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This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide for designing molds using SolidWorks, detailing step-by-step instructions for creating 3D CAD geometry. It covers various functions such as drawing dimensions, applying fillets, and conducting draft analysis to ensure proper mold functionality. The document concludes with instructions for saving and animating the assembly of the mold components.

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This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide for designing molds using SolidWorks, detailing step-by-step instructions for creating 3D CAD geometry. It covers various functions such as drawing dimensions, applying fillets, and conducting draft analysis to ensure proper mold functionality. The document concludes with instructions for saving and animating the assembly of the mold components.

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1 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

TUTORIAL GUIDE: MOLD DESIGN

This tutorial gives step-by-step instructions for Mold Design procedure


using SolidWorks. The workshop employs a design of 3D CAD
geometry. The CAD geometry is an assembly of an
, and a .

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2 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

1/ Choose and insert

2/ Draw a

⮚ Smart dimension
Length:300 mm
Width:200 mm

3/Click and select entities

⮚ Select 4 edges
⮚ Fillet radius: 30 mm
⮚ Ok
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3 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

4/Select Function

⮚ Inverse Direction 1
⮚ Depth=100 mm
⮚ Draft on 5.00 deg
⮚ Enable “Draft outward”
⮚ Ok

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4 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

5/Choose

⮚ Select upper contour


⮚ Retain the default
parameters
⮚ Ok

6/ Choose

7/ Draw closed outline

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5 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

8/Using centerline, link the two midpoint and make them vertical

9/Ensure Smart Dimension

10/ Click

⮚ Direction1: through all


⮚ Direction2: through all

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6 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

⮚ Ok

11/Reuse the same steps for the right plane

12/Click

⮚ Select bottom body


⮚ Enter D=2mm for Thickness
⮚ Enable
⮚

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7 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

13/ Select the bottom side, as shown below.

 Click sketch and normal To

14/Using and

⮚ Create squares
⮚ Define Dimensions

15/ Click

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8 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

⮚ Enter 2 mm for
⮚ Ok

16/ Click feature

⮚ Select the 8 external corner edges


⮚ Retain default parameters
⮚

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9 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

17/ Right click on and check if mold tools is already


enabled

18/Select

⮚ Click
Note: Draft Analysis examines the faces of the model for sufficient
draft, to ensure that the part ejects properly from the tooling

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10 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

⮚ Select
⮚ Change to 0.25 deg
⮚ Enable
⮚ Click
⮚

19/ Click
Note: has two functions:
● Verifies that you have draft on your model, based on the angle you
specify.
● Creates a parting line from which you create a parting surface.
⮚ Select
⮚ Retain the default parameters
⮚ Click

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11 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

20/ Click

Note: extrudes from the parting line to separate


mold cavity from core.

⮚ Change to 120 mm
⮚

21/create a sketch on the press

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12 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

⮚ Right click on the surface


⮚ Select
⮚ Select

● Create center rectangle


L×W=400 mm×300mm
● ok
● Exit

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13 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

22/Apply

Note: creates the core and cavity bodies, based on


the steps followed earlier.

⮚ Select the Rectangle sketch


⮚ Check Block Size
Upward:130 mm
Downward:40 mm
⮚ Ok

23/ Hide out surface and internal line

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14 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

24/ Save the model under Save>Desktop> Plastic mold


25/ Right click on Solid bodies

⮚ Click save bodies


⮚ Select

⮚ Browse bodies under name


“Assembly”
⮚ Ok
⮚ Click
⮚ Click
.

26/ Open assembly

⮚ Click
⮚ Enable

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15 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

27/ Click

⮚ Enable

28/Click

⮚ Select upper body


⮚ Take upper body upward

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16 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

⮚ Select Done

⮚ Repeat the same


steps for the down body
⮚ OK

29/ Save assembly

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17 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

30/ Make a hole from which plastic injection takes part

⮚ Select upper entity


⮚ Click

⮚ Using
● Click
● Input the parameter below
● Click
● Select center point
⮚ Ok

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18 SOLIDWORKS/ Mold Tools

31/Change bodies color using

⮚ Click
⮚ Choose color
32/ Animate Exploded

⮚ Right click on
⮚ Click

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