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Applying draft

Applying draft - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Applying draft

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- [teacher] If you're designing a part for any type of a molding process like plastic injection molding or die-casting, you're probably going to need to add some draft. Now draft is just some angles to the outside surfaces. So when the part or the mold separate, the other part comes out very easily. So to do that, we have a great tool inside of SolidWork with, believe it or not, it's called Draft. Alright, So click on this one are up here, draft, and the first question is, what angle do we want to draft at? So, most of the time, for plastic injection molded parts, we want to have about three degrees of draft. Now you can go below that, but depending on the texture of your part, you might have some issues so three degrees is a generally a nice sized draft, and of course you can have anything above that is fine. But right now I'm going to leave nine degrees, so you can see a little easier. Now right over here is going to be…

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