage to enhance the analysis accuracy
	Sink mark analysis