Molding Design Professional
Last updated: Sep 1, 2024
Are you looking for experts in molding design? Cad Crowd has a community of molding design freelancers who can help you from initial design concept right through to production. Hire molding design services on demand or on a per-project basis without the need to go through the recruitment process.
With a commitment to eliminate the guesswork of hiring a molding design freelancer online, we will match you directly with a pre-qualified and pre-vetted professional.
We have a team of in-house engineers who will evaluate your project specifications and choose the most suitable molding designer for your needs. Backed by a guarantee that the deliverables are done with accuracy to your project needs, you can rely on molding design freelancers to help you achieve your goals.
You can also browse through our member portfolio for an idea of the skills, capabilities, and knowledge of our molding designers.
Molding is a manufacturing process that uses a mold or rigid frame to shape liquid or any pliable raw materials to a specific model, pattern, or shape. Depending on an object’s design, the mold can be simple or complex.
Considering that the finished product’s accuracy to the mold will depend on the material used, there is a need to hire experts in molding design to ensure that even the tiniest details are reflected on the outcome. Higher accuracy is even more important for articulated molds where multiple pieces are needed to create one complete mold. Many molding design services rely on CAD software to develop a design. The most sophisticated of which uses the latest 3D technology.
Before any design is made using CAD/CAM software, however, drawings and sketches on paper still play an important role. Even when automating the drawing process is available, the choice to automatically generate the General Assembly and component drawings of a mold remains the decision of molding designers. Of course, with CAD software more sophisticated than ever, completing a set of drawings for the most complex mold will not take longer than a couple days.
There are two main methods used in molding design – solid modeling and surface modeling. The former is principally based on standard geometric shapes while the latter is based on the various methods of shaping surfaces, such as bending, pulling, stretching, and twisting. Each method is applicable to specific stages in molding design.
In creating the core and cavity of a mold, for instance, molding design freelancers rely on surface modeling as it is more tolerant to data of poor quality. Both methods, however, offer different ways to fix problems. When it comes to mold assembly, solid modeling is the most appropriate method to use because most mold components are made up from simple prismatic geometry. The software used also comes with catalogs of standard mold components that can be used over and over again.
With molding design companies within reach, you should not hesitate to hire freelancers to get the job done quickly and accurately. Contact Cad Crowd today for a free, no-obligation quote from any of our molding design freelancers.