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Is your company equipped enough to design your plastic injection mold in an invariable environment? It may sound hard. But SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software allows us to design plastic injection molds with composite geometries. It provides a 3D workspace which showcases our final results before getting it for production. One can also validate the mechanical functionality of the molds and the components which in turn increases your productivity multi-fold. SolidWorks can handle various CAD data and provides access to a range of add-on mold design and production applications. Cut down your mold design cycle, import and export various data formats and enhance your design communication with your customers, with the help of SolidWorks 3D CAD. In continuation with our earlier blog posts, following are the injection molding rules-based checks: MINIMUM WALL THICKNESS : Walls which are too thin can cause filling problems and develop high molding stresses and also lead to structura...

SOLIDWORKS DFMXpress – Mill Rules Overview Are your manufacturability issues bringing down your profits? If yes, then look no further. DFMXpress, an integrated feature in SolidWorks is engineered to guide the designer on the problems faced during the manufacturing process. It automates the design process through a set of rules-based checks thereby accelerating and improving the entire design through manufacturability procedure. In our earlier article we discussed on the drilled hole checks functionality in DFMXpress. In this, we shall explain you in detail on the Mill rules. MILL RULES 1. DEEP POCKETS AND SLOTS Deep, narrow slots are difficult to machine. The long, slender end mills required to machine them are prone to chatter, which makes tighter tolerances difficult to achieve. Deep slots also make chip removal more difficult if the slot is blind. Recommendations: Avoid long corners with long radii. Design milled areas so that the e...

SOLIDWORKS DFMXpress – Drilled Hole Checks Overview Designing is a crucial stage in a product’s life cycle. It is very important to detect and eliminate errors in the initial stages of design, since these errors will cause problems during manufacturing or increase production costs. How good will it be, if SOLIDWORKS has an automated manufacturability validation tool?(DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING) The answer is Yes. DFMXpress is an analysis tool that validates the manufacturability of parts. It helps in upstream validation of areas, which are difficult and expensive to manufacture. It also provides a mechanism for knowledge captures and employ for continuous betterment. DFMXpress functionality includes: Drilled hole checks Milled feature checks Turned part checks Sheet metal checks Standard hole size checks Injection molding checks In order to reduce tooling costs and for efficient manufacturing, there is a set of rules, to be followe...