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Core and cavity workbench howto

Core and cavity workbench howto

Core and cavity workbench howto

(OP)
Does someone have experience with this workbench?  I'm learning plastic tool design in order to participate in powder injection moulding projects.

My mentor uses... wait for it... microsoft excel to make amazing 2D drawings of complicated tools.  I don't want to follow him down that little burrow.  
It can't be too hard to use core and cavity, its just a bit confusing for a first timer with that bounding box and the way that pulling angle dialog goes.

I presume that's the first step once you've got a part in the workbench; put a bounding box around it?  Is this to be as large as the plate extremities?

RE: Core and cavity workbench howto

You don't need a bounding box.
1. set up pulling direction.
2. Transfer surfaces marked as other to core-cavity
3. Make parting surfaces with surface tools
4. Make mold using mold tooling workbench

RE: Core and cavity workbench howto

(OP)
Thanks dumtisdumtis

I've been fiddling, by-passed the bounding box and have sussed out the pulling direction dialog.  My sample plastic part has a core surface and a cavity surface now.  I thought the next step would be with surfacing tools to extend the surfaces as  far as the edges of the core and cavity plates.  

I've been fiddling with the mold tooling workbench too.  I'm looking for the way to import those surfaces to the correct plates.  I'll post another question if I get nowhere.

thanks again

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