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Mold Design Using Solidworks

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Elito

Solidworks is a nice tool to help you design molds. It is easy to learn with its intuitive user interface and easy to use for experienced users. Of course you must have the necessary knowledge of fundamentals of mold design and mold … Continue reading →

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Free 3D CAD: CoCreate Modeling PE 3.0

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Elito

The latest version of CoCreate Modeling PE, the world’s first free explicit 3D CAD software, is now available.

Download it today, and get all the flexibility of our standard CoCreate Modeling 3D CAD system free for assemblies up to 60 parts. Continue reading →

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Free 2D CAD for DWG files: an alternative to Autocad

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Elito

Yesterday, while surfing the internet looking for new tools for mold design, I discovered DraftSight, a 2D CAD tool from the Dessault Systemes. DraftSight is available for free download. Is it going to be valuable tool for mold design? One way to find out… Continue reading →

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How to design mold cavity and core in 2D Autocad

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Elito

The old fashioned way but still being used by some mold manufacturers. Designing a mold cavity and core in 2D. Some mold designers may use different procedure. You can use Autocad, Solidworks, ProE, or just plain tracing paper and pencil … Continue reading →

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A Typical Injection Mold Design Guide

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Elito

This checklist can be used as a general reference guide for injection mold design engineers. It is divided into 3 parts of a mold design process. Part 1 – Requirements to start your mold design: Check the injection machine where … Continue reading →

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Try Pro/E Wildfire 3.0 for 30 days

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Elito

This post is old. New version of ProE Wildfire 5.0 is coming out soon. Find out why 500,000 design engineers use Pro/Engineer to design great things! Now you can download this CAD for free 30-days evaluation. It includes 7 tutorials: … Continue reading →

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