Radium Technology Preview II: The Empire Strikes Back

[scott.sheppard]

The second technology preview of Project Radium for Mioldflow Insight users is now available on Labs. The second Moldflow Radium Technology Preview has improvements in all areas of Technology Preview 1.

The Autodesk Moldflow Radium Technology Preview showcases some of the next generation capabilities for Autodesk Moldflow Insight:

1.  a new short fiber orientation model developed in collaboration with Delphi and the famous Professor Charles Tucker from the University of Illinois. Autodesk Moldflow has the exclusive rights to this technology.
2. a brand new Long Fiber orientation model, the result of a collaboration with partners like the Pacific North West Laboratories and the US Department of Energy in the context of the freedom car project.
3. Crystallization kinetics. The way semi-crystalline materials are processed and solidify in a mold can greatly influence their physical properties and shrinkage. Moldflow has worked with research and industry partners for over 10 years on the ability to capture the true behavior of these plastics. With the Radium technology previews, this is the first time customers can work with this technology.
4. a new Transient Cool solver, allowing the calculation of not only a cycle averaged mold temperature for 3D models, but also the mold temperature throughout a steady state temperature, and/or the heating up of a mold to a full production state.
5. the ability to explicitly specify mold venting locations on the mold. When a mold is insufficiently vented, the air in the unfilled cavity cannot escape efficiently and will build up pressure. This can result in unfilled products and visual defects of the parts.

You can download the Autodesk Moldflow Radium technology preview from the Radium Labs page (click here for the Japanese page).

Also follow the other Autodesk Technology previews on labs here. 

For questions and feedback, please send an email to: labs.moldflow.radium@autodesk.com

[Anonymous]

What happened to the transient_cool analysis (Cool_FEM). ??

is it removed from Radium Technology Preview II??  Will it be provided in new Version ? or for (Cool_FEM) do we need to buy some additional feature???

Thanks a lot for the information in advance

TC

[yannick.moret]

Hello,

Cool transient FEM is part of Radium TP2, as it was from Radium TP1.

Check in the analysis sequence menu, click on more, and you should see the cool (fem) sequence available.

Not this feature is only valid for 3D models.

Regards

[Anonymous]

ach ok

Thanks a lot i think i have to check the installation once again becuase i cant see the Cool FEM analysis

TC  

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to switch between the old and new user interfaces or do I have to uninstall and reinstall to do that?

[raalteh]

Hi Pete.

Yes you can switch within the UI.

If you are in the Classic GUI: go to File > Options (previously called User preferences) > select Classic from the 'Interface style" on the bottom of the 'General' tab.

If you are in the Ribbon GUI: go to the Large 'M' button > Options (bottom right corner) > select Classic from the 'Interface style" on the bottom of the 'General' tab.

The user interface will change when it's opened next time.

Hanno

[Anonymous]

Thanks Hanno

[MikeHoyt1335]

been using it for a month or so .. evaluating the venting with some decorative parts.

seems to be woring pretty well .. a few glitches here and there though to fix

[raalteh]

Hi Mike,

Can you please provide some feedback as to which glitches need to be fixed? This would be helpful to get them resolved.

Hanno

[MikeHoyt1335]

Will keep tabs on things .. using it every day ( so it is stable )

GUI stuff for the most part , it seems