For Mold Designs Add Parting Plane for Automatic Drafting of Features

[Anonymous]

A nice feature that could save some time on complex designs would be the addition of a "Parting Plane" tool that identifies where your model will be parted during a molding or casting operation.

Once the parting plane is created/selected, the "Parting Plane" tool will automatically draft all perpendicular features above and below the plane in the model. A dialog will allow you to specify the draft angle. Perhaps this can be incorporated in the existing "Shell" tool.

[roambotics_scott]

I suspect that (in general) drafting and doing everything necessary to make moldable parts will be pretty hard to automate /but/ the pay-off for doing it would be enormous.

[promm]

Thank you for your idea - this is getting archived due to lack of votes.

[Anonymous]

hii to all,

I think roambotics_scott you are right mouldable parts are not too much hard to automated but sometimes some product takes a time to moulded...Differernt materials are used for every single application, this requires a lot of knowledge about molding design.some typical materials may used for every different application like Polycarbonate PC,Nylon66,Nylon6,PBT,PSS,PSand so on..,

 [url]=http://www.hangplas.co.uk/design_tooling.php]molding[/url]  Material is put into a heated barrel and the material is mixed and pushed into a mould cavity where is cools and hardens.

Thanks..