PBT contains esters gene and it will hydrolyze under the high temperature with the presence of moisture. Therefore, before starting the processing, it has to conduct the drying process.

Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) has advantageous combination properties such as a convenient source of raw materials, and mature polymerization process has gotten easier, low cost and easily forming and processing. Nylon, polycarbonate (PC), polyoxymethylene and modified polyphenylene oxide are five major engineering plastics.

Enter a value based on the overall thickness of the part (what you want the thickness to be). Choosing the Show Thin Regions will color code all the faces of the part thinner than that value. Thin walls means the flow of polymer is restricted and could cause a short shot. Choose the Show Thick Regions radio button and SOLIDWORKS will color code all faces thicker and thinner than the target value. Much like Draft Analysis, hovering the cursor over the model shows the thickness in that spot. If the walls are too thick, you could end up with sink marks or warpage.

For extra help, SOLIDWORKS can count all the faces based on whether they are positive, negative, or require draft. To do this, simply click the Face Classification box. If you are not exactly sure the angle of the direction of pull, use the adjustment triad to play around with different pull directions.

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For more organic shaped parts, you may want to call upon the gradual transition option, which uses a gradient display rather than discrete colors.

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In view of PBT’s low viscosity, good fluidity, fast cooling and solidifying in the molding, most products don’t need a long molding cycle.

The revolving speed of screw should be controlled to some extent to avoid friction heat impacting on the resin and screw speed generally doesn’t exceed 80r/min, mostly ranging from 25 to 60r/min. In order not to obstruct plasticizing of materials and make sure the air among particles of fabric materials can be discharged in time, during PBT’ shaping, the screw packing should be controlled at 10-15% of the injection pressure.

To get products with better performance and good fineness as well as the smaller deformation in the molding, PBT’s appropriate temperature is 70 -80 Celsius degree.

In the actual operation, the temperature of PBT ranges from 240 to 260 Celsius degree. Owning to PBT’s fast cooling speed, injection speed should be slightly faster in order to prevent short shot of the products, obvious welding, and poor surface fineness caused by premature condensation during the filling process. However, it needs to prevent inadequate air exhausting and the flashing of products.

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When you run it, you need to tell SOLIDWORKS the direction of pull and what angle of draft you want to look for as acceptable. In most situations, 2 degrees is the amount to look for. For shut offs or if there is a texture required on the face, you should apply at least 3 degrees.

In our first of three blog posts, let’s take a look at some useful design checks available in SOLIDWORKS for injection molding.

To run the Draft Analysis tool in SOLIDWORKS, you will find it on the Evaluate tab of the CommandManager, or if you want to go another route, it can also be found under the drop-down menus in View > Display > Draft Analysis.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.  Should be pretty straightforward, right? Well, form can often compete with function and design compromises have to be made when factoring in business decisions. Furthermore, the more complex your design become, the more taxing it is to check that every feature is fit to manufacture.

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Of course, if you want to really be sure your injection-molded part is going to successfully be manufactured, go one stage further and simulate it with SOLIDWORKS Plastics. This will highlight many more things all at once versus running individual checks, so running design checks with a full injection mold simulation is the best approach—especially if you want to get your design right early in the development process.

Our helpful design aid demonstrates part features that are too thin or too thick, bad bosses, right and wrong ribs, and other considerations to be mindful of while designing parts for injection molding.

Ideal thickness for injection-molded parts varies on material but can be anything from 0.5mm to 25mm, but most engineering plastics fit between approximately 1mm and 4mm.

PBT is a kind of crystalline polymer with a sharp melting point (225-235 Celsius degree). Crystallinity can reach 40%. When the temperature rises above the melting point, the liquidity of melt will become obvious. However, when changing from the molten state to the gruel state, it not only has the fast rate of cooling rate but has a fast crystalline speed.

The third check in SOLIDWORKS for injection molding is Undercut Analysis. More undercuts mean a more complex multipart tool rather than a simple two-piece tool. More complexity means more added expense and manufacturing time because of features like side-actions. Undercut Analysis is right beneath Draft Analysis and once again, select the pull direction for the option to use the adjustment triad if you haven’t explored all possibilities yet. To make it easier to see these undercut faces, you can toggle the display of each type of face by clicking the hide/show Eye icon next to each face type.

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One of the most important aspects of the part design process is design for manufacturing (DFM). A good place to start, as with most things in life, is Wikipedia. It defines DFM as “the process of designing or engineering a product in order to facilitate the manufacturing process in order to reduce its manufacturing costs. DFM will allow potential problems to be fixed in the design phase, which is the least expensive phase in which to address them.”

The next consideration helps ensure the material flows nice and evenly into the mold. For this to happen, we want as close to constant wall thickness as possible. This can be especially challenging where we add bosses, clips, and ribs. To highlight any problem areas, we can call upon the Thickness Analysis in SOLIDWORKS. This is found on the Evaluate tab of the CommandManager but is also under the Tools drop-down menu.

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Luckily, the accessibility of 3D CAD in recent years has brought a multitude of checking tools to “spell check” your design based on DFM rules. Note that specific guidelines such as recommended draft angles or wall thickness are manufacturer dependent. But using these tools can reduce manufacturing costs, a lot of back and forth with the shop floor, time to market, and even save your reputation as a good engineering designer.

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In the state of melting for PBT, because of its low viscosity, perfect liquidity (inferior to the nylon) and better mold shrinkage, it needs to prevent the phenomena of edge flowing and flashing of products.

SOLIDWORKS will then highlight positive draft in green, faces requiring draft in yellow, and negative draft in red (assuming they are all set to default colors). When viewing the part from both sides of the direction of pull, it should be all green from one side and all red from the other. Any yellow faces, need draft added.

The first thing you want to check for is draft. Without that, parts are not going to eject from the mold cleanly and easily. The molding process is typically engineered around speed and volume so the easier the parts come out, the faster they can be produced and the less chance those parts will incur any cosmetic defects.

Influenced by factors of crystallinity, technology, mould, PBT has anisotropy to makes products warping and distorted during the molding process. Therefore, it should pay attention to proper process conditions and mold design.

Check back next week for part two of our SOLIDWORKS blog series when we look at tips for improving DFM on machined parts.

If you hover the mouse cursor over any of the part’s faces, it will give you a dynamic update of the draft on the face you are over. Exiting the command also allows the colors to stay displayed on the part. This makes it easy for you to make any changes to the part and see the colors update as you make changes.

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