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Moldflow Insight and Moldflow Adviser

Compare Moldflow injection molding simulation products: Moldflow Adviser and Moldflow Insight.

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Products	Integrated with CAD platforms. Customize design rules and share results. Moldflow Adviser Premium Subscribe	Quick manufacturability advice for your plastic part designs. Moldflow Adviser Ultimate Free Trial Subscribe	3D mesh support and design advice for runner systems and cavity layouts. Moldflow Insight Standard Subscribe	Directional feedback for standard injection part, mold, and process designs. Moldflow Insight Premium Subscribe	Definitive results for polymer flow, mold cooling, and part warpage. Moldflow Insight Ultimate Subscribe
At a glance	Analyze manufacturability of your design Evaluate the presence of air traps and weld lines 3D analysis for parts with varying thickness	Includes Moldflow Adviser Premium, plus: Mold filling, packing, and cooling guidance Causes of warpage Fiber orientation Runner balancing and cavity layout	In-depth simulation of plastic injection molding Polymer flow, mold cooling, and part warpage prediction Meshing and process parameter controls	Includes Moldflow Insight Standard, plus: Simultaneous solving capacity Advanced mold heating and cooling processes Process optimization	Includes Moldflow Insight Premium, plus: Simulation for specialized molding processes Optical performance prediction

Features

Solver capacity
Simultaneous local solving (max)	Unlimited	Unlimited	1	3	3
Cloud solving

Simulation capabilities
Filling
Sink marks, air traps, and weld lines
Molding window
Gate location
Shared views (requires active Moldflow Subscription)
Packing
Cooling
Warpage
Fiber orientation
Cold and hot runners
Runner balancing
Valve Gates
Venting analysis
Insert overmolding
In-mold label
Two-shot overmolding
Core shift
Transient mold cooling or heating
Crystallization analysis
Design of experiments (DOE)
Conformal cooling
Rapid temperature cycling
Induction heating
Heating elements
Wire sweep, paddle shift

Molding processes
Thermoplastics injection molding
Reaction injection molding
Resin transfer molding (RTM) and structural reaction injection molding (SRIM)
Rubber, liquid silicone injection molding
Multi-barrel reactive molding
Thermoplastics overmolding
Powder injection molding (PIM)
Coolant flow analysis
Microchip encapsulation
Underfill encapsulation
Thermoplastics injection-compression molding
Thermoplastics injection-compression overmolding
Reactive injection-compression molding
Thermoplastics compression overmolding
Reactive compression molding
Gas-assisted injection molding
Microcellular injection molding with and without core back
Co-injection molding
Bi-injection molding
Multi-barrel thermoplastic injection molding
Chemical Blowing Agent (CBA)
Birefringence

Software interoperability
Autodesk Helius PFA (Advanced Material Exchange)
Autodesk Nastran (FEA)
Abaqus (FEA)
ANSYS (FEA)
LS-DYNA (FEA)
CODE V (Birefringence)
Autodesk VRED (defect visualization)
Elysium CADdoctor for Autodesk Moldflow

Included software and services
Autodesk Helius PFA (requires active Moldflow Insight Ultimate Subscription)
Autodesk Moldflow Communicator
Autodesk Fusion 360 (requires active Moldflow or Fusion 360 Subscription)
Autodesk Vault
Autodesk Moldflow Design

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