Making a mold

[ducktapehero]

I'm teaching myself how to use inventor and I wanted to make something to 3d print. I'm trying to make ice cube trays shaped like triangles. How can i make a mold out of a solid.

[JDMather]

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Inventor%20Tutorials/Inventor%2011%20Tutorial%205.pdf

It is now a bit easier with multi-body solids or Inventor Tooling in Inventor Professional, functionality that did not exist when that tutorial was written.

[ducktapehero]

sorry i'm using inventor pro forgot to specify

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Inventor%20Tutorials/Inventor%202011%20Tutorial%2014.pdf

This tutorial covers using Inventor Tooling (towards the end of the tutorial).

There are also a couple in the Inventor Help.

[wilkhui]

Hello Hero,

This sounds like a cool project!

I'm assuming you'll be using PLA or ABS to print your tray..? Just a word of caution - I read somewhere that not all PLA/ABS is food safe (I can't find the article but I'll post again if I do) so you might need to do some research on printing using food-grade plastics.

Hope this helps and good luck with the ice tray. Show us a picture here when you're done 🙂

Thanks,

Indy