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PolyFoam Setup
Set up your foam part, nozzles, materials, tooling and process parameters prior to analysis.
Foam Part
Use the Foam Part icon to designate the foam part in your model geometry.

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Parametric Modeling
Create 2D sketches, surfaces, and solids with construction history and variables.
PolyFoam Setup
Set up your foam part, nozzles, materials, tooling and process parameters prior to analysis.
- Pouring Cup Test
  Use the basin (cup) icon to run an optional pouring cup test to evaluate a material that you want to assign to your model for a foaming simulation.
- Foam Part
  Use the Foam Part icon to designate the foam part in your model geometry.
- Nozzle
  Use the Nozzle icon to define a path or stationary set of injection points for the nozzle to release the foaming material into the mold.
- Materials
  Review, create, import, export, modify and assign materials through the Materials dialog.
- Tooling
  Use the tools in the Tooling sub-ribbon to designate Velcro components, designate inserts, designate guiders, create or designate a mold, create a nonwoven backing cloth, and create vents.
PolyFoam Analysis
Run an analysis to minimize defects and prevent manufacturing problems for a foam part design.

Foam Part

Use the Foam Part icon to designate the foam part in your model geometry.

Location: Foaming ribbon, Foam Part icon

Designate a Foam Part

Select the part in your model geometry for the foaming simulation.

Click the Foam Part icon.
Select the foam part in your model.

The selected part is displayed in red.
Click the Gravity Direction icon to set the gravity direction with respect to the part.

Use the microdialog options to flip or rotate the part to align it with the gravity direction. The gravity direction affects the behavior of the liquid as it enters into the mold and during solidification.


Microdialog option	Description
	Rotate the model with the Move tool.
	Pick a surface to align its normal with the gravity direction.
	Flip the model vertically to switch the model between the positive and negative Z direction.