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Moldflow Insight vs. Moldflow Adviser

Compare Moldflow injection moulding simulation products: Moldflow Adviser and Moldflow Insight.

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Products	Integrated with CAD platforms. Customise design rules and share results. Moldflow Adviser Premium Subscribe	Quick manufacturability advice for your plastic part designs. Moldflow Adviser Ultimate Subscribe	3D mesh support and design advice for runner systems and cavity layouts. Moldflow Insight Standard Subscribe	Directional feedback for standard injection part, mould and process designs. Moldflow Insight Premium Subscribe	Definitive results for polymer flow, mould cooling and part warpage. Moldflow Insight Ultimate Subscribe
At a glance	Analyse manufacturability of your design Evaluate the presence of air traps and weld lines 3D analysis for parts with varying thickness	Includes Moldflow Adviser Premium, plus: Mould filling, packing and cooling guidance Causes of warpage Fibre orientation Runner balancing and cavity layout	In-depth simulation of plastic injection moulding Polymer flow, mould cooling and part warpage prediction Meshing and process parameter controls	Includes Moldflow Insight Standard, plus: Simultaneous solving capacity Advanced mould heating and cooling processes Process optimisation	Includes Moldflow Insight Premium, plus: Simulation for specialised moulding processes Optical performance prediction

Features

Solver capacity
Simultaneous local solving (max)	Unlimited	Unlimited	1	3	3
Cloud solving

Application Programming Interface (API)
Command Line API Compatibility
User Interface API Compatibility
Solver API Compatibility

Simulation abilities
Filling
Packing
Fibre orientation
Sink marks and weld lines
Moulding window
Venting analysis
Crystallisation analysis
Gate location
Cold and hot runners
Design of experiments (DOE)
Cooling
Transient mould cooling or heating
Conformal cooling
Rapid temperature cycling
Induction heating
Heating elements
Warpage
Insert overmoulding
In-mould label
Two-shot sequential overmoulding
Core shift
Wire sweep, paddle shift

Moulding processes
Thermoplastic injection moulding
Gas-assisted injection moulding
Injection compression moulding
Co-injection moulding
Bi-injection moulding
Chemical Blowing Agent (CBA)
Microcellular injection moulding
Microcellular injection moulding with core back
Birefringence
Structural reaction injection moulding (SRIM)
Powder injection moulding
Resin transfer moulding (RTM)
Rubber, liquid silicone injection moulding
Multiple-barrel reactive moulding
Reaction injection moulding
Microchip encapsulation
Underfill encapsulation
Compression moulding
Multiple-barrel thermoplastics injection moulding

Software interoperability
Helius PFA (Advanced Material Exchange)
Simulation Mechanical (FEA)
Autodesk Nastran (FEA)
Abaqus (FEA)
ANSYS (FEA)
LS-DYNA (FEA)
CODE V (Birefringence)
VRED (defect visualisation)
Showcase (defect visualisation)
CADdoctor for Autodesk Simulation

Included software, architecture, engineering and construction collection
Helius PFA
Moldflow Communicator (US site)
SimStudio Tools
Vault