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Using projects and jobs
Use projects and jobs in SimForm to manage and organize your mold design tests.
Create a job
Create a job to evaluate specific design variations of a mold, such as different cooling channel configurations or material choices, within the same project. This allows you to optimize your design by comparing the performance of different setups.

Injection Molding
- Injection molding overview
  Use SimForm to perform thermal cooling analyses for your plastic injection mold designs. These analyses help you identify hot spots on the plastic part and develop cooling layouts to improve part quality and reduce cycle times.
- Setting up a simulation workflow
  You can set up and run a SimForm project by uploading your CAD file, categorizing components, selecting materials, and running simulations.
- Navigating the app interface
  The SimForm interface allows you to create and access projects and jobs, as well as add and manage users and account credits.
- Using projects and jobs
  Use projects and jobs in SimForm to manage and organize your mold design tests.
  - Create a project
    Create a project to organize, manage and group related jobs, making it easier to compare different design iterations and track your progress.
  - Create a job
    Create a job to evaluate specific design variations of a mold, such as different cooling channel configurations or material choices, within the same project. This allows you to optimize your design by comparing the performance of different setups.
  - Add Project options
    The Add <Project Type> Project window lets you create a new project of the desired type to evaluate different design parameters of your mold and plastic parts.
  - Add a New Job options
    The Add a New Job window lets you create a new job within a project.
- Setting up a simulation
  Use the setup page to categorize and define your model components properties for the solver to identify them.
- Defining mold properties
  Defining mold properties based on your analysis type ensures that the SimForm solver correctly identifies the mold components in your CAD model and considers their material properties in the thermal analysis.
- Defining plastic part properties
  Categorize your plastic part components and define their materials to allow the SimForm app solver to identify them.
- Defining cooling channels
  In a channel assessment job, if your model contains cooling channels, you must define the components that represent them so the solver can identify them.
- Defining manufacturing constraints
  In a channel recommender job, manufacturing constraints let you specify practical limits for how cooling channels can be manufactured in your mold.
- Running a simulation
  When running a simulation, the solver relies on specific assumptions and automated processes to ensure accurate and efficient results.
- Viewing results
  The results page allows you to view and explore the thermal analysis results of your job after its simulation is completed.
- Tutorials
  These examples are designed to help you become familiar with some of the major features available in SimForm.
- Glossary

Create a job

Create a job to evaluate specific design variations of a mold, such as different cooling channel configurations or material choices, within the same project. This allows you to optimize your design by comparing the performance of different setups.

An existing or a new project created.

In an existing project, at the top of the job list, click add to open the Add a New Job window.

Note:
When you create a new project, the Add a New Job window opens automatically.
In the Add a New Job window, in the Job Name box, type a meaningful job name. For example, Conformal cooling.
(Optional) In the Description box, type a job description.
The job description will be displayed in the job panel to help you easily identify different jobs inside the same project.
(Beta) From the Job Type list, select your job type.
(Beta) For a channel assessment job in a channel design project, from the Recommendation Results list, select whether to import recommendations from a solved channel recommender job.
Click Select Files, select the CAD files to upload your mold design, and click Open.
When you create a subsequent job, you can keep the same CAD file as the previous job or delete it and upload a new one. When you upload a new CAD file with the same model tree as a previous job, SimForm keeps the categorization and material definitions of components that have the same name as those in the previous job.
Click Add to create a new job.

Note:

Do not refresh the page until all CAD parts are fully loaded as it interrupts the process and prevents the model from loading.

The display window shows the mold design you uploaded.

Set up your model by defining its components so the solver can identify them and assign the appropriate materials.