Reduce cost of accurate part production by accelerating injection mold design thanks to dedicated guided assistant for design and simulation
The CATIA Mold and Tooling Designer role enables a flexible and highly-customizable approach from conceptual to detailed mold tooling design. This role enables the user to automate design tasks and assist user decision-making at any step of a complex mold design:
Conceptual design for bidding process including accurate pulling direction and wall thickness analysis, placeholder for ejectors and cooling systems
Anticipate and check manufacturing compliance with plastic injection simulation integrated in the environment of the mold designer
Extract parting lines and parting surfaces in dedicated features providing a unique design change automation
Re-use complex mechanical systems for earlier kinematics validation
Re-use company know-how captured in smart components
Catalogs of standard Moldbases equipped with smart components from most of the mold tooling suppliers
Seamless 3D Electrode design
Finally the complete integration within the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform allows work concurrently in teams on the same project.
Benefits
One integrated solution from part design to tooling manufacturing
Access to Plastic injection simulation from the environment of the mold designer
Automate design tasks and assist user decision-making
Anticipate and check manufacturing compliance
Capture, deploy and re-use company know-how
Enable collaborative online engineering
Facilitate & reduce the time of design change from the part to the mold thanks to automatic update
Highlights
Core and cavity Separation
Many impacts of the plastic part design changes can be managed on the molded part features (Pulling Direction, Parting line, Separation…) with automatic update.
Pulling Direction: Easier understanding of separation. Analysis and modification of part topology with reflect or custom line. Computation and visualization of undercuts
Parting Line: Flexible parting line design process
Separation: Simplified one click separation. Generation of all separation surfaces from a single full parting line.
Automatic fill surface: Fill all the separation side surfaces in one operation
Parting surface: Automatic profiles creation on discontinuity points. Automatic Surface creation based on existing profiles. Parting surface wizard with extrude, fill, multisection, sweep surfaces
Electrode Creation: Define the area to electrode using a 2D sketch. Easily create active geometries based on Spark gap parameter
Process oriented plastic injection points ready for injection simulation and mold design
Wall thickness analysis
Mold Tooling Design
Mold base without core & cavity inserts
Rectangular, Circular or user defined prints patterns
Runner & Coolant design on sketch
Conformal Coolant design for Additive manufacturing.
Tooling component placement with a single command for both standard tooling components as well as Ejectors and Core pins
Tooling systems templates including kinematics animations
Flexible Mold base Configurator with all major supplier Mold catalogs
SIMULIA Plastic Part Filling
Simulate the filling phase of the injection molding process for a thermo-plastic part in the context of the mold designer
Easy design change propagation up to the simulation
