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Die-line evaluation

Die-line evaluation - Alias Tutorial

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Die-line evaluation

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- Let's take a look at another very critical part of designing a plastic part in Alias, and that's to do a Die Line Evaluation. We're gonna take a very simple scenario here, and if you're not familiar with tooling hopefully this will help explain what we're talking about. I wanna go ahead and select this component here, and this essentially is a cupcake. If you can imagine a cupcake sitting in a mold, if I say move and we're gonna pull this cupcake right out in the vertical or in the Z axis, you can see that this cupcake will be removed easily with no damage to sides whatsoever because the angle of the sides is open. With an open angle we have a great condition to remove this cupcake. Now, this scenario on the right hand side here we have what we call a Die-Locked condition. If I go ahead, select object, and let's say move, as soon as I try to move this in the vertical direction, or in the tooling axis, you can see this cupcake is gonna hit on the sides there. But if I continue to…

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