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Mechanical Design
CATIA - Mold Tooling Design
Design of Complex Molds, together with associated drillings, in a highly
productive and intuitive environment, with full associativity to the
molded 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 What's New ? in V5R14

allows a rapid, cost effective, open solution
for creation of Mold Tooling for the Plastic Catalogs :
Injection Process, thanks to the availability of
a wide array of : Content

Dedicated Plastic Injection Mold Bases, >Catalog :

Plastic Injection Components,
Extensive General Mechanic Components, Update Standard Catalogs for Mold
Bases and Plastic Injection Components
all, either standard from Catalogs and/or
User Defined and/or Mixed, completed by Update Standard Catalogs for General
powerful and fully Associative Drilling Mechanics
Capabilities
>Samples :
And by:
User component : sample of lifter
BOM capabilities,

Kinematics Capabilities for the Mold

Base. 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
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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
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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, ) Support Catalog access for standard parts
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
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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.
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

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