What's New

Previously, Plastic Injection assumed that any part inserts in your model were at ambient temperature. While this approach is consistent with molding practices historically, an increasing portion of the industry prefers to heat part inserts before placing them into the mold because heating a part insert improves the bond between the part insert and the plastic material.

Plastic Injection now lets you specify the temperature of each part insert at the start of the plastic injection process. As you edit the initial temperature of a part insert in the Process Settings dialog box, the app highlights the part insert in teal, as shown in the image below.

The heat transfer between the polymer material and the mold walls varies during the different stages of the injection molding process. To represent the heat transfer between the polymer material and the mold walls more accurately, you can now specify heat transfer coefficient values for the Fill and Pack stages of the injection molding process.

You can specify the heat transfer coefficients from the Process Settings dialog box, as shown below.

Additional materials:

• 14 grades from EMS-GRIVORY
• 10 grades from SABIC Specialties
• Two grades from Trinseo

Reclassified materials:

• 19 grades from EMS-GRIVORY
• Five grades from Monsanto
• Five grades from VISTA CHEMICAL
• Three grades from SABIC Innovative Plastics
• Three grades from DAINIPPON INK
• Two grades from BASF
• Two grades from ARCO CHEM
• Two grades from Asahi Chemical
• Two grades from FPTC
• Two grades from Eastman Kodak
• One grade from Eastman Chemical
• One grade from DSM Engineering Plastics
• One grade from DuPont Engineering Polymers
• One grade from Aiou University
• One grade from Hoechst Celanese
• One grade from Hooker Chemical

Removed materials:

• Three grades from SABIC Specialties
• One grade from EMS-GRIVORY
• One grade from UNION CARBIDE
• One grade from an unnamed supplier