Thank you for downloading Autodesk^® Moldflow^® and/or Insight 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of this security Service Pack 2. Read this entire document before you apply this Service Pack 2 to your product. For reference, save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.

Contents

• Materials database update
• Synergy issues resolved by this Service Pack 2
• Insight issues resolved by this Service Pack 2
• Installation Instructions

The Moldflow Materials database is updated with the release of each service pack. Details of the changes can be found in the Autodesk Moldflow 2016 material changes pdf, that is located in the help folder of your installation path, typically C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Moldflow Synergy 2016\help. A summary of the changes since the 2016 SP1 release is listed below:

• 2 new suppliers have been added
• 19 new grades have been added
• 20 grades have been amended
• 25 grades have been deleted
• The material ID for BASF material Ultramid B3K6 has been changed. This change fixes a material ID conflict with an existing BASF material, and restores BASF Ultramid B3EG6 to the 2016 materials library. If you have created studies in 2016 using BASF Ultramid B3K6, install this service pack 2, then delete the material from your study. To select BASF Ultramid B3K6, search for it in the database using its manufacturer name - BASF Engineering Plastics, and its Tradename - Ultramid B3K6. If you seach for it using its old material ID, the search returns BASF Ultramid B3EG6.

This Service Pack 2 provides the following solutions:

• The thickness is not calculated for Dual Domain meshes if [Calculate thickness for Dual Domain meshes] is not selected in the Generate Mesh dialog.
• A feature of the 2016 FCS release is that when you use the Thickness Diagnostic tool, the thickness result is appended to the element property name. An unforeseen consequence of this feature is that the element property name increases in length EVERY time the tool is used, eventually causing Synergy to crash. With the release of 2016 SP2, the result of the Thickness Diagnostic tool is no longer appended to the element property name.
• If you manually assign a thickness to elements in a Dual Domain mesh, then run the Thickness Diagnostic before running the analysis, the manual edits are retained.
• When you change an element type from Part surface (Dual Domain) to Part surface (Midplane), the specified thickness is retained in the Midplane mesh.
• Curve meshing works for all runner cross sections, including U-shape.
• You can import bodies for 3D channels as separate components, or as an assembly, and either way mesh them using the Mesh 3D Channel tool.
• Inverted tetras are no longer generated when using the 3D mesh repair wizard.
• When you filter a selection to a specific type of entity, your filter is remembered and applied the next time you use the tool, unless you select a new filter.
• When the Valve gate trigger is set to %volume in the View/Edit Valve Gate Controller dialog, the range is no longer limited to 100%.
• In instances where a valve gate controller is assigned to a hot gate beam element, you can delete the underlying curve without any problems.
• The Controller name associated with each valve gate is written correctly in the user interface, in all localized versions of Synergy.
• A problem where it is not possible to run any analysis sequence that includes Cool using the material SABIC Cycoloy LG9000, has been resolved.
• When you hide or show layers, the scale bar updates to reflect the values of the visible layers.
• When you compare results in multiple views using the Examine tool, you can capture the images, including the Examine results, using the Image Capture tools on the Reports tab.
• You can use the Examine tool to query warp results when you have set the Scale factor value to zero in the Deflection tab of the Plot Properties dialog.
• While using the Thickness Diagnostic tool, you can use the Examine tool to query the mesh thickness at specific points on your model, and only click once on each location to get a result.
• When viewing deflection results, once you have set Anchor nodes you can activate the Show Anchor Plane option in the Display page of the Warpage Visualization Tools dialog.
• You can Show legend or hide it on Probe XY plots from the Plot properties dialog.
• You can view the Fiber orientation tensor result on models with cutting planes, without invoking a vtk error.
• The Light shading tool in the Viewer tab of the Options dialog, enables you to lighten or darken the shading of your result plots.
• The service pack 1 issue, where the Fill time result is the only plot that appears in your html report, has been resolved. You can add any plot image to your html report, once again.
• The service pack 1 issue, where report generation hangs when the pathlines are set to markers, has been resolved.
• You can open a project from an extracted .zip file to view Pathlines.
• Using the Split Screen tools you can view more than one instance of Pathlines showing the same Plot data.
• Both the solid and melt densities are now exposed via the API.
• File access issues have been resolved.
• You can export the initial stresses from a warp analysis, on a model with multiple inserts, and import them into ANSYS for further investigation.
• When you copy study settings from one study to another, all the expected information is copied, including the material B for overmolding.
• Cool results are displayed for V-shaped baffles. For baffles modeled as straight lines on duplicated curves, cool results are also displayed, for some models.
• An issue that results in the process settings wizard taking a long time to open for .nas files and .bdf files has been resolved.

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Insight issues resolved by this Service Pack 2

This Service Pack 2 provides the following solutions:

• Warp display for Midplane models works as expected.
• The issue where unusual behavior is seen for some materials when running a Microcellular injection molding analysis has been resolved.
• The Surface temperature of valve pins in your model reflects the temperature of the melt with which they are in contact.
• The XY temperature of thermocouple controlled heaters exceeds the set range only minimally, as expected.

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You must have Autodesk Moldflow Insight 2016 SP1, and/or Autodesk Moldflow Synergy 2016 SP1 installed, and have administrative privileges on your Microsoft^® Windows^® operating system, to complete the installation process. If you don't have Service Pack 1 installed already, install it from the Autodesk Application Manager or from your Autodesk My Account. Service Pack 2 includes fixes distributed by Hotfix 16101 and Hotfix 16102. If you have already installed these Hotfixes on your computer, you may leave them on your computer when you install this SP2 release.

1. Make sure that all your Autodesk applications are closed.
2. Open the Windows System Tray in the lower right corner of your screen.
3. Look for the Autodesk Application Manager icon, right-click it and click Open.
4. Click the Updates tab and select Autodesk Moldflow Synergy 2016 SP2 and/or Autodesk Moldflow Insight 2016 SP2 from the list of available updates. To learn more about the update, click on the entry to see additional details, and a link to this Release Notes document.

Note:

• By default, recently published updates are displayed at the top of the list (when sorted by date), with older ones listed below. To apply multiple updates, instead of one at a time, check the box for each entry, and then click Install Selected. If a particular update is not of immediate interest, you can click its Ignore button. The update will remain in the list, in case you want to install it later.
• If installing from your Autodesk My Account, double-click the downloaded *.msp file to install this service pack.

Note: To install the Linux 2016 Service Pack 2, you must first uninstall the Insight 2016 Linux FCS or SP1 build, then download the relevant file from the Autodesk^® Knowledge Network (http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/moldflow-insight/downloads/)

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