Tricks For Avoiding Costly Mistakes Injection Molded Plastic Parts
First-time designers of plastic components usually make a great number of errors.
Rapid prototyping can reveal several
errors before committing to the expenditure of an injection mold yet...
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Tricks For Avoiding Costly Mistakes Injection Molded Plastic Parts
First-time designers of plastic components usually make a great number of errors.
Rapid prototyping can reveal several
errors before committing to the expenditure of an injection mold yet other errors become apparent only after the finished
components emerge.
I am going to show a few commonly made mistakes and offer several suggestions for designing the
ideal plastic parts.
The first guideline to stick to while designing plastic parts is to attempt to sustain uniform wall thickness.
In this aspect,
plastic components differ from other parts.
As such designing plastic components needs a completely distinct design
method than for instance metal parts.
Parts with uneven wall thickness are likely to cool irregularly and leave bad shrink
marks which are noticeable on the outer surface.
Moreover, this could cause tension at the junction of high and low
shrinkage and result in the part to warp.
Since plastic parts are
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