Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Mold Design (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: Chu Libao
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book introduces how to use the MoldCavity and Assembly modules in the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire environment for mold design through numerous examples. It covers fundamental theories and advanced techniques of cavity mold design, providing in-depth and clear insights into the design approach and practical process of mold design. Readers can easily master the design and operation skills of cavity molds, effectively solving many difficult issues in mold design. Pro/ENGINEER is a renowned professional CAD/CAM software with powerful functions and is widely used both domestically and internationally. This book primarily focuses on mold design using the two modules, MoldCavity and Assembly, in Pro/ENGINEER's latest version, Wildfire. The content includes mold design processes, parting surface design, draft hole (patching), parting techniques, gating system design, mold component design, mold opening actions, and mold design modifications. It explains the design of parting surfaces and the entire parting process for various types of molds through examples. This book is suitable for engineers learning to use Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire for both basic and complex sheet metal design, as well as for use as a teaching or reference material in computer-aided design and manufacturing courses.