Computer Aided Design of The Cooling System for Plastic Injection Molds

• Main Authors: Hakan GÜRÜN, Ahmet ÖZDEMİR, Tunahan ACAR
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pamukkale University 2009-02-01
• Series: Pamukkale University Journal of Engineering Sciences
• Subjects: Bilgisayar destekli tasarım, Enjeksiyon kalıbı tasarımı, Soğutma sistemi tasarımı.
• Online Access: http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/pajes/article/view/5000088823

The design of plastic injection molds and their cooling systems affect both the dimension, the shape, the quality of a plastic part and the cycle time of process and the cost of mold. In this study, the solid model design of a plastic injection mold and the design of cooling sysytem were possibly carried out without the designer interaction. Developed program permited the use of three types of the cooling system and the different cavity orientations and the multible plastic part placement into the mold cores. The program which was developed by using Visual LISP language and the VBA (Visual BASIC for Application) modules, was applicated in the AutoCAD software domain. Trial studies were presented that the solid model design of plastic injection molds and the cooling systems increased the reliability, the flexibility and the speed of the design.