With the development of CAD/CAM software, in our mold industry, their Advantages are getting more and more highlighted, especially for plastic product design and mold manufacturing, actually Plastic Products and Molds Require Specialized CAD/CAM, Professional mold engineers increasingly rely on them, at least in china, in mold industry, UGNX, CATIA, PRO/E , Cimatron E, Powermill, MasterCAM, Autodesk Moldflow are very popular. For plastic product designers, they can design with free form surfaces, draft angles can be automatically designed into a product, the plastic processing know-how is built into a CAD/CAM product. For mold manufacturers, they can import and handle massively large files, clean-up “dirty” files received from customers,use automated mold design tools, and reduce mold machine and polish times.
In The Contemporary World, CAD/CAM plays a key role in the trend of manufacturing globalization, because companies need to worldwide optimize their plastic product design and mold manufacture.
Understand how CAD and CAM software work is the first step to choose the programs that suit specific industry needs. Generally speaking, CAD intends to provide a visual aid to a model, regardless of the metric system or dimensions. Geometrical objects draw with CAD can be given properties and can interact with each other in simple ways, but properties don’t interact among them.
CAM models are more down-to-earth and are concerned with sizes and materials, as they are for manufacture processes. CAM turns the geometrical figures into codes with commands for the machine to create the product. CAM makes easy for manufacturers to check on pieces dimensions and save time avoiding future mishaps in the production.