User Guided Injection Molding

This section describes the costing details and inputs that are available for User Guided Injection Molding (IM).

For this process, aPriori estimates manufacturing times and costs for single-shot, molded parts (including cost estimates for manufacturing the required mold). The routing can include secondary surface treatment and packaging processes (if you have licensed these modules). Since this is not a GCD-driven cost model, cost estimates are not based on a CAD model and geometry extraction; rather, basic geometric inputs (such as part dimensions and undercut depths) are provided by the user. See User Guided Costing for an introduction to user-guided costing. See Plastic Molding for the GCD-driven IM cost model.

This section includes the following topics: