Design
Using SOLIDWORKS and 3D Printing to Breathe New Life into Broken Toys
1. Uncovering a childhood memory at the thrift store! I love thrift stores. There’s something magical about walking into one of these places and uncovering a treasure or seeing something from your childhood resurface. The latter is what happened to
... ContinuedDon’t Forget Your Glass
The SOLIDWORKS Plastics database gives you several options to control the percentage of glass added. Having both standard databases with glass already added to several materials, you can also change that amount if needed or suggested by the manufacturer.
... ContinuedHow to Model: Self-Packing Scutoid in SOLIDWORKS
Some exciting news has broken out in the scientific and mathematical community. In July 2018, a paper was published by P Gómez-Gálvez: Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia. So the first question you may have is:
... ContinuedYour Part is Shrinking
SOLIDWORKS Plastics gives the ability to select different manufacturers of plastics and different grades of the material in the class used. SOLIDWORKS Plastics also allows the creation of custom materials.
... ContinuedFrom Napkin Sketch to Reality Overnight
See how a simple napkin sketch is converted into a 3D design and then printed out all in a nights work.
... ContinuedPREPARING A SOLIDWORKS MODEL FOR 3D PRINTING
Learn How to Optimize Your Design in SOLIDWORKS to Prepare It for 3D Printing In today’s age of 3D printing, once-inconceivable manufacturing projects can now be brought to life right from your desktop. But whether you’re using a desktop-sized Markforged
... ContinuedOverboard with Overmolding
Overmolding is present in two different situations; the first is the overmolding of metal, such as a computer connector, and the second is overmolding of plastic, such as a toothbrush during manufacturing. SOLIDWORKS Plastics can handle both situations.
... ContinuedSecure your Intellectual Design Properties through “Defeature”
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is not only a design Software, it is also a great communicative tool to get and share designs among suppliers and customers. In tradition, customers utilize design by manually go through in and out and remove the unnecessary data
... ContinuedPlastics, Starting from Beginning
To be a good vendor of custom molding, you should have the ability to fulfill the demand from the customer and the plastic market. You can cut times by analyzing the filling stage; the determinations are a necessity to improve the production rate without neglecting the quality performance of the product produced. This element can give the benefit to the industry to achieve profitability and survive in this challenging plastic industry.
... ContinuedLiving a Balanced Work Life
Designers and engineers face a multitude of challenges whenever they approach an injection molding machine. One that has persisted for years is the difficulty of getting multi-cavity tools to produce identical parts. SOLIDWORKS Plastics can balance the runner system to fill the parts evenly.
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