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Applying draft

Applying draft - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Applying draft

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- If you're designing a part for any type of a molding process like plastic injection molding or dye casting, you're probably going to need to add some draft. Now draft is just some angles to the outside surfaces so when the part or the mold separates, that the part comes out very easily. So to do that, we have a great tool inside of SolidWork with believe it or not, it's called draft. (chuckles) All right. So click on this one, right up here, draft. And the first question is, what angle do we want to draft at? So most of the time for plastic injection molded parts we want to have about three degrees of draft. Now you can go below that, but depending on the texture of your part, you might have some issues. So three degrees is generally a nice size draft. And of course you can have anything above that is fine. But right now, I'm going to leave nine degrees so you can see it a little easier. Now right over here is going to…

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