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07 - Castingdesign - Backdraft

This document discusses back draft and zero draft conditions that can occur when designing injection molded parts. It defines back draft and zero draft, and describes how they can occur unintentionally through mistakes in the design process or intentionally through design requirements. Examples are provided to illustrate properly drafted faces versus back draft conditions. Guidelines are given to check for and avoid back draft and zero draft conditions while modeling parts to ensure easy part removal from molds.

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07 - Castingdesign - Backdraft

This document discusses back draft and zero draft conditions that can occur when designing injection molded parts. It defines back draft and zero draft, and describes how they can occur unintentionally through mistakes in the design process or intentionally through design requirements. Examples are provided to illustrate properly drafted faces versus back draft conditions. Guidelines are given to check for and avoid back draft and zero draft conditions while modeling parts to ensure easy part removal from molds.

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CAEDSInjectionMouldedPartDesign

Backdraftandzerodraftconditions
TampereUniversityofTechnologyTuulaHk

Adraftisacertaindeclinationinamouldcavitysurface.Thedeclinationisseteither
tothedirectionofpartremovalormovingcoremovement.Thepurposeofthedraftis

to ease part removal. If the mould cavity surfaces are parallel to the part pulling
direction,itislikelythatthepartwillsticktothemould,especiallylikelyontomould
coresurfaces.Althoughthedraftcanbeunderstoodasapartofthemouldfunctional
ity, it has to be designed to the part, because the mould designers design mould
cavitiesexactlyaccordingtothepartmodel.Theydonotadddraftangles.
Abackdraft(undercut)isbasicallyadrafttoawrongdirection.Therearetwobasic
occurrences:
Unintentionally,bymistakesetbackdraftcondition.Forexampleifthede
signerwishestosetuniversalwallthicknesstoacoredholeinaboss.
Backdraftbydesign.Usuallyahole,acavityoraprotrusioninadirectionof
amouldpartingsurface.

Azerodraftcanalsobeseteitherbymistakeorbydesign:
Typicallytheunintentionallysetzerodraftconditionoccursintheendofa
curvedwall.Itisalsotypicaltoforgettodraftsomefacesorendwithzero
draftedwallsasaresultofcomplexcornerroundingoperations.Thedesigner
shouldbeespeciallycarefulwhendesigningtexturedsurfacesorworking
withstickymaterials.Aluminumhighpressurediecastingscanalsobevery
sensitivetoazerodraftcondition,becausealuminiumreadilystickstothe
mouldcavitysurfaces.
Sometimesthepartrequireszerodraftwalls.Inthiscaseitiscommontoplate
mouldcoresurfaceswithlubricatingplating.

Thefollowingimagespresentsomeexamplesofthezeroandbackdraftconditions.


Backdraftcondition Properlydraftedfaces

Image1. Unintentionallysetbackdraftinsideaboss.Thefirstbossisdesignedwithaback
draft.Thebosshasanequalwallthickness,butthedesignismoldableonlywithsoftandnon
stickymaterials.Thebossinthemiddlehasunequalwallthickness,butthedesigniswell
moldable.Thelastbossisequippedwithathroughhole.Thewallthicknessisequalandthe
designiswellmoldable.

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Faultysketch(above)
Green:Cavitysurface
Red:Coresurface
Yellow:Zerodraftarea Correctsketch(right)

Image2. Zerodraftconditioninapartingline.Donotshapetheoutersurfaceswithafull
circle.Usetwohalfcirclesanddraftedlines.

Green:Cavitysurface
Red:Coresurface
Yellow:Zerodraftarea

Image3. Unintentionallysetbackdraftconditioninthejointbetweenapananditshandle.
Unintentionallysetzerodraftconditionintheroundribonthebottomofthepart.

Green:Cavitysurface
Red:Coresurface
Yellow:Zerodraftarea

Image4. Intentionallysetbackdrafts.Backdraftsareforsnapfasteningsystems.

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Green:Cavitysurface
Red:Coresurface
Yellow:Zerodraftarea





Mainpullingdirection Corepullingdirection

Image5. Draftdirectionsinmainpullingdirectionandcorepullingdirection.Rememberto
checkbothifyourpartrequiresmovingelementstothemould.

While modeling, check the drafting with your CAD software draft analysis tools.
Checkfrequentlyenoughinordertoavoidunnecessarydifficultrepairingoperations.
Itisusuallyeasiertomodelafewfeatures,checkdraftingandrepairifthereissome
thingtorepairthanstartthinkingofdraftanglesafterfinishingplentyoffeatures(or
thewholepart).

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