Design Smarter with SOLIDWORKS: The 7 Best Practices of Plastics Part Design

Optimising Plastics Part Design with SOLIDWORKS Plastics

When plastics injection molded parts are central to your product’s success, understanding how to optimise your design process is key.

In this on-demand webinar, Peter Rucinski, Senior Director of Plastics Simulation and Material Data at Dassault Systèmes, explores how to design smarter and more efficiently using simulation tools within SOLIDWORKS Plastics.

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What You’ll Learn

The session, “The 7 Best Practices of Plastics Part Design,” provides practical guidance for engineers and designers who want to improve part performance and manufacturability while reducing costly design iterations.

You’ll learn how to:

• Predict and avoid common injection molding defects such as sink marks, warpage, and short shots.

• Apply seven key design principles to optimise your plastics part designs for the injection molding process.

• Leverage SOLIDWORKS Plastics simulation to validate and reinforce best practices early in the design stage.

From Concept to Quality — The Role of Simulation

The webinar provides a high-level overview of plastics materials data science, mold design, and injection molding terminology, before diving into the most frequent manufacturing defects that can cause costly time delays and budget overruns.

By using CAE simulation, you can predict these issues before they occur, helping you design molds that work right the first time, ensure higher quality parts, and reduce manufacturing scrap.

Why It Matters

Adhering to the seven best practices of plastics part design doesn’t just streamline your workflow; it delivers measurable business impact:

• Shorter lead times through reduced trial-and-error.

• Lower costs due to fewer reworks and material waste.

• Improved part quality from optimised flow and cooling analysis.

With SOLIDWORKS Plastics, design teams can move beyond guesswork and build confidence in every part they produce.