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Getting Started ¾ Click . The Slide is read in and positioned on the face selected according to the global coordinate system. The slide positioning dialogue now appears. This dialogue allows you to move the slide on the plane of definition or rotate it. ¾ Click . Finally the Cam Pin Length dialogue appears. Before the initial mold has been created the only active parameter on this dialogue is the Stroke parameter. The Ref Plane1 will be the top face of Plate2 (cavity plate) as soon as the initial mold is created. Refer to the User Guide for an explanation about the other parameters. ¾ Change the Stroke parameter to 0.25 to allow the pin to move out by .25inch. ¾ Click . ¾ Click . Now add the slides on the other four pins use the so all you have to define is the face of the pin. The Stroke will be defaulted to the last inputted i.e. .25. 2-11 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started 2.2.4 Initial Mold Base Creation A number of manufactures all over the world are making standard mold parts for Mold Makers. A Mold Base is an initial assembly of mold plates and components that the mold maker can purchase from a commercially available catalogue thereby shortening manufacturing time. MoldWorks includes a database of the commonly used catalogues with a selection of the most commonly used mold components. New catalogues and additional mold components are added from time to time according to the user wish list. ¾ Activate MoldWorks>Mold Base> New Mold… or click relevant icon from the MoldWorks pallet. The New Mold dialogue box appears. NOTICE that the size of the mold is automatically calculated to fit the inserts, which have been defined. ¾ Click the select button from the Name: parameter to list the available catalogues. Depending on the units of the current document the selection will show either the metric (mm) catalogues or the inch ones. In this Tutorial the document is defaulted to mm and so we choose the TRAINING catalogue. Make sure that Type is set to Standard. We are going to create a standard mold base. The other option of Type is Plates Only or Non Standard mold. The Non-Standard type allows you to create a non-standard mold (modifying the general dimensions) with all the components positioned according to the corners of the general dimension. You can also create custom mold bases (or dies, jigs and fixtures etc.) by using the MoldWorks>Add Plate… menu or relevant icon (under the User tab), on any assembly of standard SolidWorks parts. 2-12 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started ¾ Click on the Estimation tab. NOTICE that the Catalogue tab is compressed and the Estimation tab opens. In order to simplify the interface we have caused the different tabs to toggle between them. However, data which is useful from one tab is copied to another if necessary i.e. in the Estimation tab we see the Dimensions: parameter again. ¾ Set the following parameters: S1 = 35, S2 = 25, S3 = 60, T1 = 5, T2 = 5 ¾ Click on to see the meaning of the parameters. ¾ Click on to store these parameters as the new defaults. 2-13 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started ¾ Change to top view, to see how the inserts fit in the general size. ¾ Change to right view to see that the mold fits into Plate2 and Plate3. ¾ Click on the Thickness tab. Make sure that the thickness of Plate 3 = 76. ¾ Click on in order to get the graphic help that will help you understand plate name structure. (You can change the names through the MoldWorks > Utilities > Options menu) ¾ Click on the Option tab. This tab includes optional mold components, which may be included in the initial Mold Base. ¾ Select the Locating Ring, Spacers and Ejector Guide check boxes as well. 2-14 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started Next we will check out the Injection machine. This is an optional step – and can be skipped. The Injection machine can also be previewed after the mold has been created. ¾ Click on the Right view. ¾ Click on the Injection Machine button in the Catalogue section of the New Mold dialogue. ¾ Mark the Display Injection Machine. Here we can see a view of an injection machine with the mold. MoldWorks indicates the Minimum and Maximum Mold Height as well as the Maximum stroke distance. If the mold doesn’t fit into the machine then MoldWorks will indicate where the problem is. In this view the mold seems to fit into the injection machine. The Injection machine data is read in from an external Excel file, which contains some standard injection machine data and can be modified to suit your needs. 2-15 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started ¾ Click on the Top view. Here we can see there is a problem since the columns go through the plates. ¾ Select Size 2 from the Size: box. The injection machine now fits into the mold. ¾ Activate the Right view again just to be sure. ¾ Click . Initial Mold Base, initial components and component holes are created. Inserts initially defined are added to the mold at the end of the process. 2-16 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started MoldWorks is fully integrated in SolidWorks. Check that in the SolidWorks FeatureManager design tree the mold plates and component are standard SolidWorks parts positioned in the mold assembly. For each group of components one component part is created positioned and displayed in the first position, the other components of the group are positioned as instances of the first and are in hidden mode. Component holes are created using the SolidWorks Hole function (whenever possible) in order to take advantage of the hole annotation. Holes are created with clearance dimensions following the method used by the mold maker to manufacture them. This issue will be discussed in subsequent steps. The cavity and the slide pockets have been created by the tools, which exist within their definitions. The plates of the mold base are mated to allow modifications to propagate throughout the mold. The four basic sketches for the base plates, the two raisers and the ejector plates are created. 2-17 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started MoldWorks suppresses the displayed geometry before creating the mold base and returns it to its default status at the end of the process. ¾ Activate left view. NOTICE that the cam pins have been extended automatically to the top face of Plate2. 2-18 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started 2-19 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial As soon as a mold is created MoldWorks adds a MoldWorks FeatureManager tab to the SolidWorks Feature Tree Manager in order to organize the MoldWorks information. ¾ Click on the MoldWorks FeatureManager tab. ¾ Open the Display Configuration folder. ¾ Choose the different configurations and RHM button to Show Only (or Resolve Only). ¾ Activate isometric view. The display configurations have been created according to the plates, which need to be displayed when adding the various components. Notice that the Mobile Side icon is colored in to show that we have chosen the Mobile Side display configuration to show. Getting Started 2-20 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial 2.3 Creating Standard Components This Chapter will demonstrate the typical method we use in MoldWorks to add standard components. The component-positioning sketch can be created in a part document or in the assembly document. You can create it in advance or on the fly. Different variations of the component-positioning sketch will be demonstrated later on. [...]... clicking again Scroll parameter D1 to 10 This means that we are selecting an M10 standard screw from the catalogue Watch how the screws preview changes Scroll parameter S1 (Screw Length) to 30 NOTICE that the moment that the screws penetrate the core insert we see their duplication in the preview Click instead) (not a mandatory step you could click on the MoldWorks2006 Tutorial 2- 24 Getting Started MoldWorks... to all its MoldWorks2006 Tutorial 2- 22 Getting Started instances Deactivating this button will create the components ONLY for the specific insert Click The Screw parameter dialogue box appears And the initial preview of the screws at the 4 locations is shown Change to front view Click the See Parameters icon The component graphic help appears MoldWorks2006 Tutorial 2- 23 Getting Started The graphic help... the name of the face is entered into the Selected face text box Click MoldWorks2006 Tutorial 2- 21 Getting Started The Position dialogue box appears Change to wire frame mode Change to normal view Open the sketch palette and create the following sketch (Connect the centers of the corner fillet on one side and dimension 10 from the distance on the other side) This sketch will be used to define the positioning... help appears Select one of the core inserts and click on the Measured Length icon S1 will automatically jump to 40 which is the correct length of the screw using the screw Thread Depth = 1. 5 Screw Diameter (this law can be found in the Rules Options tab under the MoldWorks > Options menu.) MoldWorks2006 Tutorial 2- 25 ... any part or in the assembly The actual positions are calculated from the starting face Close the sketch The sketch now appears in the Position dialogue box The number of component positioning points is automatically displayed in the dialogue Make sure that the Duplicate to instances button is activated This insures that components, which penetrate an insert, will be duplicated to all its MoldWorks2006...Getting Started 2. 3 .1 Create Screws Click the RHM button on and select Show Only in the MoldWorks FeatureManager Tree Activate MoldWorks > Add Component or click the Add Component Icon The Add Component control dialogue... The graphic help defines all the modifiable parameters Some of the parameters are of geometrical type (screw diameter) and some of functional type (tapping depth) You may scroll a leading parameter (D1 in this case) defining the standard components from the catalogue If you key-in for the leading parameter data which exists in the catalogue it will also be recognized and all the standard parameters . inputted i.e. .25 . 2 -11 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started 2. 2.4 Initial Mold Base Creation A number of manufactures all over the world are making standard mold parts for Mold Makers parameters: S1 = 35, S2 = 25 , S3 = 60, T1 = 5, T2 = 5 ¾ Click on to see the meaning of the parameters. ¾ Click on to store these parameters as the new defaults. 2 -13 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial . pins have been extended automatically to the top face of Plate2. 2 -18 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial Getting Started 2 -19 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial As soon as a mold is created MoldWorks adds