{"id":18,"date":"2013-06-24T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/introduction-to-solidworks-plastics"},"modified":"2013-07-30T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T11:20:36","slug":"introduction-to-solidworks-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2013\/06\/introduction-to-solidworks-plastics.html","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to SolidWorks Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo-wrap photo-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bc6d049970b photo-full \" id=\"photo-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bc6d049970b\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bc6d049970b image-full\" title=\"An animation of plastic filling out a shape by the injection molding process\" alt=\"An animation of plastic filling out a shape by the injection molding process\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201901bc6d049970b-800wi.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-caption caption-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bc6d049970b\" id=\"caption-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bc6d049970b\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Plastic Injection Molding<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Injection molding is very widely used in industry when creating plastic parts. SolidWorks Plastics is an Add-in for SolidWorks that simulates this process. It is included in SolidWorks Education Edition 2013-2014.* To learn more about SolidWorks Plastics click <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KPQmzdfma4w\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The tutorial below will explain how to set parameters and run a flow analysis of plastic to fill a part. The injection molding process is used in SolidWorks Plastics.\u00a0This is also available in a step-by-step procedure available at this\u00a0<span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bf027c2970b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sw-plastics-instructions-part1-1.pdf\">link<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bf027c2970b\"><br \/>\n<object width=\"444\" height=\"250\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WyLwygUrRRQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"444\" height=\"250\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WyLwygUrRRQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bf027c2970b\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 If you are taking a class such as introduction to plastics, mold design, plastics design and manufacturing, or advanced computer aided design, this tool could be very helpful.<span style=\"line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0The video below shows how to interpret the data from the previous simulation and create animations of the data.This is also available in a step-by-step procedure available at this <span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2017eeaedd9df970d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sw-plastics-instructions-part2.pdf\">link<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<object width=\"444\" height=\"250\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TqzPbYRSID4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"444\" height=\"250\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TqzPbYRSID4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">The CAD model used in the videos above can be downloaded by clicking <span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bc6f9b3970b\"><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901cd16ab0970b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/cover---belt.sldprt\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901bc6f9b3970b\">The next blog post will explain how to modify the configuration of your part and run the same tests.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">* SolidWorks 2013 and above is required for SolidWorks Plastics. SolidWorks Plastics will\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0work with earlier editions of SolidWorks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic Injection Molding \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Injection molding is very widely used in industry when creating plastic parts. SolidWorks Plastics is an Add-in for SolidWorks that simulates this process. It is included in SolidWorks Education Edition 2013-2014.* To learn more about SolidWorks Plastics<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2013\/06\/introduction-to-solidworks-plastics.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5016,4770],"tags":[3926,3955,3954,3952,3935,3943,3928,3949,3927,3923,3948,3925,3959],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plastics","category-solidworks-tutorials","tag-analysis","tag-animation","tag-core","tag-education","tag-flow","tag-gate","tag-injection-molding","tag-mesh","tag-mold","tag-plastic","tag-shell","tag-simulation","tag-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}