-Project
es el gestor de proyectos de Moldex3D. Mediante un entorno formado por el
Preprocesador, los módulos de Análisis y el Postprocesador, reúne toda la
información necesaria para la simulación del proceso de inyección y lanzar el
correspondiente análisis, tal como muestra el siguiente gráfico de flujo de
trabajo:
Módulos de Moldex3D/eDesign
Flujo de Trabajo de Moldex3D/eDesign
Preprocesado:
Fig 1-5 The Flowchart for the Moldex3D software system.
Pre-Processing
Generally, Pre-Processing takes three categories of data: geometrical model with good mesh quality, proper and feasible process conditions, and suitable material properties with corresponding thermal, mechanical and rheological properties. To help users in Pre-Processing, Moldex3D offers the following tools: Material Wizard, Process Wizard, Designer, and Mesh. We will explain these powerful programs later in Chapter 2 for Material Wizard, Chapter 3 for Process Wizard, Chapter 4 for Designer, and Mesh Manual for Mesh.
Analysis
After the analysis sequence is selected in Analysis sequence setting dialog, which appears when users click Analysis in Workspace, the simulation will start as users click Run now. At this moment, the role of Moldex3D-Project is the communication bridge between the solver and user interface for analysis. While a number of analyses are waiting to run, the Batch option of Moldex3D-Project will allow users to define a number of analyses to run sequentially on the background. Essentially, analysis is a non-interactive process. It can be run on the background or as a window. The illustration below shows a typical Analysis window (with an analysis in progress) in the console mode.
Fig 1-6 The analysis performed in the console mode.
Once the analysis phase is completed properly, the complete analysis will appear in Result, folder as below. Then you can go further to examine the analysis results. The method to examine the results is called Post-Processing.
Post-Processing
The Post-Processor is essentially the tool to examine the analysis results in a graphical format. Moldex3D provides three different display types to demonstrate the analysis results:
1. Field plot
Fig 1-7 The demonstration case for the field plot.
2. X-Y plot
Fig 1-8 The XY-plot for sprue pressure.
3. Animation
Fig 1-9 The display of the animation result
Users can select these functions from result, X-Y plot and animation control on the Moldex3D-Project, respectively. The general procedures of these function displaying will be discussed in the following details.
