Re: Mold Design In Solidworks Pdf Download
Nathanel Svagera
The Complete Guide to Mold Making with SOLIDWORKS 2022 is a quick paced book written to provide experienced SOLIDWORKS users with in-depth knowledge of the mold tools provided by SOLIDWORKS. Throughout this book you will learn the procedures necessary for using these tools to create and analyze effective mold designs.
Utilizing step-by-step instructions, each chapter of this book will guide you through different tasks, from designing or repairing a mold, to developing complex parting lines; from making a core in the part mode to advancing through more complex tasks in the assembly mode. Throughout this book you will be introduced to using surfacing tools to repair models and prepare them for the mold making process.
Towards the end of this book, you will learn how to work with SOLIDWORKS Plastics and Flow Simulation to simulate the way melted plastics flow during the injection molding process. You will also learn to analyze the thick-thin wall regions to predict defects on plastic parts and molds. Learning how to analyze plastic parts for errors and correct them early in the design stage is a valuable skill, which can save a significant amount of time throughout the span of the entire design process.
Every project in this book is based on real world products. Each of these projects have been broken down and developed into simple, comprehensible steps. Furthermore, every mold design is explained very clearly in short chapters, ranging from 15 to 25 pages. Each step comes with the exact screen shot to help you understand the main concept of the design. Learn the mold designs at your own pace, as you progress from simple core and cavity creation to more complex mold design challenges.
This book is for users already familiar with SOLIDWORKS who want to expand their knowledge of mold design. To get the most out of this mold design book, it is strongly recommended that you have completed all the lessons in the SOLIDWORKS Advanced Techniques book or have comparable knowledge. More CAD literate individuals, who want to expand their knowledge of the different features that SOLIDWORKS 2022 has to offer, will also find this book to be a great resource.
In the previous part of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series we reviewed the plastic injection analysis process. In this tutorial we are going to show how the mold design tools can be easily utilized for functionality on this updated geometry.
Developing a tooling split can be an arduous process using lesser design tools. When using 3DEXPERIENCE Works, the workflow is very direct. With powerful mold tools built in, regardless of what access level you have in 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, you can efficiently create a tooling split when building molds. With our carving knife handle, this is no exception.
Watch the tutorial video below to learn how we were able to design additional mechanical features and ultimately get to the final design with the powerful, built-in mold tools afforded to all 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS users:
As you can see below, 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS organizes the mold operations very conveniently. Generally, I would recommend working just left to right in this command manager, in completion of the necessary steps to create the tooling split. However, for more complex molds, there are a variety of surfacing commands that will help along the way. If I back up a step further, I would highly recommend for all users looking to generate molds to take our SOLIDWORKS Surface Modeling and SOLIDWORKS Mold Design training classes.
Next, we need to generate a split line that will dictate the separation between the core and cavity. The parting line command helps with respect to a draft angle color code whether there is a positive or negative draft, and this allows for quick visualization of these areas in the final part.
In this case, given the nature of the tight radiuses in the geometry, I chose to use the manual operation with the parting surface. This allowed me to create a very simple radiated surface perpendicular to the pull direction that will helpfully separate the upper and lower halves.
The last operation to the mold tools operation is to execute the tooling split. This command will conveniently create the upper and lower solid bodies based on the prior commands being run in succession. Because we created a parting line, we can generate a parting surface, and all the necessary steps in terms of the core/cavity functions are created automatically for us, which is super convenient.
Visit our website to learn how 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS connects the industry-leading SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD desktop solution to the 3DEXPERIENCE Works platform, a cloud-based product development environment.
Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091 RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces Theophilus (Mechanical)27 Oct 05 03:03The tutorial mentions it, but it's a bit of a hack. I'll try to reproduce the solution by memory.
You say you have your shut-off surface created, right. This will show up in your Surface Bodies folder as one of the surfaces. Make sure it's a single surface--knit it to make it so, if necessary.
From the Surface Bodies folder, drag the shut off surface you created into the mold shut-off folder. Everything will now work as you need it to. You need to drag the surface from the Feature tree, and not from the graphics window.
Try it and let me know if I forgot anything.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces IzRey (Mechanical)(OP)27 Oct 05 13:32I have the parting line, split surface, etc..... Everything is good but the shutoff surfaces. There are a few throughout the part. Only one is giving me the problem. When I have gone to look in the mold folder with the core and cavity subfolders it looks like, when I use the "shutoff surfaces" tool that it creates two surfaces each one that I define, i.e. one to go in the core folder and one to go into the cavity folder. When I copy my surface into one folder the other doesn't have it and I THINK that it is causing the tooling split to fail. I hope that makes sense. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces Theophilus (Mechanical)27 Oct 05 13:36Well, you cannot have two shut-off surfaces for the same region. You'll need to make sure the auto-created shut off surface in that region is not created (while creating that feature, tell SW not to generate a shut-off for that particular hole).
Then continue with my instructions above and it will work fine. (I just went through this on some parts I designed and then designed the injection mold for the parts. Worked great.)
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces rfus (Mechanical)27 Oct 05 13:59You can't always rely on the mold tools to be a magic bullet.
Don't knit surfaces when you first create the shut off surfaces. Closely inspect all the surfaces in just the core folder and in just the cavity folder. Color them green and red respectively or whatever you want and inspect them with one another and with your parting surface. Knit these together after your inspection and if you get a failure to knit surfaces you know you have a problem. You may want to go back to your solid and use the check tool. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces IzRey (Mechanical)(OP)27 Oct 05 14:45It's still not working, can Post a picture on here to show you what it looks like?? RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces CorBlimeyLimey (Mechanical)27 Oct 05 14:52How Can I Show An Image In A Post FAQ559-1100
Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091 RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces Theophilus (Mechanical)27 Oct 05 14:55Did you remove the duplicate surface? If so, make sure your manually-created surface completely plugs the hole in that area and that there are no other open holes in the part.
If you read through all the related pages on this topic in Help, you'll find an explanation on how to patch the hole manually without problems (which is what I did to solve this problem).
Unless there's a problem with your geometry, this should work just fine. (I did this in SW 2005.)
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces IzRey (Mechanical)(OP)27 Oct 05 15:12thanks i'll try that out and see what i can come up with RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces IzRey (Mechanical)(OP)28 Oct 05 14:43I still can't get this thing to work, it is probably something very simple. I'm pretty sure my hand made shutoff surface is geometrically O.K. because I could knit all of the surfaces together. But when I drag it into the cavity folder and then try to do a tooling split it doesn't it says that it can't knit the surfaces.... I'm not sure where the problem sould be. If you have any other advice I would appreciate it. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces Theophilus (Mechanical)28 Oct 05 15:15OK, I think you just mentioned your mistake. You don't want your shut-off surface in the cavity folder at all. You want it in the shut-off surfaces folder. Check it out and I think you'll find it (I'll double-check my mold file to make sure I'm giving you proper advice--if not, I'll repost.)
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces Theophilus (Mechanical)28 Oct 05 15:26In reviewing the files I created, I actually recreated my parting surface instead of a hole shut-off surface. So the hack was inserting the parting surface I made into the Parting Surface Bodies folder inside the Surface Bodies folder.
If you check the Help files carefully on this subject, I believe you'll find how to make your own shut-off surface. I think you would pick your shut-off surface during the Tooling Split feature to make everything separate.
If this is still a problem, you can check FAQ559-1177 (thanks to CorBlimeyLimey) to post a file on the Internet for download and other help. Please do not post your email address in this forum.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces IzRey (Mechanical)(OP)28 Oct 05 15:27thanks RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces IzRey (Mechanical)(OP)28 Oct 05 17:52Do you have to knit the parting surfaces together???(i.e. the parting surface where the mold splits and the surface that I made) RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces Theophilus (Mechanical)28 Oct 05 20:03You probably do need to do that so the split operation can work properly. Since I actually created the whole surface before (and not just the shut-off surfaces) I haven't tried that yet. But if any holes are seen in the parting surfaces, it won't work--so a knit seems like the only option.
Try it and see if it works then.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions. RE: problems with complex mold shutoff surfaces IzRey (Mechanical)(OP)31 Oct 05 18:02I just want to let you know I finally got it to work. The way I did was by creating a duplicate shutoff surface (like the shutoff tool does) I was able to do this by using the offset surface command and setting the distance to zero. When you do it this way it isn't as much of a Hack as it is bypassing the shutoff command to do it on your own. With the two copies of my shutoff surface I put one in the core folder and the other in the cavity folder. And that put everything together for me. Thanks to everyone for their help. I really appreciate it. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1406030293255-2'); ); Red Flag This PostPlease let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.
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