Good Afternoon,
I tried to send you an e-mail but it failed, so i'll respone to the group
My user name is sparky100 true name [Scott Morley], I wrote a post going back to 11-7-03 on injection molding. You responded with some good points, but money is always an issue so we purchased SW. I found it at first hard. I took a class from SW to get a better understanding of it and it helped a little. I have also worked on it at home. My boss said up front that it will not get in the way of getting a projects done. I can understand that because I know its going to take some time my first time through. My boss asked if I wanted to try SW on the next job. So, I need to prepare myself. Well, I would like to know, if you do not mine what kind of molds you design? Bo Clawson ref. To you on the forum as a full time mold designer with a boatload of experience. I typically design A-series, stripper-series, and t-series mold bases. One to two cavity molds. I guess wear to start. I have not had any time to do mold design at home, just product design. You responded to my post back on 11-7-03 about Mold Works, Split Works, and Face Works. Which one works the best. Right now I have no additional software add to SW, but will be looking into it. I will start out a design from the beginning. A quick view of how I start a mold frame. I start with an assembly to make sure all components, side locks, eject pins, core pins, water, runners, cavity, and core fits without interference from anything. I need to know, how can I still do it this way. I can not create separate plates with holes and pockets thinking it going to work. Do I create one file with all the plates and then do an assembly. Then separate each plate for detailing after. Please if you could give me any help that would be great. Also, I do not know how you feel about this, but if you could e-mail a job that you did form the beginning it might help me out, to study your feature manger tree with the steps that you did to finish a mold design.
Thanks
Scott Morley