Parts of Automotive Molding Design

Automotive molding design has 6 main parts.

1. Products design step, it means should come out the product structure for reference.

There have high quality requirements of the trimming parts for car use. Like the rear & front fender protector, dashboard, wheel casing, all of them will be Make sure after deciding the hole care structure. And the car manufacture just need assembling the automotive moldings based on the car structure.

2. Rough design for the automotive moldings

High precise to analysis the every automotive moldings use is the important we should do before designing.

Generally, we will use three-dimensional software to design the parts structure. During design will use some special line to point out where the date couldn’t be changed, the other parts are could be changed, then it is important for the next mold design. Moldings are suitable for assembling is the most important.

3. Then use CAE to analysis

 Then should pay attention to the mould tooling step to satisfy the design.

Then we Should discuss with mold engineer and handcrafts opinion.

Use CAE Software to make mold flow analysis, to see the material flue direction, pressure maintaining, cooling and warping, to promise design the most injection system, cooling system.

The step is for designer to find how to design the mold with perfect. After above analysis, Find problems, could discuss with the customer how to design the good mood. Injection way, cooling system, ejector way, all of them will influence got a good mould and products.

1.     mould design

After finished CAE, then design the mould. Including mould cavity, mould core, Injection way and dimension , cooling way and dimension, and ejector way at the same time, could purchase mould steel also need choice mould steel ,think about the tooling way, thinking it could use standard mould base or not.

2.     Testing, Evaluate before this step, all of the above steps are theoretical, before mold Making , we suggest use does Rapid Prototype, it is for making a sample, it saves money and could find problems.

3.     Then Engineering drawings

CAM software will automatically create mold cavity and core code. To suitable for tooling requirements, should change the 3D to 2D date for tooling.

Above is the information for automatic molding design steps for reference.

Hope these Help!

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