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Fig.7Theassembly2Ddrawing
commercial3Dsolidmodellingenvironment—http://www.77cn.com.cningthisAPI,anintelligentandinteractivedesignenvironmentforinjectionmoulddesignisdeveloped.Therearemanyusefulmenus,toolbuttons,dialoguesandcommands.
Figure2showsaplasticproduct.WiththehelpoftheintelligentandinteractivetoolsprovidedbytheIKB-MOULD,aninjectionmouldisdesignedtomouldthisplasticproduct.
Mouldspeci cationisdoneduringtheinitialmoulddesign.Figure3showsthemouldspeci http://www.77cn.com.cningthemateriallibrary,therelativeshrinkagerateinthreedirectionsisrecommendedtoreconstructtheproductmodeltoac-countformaterialshrinkageduringthemouldopera-tion.Someothermouldinformation,suchasthemouldbase,thenumberofcavities,themouldsize,etc.,canbefoundinthemouldspeci cation.
Thecriticaldesigninaninjectionmouldliesinthecore/cavityinsert.Duetothecomplicatedstructureoftheproduct,therearemanyinsertsinthecoreandthecavity.Figure4showsthedesignedcoreandcavityin-serts.Thedesignedcoreinsertswiththeproductare
displayedontheleftsideandthedesignedcavityinsertsaredisplayedontherightsideofFig.4.
Figure5showsthe naldesignedmouldintheentireIKB-MOULDenvironment.Theleftwindowshowstheassemblytreeoftheinjectionmoulddesign.Thisassemblytreeliststhemouldbase,inserts(coreandcavityinserts),tools(includingfeedingandcoolingsystems)andstandardelements(includingejectorpins).Theassemblytreeisautomaticallygeneratedfromtheinjectionmouldobjects’relationshipbasedonthepro-posedobjectrepresentation.Theentiremouldcanbeviewedinwholeorinpartbyselectingthevisibilitybuttonofeachinjectionmouldobjectintheassemblytree.The naldesigninjectionmouldbasemovinghalfisdisplayedinthecurrentIKB-MOULDenvironment.ThemiddlewindowinFig.5showsthedesignedcoreinserts ttedintothestandardmovinghalfofthemouldbaseplate.Thedesignedcavityinsertsare ttedintothemouldbase xedhalf.OngoingworkisbeingperformedfortheIKB-MOULDtodevelopmanyusefultoolsthatgenerate2Dengineeringdrawingsfromthedesignedinjectionmould.Figure6showsthe nal2Ddrawingofoneofthecoreinserts.Figure7showstheassembly2DdrawingofthedesignedmouldwiththeBOM.All2Ddrawingsfortheinjectionmouldcanbeautomaticallygeneratedbasedonthedesigned3DmouldintheIKB-
MOULD.