After a heavy day of tweeting and checking my schedule the trusty iPhone battery was ready to give out by about 5 O’Clock. Thankfully, with a convention hall full of booths displaying cutting edge 3D tech it was easy to find someone with an extra cable and a kind heart. Thanks to Julie with ZCorp […]
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First up on the schedule at Soldiworks World is a Roundtable discussion titled “Magic Drawings”. These round tables were just recently described to me by Jeff Mirisola (of Jeff ‘s Toolshed) as “A bunch of power users sitting around bashing the product”. Now this may be the case but when I heard that I just
As part of an earlier look at Parting line creation the option to automatically create a split line for all straddle faces was reviewed. However, it is not always certain that the software figures out where these things need to go and of course there are multiple ways to do everything. Split lines can be
When creating a mold, many times the base is already defined. Maybe the mold maker has one in stock, or there is an existing mold that a second cavity is being put in. To mold makers many times the geometry of a two parts starts to become a moot point. Two seemingly different parts can
So after reviewing the core and tooling split options, what happens when the resultant mold can not be created or machined easily. There are times when sectioning out a mold even more will make it easier to fabricate or more durable. For example, if molding a rough material that is known to wear away steel
It is a truth of the real world that not all systems or software is going to be compatible. Working out of Solidworks to design a mold in no way guarantees the part the mold is for will be made in the same software. Still, a solid model or even a surface model of the
After reviewing the basic steps of parting lines it’s easy to realize that not every part is so cut and dry. Sure for the sample CSWP mold tools exam the parts are easy to understand and surfaces are easy to define but what about on the real test? Or the real world? When looking at
Once a parting line has been selected for a part the next step is to create a parting surface. Luckily this step is very easy if don’t in the correct order (ie. if the parting line has been created). Click the parting surfaces tool and the feature manager will pop up and the parting line
The parting line of a molded component is the intersection of the part and 2 mold components. Typically this refers to the line where the two sides of the mold meet. On many parts this feature can be visible to the naked eye but in good part design attempts are made to hide the line
Starting my Mold Tools design review it seems just heading down the list of tools is the best route, so we’re starting with the analysis tools. When designing for molding one of the first things that should be considered is how the part will be drafted, so it makes sense draft analysis is at the
