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SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2020 Helps You Innovate Better and Get Your Products to Market Faster
Learn about all the key enhancements in this new release that will help improve your productivity and avoid costly manufacturing defects.
... ContinuedPlastic Components Improves Speed and Accuracy of Injection Molding While Reducing Back-end Costs
SOLIDWORKS bolstered its mold-filling simulation capabilities with SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium software to reduce mold iterations to more quickly deliver customer parts and eliminate unnecessary costs.
... ContinuedHow to Design Plastic Parts with Intent
Learn why closer communication between product designer and mold designer is the answer to time-to-market improvements in the design of plastic parts.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Plastics eCourse Now Available at MySolidWorks
This course guides you through the process of simulating the injection molding process early in the design stages.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Plastics At The Beach
The beach is a great place to reflect on eternal questions, like can my part design be injection molded, and is the resulting part acceptable? With SOLIDWORKS Plastics you won’t have to reflect long.
... ContinuedIt Came from the Injection Molding Machine!
Never let something spooky emerge from the injection molding machine again!
... ContinuedPut an End to Plastic Part Problems by Answering Three Questions
Watch the video and learn how you can identify and correct plastic part design problems before they happen.
... ContinuedPut an end to injection-molding nightmares
It’s funny to think about how your nightmares and fears evolve as you age. The days of the boogeyman and things that go bump in the night have evolved to concerns for missed deadlines and last-minute changes. Nightmares become much
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Short: Designing Injection Molded Parts Better
Injection molding is the process used to manufacture 80 percent of the plastic parts you encounter every day. If the process is that pervasive, it should have been perfected at this point, right? Perhaps in another universe – unfortunately, injection
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Short: Reducing Costs for Expensive Molds
In this SOLIDWORKS Short, we sit down with Peter Rucinski (Product Manager of SOLIDWORKS Plastics) to discuss the the true need for plastics analysis and it comes down to cost-savings. How? By eliminating the cost of expensive molds for injection molding.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS at NPE2015: The International Plastics Showcase
Later this month, more than 60,000 plastics industry professionals will descend on Orlando, Florida for NPE2015, the world’s leading plastics tradeshow. NPE is not your mother’s Tupperware party. Taking place March 23-27, it’s one million square feet of plastics prowess
... ContinuedThe Cardinal Rules of Designing Injection Molded Plastic Parts
When designing injection molded plastic parts, here are some simple rules to follow that will help to ensure higher-quality parts that are easier to manufacture: Maintain Uniform Wall Thickness Maintaining uniform wall thickness is the single best design element you can
... ContinuedVideo: Get Plastic Parts Right the First Time
Ensuring strength, rigidity, and easy assembly of your plastic parts can be a challenge. The analysis tools in SOLIDWORKS Simulation and SOLIDWORKS Plastics allow you to test various design alternatives early on in the development process and ensure the best design
... ContinuedRecorded Webinar Spotlight: Better Plastics Part Design
When designing plastic parts or injection molds, it’s important to predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of part or mold design. This 22-minute Better Plastics Part Design webinar will provide tips that help you inject plastics best
... ContinuedDo I Really Need Analysis Software?
Do I really need analysis software? It’s a valid question, and one I hear from customers on occasion. Being a designer myself, I feel that I have a good head for figuring out if a design can be easily manufactured,
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