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About ZW3D Mold Design
The process of designing molds for plastic products.
Mold & Die is a specially bundled and configured set of tools optimized for the design and documentation of plastic injection, compression and blow molds. Built upon, and fully leveraging the ZW3D engine and assembly-centric database, Mold & Die includes a number of specialized tools for quickly and easily performing common mold design functions while also solving the most difficult mold design problems.
Mold Design Feature List
- Mold base and component library
- Independent scaling in X,Y,Z (non-isotropic)
- Graphical draft angle analysis
- Draft creation including split draft at parting curve
- Automatic and interactive core/cavity separation
- Shutoff creation
- Automatic and interactive parting line creation and editing tools
- Parting surface relief
- Slide and insert design
- EDM electrode design
- Bounding solid (stock)