Plastic Product Design with NX
Plastic Product Design with NX
1. Introduction to plastic
2. Plastics Materials – An Overview
Classification
Thermoplastics
Thermosets Crystalline
Amorphous, and Liquid
Crystalline Polymers
Copolymers
Alloys
Elastomers
Additives
Reinforcements and Fillers
3. Physical, Mechanical, Thermal, Electrical properties
4. Environmental Considerations
5. Structural Analysis
6. Design Considerations for Injection-Molded Parts
Injection Molding Process
Design Strategy
Efficient and Functional Design
Material Selection
Nominal Wall Thickness
Normal Ranges of Wall Thickness
Structural Requirements of the Nominal Wall
Insulation Characteristics of the Nominal Wall
Impact Response of the Nominal Wall
Draft
Structural Reinforcement
Ribs
Other Geometric Reinforcement
Bosses
Coring
Fillets and Radii
Undercuts
7. Checking different problems in tooling and solutions
8. Basic Tooling considerations: Lifters-Undercut & Draft analysis
9. Sharp edges on tools & parts
PRODUCT DESIGN WITH NX:
1. Feasibility study of surface with environment
2. ‘A’ surface analysis
Visual Analysis
Visually Analysis
Joint & tangency Analysis
Draft Analysis/Slope Analysis
Curvature Analysis (Radius Analysis)
Develop length & feasibility checking
Section study
Thickness mapping
3. Visible Surface Design procedure
4. Non visible surface design procedure (B-Surface)
5. Tooling Surface Design
6. Sample product study
Injection Mould Design with NX
1. Introduction to plastic
2. Plastics Materials – An Overview
Classification,
Thermoplastics
Thermosets Crystalline
Amorphous and Liquid
Crystalline Polymers
Copolymers, Alloys, Elastomers, Additives, Reinforcements, and Fillers.
3. Physical, Mechanical, Thermal, Electrical properties
4. Injection Molding process
5. Basic understanding of Core, Cavity, Runner, gate, sprue, Shot capacity, Plasticizing capacity, Injection
velocity, Injection pressure, purging, Daylight.
6. Calculation of No. of cavities
7. Shrinkage
8. Feed System:
Sprue Design
Runner design & different runner layouts
Type of Gates
9. Mold Layout explanation
10.Ejection systems & different types of ejectors
11.Undercut molding
12.Design concept of Two Plate Mold
13.Design concept of Split Mold & actuation techniques
14.Design concept of Side core Side cavity mold & actuation techniques
15.Design concept of under feed & Runner less Mold
16.Design concept of three plate Mold & actuation techniques
17.Design concept of Unscrewing Mold & actuation techniques
Implementation in NX
1. Component Analysis
2. Molded part Validation
3. Project Initialization
4. Mold part shrinkage
5. Cavity lay-out
6. Work piece & Core cavity extraction
7. Mold Parting
Region Analysis
Patching
How to define core & cavity region
Design parting surface
Edit parting surface
Core & Cavity Definition
8. Mold Tools For patching
9. Mold Base selection.
10. Standard part including Register ring, sprue bush, ejector pins, retaining pins, Guide pillar & guide bush.
Etc
11. Slider & lifter design
12. Gate & runner Tools
13. Cooling systems
14. Electrode creation
15. Bill of Material
16. Project work