Inventor Tooling...It's Not Just for Mold Designers

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  Inventor Tooling...It's Not Just for Mold Designers
  May 4, 2009, 07:18 AM Brian Sather

  But first, a little introduction. My name is Brian Sather...I just came to Autodesk not too long ago by way of the Moldflow acquisition last year. I was born and raised in Michigan but moved to the metro-Boston area about two years ago and now work out of the all new, uber-environmentally friendly Autodesk office in Waltham, Mass. I’m a huge football fan…unfortunately my team is the Detroit Lions which is terribly embarrassing to admit. The good thing is that the Lions only play on national TV once a year and because I am now in Boston I only saw them lose 1 game last year rather than having to witness the entire 0-16 fiasco.

  But that’s enough about me…on with the show!
  And we start with a good one for all you plastic part designers out there running Inventor Professional 2010. Inventor Tooling, one of our brand spanking new products this year comes included. And right about now you’re probably thinking, “I don’t design the mold for my parts, so why would I go through the trouble of downloading and installing it?” Well, there are a lot of really nice Moldflow features integrated directly into Inventor Tooling that can help you design better plastic parts.
  Ever get the first shots out of the mold only to see a bunch of nasty sink marks? Ever see the visual defects that entrapped air can leave on a part? The part design has a huge influence on whether or not these, and a whole lot of other kinds of defects show up…and this is where Inventor Tooling can help.
  Watch the video to see how Inventor Tooling can pinpoint potential defects and how a couple simple design changes can remove the possibility of problems like these occurring in production…

   

   

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