Project 2

Mold blocks.

• 1 Part file was given to interpret the designs and proceed with making mold blocks.
• I followed the process mentioned in the tutorials to make the mold blocks which started with making cavity and core surface by Mold tools
• It starts with using drafts analysis and choosing the tooling direction to check if the drafts given are up to the standard which is set to 0.5 degrees.
• After drafts analysis I would scale the components according to the shrinkage allowances as it was given 0.6% so I scaled it by 1.006.
• Then I chose parting lines feature and chose the tooling direction according to the part geometry and then selected the edges to be considered as parting line.
• Then I created parting surface by selecting ruled surfaceon each of the edges of the parting line.
• We still need to create the shut off surfaces to create the cavity and mold surfaces. By selecting the feature called shut off surfaces in mold tools toolbar and selecting the edges of the holes or cuts where shut off surfaces are needed we can get shut off surfaces and this will complete the process to get mold cavity and core surfaces as different surface bodies.
• After getting the cavity and core bodies I would hide the solid body and copy the parting surface by Copy/Move entity fromdirect editing toolbar by selecting the parting surface and then clicking OK. This creates a second surface in the same place then I would hide one of them and one of the core or cavity surface from feature panel.
• After all this I would Knit the cavity surface and parting surface then I would open this in an assembly and create two new parts for core and cavity. Then I would sketch a rectangular block around the cavity surface on parting surface then I would extrude it both sides to make a solid cuboid with our parting surface in the middle. And select offset surfaceswith 0 mm offset to copy the surface of core or cavity from the solid file to the dedicated part file.
• Then I would choose cut with surfacetool from surfaces toolbar and select the knitted surface and cut in the direction away from cavity to get an impression on the other side of the block. This solid body is then renamed to cavity block. And same process is repeated with core surfaces too but direction of the cut n cut with surface is towards the cavity to get extruded solid body as a core block.
• Same process is repeated in both the cases.