SolidWorks: Mold Tooling

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Today we're going to take a look at how to design a mold in SolidWorks for this rubber grommet. We are going to take it and make some changes to it based on our knowledge of mold tooling. Then we are going to design a very simple two part mold to build this product in real life. Sounds exciting? Let's go!

Contents

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Part 1: Overview

Let's talk a little bit about molding first. It's time for some theory!

  1. Overview (09:36)
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Part 2: Draft

We've imported our "dumb geometry" to SolidWorks and need to make some modifications to it by adding draft angles. In one case it's pretty straightforward and a little bit more difficult in the other.

  1. Draft I (02:37)
  2. Draft II (06:02)

Part 3: Surfaces & Solids

We're going to use surfaces to build our tool geometry, simply because surfaces are a very flexible and powerful way to work with your geometry. Once we've built our surfaces we're going to turn them into solids.

  1. Surface Offsets (04:27)
  2. Surface to Solid (05:29)

Part 4: Assemblies & Drawings

So far we've been working in a single part file. Now it's time look at how to save our work into multiple parts and use assemblies. We'are also going to look at how to build exploded views and create drawings.

  1. Bodies to Assembly (03:14)
  2. Drawings (07:47)