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Making a Mold From an imported part

Tom-ATCNC — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:59:23 GMT

Hi All,

Looking for some advice on where i have gone wrong with this process.

I have had a part emailed across to me that this company wants a vacuum forming tool made.

I have followed the procedures on videos but i get this result. I split it and move top part of mold i can see the pattern there but the void is covered.

https://a360.co/2tlSTH4

Any help is greatly received.

Kindest Regards Tom

Re: Making a Mold From an imported part

davebYYPCU — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:22:16 GMT

Look to me like you have a number of bodies occupying the same or adjacent space, try toggling the lightbulb to make sense of the model/s.

(Not clear on Ipad, to see which is which).

Section analysis shows both are hollow.

Might help...

Re: Making a Mold From an imported part

Tom-ATCNC — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:11:27 GMT

Looks like its under cut, so that thin wedge of material shouldnt be there,

Have i done something wrong in the splitting of the body for this to happen?

Kindest Regards Tom

Re: Making a Mold From an imported part

etfrench — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:11:34 GMT

Does the file show the mold or the part?

One technique for creating a mold is:

Change to Patch workspace.
Delete outer faces of model.
Thicken the remaining inner faces.

Draft will have to be added where necessary.

Re: Making a Mold From an imported part

Tom-ATCNC — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:19:46 GMT

Hi,

The Screen Shot is the mold,

I will look in to your method now,

Thank you

Re: Making a Mold From an imported part

Tom-ATCNC — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:44:11 GMT

Morning All,

After alot of patience and playing around i found the fault which was operator error.

Basically the part that was sent had drafts on all sides. so when extruding the patch plane to get a split line it wasnt level with the base but perpendicular to the drafted side,

On extruding the split line i added a taper to counter the draft angle resulting in what i was trying to acheive.

Thank you all for your time.