Promotional package aids plastics mould designers

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Feb 27, 2004

Solid Edge Mold Tooling is a new application for plastic mould suppliers servicing the consumer products and other plastics-dependent industries.

Solid Edge Mold Tooling is a new application for plastic mould suppliers servicing the consumer products and other plastics-dependent industries.

The new application, built on Solid Edge Version 15, is scheduled to ship this quarter.

In March 2003, Solid Edge Version 14 delivered Rapid Blue, a sophisticated and flexible shape creation software, launching the award-winning mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) application squarely into the heart of the consumer products industry.

With sophisticated features, developed specifically to ease the design of complex shapes prevalent in consumer products, Solid Edge is already used by many companies in this and related industries.

In December 2003, Solid Edge Version 15 extended the capabilities with new functionality specifically for mould design.

Draft face analysis enables users to graphically analyse a model to ensure that it will be able to be ejected from a mould, while new automatic parting-line and surface commands can be used to generate associative mould cores and cavities.

Now Solid Edge complements these core capabilities, introducing a new mould tooling option to establish a powerful, step-by-step process workflow for the design of multicore, multicavity plastic injection moulds.

Solid Edge users can select mould bases and associated components from a complete library of various standards (DME, Hasco, Futuba, LKM, Misumi) and use the mould cores and cavities created directly from Solid Edge-created parts.

"Our automated workflow makes it fast and easy to add standard mould features and components to the design, including ejector pins, runners, steps, gates and catalogue parts such as screws, bushings, guide pins and interlocks", said Dan Staples, Director of the Solid Edge Business Unit for UGS PLM Solutions.

"Combined with Solid Edge's excellent shape creation, surface import, clean up and healing capabilities and best-in-class drafting, Solid Edge Mold Design customers now enjoy a complete solution allowing them to design with insight".

Supporting the new application is a Solid Edge promotional package for mould design.

Priced at US $9995, the comprehensive promotional package includes: Solid Edge Classic (with full solids, surfaces, translators, surface clean up and healing, parting-line and surface creation, assemblies, drafting and design management); Solid Edge Feature Recognizer for adding intelligent features to imported geometry; and Solid Edge Mold Tooling for plastic injection mould design.

The package is available until 30th June, and may be ordered now.

"The outstanding success of Rapid Blue shape creation capabilities has generated tremendous interest in a mould design application for Solid Edge especially in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Canada where mould design is a growing part of a supplier-oriented business model", said Bruce Boes, Vice President of Solid Edge marketing and business strategy.

"The new Solid Edge Mold Tooling application, combined with the burgeoning Solid Edge Voyager B2B supplier programme that allows access to the many Solid Edge suppliers of design and manufacturing services around the world, provides better service to all of our customers worldwide".