The challenge
The part has openings on three sides, so the mold needs slides that move in and out every cycle without flash or wear. Getting the slides, wear plates and locks to fit is where a build like this takes time.
Case study
Multi-slide mold build
A mold with side actions on three faces, machined, fitted and proven in-house from CAD to the first trial.
- Industry
- Industrial manufacturing
- Service
- Mold manufacturing
- Year
- 2025
- Software
- SolidWorks / Cimatron
- Tool steel
- H13 / P20
- Trial
- In-house
- Slides
- 3
- Roof for design, build and trial
- 1
Our approach
- Designed in SolidWorks, programmed in Cimatron and machined on our VMCs.
- Slides and wedge locks ground to fit, with wear plates that can be replaced.
- Core and cavity spotted and fitted in the tool room before the first trial.
- Trialed on our own presses, so corrections happened in the same building.
The result
The mold went from design to its first trial within our own tool room and press shop, and its slides run without flash at the shut-offs.
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