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Nowadays, finding a mold design software is no longer difficult. However, understanding all the features and finding the most optimal software among countless mold design software is not easy. In today's article, VISI will introduce to you the very famous NX Mold Design software from SIEMENS with outstanding features. Hopefully this article will help you make more choices for you and your business.
1. What is NX Mold Design?
NX Mold Design is professional mold design software, providing a rich library system and the ability to easily manage and control objects, helping to reduce design and processing time and costs. By combining advanced technological knowledge with practical production automation, mold designs are developed throughout the entire process from design to assembly layout. Mold design in NX accommodates the most complex designs, providing advanced functionality, ensuring rapid response to design changes and all quality requirements.
NX Mold Design supports the design of molds from metal molds (plate molds, continuous stamping molds, sand molds, pressure molds) to plastic molds and master molds. In addition, NX also supports the electrode design and manufacturing process.
2. Features of NX Mold Design software
2.1. Tools used for mold design process
- Product analysis: Import geometry and drawings using transformation data. Easily design and change the design, meet the designer's wishes and achieve the purpose of processing.
- Mold separation: Automatically calculate dynamic and static mold partitions. Design the molding surface quickly. Supports automatic hole creation for complex slider designs (side core ejection system). Automatically check system collisions after the design process.
- Mold structure: Mold cavity layout, component system (positioning bush, spring, ejector pin, ...) and basic mold library for both testing and large-scale production with many mold cavities. Mold structure is based on a library of standards from Japan, Europe, etc. Easily change parameters in the library without programming. Design of the side core system. Add quick push system. Insert cooling channels, ducts, nozzles and other common components.
- Detailed regulations: Provide mold design documentation using automatic drawings, create combined hole tables, 3D annotations and hole tolerances, and easily manage mold vision.
- Solution to expand capabilities: The full version of Simens PLM can provide the most comprehensive solution sets, with a full range of features and assembly models...
- Design changes and control: Molds are always developed and updated with product design; With changes in product design, molds will be updated and changed very quickly.
2.2. Reuse standards
- Input: Reuse previous designs such as sample projects, materials, tools and design processes to fit new templates. Accelerate and optimize the mold design process by standardizing processes and components.
- Output data: Automatically create bill of materials, 2D drawings, mold structures and NC tool paths
- Components can be reused: Components that design engineers build specifically can be used and imported into the library. Developing these own components can also reuse the structure of the mold.
2.3. Confirm design
- Product analysis: Use the function to measure thickness, calculate tilt angle, detect cutting area, and evaluate radius.
- Analytical tools: Validate mold designs in an assembly context, calculate safety margins in locations, analyze durability and detect sharp corners. Analyze the required electrodes. Enhance tool life.
2.4. Integrated solution
- Design change management: Graphically compare versions of a design for similarities and differences. Exchange design versions, control changes, update relevant features, drawings and toolpaths.
- Process and data management: Enable team-driven features with teams of multiple design engineers working simultaneously on a single framework. Synchronize and distribute products across the design tool.
- Manufacturing integration: Automate production, design molds and create machining programs right on NX software.
3. Mold design content for products in NX Mach 3
3.1. Design patterns
- Calculate the shrinkage factor
- Channel and nozzle
- Automatically create 2D drawings
- Create parting surface paths
- Insert secondary details and hole tables
- Create parting surface
- Lifting
- Create a materials list
- Create mold cavity/core, cutting area
- Standard configuration, hole board reuse, EDM wire cutting
- Cooling water line
- Propulsion system
- Change design
- Mold cavity connection
- Concept design
3.2. Provide details as standard
- Supports basic mold creation on unit standards: DME, Futaba, HASCO, LKM, Meusburger, Omni, PCS, Progressive, Rabourdin, Strack, Superior, Universa
- Supports basic detailed systems (injection, ejection, cooling, sliders/lifters, guides, locks, dowels, screws, springs, pillars) according to unit standards: DME, Futaba, HASCO, National, Meusburger, Omni, Progressive, Rabourdin, Strack, Yates
- Die management
- Basic detail management
3.3. Rationalize.
- Reasonable mold details
- Reasonable production
- Collision checking tool
- Check the mold parting surface
3.4. Assembly details and design
- Block design and character
- Logical design
- UDF
- Basic, free face design
- Spread flat
- Assembly design
- Free-sided, enhanced design
- Synchronous technology
3.5. Import and export data
- DXF/DWG
- IGES
- STEP AP 203 and AP 214, …
