Overview
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Learn how to use CATIA V5 to design for injection molding—the manufacturing process used for large volume production of plastic parts.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Designing an injection-molded part in CATIA
- What you should know
- Part overview and terminology
- Styling data
- Tooling direction
- Parting surface
- Drivers and parameters
- Creating the B side
- Part thickness: Shell method
- Part thickness: Core cavity design
- Interfaces
- Setup for bosses and ribs
- Creating the bosses
- Boss removal
- Creating the ribs
- A-side cleanup
- Draft analysis
- Draft edit
- Wall thickness
- Thickness edit
- Final fillets
- Conclusion
