Will It Fill? -- Inexpensive Mold Flow Analysis in Fusion 360

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The question with new injection molds is often "will it fill?" I discovered recently that it doesn't cost that much to use Fusion 360 mold flow analysis to answer this question, along with how much sink you will get.

[@ianpendlebury365]

Great video. In answer to where your Fusion 360 cloud credits came from, every new subscriber gets 100 credits as part of their subscription. A one time grant.

[@JohnSL]

Thank you! I had a feeling that was the case--thanks for the info.

[@Todestelzer]

They will expire soon so use it till end of this month. I have 60 left. Have to find a project for it to use it.

[@abatter]

Thanks, John. Always a pleasure to see what you are doing.

[@bjornhenning2433]

Thank you very much John - I didn't knew either of this Simulation - and it was again very interessting learning from you! really appricate what you're doing, here on the other half of the planet

[@thomasmills6789]

Love your high-quality informational videos. I hope a lot of people start seeing them!

[@JohnSL]

Thank you!

[@CADWithChris]

Another great video! I would love to see the process of the physical mold design as well! Its crazy to see that this sort of analysis is available to non-professionals at a actual reasonable price.

[@JohnSL]

Are you asking to see the mold design specifically for one of these parts? I have previous videos where I go over different aspects of mold design.

[@AzaB2C]

Thank you! Very helpful!

[@lennynnnnnn]

Professionally, I use protolabs quoting and free DFM for sanity check of design, including fill pressure. How does fusion compared to uploading to protolabs?

[@JohnSL]

I had forgotten about Protolabs. And that's a good idea for a follow-up. Thank you.

[@kevinbethards9816]

Thanks for the info! I had no idea this was available!

[@doodlingartman]

I've been looking for a solution like this for a while. Thank you. I can't believe fusion wouldn't make this more known. I guess they want to sell more licenses.

[@edwinjsamuel]

@John how accurate is the simulation? Did you have a chance to see if the sink marks, weld lines, warpage match on the actual molded part?

[@riccardodipietro4400]

Great video very informative does the mold flow analysis have ABS plastic as an option or just PP? Thanks as always John

[@JohnSL]

Yes. They have many types of plastic, and many variations of each type.

[@veereshmeti1]

Thanks for video, motivates to learn more

[@keal.vietnam]

Thank you so so much sir

[@michaelorlik3dwaldhessen318]

Learned something new, thanks. Try this and i had the same cloudpoints. The analysis is running....

[@jbrownson]

Great video, thanks. I’d love to see how the actual results match the sim.

[@JohnSL]

Good idea. I'm about to make the mold for the first one, so can definitely compare them. The second one the customer never made a decision on whether to move forward or not.

[@cbrtrk]

Totally a missed opportunity to open the video with “will it flow? That is the question” with the will it blend music.

[@rajkishorebehera7489]

Do you have a license for your autodesk 360 and how much does it cost?

[@JohnSL]

This is using my standard Fusion 360 license. The prices are on their web site.

[@sabercnc]

Woow. I didn't know fusion 360 had this feature. For some reason, there are 600 tokens in my account.😀

[@JohnSL]

I know, right? I was very pleasantly surprised.

[@adamchambers7502]

This feature used to be autodesk inventor only by now moved to fusion after 2021

[@JohnSL]

Ah, that fits. Before I stumbled across this recently, I was under the impression that it was out of my reach. I bet I was thinking of the feature in Inventor.