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The Mold Wizard application assists you in designing plastic injection molds and other molds.
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The Mold Wizard application was developed and tested with continuous input from mold designers
and manufacturers. This ensures that the application meets the needs and priorities of mold makers,
and answers real-world design challenges.
Mold Wizard has design tools and procedures to automate the difficult and complex tasks involved in
mold design. The application saves you time throughout the design process and provides full 3D
models to manufacturing. If you alter the product design, you lose very little time because changes to
the product model are associative to the mold design elements.
ÿ is the process of creating a core and cavity based on a plastic part model. The parting process
is an important part of the plastic mold design, especially for parts with complicated shapes. The
Parting module automates this process by providing key tools.
Mold bases and component libraries are included from a variety of catalogs. pustom components,
including sliders and lifters, sub-inserts, and electrodes, are also provided in the Gtandard Parts
module. The Gtandard Parts module allows you to associatively place components with fitted pockets.
Mold Wizard provides a user-friendly way to manage different kinds of standard parts. You can use
the standard parts in the library, and customize the standard parts libraries as required.
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To use Mold Wizard effectively, you should be familiar with mold design and common NX
commands.
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To get the maximum benefit from Mold Wizard, you design process should follow planning and
execution steps like the following:
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Even if you plan to machine cavities directly in the mold plates, it is useful to define a
workpiece.
8.? If you have multiple cavities, plan the cavity layout in the mold base.
9.? Design shut-off geometry.
10.?Define the parting edges on the model and create parting surfaces.
11.?Add a mold base.
12.?Add hardware, ejectors, slides, lifters, sub-inserts, gates, runners, and cooling lines.
13.?å ptional) Design electrodes.
14.?preate pockets in mold plates and other bodies to accommodate the hardware and other
accessories you added.
15.?pompose a bill of materials.
16.?preate drawings.
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If you are starting Mold Wizard for the first time, see the important information in Gtarting Mold
Wizard in NX.
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You can use most Mold Wizard commands when the NX Modeling or Gateway applications are
running.
If you are in the Drafting, or pAM application, change to the Gateway application before using Mold
Wizard.
Two commands, ! and &, require you to start the Drafting application.
You are notified when it is necessary to change applications.
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Warning:
Do not use a disk root directory, such as p or , as a directory for a mold tooling project. Gome
essential operations fail if you initialize a project in a root directory, or attempt to add standard parts to
a project in a root directory.
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Giemens PmM Goftware recommends that you install the engineering database in a location outside the
default ¢¢¢
location. You can put the library in shared location on your
network, and point to it with the environment variable
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reasons:
Warning:
If you are running Microsoft Windows ®, you can convert Xess files ånon-Windows format) to
Microsoft Excel ® files, or convert Microsoft Excel files to Xess files.
To set up the Microsoft Excel conversion, copy the moldwizard_add_in.xla file from the
directory into your p ÿ
directory,
or p directory.
This file contains the conversion macros necessary to convert file formats.
Tip:
You must set Microsoft Excel macro security to a level that permit the macros to run. Medium security
gives you a choice of runnig macros at execution time.
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Warning:
Do
use the ÿ! command options to delete unused expressions. In a Mold Wizard
assembly, there are many expressions that are used only after you add components.
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You can customize Mold Wizard by adjusting the default preference settings in .
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In order to get the benefit of these features, make sure that the "" check box is selected in
he - ÿ" dialog box, on the Visual page.
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You should carefully inspect and correct the product model before you start a Mold Wizard project.
You must have a good quality product model to produce a good quality mold design.
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The Mold Wizard parting process can use either a solid model or a sewn set of surfaces that do not
form a solid.
When possible, use a solid product model because it will produce solid cavity and core models. Golid
cavity and core models provide some advantages in drafting and pAM processing.
Note:
In most cases, it is worth the additional effort to correct product models with geometry problems and
sew them into a solid.
Gome product models do not have correct draft åmold taper) or designs for efficient construction of
mold shut-off areas. You should correct the product model to have exactly the geometry that you want
in the finished cavity and core.
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Gtart the Mold Wizard application before you open any parts to assures that the proper assembly load
options are set so that interpart geometry links and expressions function properly.
You can start Mold Wizard from the NX ÿ state from:
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ï? The project name.
ï? Material and shrinkage factor
When you initialize a project, the solid product body becomes the parent of a series of associatively
linked bodies.
You can replace the product model file with a revised file and update the mold assembly with minimal
loss.
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You can use the c ÿ'" command to add another product to an open tooling assembly.
You can add as many products as you require in one injection mold.
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Note:
You do not need to have the product model open when you begin a mold design project.
Tip:
You can use the ÿ dialog box to verify or change the default file
names of the assembly component parts.
13.?plick 5.
Warning:
After the template assembly is renamed, the parts are saved to disk.
You can close the parts without saving them if you want to change the settings.
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When you load additional product models to a tooling assembly, the units, project path, and project
name remain the same and the Initialize Project dialog box is not displayed.
paution:
To create additional of a product that is in the mold assembly, use the
command.
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Tip:
If you find it more convenient, you can also click c ÿ'" at this step.
3.? In the ! dialog box, select the
component of the project and click 5.
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Note:
Gee pommon dialog box options for common options not discussed here.
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Gelects a product body if there are multiple solid bodies in the original
product file.
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ï? Accept the path to the folder from which you selected the product
model or type a different path.
ï? Type a new path.
ï? Browse to a path.
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Note:
The project path box and browse button are not available in the Teamcenter
environment; the mold project is referenced under the plastic product.
Gets the project name. By the default naming rule, the project name is
included as a prefix to the file name of each file in the mold project.
Tip:
Note:
Note:
The list is used only to set the shrinkage factor. The name of the
material that you select is not stored.
Tip:
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You can override a material database value or enter any shrinkage factor not
present in the database.
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Tip:
Assembly template files define the assembly structure of a mold design
project.
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If you specify any existing part name and a numeric suffix wild card character in the name rule, the the
numeric suffix is incremented until a unique name is found.
If you specify an existing project path and name with no numeric suffix wild card, a dialog box is
displayed with the following options:
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Part name Identifying attribute Description
rganizes the assembly structure.
top YM_T P
pontains the bill of materials definition.
pontains expressions used by the mold
var YM_VAR
base and standard parts.
rganizes cooling bodies that cross two or
more cavities.
cool MW_p m
Gide A and side B components permit
simultaneous development of fixed and
moving halves.
cool_side_b MW_p m_GIDE_A
cool_side_a MW_p m_GIDE_B
fill YM_GR pontains solids for runners and gates.
pontains cavity independent standard parts
such as locating rings, parting locks, and
sprue pins.
misc YM_ THER
Gide A and side B components permit
simultaneous development of fixed and
moving halves.
misc_side_b MW_MIGp_GIDE_A
misc_side_a MW_MIGp_GIDE_B
pontains one or more product å
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layout YM_mAY YT
subassemblies.
pontains components for a combined
workpiece, cavity, and core.
combined MW_p MBINED
pomponents contain linked geometry after
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command is used.
pontains sketch 4"(879 for a combined
comb-wp MW_p MB_WP
workpiece.
pontains the linked body for the combined
comb-core MW_p MB_p RE
core.
pontains the linked body for the combined
comb-cavity MW_p MB_pAVITY cavity.
Part name Identifying attribute Description
pontains product-specific components for
a single instance of a product model.
product YM_PR D
Gide A and side B components permit
simultaneous development of fixed and
moving halves.
pontains a sketch and extruded workpiece
body.
MW_p MP_TYPE=M
workpiece W_W RKPIEpE
The shape and size of the sketch and
extents of the extrusion can be edited.
pontains shrink, molding, and parting
MW_p MP_TYPE=M component parts that must be moved
parting-set W_PARTING_GET together when you use the %:%
command.
pontains the original part model for a
original molded plastic product design. The model
product should be a valid solid body. This body is
the parent of the molding body.
pontains a linked copy of the molding
body.
parting YM_GHRINKAGE
pontains linked copies of the work piece
the mold pGYG.
pontains a linked copy of the molding
body.
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ï? Initialize projects with individual naming rules for each product that can be different from the
rules for the top level assembly.
ï? Yse user defined box workpieces with sizes based on clearance and automatic rounding, or on
dimensions from a reference point.
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Part name Identifying attribute
rganizes the assembly structure.
top YM_T P
pontains the bill of materials definition.
pontains expressions used by the mold base and
var YM_VAR
standard parts.
rganizes cooling bodies that cross two or more
cavities.
cool MW_p m
Gide A and side B components permit
simultaneous development of fixed and moving
halves.
MW_p m_GIDE_A
cool_side_b
MW_p m_GIDE_B
cool_side_a
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layout YM_mAY YT
subassemblies.
Part name Identifying attribute
pontains product-specific components for a
single instance of a product model.
YM_PR D
product Gide A and side B components permit
simultaneous development of fixed and moving
halves.
pontains the original part model for a molded
plastic product design. The model should be a
original product valid solid body. This body is the parent of the
molding body.
pontains a linked copy of the molding body.
MW_PR D_GIDE_A
prod_side_a
MW_PR D_GIDE_B
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1.? In the ÿ'"c dialog box, in the % group, click .
2.? Add new materials in the rc column.
3.? Edit existing or add new shrinkage factors in the %&c 51r column.
Example:
rc %&c 51r
N NE 1.000
NYm N 1.016
ABG 1.006
Warning:
You must format cells in the %&c 51r column as text, and as numbers.
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1.? In the ÿ'"c dialog box, in the % group, click ÿ'".
2.? In the spreadsheet, click the tab to register millimeter unit template assemblies, or the
c & tab to register inch unit template assemblies.
3.? In the $c1) r column, type a name to identify the template assembly in the
list.
4.? In the ÿ)%c column, type a path to your template assembly. The folder must be
located under the ¢¢¢
folder.
Note:
The two default templates are located in the ¢¢¢
and
¢¢¢
folders.
5.? In the ÿ)% column, type the name of your custom top level assembly part file.
Note:
6.? In the ÿ)% column, type the name of your custom product level assembly.
Note:
Example:
Note:
In Teamcenter Enterprise, you need not supply a path to a folder in the ÿ)%c column.
If the name of the product assembly is , a product assembly will not be created.
Dor more information about the template structure, see Project initialization Initialize Project related
topics.
Tip:
ï? Parts lists.
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ï? polor settings
ï? View orientation
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1.? In the ÿ'"c dialog box, in the % group, click .
2.? In the ) r column, specify a name for the attribute to be written to the
part.
3.? In the ) r column, specify a value for the attribute. You can take the value from
another part by using the syntax shown in the example. You can reference another part by its
attribute as shown in the table in Initialize Project related topics.
Example:
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Designer ABp
pustomer Name EDG
pompany Name <YM_VAR>::p MPANY