Dear Moldflow User Community,
Moldflow starts the year strong with the announcement of Moldflow 2024 FCS!
Without discussing everything in this release in detail here, I want to call out a few things that I believe are going to be impactful for many users:
- Installation made easier. When downloading the software from Autodesk Accounts, you can now configure you license choices before downloading the software. You can indicate you will be running with a Named User license or a Network license (and specify where the license manager is hosted). The Moldflow license configuration tool (MLC.exe) is still available in case you need to change the license type after the initial installation. Deployments are now also supported. We recommend you to use the new custom install options for the installation. Please see use the easy-to-follow instructions (here).
- We have two new result plot options for 3D models to help make sense of 3D data*:
- A new ‘Show Min/Max’ option identifies the minimum and maximum value of a result as well as the locations of these values. Time based animations are also supported (with exception of ‘Fill time’ which is a different type of result).
- A new Histogram option shows the distribution of 3D result values. You can now immediately see if the maximum or minimum values are common or outlier values (and can maybe be ignored). You can control customize the distribution of values and if you click on one bar, you will see where the values in that range are located. These can also be animated over time (again except for ‘Fill time’ because this is a different type of result).
- New solver capabilities:
- The new Assembly Analysis capability can show you what the ‘as molded’ part will look like when mounted into an assembly (as molded and as assembled).
- Options in the 3D flow solver to fully couple fiber orientation and the flow solver trough viscosity effects and thermal conductivity effects.
- Accuracy improvements:
- The new STAMP option** to significantly improve the predictive accuracy for 3D models, calculated with materials that have measured shrinkage data (STAMP = Shrinkage Tested Adjusted Material Properties). This does for 3D models, what CRIMS does for Midplane and Dual Domain. STAMP is the result of a 3-year development from a large team, and Autodesk applied for a patent.
For a detailed view of what's new in Moldflow 2024, please read the 'What's new in 2024' section in the help (here).
Validation documents can be found here:
- Warpage accuracy validation report
- Dual Domain warp validation report
- Coupled 3D flow and Fiber solver validation report
- Adjustment of warp constraints for Mold shrinkage
Moldflow communicator is available from the Communicator page (here). The updated Material data fitting tools can be downloaded from here.
For the Moldflow Scandium Technology preview users, the Scandium .dat files have been updated and are available on the feedback portal. Existing Scandium users can login to the feedback portal (here). People interested in joining project Scandium you can apply here.
The Moldflow 2024 is the most significant release of the last 10 years, with the usability improvements as accuracy improvements. I’m very proud of the release and am confident you will enjoy working with Moldflow 2024.
Best regards,
Hanno van Raalte, on behalf of the Autodesk Moldflow development team.
* Min/Max and Histogram plots are disabled for different plots (e.g. air trap where this does not make sense) as well as certain use cases (e.g. warpage with anchor planes active).
** STAMP is set as the non-default option, to give us time to collect customer feedback. We expect this to give significant improvement over the Residual Stress model for the vast majority of cases.
