What You Can Do with Mold Design and Casting
Mold Design and Castingis an optional module for Creo Parametric that provides the tools to simulate the mold and cast design process. This module lets you create, modify, and analyze the mold and cast components and assemblies, and quickly update them to the changes in the design model.
Mold Design and Casting, together with Creo Parametric, provide tools to do the following:
Design Part Creation and Modification
• Create models
• Import and repair geometry if necessary
The import functionality can be used with the following: See Data Doctor Option and Interface
• Analyze if a design part is moldable, using Draft Check and Thickness Check capabilities
• Automatically create parting lines and detect undercuts using Silhouette Curve functionality
• Fix problem areas by creating draft, rounds, and other features as needed
Cavity Creation
• Assemble and orient design model dynamically while checking draft and projected area
• Apply a shrinkage that corresponds to design part material, geometry, and molding conditions
• Automatically create the workpiece stock from which core, cavity, and inserts will be split
• Create parting geometry, including sliders, inserts, automatic parting lines, and automatic parting surfaces
• Automatically split the workpiece to create cores, cavity, and inserts as solid models
• Create and assemble sand cores for cast design
Mold Layout Creation
• Create top level mold assembly
• Placement and patterning of mold cavities to allow multi-cavity molding
• Online selection and automatic assembly of standard mold bases
• Modification of mold base plates to allow for assembly of mold cavity
• Online selection and automatic assembly of ejector pins and other Mold Catalog items
• Automated creation of runners
• Automated creation of waterlines, including 3-D waterline interference checks
• Define and simulate mold opening and check for interference between mold components
Drawing Creation
• Create complete production drawings, including dimensions, tolerances, automatic bill of materials (BOMs) with or without balloon notes
• Use of drawing templates