Mold, Tool & Die Industry
In today`s world, mold, tool & die customers demand precision and durability from products. They also want to reduce time to market and costs.
SolidWorks® software provides the full range of integrated modeling, simulation, visualization, and communication tools that mold, tool, & die manufacturers require to design better products at a faster rate and at a lower cost.
Click on the link(s) below to view how SolidWorks can help you meet the challenges at each stage of Mold, Tool & Die design.
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Acquire New Customers
SolidWorks software gives you a competitive edge when it comes to responding to requests for proposals (RFPs). Thanks to tools like SolidWorks product data management software and SolidWorks Search, you can quickly locate existing designs that prove your experience and competence to prospects, and establish estimates faster.
SolidWorks also offers:
- Conceptual 2D and 3D assembly layout tools such as Instant 3D, which allows you to “rough out” new design ideas.
- Automated bill of material (BOM). Provide more accurate costs in your customer estimates.
- Easy import and repair of a broad range of data formats, including IGES, STEP, Parasolid®, ACIS®, and others.
- SolidWorks eDrawings® files, DWGviewer, and 3D Instant Website. Safely and effectively communicate your ideas in 3D to anyone, regardless of their CAD platform.
- PhotoWorks™ and SolidWorks animation capabilities to demonstrate how your products will appear and operate.
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Produce accurate Design Iterations faster
The priority of your team is to develop accurate designs faster. With thanks to SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology) and our heads-up interface, you are now able to create and deliver innovative, accurate 3D models, by making fewer selections and clicks. With a small learning curve, this technology allows beginners to design at an expert level.
SolidWorks also offers:
- Advanced surfacing tools, including sweep/loft, for creating complex ergonomic shapes and surfaces. Create complex ergonomic shapes and surfaces by simply pushing and pulling on control points.
- Specialized functionality for mold design, including cavity and MoldBase design, shrinkage, parting surfaces, parting line, and splitting.
- Design checks: draft check, undercut check, geometry check, and thickness check.
- DimXpert. Reduce drawing time with automated drawing views, dimensioning, and tolerancing.
- Interference checking in 3D before assembly.
- Hole alignment checking to ensure assembly fit.
- Assembly animation for animated mold opening and assembly sequences.
- Fully integrated Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software. Eliminate mechanism and structural design failure with stress, thermal, kinematics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and weldment analysis, as well as part analysis and optimization.
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Revise your Designs quickly and accurately
Any change, no matter how small, can have significant downstream effects. When revisions come in, SolidWorks quickly handles them with fully associative top-down and bottom-up design techniques. Make a change – and SolidWorks applies it precisely across your entire model.
SolidWorks also offers:
- SolidWorks Enterprise PDM solutions. Safely manage design versions, track changes, prevent overwrites, and reduce errors.
- SolidWorks eDrawings® self-contained viewing tool, which allows users to markup and comment on drawings and models.
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Use Standard Components
By logging on to 3DContentCentral.com, you can access a supplier’s latest parts, including functionality and performance specification data. You will also find component costs for use in your estimates.
SolidWorks also offers:
- SolidWorks Toolbox, a comprehensive library of standard fasteners and other parts.
- Smart Fasteners Technology and Smart Components for automated assembly of equipment and components frequently used.
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Ensure your Designs are Manufacturable
Can your design be manufactured once it reaches the production floor? You can get the answer – and save significant costs – with DFMXpress, which will test your design for machinability.
- TolAnalyst integrated tolerance stack-up analysis
- Solution Partners for Mold Design. Single-button integration of automated, 3D MoldBase and electrode design tools.
- Certified CAM Partners, seamlessly integrated with SolidWorks to automatically generate NC code from your files.
- SupplierSource.com. Quickly identify compatible service providers using native SolidWorks.
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Publish complete and accurate Documentation
When your products are ready for production and distribution, SolidWorks offers integrated BOM generation capabilities, enabling you to drive on-time component delivery and meet production deliverables.
SolidWorks also offers:
- Design Checker. Ensure that your team’s drawings comply fully with your company’s standards.
- 3DVIA Composer. Create accurate & detailed assembly procedures, technical manuals and consumer instructions.
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