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Mould Design Software

Mould Design Software

Mould Design Software

(OP)
Our company is currently looking at purchasing Mould Design Software to assist in the design of In House Injection Moulds. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this. Would it be better to buy a stand alone package such as VISI-Mould or to purchase a Solidworks add on such as Moldworks or Imold.

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Barry

RE: Mould Design Software

This probably depends on the features you're looking for.  Have you used the built-in tools within SolidWorks for doing this?  If so, what features beyond these would you like to see?  (I'm imagining stock components, plates, fasteners, etc.)

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe transcends reason.

RE: Mould Design Software

Visi is a far superior product to SW IF you specialise in press tooling and or mouldings.

If you look at Visi-mould also have a look at Visi-flow, a very good product.

SW beats Visi for most other sorts of work, so horses for courses really. I am sure others will disagree.

RE: Mould Design Software

(OP)
We currently design the parts using Solidworks and use the draft analysis tools etc to check for potential problems. The file is then sent to our toolroom who manufacture the mould. This is fine for simple parts but if the part is more complicated it has to be sent to an outside supplier. We would like a package which would help in the designing of the tools (sctock components, fasteners, sliding cores etc)

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