Tool Design & Mold Analysis Tips & Techniques Session recording (East Coast)

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Check out this video on Tool Design & Mold Analysis  from PTC Application Engineers

Presenters: Lee Goodwin (Technical Specialist), Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales )

Original Date Presented: September 16th 2021. 

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Webcast Q&A

Question from Al:  How do you model/work with a mold that has a multiple core pins that creates cavities in the part?

Answer:  You would create multiple volumes and extract them from the overall volume.

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Question from Anonymous:  When are the menus going to be updated?

Answer:  Good question!  We left a few old school menus for nostalgic purposes 😉

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Question from Chris:  There are complex parts that need 3 mold parts.  Can you show us an example?

Answer:  There can be hundreds of parts to the mold if desired.  You do this by creating multiple mold volumes/parting surfaces.

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Question from Claudiu:  Is Creo able to have analyze feature find a minimum distance between a Runner Mold Feature and a Cut or Hole?  I've seen that there is an analyze feature (close proximity) between a Water Line and a hole, but I would like to be sure the hole is not closed to a runner.

Answer:  You could do a minimum 3D thickness check.  Aside from that, you have full measurement/clearance checking.

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Question from Kunal:  How can we create undercuts?

Answer:  Same as any other parting surface but the undercut will show up as a potential issue.  You can leave it as is if you wish.

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Question from Michael:  Is Creo able to determine the flow of your water lines and advise what your Reynolds number would be?

Answer:  Yes, with Creo Flow Analysis.

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Question from Paul:  With glass polyester, there is part shrinkage.  How do you accommodate that?

Answer:  Shrinkage can be added isotropic or anisotropic.

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Being new(ish) to Creo we struggle with this as its so out dated compared to the rest of the software