Injection Mold design
Injection Mold design
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What are Plastic Injection Mold builders using for mold design. We are using Mechanical Desktop. Using the 3d part for reading customer part files & drawing flat 2d drawings for the actual mold design. The industry push is to draw in 3d, but I haven't seen anybody doing this. Is anyone drawing complete fully dimensioned drawings using a 3d package?






RE: Injection Mold design
I used to do mold design and ONLY did it in 3D. We would then make 2D drawings obviously but the 3D is great for visualization of the parts and how they fit together - the toolmakers loved it since they could easily see how the entire mold would look in solid and how the parts interacted. We used Pro/E for our mold design. It has its stumbling blocks but we were always able to work around them in some manner. Take care.
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DHuffy
RE: Injection Mold design
RE: Injection Mold design
Our shop utilizes SolidWorks for all our injection mold design. We’ve archived a library of components that we can plug into the 3D design and found it a great tool to get a “real” look at all the related geometry before we cut metal.
The right CAD choice for you...now that’s the hard part.
Moldguy
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Darren Camp
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SCI Enclosures Division
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RE: Injection Mold design
For example mold on picture has 612 parts and very complex kinematics (double opening, double ejection, simple slides and slides with rack, angle ejectors, hydraulics, gas injection and etc). In 3D I can check kinematics to find any possible problems. It 2D it is very difficult. During mold design the customer has made some significant changes in a part’s design. They have demanded the big volume of additional work to change of a mold’s design. But it is difficult even to estimate what huge work should be done in 2D.
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Igor Jogla
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I think the from Designer point of view you do not need 2D drawings when you have alredy 3D but from mold maker point of view you still need 2D drawings they are not moving with the smae step as the design is moving.
RE: Injection Mold design
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we design mould just in 3D environment.
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RE: Injection Mold design
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Kieran Fegan
Director
www.moulddesigner.com
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X & Y with notes for diameter and depth. In the last ten years though I have not seen a mold maker yet that hasn't taken advantage of a dynamic 3D view and with today's wild Geo.You would have to be a visualization genius with just 2D to see those shutoffs. its a grate tool
RE: Injection Mold design
RE: Injection Mold design
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