Hello this is my first post so bare with me.
So i have this part i designed for my company, which is to be filleted around the entire outside edges (which can be seen in the one picture). My next step is to create a mold for the part so it can be extrude casted.
The fillet is .25 inches around the entire part, and i just cant seem to figure out how i would put together the mold including fillets to fit the model without the fillets overlapping(like how they are in my current mold design).
The part is going to be made out of TPR-thermoplastic rubber- and the mold out of some standard grade 30 steel most likely.
Any information about this subject or if anyone already knows a solution, anything helps.
Thanks
NOTE: it is a design of my own so the creation of additional parts is acceptable, but only for the mold. I cant change the design of the actual part.
Modeling the actual part geometry into the various components of a mold is NOT the typical way to do it. Typically, molds are designed by applying shrink (scale) to the part and then using it to "cavity" material away from the various mold components. Each "solid body" in your part model would normally be individual part models in an assembly. This method insures that the part model drives the part shape in the tool...less chance for mistakes in modeling. It also makes the problem you are having, cease to exist. Having components manufactured in different locations (different machines or, in your case, different shops) is normal for nearly all mold shops.