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Compression Molding
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.

Compression Molding
- Compression molding overview
  Use SimForm to perform a thermal cooling analysis for your plastic compression mold designs. These analyses help you identify hot spots on the plastic part and develop cooling layouts to improve the 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.
  - Add Project options
    The Add Design Project and Add Feasibility Project windows let you create a new project of the desired type to evaluate different design parameters of your mold and plastic parts.
  - 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.
  - Add a new job options
    The Add a new job window lets you create a new job within a project.
  - 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.
- 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 design projects, if your model contains cooling channels, you must define the components that represent them so the solver can identify them.
- 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 project

Create a project to organize, manage and group related jobs, making it easier to compare different design iterations and track your progress.

Log into your SimForm account.

On the Projects page, select your project type and click add a project to add a new project.
By default, the project type button displays your last created project type. To select a different type, click the project type dropdown and choose one of the following:
- Design Project to run thermal analyses on preliminary cooling designs, including conventional and conformal cooling channels.
- Feasibility Project to run thermal analyses on your plastic part to estimate achievable cooling time and predict critical areas that will need extra cooling, even before the mold is designed.
In the Project Name box, type a name that identifies your project for example Mouse shell mold design.
You can use the project name to filter your projects.
(Optional) In the Description box, type a description for your project. For example, This project optimizes the cooling system for a mouse shell mold to ensure uniform heat dissipation.
The project description will be displayed on the project page under your project and can be used to filter your projects, making it easier to identify and navigate through them.
(Optional) In the Tags box, add relevant tags for your project to help you filter your projects. For example, mouse, mold, cooling, conventional, conformal.
Click Add.
The Add a new job window opens.

Create a new job to upload, set up and run your mold design model.