From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Mold Design
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Complex molding - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Mold Design
Complex molding
- [Instructor] So far we've talked about molding individual parts, or in pairs. Lots of smaller parts are made into family molds where the same part is repeated. Another common use of family molds is when many different parts of a whole are made of the same material. There are several different configurations one can use for this, and there is a more extensive use of runners. In this example, I have a simple bottle cap. It wouldn't make sense to have such a small part in an individual mold. I've demonstrated both the use of a radial family mold, and a grid. In the radial mold, the initial sprue river of plastic splits into eight individual runner streams into the center of mass for each cap. In the grid example, the main sprue could be at almost any point of this grid, though likely closer to the center, before separating out into individual runners. An example of family molds you may be familiar with is with small plastic model toy sets that you have to remove from a grid. They ship…
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