New release: NOGRID pointsBlow 4.5.0 is out now!

This is new:

New If no measured data for the viscosity is available, the viscosity can now be computed from the glass composition.

New The User can import a customized gob geometry via the STEP interface.

New Movie creation is implemented now. The movie output format is mp4 and the screen shot from each time step is used as movie source.

New New mold construction dialogs for the blank mold (stack cooling and vertiflow cooling) are implemented.

New In addition to the relative cavity (cavity_volume - gob_volume) / gob_volume the overcapacity is shown now within the geometry tab window.

New The final container shape can now be exported to a STEP file. The User can enable or disable the export within the preferences dialog.

New Within the process page we've added the option to switch off the HEAD_CLOSE face together with the PLUG. If the "Head_Close to Plug" check box is enabled, the HEAD_CLOSE will be removed together with the PLUG at time Plunger Up OFF.

New Final blow pressure profile now can be adapted by the User. The User can select a constant blow pressure profile, a linear radial profile, square radial profile and a cubic radial profile.

New Read / Save tracking points within the optimization page implemented.

New Volume expansion coefficient added to the glass material properties. 

New Ambient temperature added to the User temperatures section (previously constant 30°C).

New The User can define its own laws for the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) as a function of time, pressure, height, thickness or temperature. 

New The mass conservation is improved by using a new method which controls and corrects the mass locally.

New Steep viscosity gradients results in a bad numerical convergence. Implemented an improved viscosity smoothing method.

New In order to improve accuracy we've increased the finite point density at the boundary for all resolutions by the factor of 2. For the Hybrid-P1 model the viscosity correction is set to zero (Stiffness glass viscosity = 0).

New We've added a new process for tableware process (press blow special). No invert is invoked but the blank mold is split into two parts, so narrow neck containers can be computed.

New If the computation is finished the PDF report is generated automatically.

New For the Optimization page the User can insert individual tracking points for the tracking path now.