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A CAD/CAE-integrated injection mold design system for plastic products

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Mold design is a knowledge-intensive process. This paper describes a knowledge-based oriented, parametric, modular and feature-based integrated computer-aided design/computer-aided engineering (CAD/CAE) system for mold design. Development of CAx systems for numerical simulation of plastic injection molding and mold design has opened new possibilities of product analysis during the mold design. The proposed system integrates Pro/ENGINEER system with the specially developed module for the calculation of injection molding parameters, mold design, and selection of mold elements. The system interface uses parametric and CAD/CAE feature-based database to streamline the process of design, editing, and reviewing. Also presented are general structure and part of output results from the proposed CAD/CAE-integrated injection mold design system.

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  1. Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Production Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Ivan Matin, Miodrag Hadzistevic, Janko Hodolic, Djordje Vukelic & Dejan Lukic

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Matin, I., Hadzistevic, M., Hodolic, J. et al. A CAD/CAE-integrated injection mold design system for plastic products. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 63, 595–607 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-012-3926-5

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