Designing
a Plastic Part
The final
section of this software is actually designing the plastic part. There are many guidelines and conventions to
follow. There is a design section for
each manufacturing process, although the majority of the information is in
injection molding. Injection molding
is, by far, the most popular manufacturing method for plastic. Although up-front costs can be quite high,
injection molding can make parts extremely quickly, and very
inexpensively.
Listed below are links to the design sections for each process. As you can see, injection molding has the most sections. Review each section and make sure your part is designed to the guidelines. Correctly designing your part will help smooth out its transition to manufacturing. It will be cheaper and easier to make.
Injection Molding
Snap Fits
Blow Molding
Thermoforming
Extrusion
Rotational Molding
Casting
Compression / Transfer Molding (Thermoset)
Injection Molding (Thermoset)