Mold cooling circuit designing method, mold manufacturing method, mold cooling circuit designing apparatus, and computer readable medium

A mold cooling circuit designing apparatus configured to design a cooling circuit in a mold, the cooling circuit in the mold passing through an inlet and an outlet, the apparatus comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• set a control plane that is perpendicular to a mold surface which is a side that comes in contact with a material and that passes through the inlet and the outlet;
• set a reference plane that is offset from the mold surface to the inside of the mold by a fixed distance;
• extract an intersection line at which the control plane and the reference plane intersect;
• and
• set the cooling circuit inside the mold along the intersection line.

A mold cooling circuit designing apparatus configured to design a cooling circuit in a mold, the cooling circuit in the mold passing through an inlet and an outlet, the apparatus comprising a processor configured to:

• set a control plane that is perpendicular to a mold surface which is a side that comes in contact with a material and that passes through the inlet and the outlet;
• set a reference plane that is offset from the mold surface to the inside of the mold by a fixed distance;
• extract an intersection line at which the control plane and the reference plane intersect;
• and
• set the cooling circuit inside the mold along the intersection line.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a designing process of designing a cooling circuit that passes through an inlet and an outlet inside a mold, the designing process comprising:

• a control plane setting step of setting a control plane that is perpendicular to a mold surface which is a side that comes in contact with a material and that passes through the inlet and the outlet;
• a reference plane setting step of setting a reference plane that is offset from the mold surface to the inside of the mold by a fixed distance;
• an intersection line extraction step of extracting an intersection line at which the control plane and the reference plane intersect;
• and
• a circuit setting step of setting the cooling circuit inside the mold along the intersection line.