SOLIDWORKS: Mold Design

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About this Course

Learn how to design high-quality molds and casts for one-off prototyping or mass production in SOLIDWORKS.
For thousands of years, molds have been used to form raw materials like clay and metal into art, jewelry, and tools. With modern plastics, software, and manufacturing technologies, it's possible to cast almost any object from a mold.

This course is an introduction to mold design in SOLIDWORKS, for everything from one-off prototyping to mass-manufacture of a variety of products. Learn best practices for getting repeatable, high-quality results with 3D printing and CNC machines.

Expert provides an overview of the materials available for at-home and industrial-scale molding and casting, and helps you understand which production method is suitable for your scale of manufacture.

 

Topics include:

  • What are mold making and casting?
  • Materials
  • Type of molds
  • Designing a mold
  • Types of casting
  • Mold and box setup
  • Complex molds
  • 3D printing and CNC manufacturing for molding and casting
  • Other molding processes

 

Contents

 

Introduction
What is mold design?

What you should know

 

1. What Is Mold Making and Casting?
Definition of terms

Design methodology

Overview of applications possible

 

2. Everyday Casting: Materials
Everyday casting you've already done it

History

Materials

 

3. Design Considerations for Molding
Types of molds

Prototype molding components

What to avoid?

Designing a mold project

Molding possibilities

 

4. The Casting Process
Types of casting

Safety gear

Mold and box setup

End-to-end casting process

Casting possibilities

 

5. What Prototyping Processes Tell You about Full-Scale Manufacturing
Parting lines and flash

Material in, material out

Mold complexity, pulls, and placement

Fluid flow

Complex molding

 

6. 3D Printing and CNC for Molding and Casting
Why cast instead of 3D printing?

What is CNC and what can you do with it?

Picking your fabrication method

 

7. Other Applications and Processes
Blow molding and roto molding

CNC forms for vacuum forming

Press molding

Production at any scale

1. Language: English. 

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6. 30 days refund.

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