From the course: Siemens NX: Design for Injection Molding
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Tooling direction - Siemens NX Tutorial
From the course: Siemens NX: Design for Injection Molding
Tooling direction
- [Instructor] Now that I have my initial styling element in, I need to create some critical inputs. The first critical input that I'm going to generate is a tooling direction, or a die line. The die line is going to be used as a reference for all of my angled or drafted or tapered faces. It's going to define the direction that the tool separates. So, there's a core and a cavity. The two halves of the tool basically come together, and separate, which allow the part to eject out or come out. And that tooling direction defines the direction that those tools travel or the core actually travels away from the cavity. And it's very important you set this up correctly. You may get this from an engineering team. Manufacturing may provide you with tooling direction. But, somewhere out there somehow you have to have a tooling direction. So, first thing I'm going to do to define that is set up some references in turn over the model. And I'm just going to go in to my datum CSYS here. I'm going to…
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