Week 8 - Challenge 6 - Core & Cavity Design

AIM:

• To Create the Core and cavity blocks for the switch bezel component.

DESCRIPTION:

1. CREATING 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.

• Open the given CAT part file.
• Check for gaps between surfaces for that click on join and then preview.
• If theres any gap between the surfaces join them with a maximum tolerance of 0.003 mm.
• Extract the boundary and dissemble the boundary.
• Find the correct tooling axis where the material don't interfere with the tooling axis and all the elements can be created.
• Create an axis system using at the centre of the switch Bezel.

2. 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.

3. 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.

CONCLUSION:

• The Core and cavity blocks for the switch bezel component is created.