{"id":133694,"date":"2021-10-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cati-marketing.pantheonsite.io\/solidworks-2022-whats-new-plastics-materials-database\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:03:34","slug":"solidworks-2022-whats-new-plastics-materials-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/?p=133694","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS 2022 What\u2019s New \u2013 Plastics Materials Database"},"content":{"rendered":"

What would an annual release of SOLIDWORKS Plastics<\/a> be without changes to the material database?\u00a0 I think the best word would be unexpected.\u00a0 Resin suppliers create new and improved grades of plastic resins for Designers and Engineers to use for manufacturing amazing products every year.\u00a0 As such, the SOLIDWORKS Plastics material database needs to be updated often with what is and is not available for commercial injection molding use.\u00a0 With SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2022, the material data we utilize for our plastic injection molding analysis has, of course, been updated to keep pace with the times.<\/p>\n

I first wrote about SOLIDWORKS Plastics material changes in the blog SOLIDWORKS Plastics SP3 Additions and Improvements<\/em><\/a> over two years ago.\u00a0 One of the main additions at that time was improvements to material properties, specifically temperature dependent material properties for specific heat<\/a> and thermal conductivity<\/a>.\u00a0 For SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2022, the material database improvements are more materials and better data to improve the quality of our analysis work.\u00a0 If you read the What\u2019s New<\/em> documentation, there have been 112 materials added and 76 materials removed from the SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2022 database.\u00a0 Another change for the material database is that over 1100 resins received updates to PVT (Pressure-Volume-Temperature) material data.\u00a0 That change may be more significant than added materials.<\/p>\n

If you are not familiar with adding a material<\/a> in SOLIDWORKS Plastics, you can find it by looking at the Injection Unit Settings Property Manager<\/em><\/a> once you have created a new SOLIDWORKS Plastics project.\u00a0 Right-click on the injection unit<\/em>, then select Settings<\/em>, followed by a left-click on the material button to open the material database.\u00a0 As you scroll through the different material families and trade names, click on the PVT tab<\/em> to verify if the material has a constant density or temperature dependent density data.\u00a0 If a resin has constant density, the chart on the PVT<\/em> tab will look like Figure 1.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

While a SOLIDWORKS Plastics project will solve the FILL<\/em> analysis correctly, the results from a PACK<\/em> or WARP<\/em> solve will not be correct.\u00a0 The most likely scenario for results for a constant density material would first appear in the estimate of sink marks<\/em> when reviewing the results from a FILL<\/em> analysis.\u00a0 In Figure 2, the constant density material exhibits zero sink everywhere on the filled plastic part.\u00a0 For all practical purposes with plastic injection molding that is impossible.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you are using a version of SOLIDWORKS Plastics from several years ago, constant density materials could be found with a bit of manual searching, clicking through several resin families and material grades.\u00a0 With SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2022, finding a constant density material is no longer the norm.\u00a0 What you will find with most of the resins in the database can be seen in Figure 3, a temperature dependent density chart for PVT<\/em> data.<\/p>\n

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Figure 3.<\/p><\/div>\n

Having the correct Pressure-Volume-Temperature data of a plastic resin allows the sink mark estimate for a FILL<\/em> analysis to generate results that indicate regions where sink may be a concern (Figure 4).<\/p>\n

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Figure 4.<\/p><\/div>\n

I think we can expect to see the SOLIDWORKS Plastics<\/strong> material database continue to evolve with each new software release.\u00a0 When the updates improve the accuracy of our analysis results, that is even better!\u00a0 I hope you are looking forward to utilizing the new resins and new material data with SOLIDWORKS Plastics<\/strong> as much as I am.\u00a0 Now go make your products better with SOLIDWORKS Simulation<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

I hope this part of the What\u2019s New series gives you a better understanding of the new features and functions of SOLIDWORKS 2022<\/strong>.\u00a0 Please check back to the CATI Blog<\/a> as the CATI Application Engineers will continue to break down many of the new items in SOLIDWORKS 2022<\/strong>.\u00a0 All these articles will be stored in the category of “SOLIDWORKS What’s New<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Bill Reuss
\nSenior Simulation Product Specialist
\nComputer Aided Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

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