{"id":113,"date":"2022-07-14T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acomold.com\/holes-plastic-molded-parts-design.html"},"modified":"2023-07-27T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T03:17:29","slug":"holes-plastic-molded-parts-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acomold.com\/holes-plastic-molded-parts-design.html","title":{"rendered":"Holes – Plastic molded parts design"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a common way to assemble plastic components or achieve functionality by creating hole features, Location and measurement of holes need to be carefully designed to minimize the complexity of mold manufacturing<\/a> and negative influence to the part strength, in this article we are going to discuss what elements we should consider when doing rib design.<\/p>\n

The distance between two holes feature or between a hole feature and other features must not less than the diameter of the holes. See below figure, meanwhile, the thickness of the hole should be as bigger as possible otherwise it would be easily broken. When it comes to a threaded holes, the design becomes very complex, inner stress will be easily generated around the threaded area, which make the plastic parts fragile, usually, distance between hole feature to the edge of the part must 3 times bigger than the diameter of the hole.
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Through holes<\/strong>
\nBy the view of parts assembly, design of through holes are employed much more frequently than blind holes; plus, through holes are much easier to produce, by the view of mold design, through holes take advantage as well in construction, to mold a holes feature, common mold design<\/a> is making one insert pin fixed and hold by both ends of the mold or two insert pins fixed and held by each end of the mold.
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\nBlind holes<\/strong>
\nBlind holes are created by insert cores; it can only be fixed and held at one end, which means it could be possible to be forced to deform under strong meld flow force, it becomes oval shape when deformation occurs, so the length of insert cores should be as less as possible to avoid the deformation happening, usually the deepness of the blind hole pins should be not exceed twice of the diameter of the blind holes.<\/p>\n

Holes on the side<\/strong>
\nHoles on the side will increase the complexity of mold design, the undercut is created when the direction of the holes is not in the direction of de-molding, a slider or cylinder is required to be employed to release the hole feature, the mold size and complexity of manufacturing increase massively, injection mold<\/a> cycle time would be longer because of additional mechanisms action, so the total cost of molding blind holes design is much higher.<\/p>\n

Other considerations about the hole design<\/strong><\/p>\n