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Creating 2 part Die for Plastic Jetting

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:51:22 GMT

Hello, I need help with creating 2 part die for plastic jetting. Idealy upper die as one file, bottom as another one.

I will simulate creation of die with 3axis milling, so It must be manufacturable by that.

I use Inventor 2016 Professional.

I´m attaching a simplified picture of how it should look like. I was trying to make rectangle and then extrude it "up to next" but thats not working due to the holes and stuff. I´m just learning to work in Inventor and Can´t figure this out.

Can you help me ?

Thank you

Re: Creating 2 part Die for Plastic Jetting

mcgyvr — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:08:58 GMT

Inventor pro has mold/tooling for designing injection molds..

If you don't want/don't know how to use that you can use derive to create a simple clam shell mold..

see here

http://www.widom-assoc.com/derived_parts2.pdf

Here is some info on mold/tooling design

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Inventor-Help/files/GUID-B3CD4078-8480-41C3-9C88-C470E9AC686C-htm.html

Re: Creating 2 part Die for Plastic Jetting

JDMather — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:45:58 GMT

You are missing draft angle on a lot of faces and missing dimensions?

Also, I think you might need to reconsider some of the geometry to get clean parting edges.

Re: Creating 2 part Die for Plastic Jetting

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:07:58 GMT

I have no idea what you mean JDMather...

Also mcgyvr that mold tool was somewhat helpful but it´s too complicated.

There must be a easy way to make that form. Something like inverted intercepted extrude or something...

Re: Creating 2 part Die for Plastic Jetting

JDMather — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:23:56 GMT

Is something like this what you are trying to do (turn on your sound)?

Re: Creating 2 part Die for Plastic Jetting

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:35:23 GMT

This is exactly what I wanted.

THANK YOU !

Re: Creating 2 part Die for Plastic Jetting

mcgyvr — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:50:39 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Also mcgyvr that mold tool was somewhat helpful but it´s too complicated.

There must be a easy way to make that form. Something like inverted intercepted extrude or something...

Guess you didn't see that I stated to use "Derive" in my post as well as using the mold tool module..

Now that JD has shown you just how easy the mold design module can be I assume you will use that now..

But "derive" functionality as shown in the PDF above is the way to do that without the mold module..