In this installment of Design Tips for Plastic Injection Molding, Kevin Crystal talks about two different ways to design a hole in a plastic part. One method is using sliding-shutoffs and another method is to use a cam. Using Protomold's Design Cube, Kevin demonstrates how to create this feature using both methods and highlights some of the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
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In this installment of Design Tips for Plastic Injection Molding, Kevin Crystal talks about different methods of designing a spring clip in a plastic part. One method uses a pickout, one uses a sliding-shutoff and another method uses a cam. Using Protomold's Torus, Kevin demonstrates how to create spring clips using these different methods and highlights some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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In this installment of Design Tips for Plastic Injection Molding, Kevin Crystal talks about how knit lines are formed on plastic parts. Using Protomold's Design Cube, Kevin points out design considerations to avoid knit lines.
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As medical device OEMs know, a product designed for the medical market is fundamentally different from one intended for industrial use. This is also true for a foot control. From the bottom floor contact pads to the mating connector, the basic design requirements for a medical-grade foot control are significantly different from those of an “industrial-grade” unit. This Tech Talk examines these critical differences, and reviews the importance of addressing them to achieve optimal foot control performance and a favorable user experience. Presenter: Peter Engstrom, Managing Director
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Is your CAD system slowing you down? Do you struggle with annoying rebuild issues when you're trying to get parts out the door? SpaceClaim lets you: create tooling and fixtures with ease, overcome interoperability issues, create in-process models, communicate in 2D and 3D, and optimize models for machining in less time.
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SpaceClaim provides a thorough suite of tools to create geometry and ready it for additive manufacturing, taking the pain and guesswork out of dealing with traditional CAD. SpaceClaim makes it easy to split large parts into multiple pieces in order to fit within your build envelope, scale models and adjust wall thickness, repair and solidify surface geometries, and tessellate at exactly the right resolution for your hardware. Watch the video to learn how.
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SpaceClaim is changing the way engineers work, allowing anybody to create new concepts, edit CAD data, and answer questions in 3D. SpaceClaim’s unprecedented simplicity and ease-of-use lets engineers bring 3D into customer meetings and design reviews, enables CAE analysts to optimize geometry for simulation, and helps manufacturing engineers get parts out the door faster.
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