Volume 1 — Topics include: draft, radiused corners, material choices, shut-offs, texture...
Volume 2 — Topics include: side actions, naming files, text on parts, wall thickness...
Volume 3 — Topics include: hot tips on gates, parting lines, clips, shut-offs, materials matrix...
Volume 4 — Topics include: fun with cams, fillets, living hinges, ultrasonic welds, sink...
Volume 5 — Topics include: rotational draft, knit lines, square corners, prototyping...
Volume 6 — Topics include: bosses, prototyping processes, attachments, mold flow...
Volume 7 — Topics include: texture, pickouts, bump-offs, ejector pins, parting lines...
Here's an interesting example of topology optimization with additional constraints to ensure injection mold-ability (by way of topology-opt.com): In many cases the topology optimization method yield inadmissible solutions in respect to a particular manufacturing process, e.g. injection molding. In the present work it is chosen to focus on the most common injection molding parameters/factors determining the quality of the mold geometry, i.e. uniform thickness, filling of the die and ejection of the molded item, i.e. extrusion. The mentioned injection mold parameters/factors are introduced in the topology optimization by defining a centerline of the initial domain and then penalize elements in respect to the distance to the defined centerline of the domain.
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