User Components 5.1.2 The Manifold ¾ Open the file Manifold.SLDPRT. 5-3 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components 5.1.3 The mold base ¾ Open the file HotRunner.SLDASM This is a two-cavity mold. • The cavities are rotated 180 degrees so that injection points will be in the same locations on the plastic part. • Only the static side of the mold is displayed. • To create the space for the Hot Runner Manifold two raisers were add on top of plate 2 using the MoldWorks Add Plate function. • All the inserts including the cavities, the cores, the side cores and the hot runner manifold were added to the mold, with the MoldWorks > Add User Part menu. 5-4 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components 5.1.4 Add the hot runner nozzles ¾ Hide Plate1, Plate10, Plate11, SideCore1 and SideCore2. The side cores are in the Inserts. • MoldWorks does not take into account, hidden parts when calculating the holes created by components and inserts. Unless they are instances or part of a recalculate sequence. 5-5 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components ¾ RMB (Right Mouse Button) on NZL part. ¾ Click Close cutting tool. ¾ Click . We use this dialogue box to identify the specific configuration a user component. ¾ Select the NZL001 configuration. ¾ Click to be Instance (default is picked). ¾ Click to create with pocket (default is picked). ¾ Click to proceed to the Start Face step. ¾ Select the lower face of the Manifold. 5-9 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components ¾ Change the V Dev. angle to –90. Now the component orientation is correct. 5-11 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components ¾ Activate the Attribute icon in the Component Position dialog box. At this stage you can modify these attributes. Here we can see that the Attributes have been recovered from the definition specified when the user component was created. (Ref the Summary Info under the Properties in the part document mode) ¾ Close the Attribute dialog box. 5-12 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components ¾ Click . • Nozzles are positioned in the correct position and relevant nozzle holes are created automatically in Plate2 and in both cavities. However the nozzles that were selected are too short. We will now edit the nozzles. 5-13 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components 5.2 Runner and Gate In the following steps we will use the powerful functionality of adding user components to add runners and gates. In this case we look at the component as electrodes to be used in the EDM process for creating a submarine gate. 5.2.1 Creating the runners. ¾ Open Mold.SLDASM from …\Example Files\RunnerGates. ¾ Hide all parts. ¾ Show only the Core insert and the Cavity insert . 5-16 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial . the MoldWorks > Add User Part menu. 5-4 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components 5 .1. 4 Add the hot runner nozzles ¾ Hide Plate1, Plate10, Plate 11, SideCore1 and SideCore2. The side cores. lower face of the Manifold. 5 -9 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User Components ¾ Change the V Dev. angle to 90 . Now the component orientation is correct. 5 -11 MoldWorks2006 Tutorial User. submarine gate. 5.2 .1 Creating the runners. ¾ Open Mold.SLDASM from …Example FilesRunnerGates. ¾ Hide all parts. ¾ Show only the Core insert and the Cavity insert . 5 -16 MoldWorks2006