turning a complete design into parts on a sprue tree

[Anonymous]

Hi all, it's my first time to post.

Long story short, I have designed a very basic scale model with around 20 parts.  Now I have completed the design of the complete assembly and would like to lay all the parts onto a sprue tree, hoping to create a mold for injection molding later. 

But it doesn't seem to have a ready command or workflow for this.  Do I need to move the individual components around and decide on the parting lines in the process? 

Any ideas are welcomed.  Many thanks in advance.

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

You'll have to do this manually, There is no command or particular injection molding functionality here.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Can you File >Export and then Attach your *.f3d file here?

[Anonymous]

hi, it's half of the model i am yet to mirror but you get the picture.

thanks.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Did you Attach the correct file?

This geometry is not ready for injection molding?

Which components (by name) do you want to injection mold?

[Anonymous]

oh yes, i forgot to scale down the thing yet so it's now obviously too big for anything.

i am thinking to scale it down to 1/12 after the final bits are there and then intend to arrange all the components onto a single or two sprues.

I have never do any mold design before so it's my first.  Also, I am not immediately thinking about getting a block of metal CNC. What I am thinking is to 3d print out the sprue tree, then probably get a resin mold out of the print out then do casting.

Thanks very much.