Autodesk, Inc. creates simulation software that is used by the plastics injection molding industry. One of these programs, Moldflow Plastics Insight (referred to as Moldflow in this manual), models the mold-filling process. The results of a Moldflow simulation include calculations of material properties and residual stresses in the plastic part.

The Abaqus Interface for Moldflow translates finite element model information from a Moldflow analysis into a partial Abaqus input file. The translator requires the Moldflow interface files that are created by the Moldflow analysis. (See “The Moldflow interface files,” Section 2.2, for more information.)

For midplane simulations, the Abaqus Interface for Moldflow reads the interface (.pat and .osp) files created by Abaqus Interface for Moldflow Version MPI 3 or later.

For three-dimensional solid simulations using Moldflow Version MPI 6, the Abaqus Interface for Moldflow reads the interface (.inp and .xml) files created using the Visual Basic script mpi2abq.vbs. This script is part of the Abaqus Interface for Moldflow installation and is typically found in the moldflow_install_dir/Plastic Insight 6.0/data/commands directory.