Week 8 - Challenge 6 - Core & Cavity Design

AIM:- To Create the Core and cavity blocks for the switch bezel component.

TOOLING AXIS - The Tooling Direction is basically the direction that the mold pulls a part. The mold is built in two separate pieces, basically. You have a Cavity side and you have the Core side. The Core pulls apart from the Cavity and that's the Dye line or the Tooling Direction.

DRAFT ANALYSIS- The Draft Analysis command enables to detect if the part being drafted will be easily removed. This type of analysis is performed based on color ranges identifying zones on the analyzed element where the deviation from the draft direction at any point, corresponds to specified values.

PARTING SURFACE- The injection mold is composed of two major components : the movable half and the fixed half, during the injecction molding process, these two halves are pressed tightly from a sealed hollow to avoid the melt flow leakage and maintain certain holding pressure, the pressed surface are called parting surface , usually parting surface are the biggest projection outline of the part.

Parting Line- A parting line, in industrial casting of molds, is the border line in which draft angles change direction. One can check the parting line in the mould or product which divides the two half, i.e; the core and the cavity of a molded part. It is sometimes a starting point for the mold parting surface.

CORE DESIGN

-Core - A portion of the mold that goes inside a cavity to form the interior of a hollow part.

-Core-cavity - A term used to describe a mold created by mating A-side and B-side mold halves.

CAVITY DESIGN- A mold is a hollow form typically made from stainless steel that has plastic injected into it to manufacture a plastic part. The plastic is inserted into the mold cavity, which is a hole in the mold shaped like the desired part.