MOLD DESIGN
MOLD DESIGN
(OP)
WE ARE LOOKING TO FIND THE BEST DESIGN PACKAGE FOR PLASTIC INJECTION MOLD DESIGN. EASE OF USE/AND SHORT LEARNING CURVE
ARE A MUST. THE ABILITY TO USE 3D MODELS IS ALSO NEEDED.
FEEL FREE TO SHARE SUCCESS AND HORROR STORIES.
ARE A MUST. THE ABILITY TO USE 3D MODELS IS ALSO NEEDED.
FEEL FREE TO SHARE SUCCESS AND HORROR STORIES.






RE: MOLD DESIGN
RE: MOLD DESIGN
Telling the truth it is a good software for regular mechanical shapes, as soon as you need a simple surface forget about it, also spliting core and cavity you have hard time.Generative machinig is the worst cnc prog. that I ever used. Installing and administrating I-Deas you have to have "master degree". Now that SDRC id sold to EDS (Unigraphics) it is a dead end software i think.
I-Deas is not a program build for moldmaking, some use it like in my company but I fint it not user friendly to work with and not suitable for molds.
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I would recommend evaluating the packages yourself and test them on the type of molds you produce rather than taking someone else's word for it. It will be worth the time and effort to ensure that you get the software that serves YOUR purpose. Good luck.
Dave
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DHUFFY,
I agree with you about the evaluation of a system.
The information I was looking for was others experiences
With some of these system as we are a small mold design
Department and need to weed some of the worst players out.
A lot of these packages look great on the surface but when
You get down to the nuts and bolts they fall apart for various
Reasons sometimes just due to the type of work we do.
With us being a small mold design department we
Don’t have the resources to evaluate them in house for as long
of a period as I would believe is necessary.
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Try the SolidWorks add on packages MoldWorks and SplitWorks. SplitWorks provides an automated core and cavity creation process based on your model. MoldWorks provides an automated mold creation based on this data. It pull from a standard library of molds that you buy as part of the package. You might also look into ElectrodeWorks for electrode creation. These packages run seamlessly from within the SolidWorks environment.
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