Rapidwerks offers Mold Flow Analysis for Micro-Molding and Injection Molding.  MicroMoldinMicroMold, Micro-Mold, MicroMould

Rapidwerks adds MoldFlow Anaylysis to it's services, now more than ever it's important for customers and there vendors to work together to validate and verify quality designs and tools. MoldFlow will allow Rapidwerks to offer a complete solution tool design, tool fabrication, part simulation which will improve part quality and improve the manufacturability of a new design.

Mold Flow  advisor is the ideal tool to quickly optimize customer part designs and check the impact of critical part decisions for manufacturability and part quality.

Moldflow Mold Adviser™ Extension Modules will allow you to evaluate and optimize molded part performance and cooling circuit design.

Two optional, add-on modules to Moldflow, Mold Adviser are being introduced in MPA® 7.0 to extend its capabilities to quickly evaluate and optimize part performance and cooling circuit design thus inproving part quality and reduce the potential for error.

Performance Adviser

Packing Analysis
A packing analysis can be used to optimize the second stage of the injection molding process to achieve the right balance between part quality, part cost, and cycle time. Users can set up and evaluate packing profiles to determine the optimal packing pressure and duration of packing. From the analysis, the user can review the volumetric shrinkage, cycle time, and the average temperature across the part.

Packing results - volumetric shrinkage

Warpage Indicator
Undetected, warpage can become an extremely costly problem to fix once a mold is in a production environment. The new MPA 7.0 Warpage Indicator is a traffic-light plot (analogous to the Confidence-of-Fill plot) that highlights the areas where part warpage exceeds a user-specified, acceptable warpage level relative to a user-specified reference plane. Users can investigate further for additional information on the source of warpage and obtain recommendations to fix the problem. Users evaluate whether changes made to the part or mold design or to the material or process conditions will bring the part warpage to within acceptable levels.

The optional Performance Adviser add-on to the Moldflow Mold Adviser module provides a warpage indicator that highlights areas where part warpage is high. Use this result to see how part or mold design, material or process changes affect the part warpage.

Cooling Circuit Adviser

Cooling Circuit Design and Evaluation
Mold designers can now quickly design and evaluate their cooling circuit layouts to achieve uniform cooling with a minimum cycle time. Regular cooling channels, baffles, bubblers, and hoses all can be modeled and evaluated. From the analysis, users obtain the part temperature and cooling time. The part temperature plot is useful in identifying hot spots and non-uniform cooling regions. The designer can then consider part and mold changes to address these problems. The cooling time plot is useful in identifying regions which are taking a longer (than average) time to cool, thereby affecting the overall cycle time. In addition, the analysis provides several results related to the cooling circuits, including Reynolds number flow rate, pressure, and temperature, all of which can help the designer to maximize the efficiency of the cooling system.

The optional Cooling Circuit Adviser add-on to the Moldflow Mold Adviser module lets users quickly design and evaluate cooling circuit layouts to achieve uniform cooling with a minimum cycle time. Automatic Cooling Layout Wizard The Cooling Layout  automates the cooling circuit design process by automatically generating an initial cooling system. This utilizes a set of  rules to generate the location and sizes of the cooling channels. The mold designer can adjust the cooling lines to account for ejector pins and other mold components.

Precision Design and Engineering Services with state of the art CAD and CAM software. At Rapidwerks. we create complex tooling with key ; engineering data provided by you our customer. While utilizing the latest in software technology, Rapidwerks is able to design, engineer and fabricate tooling providing finished products in record time. While utilizing Rapidwerks our Design and Engineering Services Include:

CAD                                                                                                                    

• Solidworks                                                                                                                          
• Autodesk Autocad with Mechanical desktop and full solid / surface molding and wire frame capabilities. Import and export from or to DWG, DXF, IGES, ACIS (SAT and SAB) additionally CADKEY PRT files:2D, 3D, Solid, surface or wire frame.
• SDRC-IDEA's Artisan Series Modeler for Soldid Modeling, Sold assembly modeling and detailing. Import  IGES, DXF, VDA, SET and STL
• CAD Key with Full Solid Modeling and wire frame capabilities
• Encad Cadjet "D" Size Color Inkjet Plotter
• Hewlett Packard Design Jet 600 "E" Size Plotter

CAM                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

• SDRC-Ideas  Artisan Series Generative Machining for Solid Based, Feature-Driven Machining                                                       
• SDRC SmartCam Advanced 3-D Machining for standard 2 1/2  axis machining and wire edm                                                           
• SDRC SmartCam Freeform Machining for machining freeform surface and solids                                                                                             
• SDCS SmartCam Gear IGES Cam Connection
• CT Esprit Cam System for Wire EDM Programming
• Master Cam Advanced 3-D Machining for Standard 2 1/2 axis machining

Rapidwerks is honored by Solidworks the worlds premier CAD software manufacturer as a new member of there Manufacturing Network Partner program.