1、ORIGINAL ARTICLEA CAD/CAE-integrated injection mold design systemfor plastic productsIvan Matin&Miodrag Hadzistevic&Janko Hodolic&Djordje Vukelic&Dejan LukicReceived:27 July 2011/Accepted:10 January 2012/Published online:25 January 2012#Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012Abstract Mold design is a kn
2、owledge-intensive process.This paper describes a knowledge-based oriented,paramet-ric,modular and feature-based integrated computer-aideddesign/computer-aided engineering(CAD/CAE)system formold design.Development of CAx systems for numericalsimulation of plastic injection molding and mold design has
3、opened new possibilities of product analysis during the molddesign.The proposed system integrates Pro/ENGINEER sys-temwiththe speciallydevelopedmoduleforthecalculationofinjection molding parameters,mold design,and selection ofmold elements.The system interface uses parametric andCAD/CAE feature-base
4、d database to streamline the processof design,editing,and reviewing.Also presented are generalstructure and part of output results from the proposed CAD/CAE-integrated injection mold design system.Keywords Molddesign.Numericalsimulation.CAD.CAE1 IntroductionInjection molding process is the most comm
5、on moldingprocess for making plastic parts.Generally,plastic injectionmolding design includes plastic product design,mold de-sign,and injection molding process design,all of whichcontribute to the quality of the molded product as well asproduction efficiency 1.This is process involving manydesign pa
6、rameters that need to be considered in a concurrentmanner.Mold design for plastic injection molding aided bycomputers has been focused by a number of authors world-wide for a long period.Various authors have developedprogram systems which help engineers to design part,mold,and selection parameters o
7、f injection molding.During thelast decade,many authors have developed computer-aideddesign/computer-aided engineering(CAD/CAE)mold de-sign systems for plastic injection molding.Jong et al.2developed a collaborative integrated design system for con-current mold design within the CAD mold base on the
8、web,using Pro/E.Low et al.3 developed an application forstandardization of initial design of plastic injection molds.The system enables choice and management of mold base ofstandard mold plates,but does not provide mold and injec-tion molding calculations.The authors proposed a method-ology of stand
9、ardizing the cavity layout design system forplastic injection mold such that only standard cavity layoutsare used.When standard layouts are used,their layout con-figurations can be easily stored in a database.Lin at al.4,5describe a structural design system for 3D drawing moldbased on functional fea
10、tures using a minimum set of initialinformation.In addition,it is also applicable to assign thefunctional features flexibly before accomplishing the designof a solid model for the main parts of a drawing mold.Thisdesign system includes modules for selection and calculationof mold components.It uses
11、Pro/E modules Pro/Program andPro/Toolkit,and consists of modules for mold selection,mod-ification and design.Deng et al.6,7 analyzed developmentof the CAD/CAE integration.The authors also analyzed sys-tems and problems of integration between CAD and CAEsystems for numerical simulation of injection m
12、olding andmolddesign.Authorsproposeafeatureontologyconsistingofa number of CAD/CAE features.This feature represents notI.Matin(*):M.Hadzistevic:J.Hodolic:D.Vukelic:D.LukicFaculty of Technical Sciences,Department of ProductionEngineering,University of Novi Sad,Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6,21000 Novi Sad
13、,Serbiae-mail:matiniuns.ac.rsURL:www.ftn.uns.ac.rsInt J Adv Manuf Technol(2012)63:595607DOI 10.1007/s00170-012-3926-5only the geometric information of plastic part,but also thedesign intent is oriented towards analysis.Part features con-tain the overall product information of a plastic part,wallfeat
14、ures,development features(such as chamfer,ribs,boss,hole,etc.),treatment features which contain analysis-relateddesign information and subwall/developed features.Wall anddevelopment features are so called“component features”.Godec et al.8,9 developed a CAE system for mold designand injection molding
15、 parameters calculations.The system isbased on morphology matrix and decision diagrams.Thesystem is used for thermal,rheological and mechanical calcu-lation,and material base management,but no integration withFig.1 General structure ofintegrated injection molddesign system for plasticproducts596Int
16、J Adv Manuf Technol(2012)63:595607commercial CAx software is provided.Huang et al.10developed a mold-base design system for injection molding.The database they used was parametric and feature-basedoriented.The system used Pro/E for modeling database com-ponents.Kong et al.11 developed a parametric 3D plasticinjection mold design system integrated with solid works.Other knowledge-basedsystems,suchasIMOLD,ESMOLD,IKMOULD,and IKBMOULD,have been developed forinjection mold design.IMOLD divides mold d
