Dear Moldflow User community,
I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Moldflow 2027 products. This release continues our focus on improving solver performance, usability, and automation, while also expanding capabilities for advanced workflows and customization.
Release highlights
The main features for the 2027 release are:
- The visualization pipeline for Moldflow has been upgraded and is now capable of using the GPU of your graphics card. This will give a dramatic improvement to things like model rotation, particularly for very large models. This upgrade also resolves a number of long-standing graphical issues. A bonus feature is that Moldflow final state results can be exported in .vtk format (an open source file format).
- Several important accuracy improvements:
- Residual stress calculation improvement for Midplane and Dual Domain. This will reduce the differences between Midplane, Dual Domain, and 3D warp results. (The old residual stress model is still available for now as 'Legacy Uncorrected Residual Stress'.)
- Corner effects are now available as part of 3D warp. This is off by default and was known as 'thickness shrinkage' in previous Scandium Technology previews.
- A new meshing refinement around the gate will help create more symmetrical filling results in symmetrical models.
- Cooling channel optimization (first introduced in the 2026 release for 3D printed cores) is now extended to drill-and-plug scenarios and can reposition channels and add bubblers and baffles where appropriate.
- Various API improvements to the API environment, new API calls, and a new AIAssistant command-line utility to extract key setup and analysis results.
- By popular demand, we reintroduce the export of animated .gif files, plus some additional new resolution and animation speed options.
- The introduction of an Autodesk Assistant in Moldflow. With Autodesk Assistant, you essentially have a Moldflow expert you can work with and discuss certain Moldflow situations with. Autodesk Assistant in Moldflow gives you the ability to use your own natural language to:
- Perform very basic actions with Moldflow (e.g. open a particular project, open a study, and show a result). The interactions here are currently very basic but can now be expanded rapidly.
- extract key parameters of an analysis in a table format, give an analysis of which results may need your attention, and provide some suggestions on how to resolve them.
- access a deep Moldflow knowledge base that can be used to answer Moldflow modeling or setup questions or get advice on how to approach a problem.
The release has many more enhancements, which can be found in the What's New documentation in the online help (link). As part of the modernization of the product, we removed a number of features that have, over the years, become obsolete (link), as well as some obsolete API calls (link)
Getting started
Moldflow 2027 is a full new release and can be installed alongside previous versions.
You can download the Moldflow 2027 release from Autodesk Account > All Products and Services.
IMPORTANT for customers using a Multi-User/Network license: do not forget to run the Moldflow License configuration tool (mlc.exe) in your installation directory.
For deployment of Moldflow 2027 across a large number of machines, you can use the ‘Custom Install’ option to create deployments with pre-configured license settings (Network or Autodesk ID), which is especially useful for IT-managed environments.
Scandium Update
For the many Moldflow Scandium user, we added some new capabilities for you to try and provide feedback on.
- Enhanced Valve Gate Controls for Midplane, Dual Domain and 3D
- A new Cool (FAME) Solver for 3D Mold Cooling
- Partial mold restraint for insert over-molded, or 2 shot over-molded components
If you are already signed up as a Scandium Technology Preview participant, please log into the feedback portal: https://feedback.autodesk.com/ and get into the Scandium Technology Preview project.
If you are not yet a Scandium participant, and you have current Moldflow Insight 2027 products, you can sign up here.
Documentation
More details on the Moldflow 2027 release, including feature descriptions and workflow updates, are available in the what's new section in the online help.
Validation documents can be found im the attached .zip files and on the Moldflow Simhub page (the landing page when you open Synergy), when you scroll down to 'Product Technical Papers & Validation Documents'.
Regards,
