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Fastening Features in SOLIDWORKS: The Mounting Boss Command | Tech Tip Tuesday
Injection molded plastic part design is easy with SOLIDWORKS due to features like the Mounting Boss command. Watch this video from the SOLIDWORKS Training team to learn how to use the Mounting Boss command to quickly fit two plastic bodies
... ContinuedFastening Features in SOLIDWORKS: The Lip Groove Command | Tech Tip Tuesday
SOLIDWORKS is the ideal tool for injection molded plastic part design due, in part, to features like the Lip Groove command. This week on Tech Tip Tuesday, the SOLIDWORKS Training Team will teach you how to use the Lip Groove
... ContinuedDon’t Sink the Boat
Sink marks are a common defect, in plastic injection molding, that are costly to fix, frustrating and not very pleasing! Reducing sink marks early in the design process using SOLIDWORKS Plastics achieves a better finished part.
... ContinuedGetting Started with SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Simulating the process of injection molding a plastic part is easy with SOLIDWORKS Plastics, crazy easy in fact. Here is a run-down of the simple steps you’ll follow to get started. Step 1: Create a 3D model, which you were
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Blow Molded Bottle Part 2 Tutorial
Blow Molded Bottle Part 2 – The Bottle: The preform from Part 1 is inserted into this part as the first feature, following the manufacturing process. The rest of the bottle is then modeled from the neck down. Suppressed features
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Blow Molded Bottle Part 1 Tutorial
Blow Molded Bottle Part 1 – The Preform: This is a model of an injection molded preform which will be heated and blow molded into a bottle. Undercuts are removed from the threads so the part can be injection molded
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