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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...

In today’s scenario, manufacturing industry is facing huge problem in terms of the components getting rejected at their customer’s place. If the rejections take place at the design stage itself, not much money is spent. Rejection happening at the tooled up stage, we end up facing some costs. If the same rejection has to occur at the customer’s place, there is a huge erosion of customer’s trust. If companies are looking for consistent product quality, then GD&T becomes the main stay. GD&T helps in communicating your dimensional and tolerance requirements to the manufacturing and inspection. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) offers many benefits: ·                  Helps in eliminating recreation of drawings ·                  Design intent is clear and precise ·     ...

We do spell check on E-mails.  We do grammar and Syntax check on Reports and Documents.  How about our Designs?  Importance of Design Validation cannot be more relevant than in today's competitive landscape wherein Value Analysis and Value Engineering terminology as become commonplace. Benefits of Design Validation as a part of the Design Process is emphasized on this Video. If you like this video please say so.  We invite your comments and feedback on this presentation.

In today's complex world of competitive threats, Manufacturing Industries are looking at ways and means to stay profitable, improve efficiency and win more orders.  'Think like your customer,' is an old adage.  In order to gain more market share, convert more RFQ's into orders and Ensure First Time Right Happens, it is imperative that Designs and Drawing Release are given the importance and priority they deserve.  Emerging markets such as India would do well to learn from the West, on how to invest in Technologies, to have an impact with Technologically Innovative Products.  Next decade beckons aspiring Engineering Talent and Innovators to rule the Industrial Horizon and not the 'contract manufacturing' companies.  Increased profitability will come only with 'Value' as perceived by the customer.  Watch this video to find out How SolidWorks has proven to be a wise investment for companies that are seeking to improve their products or come up with innovat...

Dimensional Management Series:   Tutorial on Tolerance Stack Up Analysis using Sigmund Stacks .  Video Highlights the Design for Quality Process to achieve First Time Right.  Benefits of Tolerance Stack Up Analysis is provided for the manufacturing Industries that are looking at ways and means to achieve consistent quality at least cost.  Visit http://www.egsindia.com/sigmund.html for more information on Sigmund.  Do not forget to leave your comments on the video and content.