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Compression Molding
Using projects and jobs
Use projects and jobs in SimForm to manage and organize your mold design tests.

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

Using projects and jobs

Use projects and jobs in SimForm to manage and organize your mold design tests.

Using projects in SimForm

A project lets you test different variations of a plastic mold design. A project can contain multiple tests with different variations of the part, mold or cooling design to easily converge upon the optimal design.

Using jobs in SimForm

Each test or iteration in a project is called a job. You can create multiple jobs to evaluate and compare the:

Thermal performance of different cooling designs.
Various materials for the mold and plastic parts.
Impact of cooling time on the heat distribution in the plastic part.

You can create a job based on a previous one. The new job inherits the CAD model and uses the same model settings, which you can modify as needed.

Project pricing and job count

When you create a project, credits are deducted from your credit balance. Each project allows you to create a set number of jobs without using additional credits. If you exceed the maximum job count, you can create a new project to continue your analyses.

The number of required credits and maximum jobs depend on the project type, as shown in the following table.


Project type	Credits	Maximum number of jobs
Design project	10	12
Feasibility project	3	6