Since the purchase of a Catia V5 seat in 2000, Marine Plastics has been able to offer our customers “paperless” implementation of new projects. We can receive customer designs electronically as solid models, which are used to produce all tooling and to verify production parts. This allows design input from the fabricator at a very early stage and can eliminate costly revisions to tooling. Communication in very fine detail is possible between the customer, the pattern maker and the fabricator. Rapid prototyping and significantly reduced lead-times have been realized. design of fixtures and jigs becomes simpler and with assured accuracy.
Typical CAD Assembly |
Draft Analysis of an RTM Mold |
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 Above is a typical CAD model of a large truck component. These are individually converted into a open or closed mold depending on the quantity desired. |
 To keep tooling costs at a minimum we can place two parts into a mold cavity. The figure shows three colored areas, the green is the parts, the brown is the resin flow channels and the purple is the vacuum flange for a RTM tool. |
 This figure shows the color graph for the draft angles and the co-ordinate system in the center of the picture is the pull direction. If there were any red faces this area would be a undercut and the part would not release from the mold. |