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Mold Tooling Design Detailed StepsTable of Contents Master Exercise : The Phone Handset 3 Step (1): Creating a new Mold 3 Step (2): Editing the Mold Base 9 Step (3): Creating Components 12 Step (4): Editing Components 25 Step (5): Creating Injection Features 28 Step (Creating a Slider mechanism) 36 Step (Managing User Components) 54 Master Exercise : The Phone Handset Step (1): Creating a new Mold In this step, you will: Access workbench Mold Tooling Design Create a new Product Insert existing Molded Part Select a Mold Base in a Catalog Position the Molded Part in the Mold Base Enter workbench Mold Tooling Design to start a new Product : Insert existing Molded Part : Select new Product in the specification tree Activate function Insert / Existing Component… Select file \MasterExercise\Step1\MoldedPart.CATPart : In Open Body PartingBody, show CoreSurface : Select a Mold Base in a catalog : Click icon Create a new mold : Click Catalog icon in dialog box Create a new mold… Double-click successively reference Dme, then N3050 in the Catalog browser dialog box (select reference N3050 without overhang, i.e. the first one displayed in the list) : Click OK to validate : a graphic preview of the Mold Base is displayed and the dialog box Create a new mold…is updated with the list of plates and default dimensions corresponding to this reference : Select in the dialog box the design table icon corresponding to Cavity plate, select reference whose height = 86mm, and click OK to validate Proceed similarly to adjust also Core Plate height to 86 mm and Riser bar height to 106 mm : Click OK to validate : you can see that sub-product Mold has been created in the specification tree. You can also notice that the Mold Base comes with many DME-predefined location points to help position other components : circle points for guiding or locating elements (Leader Pins, Sleeves, Bushings), cross points for fixing elements (Cap Screws),