One of the most important decisions in any injection mold process is selecting the gate location for your material flow into your part. Many companies do this by tribal knowledge or in other words experience. This might not always be the best way to make such an important decision with your injection mold design. There are many factors that come into play when making this decision like:
- Material being used
- Part design
- Mold temperatures
- Pressures to be used
and this list can go on and on. Autodesk Inventor Tooling can analyze your best gate location for you very quickly to make sure you are right the first time avoiding costly rework to any injection mold design. This is only one of the great and easy to use features you find inside Autodesk Inventor Tooling, let's take a look.
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Created by Dave one of the Cad Geeks
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