Mold design system and recording medium
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsFu Guo, Tadakatsu Yoshikawa
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Abstract
To quickly determine a parting line, a mold design system first obtains the orientations of faces constituting an article to be produced using a mold, and then classifies the faces according to their orientations. A boundary between faces that are classified into different sets is determined as a parting line. Thus, the parting line is automatically determined, permitting efficient mold design.
Claims6
A mold design system for designing a mold for making molded articles, comprising:
- face orientation acquiring means for obtaining orientations of faces constituting a shape of an article to be produced using the mold;
- face classifying means for classifying the faces into a plurality of sets according to the respective orientations obtained by said face orientation acquiring means;
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- parting line determining means for determining, as a parting line of the mold for forming the article shape, a boundary between faces that are classified into different sets by said face classifying means.
A computer-readable recording medium recording a mold design program for designing a mold for making molded articles, wherein the mold design program causes a computer to function as
- face orientation acquiring means for obtaining orientations of faces constituting a shape of an article to be produced using the mold,
- face classifying means for classifying the faces into a plurality of sets according to the respective orientations obtained by the face orientation acquiring means, and
- parting line determining means for determining, as a parting line of the mold for forming the article shape, a boundary between faces that are classified into different sets by the face classifying means.
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