{"id":1280,"date":"2010-12-13T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Injection-Molding-Checkout-Simpoe\/ba-p\/334555"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:06:41","slug":"injection-molding-checkout-simpoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/injection-molding-checkout-simpoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Injection Molding? Checkout Simpoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4003\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/12\/ScreenHunter_03-Dec.-11-16.04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"350\" \/><BR \/><BR \/><A title=\"Susan on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/susancinadr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Susan&nbsp; Cinadr<\/A>,&nbsp; our tireless Solid Edge marketer and <A title=\"Here's her recent 3 part post on Solid Edge in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/south-african-solid-edge-st3-stories-part-3-of-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">fellow blogger<\/A> was in China a few weeks ago and got to talking with some folks from the<A title=\"Plastic Injection Simulation for Everyone!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simpoe.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Simpoe company<\/A>.&nbsp; Simpoe does<A href=\"http:\/\/www.simpoe.com\/solutions\/18-simpoedge.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> plastic injection simulation<\/A> software so she encouraged them to talk to me. After some quick intros, I got a copy of the software and have been doing plastic injections examples in my spare time the last few days.<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>Simpoe is based in France but recently <A title=\"SIMPOE opens office in the US !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simpoe.com\/news\/latest-news\/9-simpoe-opens-office-in-the-us-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">expanded to the US<\/A> a few months ago.&nbsp; They also have their own <A title=\"The Simpoe Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/simpoe.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">blog which you can find here<\/A>.&nbsp; Especially check out the last post they did on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.simpoe.com\/solutions\/18-simpoedge.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cSimpoEdge is the natural choice for Solid Edge users!\u201d<\/A><BR \/><BR \/>When they contacted me, I already knew who they were\u2026 not just because they are fellow <A title=\"Google image search of &quot;Finite Element Mesh&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS394US394&amp;q=Finite+element+mesh&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=univ&amp;ei=EVAGTZfoOY6RnwfWhajlDQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CEAQsAQwAg&amp;biw=1304&amp;bih=762\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">meshers<\/A>, but because they have a &#8220;wicked&#8221; (&#8220;Super&#8221; in French \ud83d\ude42 ) integration with Solid Edge. You can hardly tell this is a third party application.<BR \/><BR \/><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4004\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/12\/ScreenHunter_01-Dec.-11-15.57.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><BR \/><BR \/>In the image here, you can see Simpoe creates a new tab for their commands and a new \u201cpathfinder\u201d or navigator for managing the data.&nbsp; This is very similar to<A title=\"More info on Solid Edge Simulation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/16835_tcm1023-81381.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Solid Edge Simulation<\/A> itself.&nbsp; At the top, you can see a Wizard Mode that will walk you through the analysis. Not being a Injection molding specialist, this is what I used.<BR \/><BR \/>If you have need of plastic injection simulation, be sure to <A title=\"Simpoe on the web\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simpoe.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">check out their site<\/A>.&nbsp; You can get a <A title=\"Locaton where you can register and try it out.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simpoe.com\/download.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">free express version<\/A> if your needs are simple or you just want to tryout the integration.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan&nbsp; Cinadr,&nbsp; our tireless Solid Edge marketer and fellow blogger was in China a few weeks ago and got to talking with some folks from the Simpoe company.&nbsp; Simpoe does plastic inject&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}