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Mold Tooling Design and Core & Cavity Design
 Overview
Core and Cavity Design
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• Core and Cavity Design is intended for:

➢ a quick analysis of a molded part (cost feasibility),
➢ the preparation of the molded part for mold design and mold manufacturing. Mold Design:
Quick separation &
• Core and Cavity Design defines the core and cavity sides of a part, including any sliders or
lifters that may be required, so as to produce a MoldedPart ready to be used with Mold Tooling know-how
Tooling Design. It includes functions that define: capitalization.
➢ The pulling directions,
➢ the parting line
➢ the parting surface,
➢ the splitting surface,

Mold Tooling Design

• The Mold Tooling Design application helps you design a complete injection mold, from the
mold base to the components using user-defined and standard catalogs.
• The Mold Tooling Design User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create a
mold base and add all the required mold components to it.

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3. Design Change
2. Mold Tooling Design
1. Core & Cavity Design
Key steps of Mold Design (1/3)

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 Key steps of Mold Design (2/3)
Core & Cavity Design - Mold Tooling Design
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Wall Thickness
Pulling Direction
Analysis Parting Surfaces
Quick separation

Publications
Moldbase selection
Moldbase
Adaptative Hot Coolant Ejectors Knowledgeware
Runner system Channels behaviors

Design
change…

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Design Change
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Merge change
Compare Part Propagate change to
on Part
Versions form part
Check the
Parting Line

Additional Parting
Surface
Controlled Propagation

Manufacturing…

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Core & Cavity Design Toolbars
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Mold Tooling Design Toolbars
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Mold Tooling Design Standard Catalogs
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