Cool Polymers


	Cool Polymers, Inc. Shorten Mold Design Process Mold Designer Curt Westgate Discusses Benefits of MoldWorks and SplitWorks							This is a copy from the article that was published in the SolidWorks Express Newsletter.
	Cool Polymers®, Inc. manufactures thermally conductive plastics and heat transfer solutions. The company supplies thermally conductive plastic resins (pellets) and injection molded parts produced from these resins and assists in the design, modeling, testing, prototyping, and tooling of applications requiring these thermally conductive plastics. Customers' applications include electronics, automotive, appliance, heating/cooling/refrigeration, lighting, medical, food, and sporting goods.

	How do you use MoldWorks and SplitWorks? We use MoldWorks® to design and model all of our injection molds and mold base assemblies.
	How do MoldWorks and SplitWorks impact your design process? The great thing about MoldWorks is that it runs seamlessly inside of SolidWorks® software, giving us complete associativity between part, mold, mold parts, electrodes, and CAM programs. With its user-friendly interface, MoldWorks walks you through the mold design process - from the mold base to the water lines to the knockout pins. It is very easy to parametrically add all the features and parts needed for a complete mold design. If a change is made to a part, we can make that change and the mold cavity, electrodes, and inserts update automatically. MoldWorks has significantly shortened our mold design process.
	How did you design molds prior to using MoldWorks and SplitWorks? Can you provide a comparison of how things have improved? Prior to MoldWorks we were using another mold base software package as well as design tables to create our mold base components. It took a long time to design a mold because for each new mold design, mold components such as water lines, knockout pins, and inserts had to be individually added. And if there was a change, each component had to be individually moved. Now all knockout pins, inserts, and water lines are very easily added and are parametrically tied to the assembly. They can be moved or adjusted with a few menu selections. Design time has improved, tooling delivery time has improved, and in turn, projects are completed sooner.
	How does MoldWorks and SplitWorks save time? MoldWorks and SplitWorks save time because they provide you with all the mold design tools within SolidWorks and parametrically tie them to the SolidWorks part being used. MoldWorks has increased our productivity by enabling us to create a mold base assembly in one week or less. Prior to that a typical mold base assembly would take from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 weeks to complete. This also includes all necessary drawings required for vendors and/or tool room as well as the exploded assembly drawing with part tabulation.

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