Solid Edge Mold Tooling

Automated step-by-step design for mold tooling

Benefits Summary
• Saves time and cost Solid Edge® Mold Tooling software from Siemens PLM Software is an
• Reduces delivery times integrated add-on package to Solid Edge Classic that establishes a powerful
• Increases accuracy step-by-step process workflow for the design and manufacture of plastic
• Promotes standardization injection molds. Solid Edge Mold Tooling offers dramatic time saving
• Trims material costs potential by removing much of the repetition prevalent in mold tooling
• Improves customer design and freeing up your time for more important tasks. With accurate core
communications and cavity creation, an extensive choice of industry-standard mold bases,
automated generation of all required components and associative elecrode
Features design, Solid Edge Mold Tooling completes your mold designs faster and at
• Step-by-step workflow lower cost.
• Part preparation
• Single or multiple core and Automated step-by-step
cavity creation design process
• Specialized stripper-plate Solid Edge Mold Tooling leads
and 3-plate molds users through a logical step-by-
• Industry-standard and step approach to create plastic
custom user-defined mold injection molds.
bases
• Automatic completion of The process begins with the
mold details and components automatic application of an
• Associative elecrode design accurate shrinkage factor to the
for manufacturing molded part. Solid Edge Mold
• Included industry leading Tooling supports both uniform
Solid Edge tools: and non-uniform shrinkage,
• Data import storing common preferences
• Rapid Blue shape modeling for future use as you work.
• Documentation
Solid Edge Mold Tooling
automatically creates a parting
surface to determine correct
geometry for the core and cavity, which can be machined directly into the
plates or separate core and cavity blocks. The core and cavity blocks are
automatically sized based upon the physical part size. Solid Edge Mold
Tooling can also import predefined parting surfaces in a partial or completed
state.

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Solid Edge Mold Tooling

A complete solution for tapped holes, clearance holes and counter-

mold design bores are created in each of the plates
• Solid Edge Mold Tooling is affected. Ejector pin ends are automatically
the cornerstone of a shaped to match the contour of the
complete mold design parting surface.
solution that helps transform
ideas into deliverable Next, designers can create water channels
products faster and at lower and add-in runner bars and runners by
cost by addressing modeling them in the context of a mold
challenges that are unique to assembly. Gates are defined by simply
the industry. Solid Edge selecting the type of gate desired and its
helps both OEMs and location. The selected gate or gates are
dedicated mold shops then automatically propagated channels
overcome these challenges throughout the multi-cavity tool at the
by combining industry- appropriate locations.
leading capabilities for data
import, cleanup and shape
modeling with a proven set You can easily create a pattern of the
of mold design automation blocks for multi-cavity molds. Solid Edge
tools, unparalleled Mold Tooling lets you quickly reorient the
documentation capabilities individual blocks and automatically center
and seamless integration them in the mold base for a balanced
with best-in-class analysis runner system.
and manufacturing solutions.
• Solid Edge is the first mold Support for international standards
design solution to address Solid Edge includes mold bases and
the real source of bottlenecks components that support multiple
– OEM/ supplier international standards, including DME,
communications. Solid Futaba, Hasco, LKM, Misumi, Pedrotti,
Edge’s industry-leading Rabourdin, Strack, PCS, Progressive,
design management Meusburger, FCPK and others. Slides and lifters
applications help you service Solid Edge Mold Tooling also helps users
your customers better by After selecting the mold base, Solid Edge create slide molds through an interactive
providing tools for managing Mold Tooling uses the cavity and core interface that is used to define the size,
design data, automating pattern to determine the appropriate shape and area the slide is to affect. Mold
process workflows such as catalog size for the “A” and “B” plates and tooling will then create the slide face along
design reviews and enabling creates the mold base. In addition, when with the core/cavity blocks. The slide
native view and markup of standard mold bases cannot accommodate components themselves – slide body, gibs,
designs. Whether your the part, users can customize a standard wear plates, cam pins and heel blocks –
customers are next door, or base by redefining the plate sizes, thick- can then be modeled as required. Lifters
half way around the globe, ness, component spacing and sizes and can also optionally be defined to create
improved communications adding or removing plates to fit specific undercuts on the core side of the part.
mean minimized changes requirements. Then, users can choose
and reduced delivery times. which standard components to add.

Fast track to a finished mold

Once the mold base has been created,
Solid Edge Mold Tooling adds related
standard components such as bolts,
ejector pins, return pins, leader pins and
support pillars. After positioning a
component, Solid Edge Mold Tooling
ensures that all the necessary updates are
made to the mold base and plates. When
placing a bolt, for example, the correct
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Specialty molds create a solid model of the electrode,

Solid Edge Mold Tooling also supports using predefined parameters to adjust for
design of popular special-purpose molds. the spark gap. Electrodes are created for
Included are stripper-plate molds with the rough, semi-finish and finish stages of
“floating” plates to eject the parts off of manufacture, and all remain associative to
their cores and 3-plate molds with an extra the original mold design so any changes
plate on the injection side and its associ- will be automatically recognized and the
ated die springs and shoulder bolts to eject electrodes will update accordingly.
the runner. Generic design tools also help
to create other custom mold components Predefined templates provide a fast and
as may be required, making for an efficient method for generating informa-
automated, yet flexible design system. tion for manufacturing; users can easily
create an erosion output sheet –
Associative electrode design an assembly drawing that shows each
Solid Edge Electrode Design extends the electrode relative to the component being
potential for dramatic time savings beyond manufactured. Solid Edge Electrode Design
tooling design and into manufacture. is included in Solid Edge Mold Tooling,
Users are guided through a logical step- but can also be purchased separately to
by-step approach to develop single or allow companies to select the appropriate
compound electrodes that are frequently tools depending on their design and
necessary in the manufacture of complex manufacturing needs.
mold components. Simply identify the
feature to be “burned” and Solid Edge will

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