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Mechanical Design

CATIA - Mold Tooling DesignDesign of Complex Molds, together with associated drillings, in a highlyproductive and intuitive environment, with full associativity to themolded part and kinematics capabilities.

Product overview

CATIA - MOLD TOOLING DESIGN 2 Product

is a generation design product which can be

cooperatively used with any other current or

future Design, Simulation, Deformation,

Drafting, Manufacturing Application of CATIA

V5, to offer a highly productive end to end

solution from the design of the Molded Part to

the manufacturing of the associated Mold

Tooling, in a PLM context.

CATIA - MOLD TOOLING DESIGN 2 Product

allows a rapid, cost effective, open solution

for creation of Mold Tooling for the Plastic

Injection Process, thanks to the availability of

a wide array of :

Dedicated Plastic Injection Mold Bases,

Plastic Injection Components,

Extensive General Mechanic Components,

all, either standard from Catalogs and/or

User Defined and/or Mixed, completed by

powerful and fully Associative Drilling

Capabilities

And by:

BOM capabilities,

Kinematics Capabilities for the Mold

Base.

What's New ? in V5R14

Catalogs :

Content

>Catalog :

Update Standard Catalogs for Mold

Bases and Plastic Injection Components

Update Standard Catalogs for General

Mechanics

>Samples :

User component : sample of lifter

Productivity

>Component Access via catalogs : improved

access in SMARTEAM

>Update Component Catalogs to provide

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Screw CounterSunk position by default

Components Instantiation:

Functionality:

Ejectors : management of guided hole

length : The Hole now takes into account

shape of the Molded Part, differently for

Ejector Instance.

Productivity :

Smart screws : Screw length

management, using Mold Know-How

to Tap-Hole

Component Modification Functionality :

Enrichment of the Contextual Capabilities

of Component : in addition to editing and

deleting, it is now possible to :

Isolate an instance of component for

modification independent from the other

instances (Copy Reference)

Replace a Catalog Reference by another

(Replace Component)

As for the other component contextual

menus Edit Component and Delete

Component, the associated drillings in the

Mold Plates, Mold Inserts, or other Mold

Components are modified accordingly.

Drilling Productivity :

Drill component : MultiSelection by icon

access, both for components to drill and for

Components, Plates or Inserts to be

drilled

Drill component : user is informed when

drilling is not performed as expected

Link to Manufacturing Enhancement:

If a Drilled Plate or Component is

organized by the user into SubBodies within

its Main Body, all the Drillings (Features

Remove) contained in the SubBodies will

generate pure Hole features, through the

Explode Hole command. This provides

user flexibility for the Mold Tooling process

end to end. The user is able to define

methodologies of design that can be reused

Drafting and Manufacturing phases. This

enhancement improves the productivity and

optimizes the relation between MTD and

NC

Color of Component Faces is transferred

to the result of the Component Drillings (

Feature Remove )

Tolerances set on Component Faces can

be retrieved through Drilling Operations

Product Highlights

Mold Tooling Design Workbench

Extended capabilities for the definition of

Mold Bases, Sliders, Retainers, (including

kinematics capabilities), Cooling Systems,

Gates and Runners for Plastic Injection, and

Ejection systems

Standard or User Defined Components (

Guiding, Locating, Fixing, Injection,

read from Catalogs and including powerful

embedded Drilling capabilities

Generation of dedicated and customizable

Bills of Materials (BOMs) including specific

attributes for Mold

Standard catalogs supplied DME,

DME-AMERICA , EOC, FUTABA , HASCO ,

MISUMI , RABOURDIN , STRACK ,

NATIONAL, MEUSBURGER, PCS,

PEDROTTI

Product Key Customers Benefits

Mold Tooling Design Workbench

The mold designer is benefiting from a

dedicated workbench to support all his tasks

including Mold Base definition, Component

instantiation, injection and cooling feature

definition that are necessary to define a

complete Mold Tooling.

Dedicated icon for Mold Component in the

part specification tree.

Standard Mold Base read from catalog

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Already defined Mold Base, made of a set of

plates are available from catalog with respect

to the main standards of the market (DME,

DME-AMERICA , EOC, FUTABA , HASCO ,

MISUMI , RABOURDIN , STRACK ,

NATIONAL, MEUSBURGER, PCS,

PEDROTTI). Plates are also customizable to

create users plates. Users can access these

catalogs, including many thousands

configurations, and retrieve Standard Mold

Base with their plates definition. They can also

search those configurations and retrieve the

appropriate ones thanks to a set of main

parameters like Nomenclature, Mold Length

and Width, Overhang value, etc.

At the instantiation time the system will

automatically configure each plate of the Mold

in a consistent way with the general

parameters of the Mold. Users can include, in

the plate definition, some points that will be

used later for the positioning of standard

components as Leader Pin, Bushing, Sleeve,

StopPin, Screw and Locating Ring.

Non Standard Mold base for cold and hot

injection

The system propose an already defined

Mold Base made of a set of plates

(Clamping, Upper Bar, Cavity Support,

Cavity, Core, Core Support, Riser, Setting,

Ejector A, Ejector B) that can be kept or

not. The main parameters of the plate can

be managed by mold designer, with an

easy user interface and pre-visualization

capabilities.

A non standard Mold Base can also be

created from a standard one. The user has

the ability to remove association between

a given parameter (e.g. core thickness) and

to adapt it to his needs. The non standard

Mold Base can be completed with some

standard or non-standard components (as

Leader Pin, Bushing, etc.) and be stored in

a user catalog that will accessible as the

standard one

Split of Core, Cavity plate, and insert with

contextual menu

Using the contextual menu in the

specification tree, the designer can

perform a split of Core and Cavity plate

and insert within the Mold Tooling Design

Workbench. The system will detect

automatically the right surface and the

right orientation to be used for this

operation

Split of Mold component with contextual

menu

Using the contextual menu in the specification

tree, the designer can perform a split of mold

component directly within the Mold Tooling

Design Workbench. The system will detect

automatically the right surface and the right

orientation to be used for this operation.

Sprue Bushing and User component can be

splited using this contextual menu as well as

Sprue Puller, Ejector, Ejector Pin, Flat Ejector,

Ejector Sleeve, Core Pin and Slider.

Standard component catalogs

The designer can read from catalogs standard

components managed with their associated

Hole. These already defined component are

available with respect to the main standards

of the market (DME, DME-AMERICA , EOC,

FUTABA , HASCO , MISUMI , RABOURDIN ,

STRACK , NATIONAL, MEUSBURGER, PCS,

PEDROTTI ). Thousands of configurations are

available, in the standard catalogs, identified

by some main parameters (Nomenclature, L,

D, ) are accessible by the catalog interface

and that are specific to the type of

component. At the instantiation time the

system will configure the parameter of the

component and will update the it's

nomenclature to be used in the BOM of the

Mold assembly.

Multi positioning capabilities

The mold designer can predefine the mold

position by several ways. He can select

pre-defined point that is provided with the

standard Mold Base or defined by the user,

select a face using a grid proposed by the

system, which will be used to snap the

position of the component or the positioning

of the components can be associative with

the selected object. In this case, an assembly

constraint will be created at the right level of

the assembly. An exact pre-visualization of the

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component is available during its positioning.

Catalog components managed with their

associated Hole

User components can be created and stored

within user catalogs. The user component can

be of an already defined type (e.g. Leader, Pin

or Ejector Pin) or no particular type, as a free

form component. It can be useful for example

for the definition of slider components. User

components are managed with their

associated holes as for the standard ones.

Generation of Bills of Materials

Mold designers can generate dedicated and

customizable Bills of Materials (BOM's)

including specific attribute of the mold

(Material, Heat Treatment) and automatic

Nomenclature from the configuration of the

component. Textual format, HTML or XLS

(Excel) formats can be generated interactively.

BOM can be based on User-defined

attributes. Attributes can be defined either

externally via a file (.txt or .xls) or manually.

Specific formats can also be defined (subset

of user-defined attributes) and re-used for

BOM generations. Listing Reports including

assembly trees and attributes of each

component can be generated.

New Locating, guiding and ejection

components

New locating (Sleeve, locating Ring and

Dowel Pin), guiding (Leader Pin and

Bushing) and Ejection component (Ejector,

Ejector Pin, Flat Ejector, Stop Pin, Angle

Pin, Ejector Sleeve , Core Pin , Knock-Out )

have been added to the MTD product.

Additional Injection Feature

A gate can be defined in both Core and

Cavity plates or in one of it. Two types are

supported: direct and side. Two types of

profile are supported: round and

rectangular. It can be handled as a simple

3D point by all the other application (GSD,

WSF, )

A Runner can be defined in both Core and

Cavity plates or in one of it. Two types of

profile are supported: round and oval The

runner definition is based on 2D Sketch

that is projected to the Parting surface and

that is used to create the related slot.

The definition of both gate and runner is

stored within the Molded Part and can be

assemble with it to represent the plastic

that will be injected within the Mold . The

user can choose explicitly the surface that

will be used to project the Sketch of the

runner for the computation of its geometry

and to define Submarine gate with 3

different types of profiles. Gates and

runners can be selected by catalog.

Connection components

Cap Screw, Countersunk Screw and

Locking Screw connecting components

are available to the designer usage.

Eyebolt was added as a miscellaneous

component

Enhanced Cooling pipe

The cooling channel features are used to

define the cooling system of the Mold.

They are defined in dedicated Part (Core

Cooling and Cavity Cooling) enabling

Collision check analysis with the other

component of the Mold. A contextual

menu is available to edit the coolant

channel definition within the Mold Tooling

Design Workbench. All type of 3D point

(3D point, vertices, projection, ) can be

taken into account to define the ends of

the Hole, any type of line is also provided

for cooling pipe creation. The coolant

channel remains associative (Location,

dimension) with the selected points. When

user selects a sketch, chaining of cooling

pipe is automatic.

Standard catalogs

Standard catalogs - DME, DME-AMERICA ,

EOC, FUTABA , HASCO , MISUMI ,

RABOURDIN , STRACK , NATIONAL,

MEUSBURGER, PCS, PEDROTTI have

been added, as well as enhancement of

the existing ones.

Support Catalog access for standard parts

or assemblies

The User interface of the application is

based on the standard catalog access

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capabilities that has been enhanced to

support automatic configuration of the

used Parts and assemblies as well as

hybrid instantiation of component with

their associated Holes.

Productive and intuitive industry oriented

Windows native User Interface for short

training cycles

Icon based, flexible and scalable

approach, from beginners & casual users

using pull down menus and panels, to

advanced users using contextual menus,

keyboard shortcuts. Preview and direct

mouse-based manipulations and

specification during feature creation,

modification and drag and drop. Full

support of Windows user interface

standards such as pull down menus,

messaging, on-line help, select-action

approach, multi-windowing, icon docking

reorganization. Dynamic users interface

including fast mouse-based 3D graphical

manipulations and a copilot concept

allowing the contextual pre-selection (by

means of highlight) of allowed graphical

entities. Contextual HTML documentation

browser.

Dynamic movement of parts

It is possible to dynamically move

constrained parts either by respecting the

assembly constraints or freely in such a

way that the constraints are no longer

respected. In the latter case an assembly

update is required to place the parts back

in their correct position