Mold design requires precision, data reusability, and efficient workflows. In Designcenter 2606, Siemens continues to focus on three key objectives: enhancing parametric design, optimizing workflows, and improving manufacturing readiness. Let’s explore the latest enhancements in Mold Wizard through the following highlights:
Design faster with fewer steps
- Faster cooling channel design
The Cooling system has been significantly enhanced with new capabilities that help reduce the number of design steps:
- Direct Channel – Continuous Creation allows users to create multiple cooling channels continuously within a single command, eliminating the need to restart the tool after each channel. This is particularly useful when designing complex cooling systems.
A simplified cooling channel design workflow with the Continuous Creation option
- Adjust Channel integrates the Extend Channel and Connect Channels functions into a single dialog box, allowing users to modify, extend, or connect cooling channels more conveniently without switching between multiple commands.
- Enhanced Runner and Plunger design
Designcenter 2606 enhances runner system design with several improvements:
- Runner and Gate geometry can be automatically projected onto selected surfaces and accurately subtracted from the Core, Cavity, or Mold Body.
- Additional gate layout configurations are supported.
- Flexible surface offset control helps ensure accurate material subtraction.
- Reference edges can be used to control Runner paths, while existing Cold Slug Well objects can be reused instead of recreating new geometry.
- These enhancements help reduce editing time and improve mold model stability.
Runner and Gate geometry is automatically projected onto the selected surface and accurately subtracted from the Core, Cavity, or Mold Body
More flexible Vent design
The Vent functionality has been expanded to support a wider range of mold design methods:
- Create vents directly on mold surfaces.
- Automatically connect to the nearest vent path.
- Move multiple vent segments simultaneously.
- Control whether vents are created automatically or positioned manually point by point.
These enhancements make vent system layout faster and more flexible for different mold configurations.
More powerful parametric modeling
Designcenter Mold Design 2606 continues to expand its parametric design capabilities.
- Bounding Body supports Expressions
Users can directly use Expressions or Formulas to control the Bounding Body offset. When design parameters change, the geometry updates automatically without requiring manual modifications.
- Mold CSYS – Reset Workpiece
The new Reset Workpiece option provides greater control over workpiece position updates when the Mold CSYS coordinate system changes, helping prevent unintended movement and improving stability throughout the mold design process.
- Smarter Standard Part management
The Standard Part library has been enhanced with additional automation capabilities:
- Define parent-child relationships directly in the Spreadsheet.
- Predefine Reference Sets.
- Support lightweight 3D Wireframe models for faster visualization.
- Quickly switch between Wireframe and full standard models when needed.
These capabilities make standard library management more flexible and efficient, particularly for large mold assemblies.
Enhanced traceability and model management
- Improved BOM management and traceability
The new release introduces additional capabilities to help companies manage design data more effectively:
- Display intuitive icons for BOM templates.
- Automatically record the last user who saved the model and the time it was saved.
- Synchronize this information with BOM reports.
This improves traceability, change control, and transparency throughout the design process.
- Automatic QR Code and Barcode updates
QR Codes and Barcodes can now be linked directly to part attributes. When product information changes, the codes are automatically updated in both the 3D model and 2D drawing, enabling more effective traceability in digital manufacturing environments.
QR Codes are automatically updated when product information changes
Designcenter Mold Design 2606 not only introduces new capabilities but also focuses on reducing design steps, increasing automation, and improving data management. Enhancements to cooling system design, Runner, Vent, Standard Part, BOM, and parametric design help mold designers work faster and more accurately while preparing designs more effectively for digital manufacturing workflows.
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