Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Another DZynSource Mold Engineering Software Commendation!

We have another new commendation:


“Every mold making company should own a copy. Great idea, great implementation.”

Jim Philippe / Tooling Engineer CORNING LIFE SCIENCES

Thank you, Jim.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

New DZynSource Commendation!

We just received a new, and very nice, commendation about our software:


“ I am impressed with your software; talk about practical and useful! Anyone in the business can sure appreciate what you have done.”

Brett Niggel, Designer, Studio One Eleven

Thank you for the kind words, Brett!

Monday, December 6, 2010

A Partial List of DZynSource Features

Unit Conversion Section

D.C. Electrical Calculations

Fluids:  Bubbler sizing , Equivalent Hydraulic Diameter - General Case, Equivalent Hydraulic Diameter - Annular Channel, Hydraulic Cylinder Calculations, Pneumatic Cylinder Calculations, Pressure Losses (Darcy's Equation), Pressure Loss or Flow Rate Through an Orifice, Pressure Losses in Valves and Fittings,
Reynolds Number Calculations

Galvanic Table

Gate Sizing, Hot Tip , Edge Gate, Sub-Gate


Helix and Cam Angle Calculations

Hot Runner Checklist

Properties of Metals Tensile strength, yield strength, elongation, impact strength, reduction of area, all at various hardnesses.

Molding Calculations: Chiller Sizing, Clamp Force Requirements, Cooling Time Estimator - Ballman and Shushman Method, Minimum Mold open Time - Time for highest part to clear bottom of mold, Mold Fill Time Calculator, Pounds or Kilograms of Plastic per Hour - Also in production calculations, Tie Bar Stretch .

Production Calculations: Quantity of Cavities Required, Quantity of Parts that be can molded, Time to Mold a Quantity of Parts, Pounds or Kilograms of Plastic per Hour - Also in molding calculations.

Runner Size Calculations

Machining Calculations: Effective Cutting Diameter, Feed Rate / Feed Per Tooth, IPM <> IPR, Surface Feet Per Minute, Surface Roughness, Three-Sided Cutter Calculator.

Strength of Materials: Beam Deflections - 9 different loading and support scenarios, Elastic Strain - How Much a Part Stretches or Compresses under Load, Hoop Stress - Stress and Strain in Circular Rings, Long Column Sudden Failure Calculations & the L/K Long Column Test, Moment of Inertia, Section Modulus, Area, Radius of Gyration, and Distance from Neutral Axis To Extreme Fiber in 10 Standard Geometric Shapes, Mold Plate Pocket distortion, Through Pocket and Blind Pocket.

Surface Finish Comparison Tables

Thermal Calculations: Expansion, Initial Size, Final Size, Coefficients of thermal expansion for 30 common mold making materials.

Thread Properties: Properties of Metric and Inch Threads, Course and Fine, Major Diameter, Tensile stress area in inches and millimeters, Minor diameter area, tap drill size, and torque calculator


Three Wire Measurement, Largest Wire - Threads per Inch or Pitch Know, Smallest Wire - Threads per Inch or Pitch Known, Best Wire - Threads per Inch or Pitch Known, Measurement over Wire - Threads per Inch or Pitch Known,

Pipe Threads: Tap drill sizes for N.P.T. and B.S.P.T threads, with and without pipe reamer,
Trigonometry: Chord, DD <> DMS, Right Angle Trigonometry, Roll Dimensions, Acute and Obtuse angles, Sine Plate Dimensions, degrees, minutes, seconds, or decimal degrees, any sine plate length, Tooling Ball Dimensions.

Unscrewing Mold Calculations - in threads per inch or by pitch, Stroke per revolution, Number of turns required, Minimum stroke, Cam Rise, Total Rise for stroke.

Vent Calculations: Table of typical vent depths, by material and a Vent Width Calculator.


Extensive Help files with a great deal of data and reference information.

Plastics Today Article about DZynSource

The article that I mentioned in a previous post has been released today, December 6, 2010.  Their web site appears to be down for maintenance at the moment, but I am sure it will be up soon.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plasticstoday.com%2Fimm%2Farticles%2Ftessy-plastics-dzynsource-mold-engineering-software&h=5efda