Standard Mold Components

  In this section you will find the detailed description of all the standard mold components with the associated procedures for positioning them in, or deleting them from, the mold base.

Components are taken from CATIA components catalogs corresponding to those of external components suppliers. However:

  • CATIA components catalogs are not always upgraded to the latest version of the components suppliers' catalogs.
  • a CATIA components catalog may contain components from several versions of the components supplier's catalog.
  • a CATIA components catalog does not contain all the components from a given components suppliers' catalog. Some components may be missing.
  • a CATIA component may be different from the original one (features may be missing).
  • A component belonging to component catalog of the Mold Tooling Design workbench is guaranteed CATDUA error free at the time of its creation. However, since CATDUA deals with an increasingly larger and more precise range of errors, you may have to clean a component created in a previous release. To do so, start File > Desk > CATDUA in a V5 session.
 
In some cases, Mold Tooling Design provides filters for an easier selection of components in a catalog. However, when the catalog has been created in mm, while you are working in inches or any other unit, those filters may result in an empty list of components, due to rounding errors.

The bypass is to modify the filter with the function round: for example, instead of
x.L==1.181in
enter
round(x.L, "in",3)==1.181in.

  The components are grouped together according to their types:

Mold base components
Guiding components
Locating components
Fixing components
Ejection components
Injection components
Miscellaneous components

Those are the chapters on editing standard components:

Component and their Parameters
Adding Components
Contextual Menu of Components
User Component Requirements
Positioning a Slider
Adapting the Geometrical Parameters of a Component
Replacing a Reference
Isolating a Component
Splitting Components
Synchronizing Split Components
Adding or Removing Material around a Component