Can anyone guide me to design a mold. I want to know basics about mold designing and how it is done.
SO BASICALLY for molding designing, you have to chose first software. For example I am preferring for simple mold designing , Rhinoceroes for complex and more and if there is more analyses needed I use inventor, inventor hsm and moldflow which simulates and is very useful for injection point finding and so on. pretty same can be done in solidworks and in many other software.
First find out what is your 3d model, how it can be molded. Basically you just use boolean operation, but sometimes you have to understand what material wil be molded and you have to expand your mold scales, cause after cooling material will shrink. After model molds case in which 3d model should be cut out and use boolean thats all you have to do. Other diteils will com to you as you contact to manufacturers. There will be part ejection points, cooling piping . And many many other complex things. which cant be fitted here. Thre are bunch of tutorials which you can use to guide in all of these processes
If it is the main mold design what you are looking for, the best way to do it with any CAD software is:
There are other subtleties like slanting perpendicular planes around 1º to make ejection of part easier or even possible, use of unmolding lubricants, etc.etc.
For a SolidWorks example see https://grabcad.com/groups/solidworks-design-help/discussions/mold-tools
ohh also look up at www.hasco.com/hasco/en/ or www.milacron.com/products/mold-technologies/ you can download alot of parts there
What you mean plates?
Plates Means Cavity and core Plate thickness calculation?
Thank you Sir. Can u send me link of the tutorials. Can you refer a book for mold design?
Thank You Sir!
Hey anyone interested in this Topic can hit me up i do this for a living and i am willing to share some tips if i have some spare time i even could organise a livestream with active commentary for you guys. Btw i mainly use Solidworks Greetings Patrick
I posted this in another mold design thread, the Protolabs design rules are very helpful to understand what you can and can't do when designing a part for injection molding https://www.protolabs.co.uk/resources/design-tips/
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