SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
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My company uses Solidworks to design foam packaging. Each component of the assembly is a die cut piece (in effect a 2D geometry that's been "extruded"). Then the Parts are simply mated in the Assembly. Is it possible to use the SolidWorks files to create the geometry for the steel rule cutting die? Die maker can use .dxf files. The cutting die would normally include several different parts in varying quantities (depending on how many "Part A's", "Part B's", etc.). Key is to be able to manipulate the Parts in the die layout to maximize material yield. Other designers are simply redrawing the 2D profile in AutoCad, but that seems like a waste of time. Is this clear as mud?






RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
Now however, I think I would still get my sketch geometry correct, but I would extrude the shape mid-plane as a thin feature.
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RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
no need to redraw the 2d profile.
how?
if u already have the 2d profile for the die (ie autocad 2d drawing or 2d dxf file ),
open the drawing in autocad.
convert the profile drawing into single entity.
how to change the die profile into single entity?
select boundary command in autocad.
click inside area of the profile.(this profile should be closed)
now the die profile is converted into single entity.
open this file in solidworks - copy.
now paste this into ur working plane in solidworks part file.
then give ref dim for positioning.
it does n't loose it's original shape and dim.
now u can easiely extrude that profile.
or
another way:
(CONTRAIN ALL CONCEPT.
Sets constraints on the sketch entities of an unconstrained imported .DXF or .DWG drawing.)
To solve relations in an imported drawing:
Import a sketch from a .DXF or .DWG drawing.
Click Tools, Relations, Constrain All.
The command tries to solve all the apparent relations in the sketch and reports the number of constraints that were added to the sketch.
thanks,
regards,
murugan S
Design Engineer,
GlobalSoft Pvt Ltd,
INDIA.
RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
You could even make a scratch assembly file arranging and nesting all of your parts, place that assembly in a drawing, and cut them all from the same sheet.
RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
Ray Reynolds
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RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
RE: SolidWorks 101-Creating cutting die files?
Getting ready to take a company into the marvelous world of SW, and a big part of what they do now is Acad files only (various versions too). What are people doing with it now-a-days. I got a few ideas in my head of how I want to handle it. So, anybody doing die cuts in 2005? We are getting files in various forms to work with, so this should be interesting. And seeing as there is no SW structure in place, I get to set it up right from the get-go!!
Any suggestions with die cuts and dealing with rule is what I'm looking for. I'm a single user with SW professional, but I'm setting up PDM and the whole thing fresh! They've had SW for almost a year I guess, and it's the most expensive file translator for Acad I've ever seen....but that's why I got hired....
thanks,
john
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