Overview

Welcome to the Tooling Design User's Guide.

This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with Tooling Design and Mold Tooling Design.

Tooling Design in a Nutshell

Thanks to Tooling Design, mold makers, progressive die makers, die casting makers, stamping die makers, jigs and fixtures makers can quickly release tool designs with the following characteristics:

  • 3D design of the physical tool is fully editable and supports all the V6 fundamentals (collaborate, search ,impact, propagate ..),
  • Complete reporting of physical components of the tool is available for ordering,
  • Simulations of the tool motions (opening, closing, ejection …) is ready to perform,
  • Manufacturing intent is embedded in the Tooling Components and propagated to tool design and thus, available to the tool manufacturer (drillings, roughs , colors. ..).

Moreover, the design of the tool can be performed step by step :

  • First, conceptual design of the main functions of the tool.
  • Then, detailed design. Based on the indications of the conceptual design, the design is refined.
  • Finally, physical design: each component composing the physical part of the tool now has a physical definition (catalog supplier, dimensions, cost. ..).

In order to support conceptual to physical design, the user of Tooling Design workbench can declare its intent via Tooling publications.

Finally, thanks to the unique organization of the tool design provided by the Tooling Design workbench, concurrent design can be optimized: it is easy to toggle between design of independent sub-structures of the tool, and design in the context of the full tool, without any user constraints. This maximizes design re-use, shortens design cycles, giving Tooling Design users a leading edge.

Mold Tooling Design in a Nutshell

Tooling mold injection designers need to quickly design a tool based on their know-how. First, they must identify the best pulling direction of the part to mold in order to determine the number of prints, the core, the cavity, and the undercut areas. Then, they position the mold base around the prints and gather it with the components. Finally, designers place the ejectors and design the coolant channel circuits. Thanks to kinematics, they can control the movements of the different blocks of the tool.

Mold Tooling Design specifically responds to the needs of tooling mold injection designers. A predefined Layout allows users to insert and manage several Inserts in a positioned Mold Base, greatly enhancing productivity. It also features a dedicated Live command that fits the dimensions of the tool to the prints. Standard plastic mold bases coming from suppliers (DME, HASCO,FUTABA, etc.) are created in one-shot by selecting the recommended configuration. Plus, designers can generate cooling circuits in the mold base, thanks to a new dedicated Live command, which ensures concept productivity.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Tooling Design or Mold Tooling Design will also certainly prove useful.