The videos that you do are so impressive and very informative. I have managed to make so many things, especially with plastic injection moulding tools thanks to your videos. Really appreciate your work thank you!
Great to see this mold tutorial. I was a moldmaker myself for about 15 years (1990-2005) and in the late 90's we used Cimatron, with is really really fast to design mold as it was concentrated on mouldmaking. Including the electrodes designing, parting surfaces, inserts, ejection rods, cooling circuit, also the CAM etc. So when I saw you had to wait 4 minutes to devide the blocks i'm wondering how to proceed to build a complete mold with all the parts, electrodes, cam programs etc. In Fusion360. Hope to see more of video tutorials in that direction by you. Thumbs up for thisone. Another thing I'm missing in Fusion360 is the standard hole creation like for bolts witch connect to or more pieces together to be able to make in a few clicks f.i. M12 to hold the insert in the moldblock. Same to add ejector pins in that mold with all the thru holes and chamfers, the pin itself. Is there a way to select a point and add a bolt to 2 or more pieces including all the correct holes for all the parts?
Hi Xiao Shi Zi 1 Thank you for watching! ANd for the great comment!! At this point there is not a standard counterbore library, however, the development team are working hard and I am sure it is on their list :-)
Dude, Lars, this video was cool. Keep up the amazing work. Are you one of the developers for 360? Also, I can't speak for everyone, but your attention to detail and the explanations about your thought process are more than appreciated, no need to apologize for the in depth analysis. We're all nerds here!
That is awesome to hear Nikolas Gieske .Thank you for watching the videos. I am part of the technical marketing team at Autodesk. Trying to make pretty images and cool videos for our websites and stuff. Thank you for the nice comment! Have an awesome day!! Best, Lars
i been using autocad to drawing 3d model (and i am stuck how to create a mold in autocad , it look not easy)but after your video i know more about fusion 360 mold create and your video so clearly to tell me how and why to do it(think i will import stl to fusion then create a mold), hope i can finish my own project soon and smoothly with keep watching your video.
Thanks for all the videos Lars! You've been a great learning resource for me for sure! I think for me coming from Solidworks and using mold tools, Fusion 360 seems to be a bit smarter than solidworks for creating shut-off surfaces and parting lines. Most of the parts that I've split in Solidworks needed a lot of special manual operations and were not easily split with the mold tools. In this respect creating all of the parting surfaces in fusion in my opinion is much easier than in Solidworks.
Hi Jer Woolman Thank you for watching! I am very impressed with the mold tools in Inventor. I would love getting some of those over into Fusion :-) Hope you have an awesome day! Best, Lars
Thanks Lars. I will use this technique to create a fixture for a second op. The part is concave and I don’t have another way to hold it but double sided tape
Hi Lars. First of all thank you for sharing all that knowledge. Definitely I've been learning so much with your videos. About the plastic parts and shrinkage - should we scale the whole part uniformly or we should differentiate along the mold opening direction, or any other particular rule? Once more thank you for all your sharing. Cheers.
That is awesome to hear José Horta .Thank you for watching the videos I have only ever had to scale uniformly, but I could imagine some scenario where you would need to do it different, like complex medical parts or something like that.
Hello lars, i was wondering if I could get my hands on the model you used in this video. It would really be helpful to have it as an exercise. Thanks in advance!
Hi Lars, thanks so much for this video, I just got around to watching it now. I have two questions: 1. Is there a way to use the draft analysis tool to help you in locating your parting line position directly or is it more like a helper tool to let you think about where you will place the parting line but in the end you have to place it based on some geometry? Hope that makes sense? 2. Did I miss something or what is the specific reason for using the boundary fill tool in the end? Would it be possible to do a normal extrude ->> up to surface on both sides of your part / parting surfaces? Thanks and keep up the good work!
Hi SuperRistopaha Thank you for watching! 1. I will say it is a helping tool. But, it for sure can help shine some light on things. 2. I used boundary fill for two reasons. One, I like to show different tools , in the hope someone learns something new. Two, Bryce Heventhal (My Fusion Guru) always says he thinks it solves better than solid or surface stich. Hope you have an awesome day! Best, Lars
Hello Lars, thanks for the video, but I might have missed something. I have my piece, filled the holes, created the surfaces (even combined them into a single surface, I created the block, but in the Boundary fill, after selecting the block and the surfaces, I only get two little grey cubes. If I understood correctly, I should get three, one for the object cavity and two for each mold. Is there any trick? Should the surface get any thickness?
Hi Derrick Salmon Thank you for watching! I am struggling find them also :-) Here is one th-cam.com/video/PKKpk8QxSB0/w-d-xo.html Also used surfaces here th-cam.com/video/4JlAnBk5q1Y/w-d-xo.html In the begining of this one I kind of try to explain the difference between surface and solid
Is there a reason you didn't stitch the surfaces? Also I did a mold just offsetting the core cavity surfaces to zero then made a block using surfaces and it creates a solid after patching back of block. Thanks for the video. Keep it up.Wish fusion had parting line tool.
Hi brittany williams Thank you for watching! Honestly, the next time I will stitch the surfaces together....did not really need to. Like you way to use offset surface as a copy surface tool!! Have an awesome day!
Lars... Question I need to make reverse Geometry of a body. Not making a mold I am needing to make a drill jig/holder for a body., The left and right sides bolt together through the body. So how would i do this?
Hi Lars, thank you so much for that video. Is that possible to make a video "How to designe and calculate slides (angular pins or actuators)"? Basically a video where you cover a lot of common features in term of injection molding. Thanks, Hizni
great work Lars, I was kind of wondering about the sweep you created to cover up the corner missing surfaces. Well the sweep looks fine but its sharp-cornered. Is there a way to create the split surface with smooth surfaces without sharp bends. Its kind of necessary for sheet metal forming tools. Tkanks.
Hi Kanahaiya Murli Thank you for watching! I might need to see a picture of this to be one hundred percent sure, but I would say "I'm pretty sure you could " :-) Best, Lars
I AM NOT GETTING PROPERLY SPLIT BODY FROM THE MOLD, AFTER EXTRUDING (at the end when you have to do boundary fill option) MY BODY BECOME ONE AND IT DOES NOT SPLIT INTO 3 THE BODY AND CAVITY and CORE ETC.
Lars, I am trying to split the face of a U-shaped part. I am assuming that you need to create the lofted surfaces from the inside of the U as well as the outside. How would you handle the blending of the inside surfaces?
Hi Dennis Johnson Thank you for watching! I might need more coffee, but I can't picture this in my head. I would love to tell you to email me your part, but I am traveling and so dang behind on responding to people. I have to recommend that you go to the forum and try to see if you can get help there. forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360/ct-p/1234
No problem Lars, will do. To clarify, I am trying to split the body, not face, of a U-shaped part. This is so that I can create core/cavity for an injection mold, as is the case in your live stream video #80. I think that I have figured out the answer to my question since then. However, now my issue is when I try and utilize Boundary Fill I receive a warning that "Some sculpt cells are mismatched."
The 4 transitions in the corners need to be improved need to remove that edge to make a smooth transition because It's hard to machine / make the bed out.
Hi Th3DEAD Thank you for watching! Depending on how complicated your part is. Check out this video: th-cam.com/video/SlJ2BGd1g5c/w-d-xo.html Best, Lars
Lars, I am working with a mold, when I try to create the sweep in "Patch Mode" using the Single Path option, after selecting the Profile and Path, the distance never populates and the OK button remains gray so I cant select it. Any ideas what may be causing this? I tried all the available options in the Sweep menu none of them work, and I have 4 corners that need the sweep patch all of them behave the same.
Lars Christensen thanks sir for replying. I have seen fusion 360's same command like nx , so can I create core and cavity of nx models by using fusion 360? please sir reply me
Hello, Lars! I was trying to do a Sweep as You did in this video (starting from 25:25), but it does not work. Do You have any idea why? It seems to me that something was changed in Fusion 360. Do You know exectly? Thank You in advance.
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That helped me 100%. I had been looking for this for a long time. Many thanks for that. 😎👍
You've taken a very difficult topic and presented it in a way that makes total sense. This is an excellent tutorial.
That is awesome to hear Adam Ward .Thank you for watching the videos
The videos that you do are so impressive and very informative. I have managed to make so many things, especially with plastic injection moulding tools thanks to your videos. Really appreciate your work thank you!
You are so very welcome. Thank you for watching!
You're the best teacher ever!!!
This was amazing. It helped me create a 2-part mold I've been unable to figure out for days.
Great to see this mold tutorial. I was a moldmaker myself for about 15 years (1990-2005) and in the late 90's we used Cimatron, with is really really fast to design mold as it was concentrated on mouldmaking. Including the electrodes designing, parting surfaces, inserts, ejection rods, cooling circuit, also the CAM etc. So when I saw you had to wait 4 minutes to devide the blocks i'm wondering how to proceed to build a complete mold with all the parts, electrodes, cam programs etc. In Fusion360. Hope to see more of video tutorials in that direction by you. Thumbs up for thisone.
Another thing I'm missing in Fusion360 is the standard hole creation like for bolts witch connect to or more pieces together to be able to make in a few clicks f.i. M12 to hold the insert in the moldblock.
Same to add ejector pins in that mold with all the thru holes and chamfers, the pin itself.
Is there a way to select a point and add a bolt to 2 or more pieces including all the correct holes for all the parts?
Hi Xiao Shi Zi 1 Thank you for watching! ANd for the great comment!!
At this point there is not a standard counterbore library, however, the development team are working hard and I am sure it is on their list :-)
Dude, Lars, this video was cool. Keep up the amazing work. Are you one of the developers for 360? Also, I can't speak for everyone, but your attention to detail and the explanations about your thought process are more than appreciated, no need to apologize for the in depth analysis. We're all nerds here!
That is awesome to hear Nikolas Gieske .Thank you for watching the videos.
I am part of the technical marketing team at Autodesk. Trying to make pretty images and cool videos for our websites and stuff.
Thank you for the nice comment!
Have an awesome day!!
Best,
Lars
Perfect Lars. Exactly what I need in a week. I have a CNC and need to develop a new part. Thank you.
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
I was looking for it for a while and got it today............THANKS A LOT
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
i been using autocad to drawing 3d model (and i am stuck how to create a mold in autocad , it look not easy)but after your video i know more about fusion 360 mold create and your video so clearly to tell me how and why to do it(think i will import stl to fusion then create a mold), hope i can finish my own project soon and smoothly with keep watching your video.
Thanks for all the videos Lars! You've been a great learning resource for me for sure! I think for me coming from Solidworks and using mold tools, Fusion 360 seems to be a bit smarter than solidworks for creating shut-off surfaces and parting lines. Most of the parts that I've split in Solidworks needed a lot of special manual operations and were not easily split with the mold tools. In this respect creating all of the parting surfaces in fusion in my opinion is much easier than in Solidworks.
Hi Jer Woolman Thank you for watching!
I am very impressed with the mold tools in Inventor. I would love getting some of those over into Fusion :-)
Hope you have an awesome day!
Best,
Lars
Thanks Lars. I will use this technique to create a fixture for a second op. The part is concave and I don’t have another way to hold it but double sided tape
Good lesson.
Thanks Lars, you solved a problem that bothered me for a long time.
I had a pretty good laugh @15:40. Fantastic video, thanks for making them.
Hi Lars. First of all thank you for sharing all that knowledge. Definitely I've been learning so much with your videos.
About the plastic parts and shrinkage - should we scale the whole part uniformly or we should differentiate along the mold opening direction, or any other particular rule?
Once more thank you for all your sharing.
Cheers.
That is awesome to hear José Horta .Thank you for watching the videos
I have only ever had to scale uniformly, but I could imagine some scenario where you would need to do it different, like complex medical parts or something like that.
Thank you, I’ve been looking for details on abnormal parting lines.
Glad you found it helpful
Damit. 3days before this video and it would safed me so much time. Thanks for your re video Lars
Hi J T Thank you for watching!
I totally take the blame for that...Should have done this last week :-)
Always learning from you!!!! Thks
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
You don't even show the final solution????
It worked but I can't shell the top half of the mold
great info - thank you!
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Hey man. Could you learn me how to make a shiftknob mold, compression mold. You wil be my hero 😅
Awesome! Just what I was looking for! I want to create 3D printed matchplates for metal casting.
That is awesome to hear Steve Tracy .Thank you for watching the videos
Hello lars, i was wondering if I could get my hands on the model you used in this video. It would really be helpful to have it as an exercise. Thanks in advance!
If wouldbe nice to see how to made that acutuall part :)
Hi Lars,
thanks so much for this video, I just got around to watching it now. I have two questions:
1. Is there a way to use the draft analysis tool to help you in locating your parting line position directly or is it more like a helper tool to let you think about where you will place the parting line but in the end you have to place it based on some geometry? Hope that makes sense?
2. Did I miss something or what is the specific reason for using the boundary fill tool in the end? Would it be possible to do a normal extrude ->> up to surface on both sides of your part / parting surfaces?
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Hi SuperRistopaha Thank you for watching!
1. I will say it is a helping tool. But, it for sure can help shine some light on things.
2. I used boundary fill for two reasons. One, I like to show different tools , in the hope someone learns something new. Two, Bryce Heventhal (My Fusion Guru) always says he thinks it solves better than solid or surface stich.
Hope you have an awesome day!
Best,
Lars
Thanks for this knowledge. Please make more similar video
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Hi Lars. Always an amassing video. Thank you!
Thank you Kosta Welissariou
Allways welcome Lars.
Hello Lars, thanks for the video, but I might have missed something. I have my piece, filled the holes, created the surfaces (even combined them into a single surface, I created the block, but in the Boundary fill, after selecting the block and the surfaces, I only get two little grey cubes. If I understood correctly, I should get three, one for the object cavity and two for each mold. Is there any trick? Should the surface get any thickness?
Awesome video!
Thank you Michael Nelson
Thank you lars
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Have not been able to find the livestream for patch/surfaces. Can you tell me which number it is?
Thanks - always inspired by your insights
Hi Derrick Salmon Thank you for watching!
I am struggling find them also :-)
Here is one th-cam.com/video/PKKpk8QxSB0/w-d-xo.html
Also used surfaces here th-cam.com/video/4JlAnBk5q1Y/w-d-xo.html
In the begining of this one I kind of try to explain the difference between surface and solid
18:29 i was actually trying to use revolve. lol
Is there a reason you didn't stitch the surfaces? Also I did a mold just offsetting the core cavity surfaces to zero then made a block using surfaces and it creates a solid after patching back of block. Thanks for the video. Keep it up.Wish fusion had parting line tool.
Hi brittany williams Thank you for watching!
Honestly, the next time I will stitch the surfaces together....did not really need to.
Like you way to use offset surface as a copy surface tool!!
Have an awesome day!
Lars... Question I need to make reverse Geometry of a body. Not making a mold I am needing to make a drill jig/holder for a body., The left and right sides bolt together through the body. So how would i do this?
Hi Lars,
thank you so much for that video. Is that possible to make a video "How to designe and calculate slides (angular pins or actuators)"? Basically a video where you cover a lot of common features in term of injection molding.
Thanks, Hizni
Hi Hizni Dari Thank you for watching!
I want to cover more mold stuff for sure!
Best,
Lars
Thank you Lars. Please as soon as possible...Smile:-).
great work Lars,
I was kind of wondering about the sweep you created to cover up the corner missing surfaces. Well the sweep looks fine but its sharp-cornered. Is there a way to create the split surface with smooth surfaces without sharp bends. Its kind of necessary for sheet metal forming tools.
Tkanks.
Hi Kanahaiya Murli Thank you for watching!
I might need to see a picture of this to be one hundred percent sure, but I would say "I'm pretty sure you could " :-)
Best,
Lars
I AM NOT GETTING PROPERLY SPLIT BODY FROM THE MOLD, AFTER EXTRUDING (at the end when you have to do boundary fill option) MY BODY BECOME ONE AND IT DOES NOT SPLIT INTO 3 THE BODY AND CAVITY and CORE ETC.
Great video Thanks Senpai
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
thanks Lars!
Really want to learn how to design injection molds for shoes using fusion 360.. please help me out
Did you see this one? th-cam.com/video/_hgmwhde1So/w-d-xo.html
Lars, I am trying to split the face of a U-shaped part. I am assuming that you need to create the lofted surfaces from the inside of the U as well as the outside. How would you handle the blending of the inside surfaces?
Hi Dennis Johnson Thank you for watching!
I might need more coffee, but I can't picture this in my head. I would love to tell you to email me your part, but I am traveling and so dang behind on responding to people. I have to recommend that you go to the forum and try to see if you can get help there.
forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360/ct-p/1234
No problem Lars, will do. To clarify, I am trying to split the body, not face, of a U-shaped part. This is so that I can create core/cavity for an injection mold, as is the case in your live stream video #80. I think that I have figured out the answer to my question since then. However, now my issue is when I try and utilize Boundary Fill I receive a warning that "Some sculpt cells are mismatched."
The 4 transitions in the corners need to be improved need to remove that edge to make a smooth transition because It's hard to machine / make the bed out.
Any chance this part can be made public so we can work it in the CAD system as we go along?
Sorry, Can't do that with this specific part
Could you confirm that this technique is similar if you want to create a 3D printed mold for wax injection? thank you !
Hi Th3DEAD Thank you for watching!
Depending on how complicated your part is. Check out this video:
th-cam.com/video/SlJ2BGd1g5c/w-d-xo.html
Best,
Lars
Says revolve and uses loft 😂😂 oh lars 😉
I wasn't gonna say anything about that : )
lol...sorry guys. Never take driving directions from me :-)
can you please share that file. if u give permission I will use that for my project to create complete mold
why mine do not appear 3 cells, i really followed all the steps
Dear sir
Great work guidance
Pls make smc compression tool
Lars, I am working with a mold, when I try to create the sweep in "Patch Mode" using the Single Path option, after selecting the Profile and Path, the distance never populates and the OK button remains gray so I cant select it. Any ideas what may be causing this? I tried all the available options in the Sweep menu none of them work, and I have 4 corners that need the sweep patch all of them behave the same.
did you ever find the cause of this?
mine do not apper 3 white boxes, only 2
Great Video like always
Wich pc specs are you recommend for fusion360?
An about 6 years old Dell Precision 4400. :-) Sorry, I know very little about computer specs.
Such an old mashine?
I am running fusion on a gaming Laptop and thought sometimes i need a faster mashine
@@TobiPHartmann lol i'm running it on an 11 years old i7-860 and it runs just fine
Whats wrong with my laptop🤔😑
I would love to see a mold in inventor
Alright, I'll put it on the list :-)
hi,Lars
if the picture is a circle, how to set it??
tsk.
dear sir can fusion 360 create core and cavity of other software models,like ug nx ,catia ,solidworks
Hi Mohd Abid Saifi Thank you for watching!
Yes, just make sure it is a solid format, like SolidWorks, Inventor, Step or Iges
Lars Christensen
thanks sir for replying.
I have seen fusion 360's same command like nx , so can I create core and cavity of nx models by using fusion 360? please sir reply me
Why wouldn't you stitch the surfaces together rather than make a selection set?
To confuse the enemy :-).....This video is so old that I can't remember
I am scratching my head "revolve" when you are actually doing a loft.
Obviously a mistake
Can you please make a mold design for extracting core and cavity of a electrical box having boss and holes
Hello, Lars! I was trying to do a Sweep as You did in this video (starting from 25:25), but it does not work. Do You have any idea why? It seems to me that something was changed in Fusion 360. Do You know exectly? Thank You in advance.
Hi, I'm try to design tool surface. Can I have friend with you
Peng Liu yes, you can. You can write on my email mykhailo.fanta@gmail.com
Make sure you're in the patch mode instead of model. Look in the upper left of his screen and you can see where it's selected.
@@JonathanKuniholm Thanks! I was in patch mode. but it didn'n work. Anyway, it is not actual for now.
Is there a way that I can get the part you used so that I can follow along? Great video!
The video is blurry.
You talk to much get to the point
Yes!!!!!!
@@cadcamstuff by the way your videos ara good. There helping me out. Thanks
He post too much to help other people also