Quick Tips to Improve Your Molded Parts

In this video, we'll go over quick tips to improve your designs for injection molded parts. Injection molding offers a wide range of possibilities, such as high production, cost-efficiency, and repeatability. To take advantage of these Injection Molding production possibilities you need to know how to design properly for injection molding. The cube shown in this video illustrates several design challenges—and solutions—for molded parts. With luck, these will help you avoid common pitfalls and help us make better parts for you.

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00:00 Introduction to this video on injection molding design
00:51 Bosses. In this first section we'll go over how to effectively design your bosses.
01:19 Knit lines. Learn how to avoid knit lines in injection molding design.
01:30 Thinner sections. Learn how to avoid or design for them.
01:40 Thicker features. Learn how to avoid or design for them.
01:56 Thick ribs. Learn how to avoid thick ribs or design effectively for them.
02:10 Surface finishes. We provide an overview of surface finishes for injection molding we offer.
02:28 Undercuts. Learn to avoid undercuts in your injection molding design.
03:01 Living hinges. Leanr why it's important to pick the right material for living hinges.
03:26 Finally, we'll go over custom colors for injection molding design.
03:37 Outro for this video on design tips for injection molding


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03:37 Outro for this video on design tips for injection molding