Mold and die design software

    Computer Aided Engineering gives several advantages over traditional method of designing molds and dies for polymer products. Generally quality problems in polymer products are arise with the molding defects. Those problems can be reduced by optimizing the design of mold and by optimizing the processing conditions. To minimize those effects now mold and die design software can use in different ways. Some of mold and design software available in the market are listed below with small descriptions as it can be important. 

     Specifications and some information of them can be updated with the time (source is WWW).    

SolidWorks Plastics

SolidWorks Plastics is a mold design validation tool that was built into a solid modeling environment. It enables mold designers to quickly and easily validate whether a plastic injection-molded part can be filled. This is developed by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.

SolidWorks MoldBase

SolidWorks MoldBase is also developed by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. It is a catalog of standard mold base assemblies and components. The package enables designers to generate a completely assembled mold base.

Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow®

This is a plastic injection moulding simulation software provides tools that help manufacturers to validate and optimize the design of plastic parts and injection moulds by predicting the plastic injection moulding process with accuracy. 

MoldWorks

This is a 3D solid based mold design package which is developed by R&B Ltd from Israel. MoldWorks is seamlessly integrated with SolidWorks software, allowing the full use of SolidWorks modeling capabilities to quickly create mold tools. It has complete design environment which allows not only building the mold base, but also to create the detailed mold tool, modifying components and plates, check collisions, and output BOM and CNC data using menus suited to the mold design industry.

SplitWorks

SplitWorks is a revolutionary new product, using advanced technology to automate the process of core and cavity separation and creation. It can analyze the part model which is design by SolidWorks and then display a color coated preview of the part, show the potential core, cavity, zero draft angle surfaces, and surfaces that belong to both the core and the cavity, according to the selected splitting direction. It also enables to easily creating, side cores, pins and electrodes

Expert Mold Designer-S (XMD-S)

XMD-S™ is an automated knowledge-based mold design solution capable of providing a preliminary mold design in minutes. That software is developed by Cornerstone Intelligent Software Corp in Canada

SolidCAM

This is a product of InventorCam. SolidCAM allowing CAM programmers to use the CAD system they already have to program their CNC machines as it has higher possible level of integration

Pro/ENGINEER Tool Design Option (TDO)

This is a 3D CAD tool for professional designers who need to rapidly create higher quality mold inserts, casting cavities, and patterns.

Moldex3D R12

This product is developed by Moldex3D and it maximizes the success potential with new capabilities and features like faster model repair workflow, dynamic molding process supports, and continuous efforts on prediction and optimization enhancements.

dieCAS^® 

dieCAS^® software is for process modeling and analysis of die casting and related processes, including permanent mold, semi-permanent mold, and squeeze casting.

CimatronE MoldDesign

This software includes all the applicative tools that mold makers need to get the job done right the first time, including highly flexible mold base configuration, powerful tools for designing runners, ejectors, and cooling systems, automatic creation of pockets for inserts and smart component positioning and manipulation.