Mold Design Overview

The process of mold design is a complex combination of advanced science and knowledge of an individual producer's equipment and processes, and for the highest quality, it often requires a great deal of experience. Too often it isn't possible to access that experience, and with many companies having their plastic parts injection-molded outside of their own walls, it isn't reasonable to expect to have the thorough understanding of the equipment available. Securing the time and expertise of a plastics engineer helps to overcome these issues, but their time is expensive and in very high demand. As with the stress analysis tools, Inventor includes tools to help an engineer with a lower degree of expertise do a lot of the fundamental ...

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