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2 April 2012
Product News
Dassault Systèmes Introduces SolidWorks Plastics Software
Dassault Systèmes unveiled SolidWorks® Plastics software, tools that enable users to predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of plastics part and injection mold design.
The new products run fully embedded inside of SolidWorks, providing part designers and mold makers with familiar and intuitive workflows so they can optimize their part and mold designs for manufacturability. The ability to make design changes early helps ensure that the mold works right the first time, reducing or eliminating the need for rework and improving part quality. In addition, SolidWorks Plastics provides users with valuable knowledge so they can determine whether changes to the part geometry, mold design, material selection or processing conditions will have a positive impact on the ability to easily manufacture their products.
The SolidWorks Plastics products are based on technology from SIMPOE SAS (SIMPOE), one of the leading providers of plastics injection molding simulation software. As a SolidWorks Gold Partner, SIMPOE currently provides fully integrated, fully interoperable, “single window” functionality for SolidWorks. The new solutions products build on the previous relationship and will be offered under the SolidWorks brand.
“For a lot of industries, such as Consumer package goods, using plastic molds provides added value in quality, time and cost savings. We believe a significant percentage of our installed user base is involved in plastic part or injection mold design and will benefit from the robust features in SolidWorks Plastics,” said Monica Menghini, executive vice president, marketing, Industry & Corp Communication Dassault Systèmes. “The addition of SolidWorks Plastics into our product portfolio allows us to expand into new areas while following the traditional SolidWorks focus on ease-of-use and features that provide real benefits to customers. The new offering provides designers fast, accurate and easy-to-use tools that make plastics simulation-driven design a reality.”
“Extending our relationship with Dassault Systèmes via the 3DS SolidWorks brand allows us to leverage their highly-skilled reseller channel and offer a high-quality, cost-effective solution to help part and mold designers reduce errors, cut costs and speed time to market,” said Alain DuBois, president and CEO at SIMPOE. “This seamless integration of solutions means a designer never has to leave the familiar SolidWorks environment to optimize their part and mold designs.”
“With 40 years in plastics development, I’m excited by SolidWorks Plastics,” said Ed Honda, president, hondaDesign, LLC. “Users will be able to optimize part and mold designs in the earliest stages of development and pass these benefits on to customers.”
SolidWorks Plastics will be offered in two packages – SolidWorks Plastics Professional for part designers, and SolidWorks Plastics Premium for mold designers and mold makers.
The first release of SolidWorks Plastics 2012 will be available in North America in April, with other regions and countries to follow later this year. For more information on SolidWorks Plastics, please visit: http://www.solidworks.com/plastics/, http://www.3ds.com/Solidworks
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