Newbie - Mold Cavity for this part?

Hi Everyone,

I have utilized SW for die design for 3 years now, but a customer has
now asked me to create a die for drawing stainless steel pockets.
This is testing my limited experience with the more advanced options
in SW.
The part is similar to a pocket found on a locker door. To create the
die section I thought utlilizing the mold tools would be the best
method. I can get the cavity created... but how do I remove the
material from inside the pocket?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

Hello.

You need to make cut away features for the "left over stock" and do
some secondary editing to get rid of the left-overs.

I made an example for you and anyone else who is interested.

http://www.sheetmetaldesign.com/Cad-SolidWorks/Example10-DrawToolWithCavity.zip

This example shows how to make the forming components using cavity
(I.e. no stock location or material control - smile)

Regards,

SMA

 

Thanks Sean for your assistance... would you be interested in looking
at my part and offering me some ideas... My part has a 16 degree
taper and a "bump" along the bottom surface tangent to the punch draw
rad.

Thanks in advance,

Turk

 

would you be interested in looking

Sure thing,

Send along a copy and we can give it a whirl.

Regards,

SMA