Is It Difficult For Fitters in Injection Mold Factories To Teach Themselves To Design?
Aug 17, 2021
Mold design is a high-quality job with high wages, good environment, and promising prospects in the industry. Therefore, many employees in the injection mold processing industry want to develop in design positions. There is nothing wrong with it, but how to learn design is a problem that must be faced squarely. Is it difficult for fitters in injection mold factories to teach themselves to design? Let's have a chat together.
The fitter is the type of work closest to design and the fastest type of work to learn design. Because fitter needs to understand the drawings, they need to process parts according to the requirements of the drawings, and finally all mold parts need to be assembled, and then they need to be tested in the mold trial. Repair the problem.
Many fitters think that design is not about drawing pictures with software? After so many years of working as a fitter, as long as you learn a software, you can directly engage in design. However, when I really started to learn design, I discovered that the fact is not as simple as learning a software.
Even a senior fitter can only use software to draw a simple mold diagram within 2 years of self-study design, and he can't handle a slightly more difficult product. What's the reason?
All CAD and UG drawing software are just a tool, and the key node is the designer himself. Different designs of the same product will provide different structures and processes, and the final result will be good or bad. Therefore, the most important thing is design, not software. Software is just a tool.
Software is the foundation. It takes some time to practice software to make practice make perfect and use it flexibly. Although, the fitter has seen many molds, is very familiar with the structure, and has a good understanding of the drawing files of the parts. However, this only stays in the part of the mold. To give the simplest example, there are a few fitters who can explain clearly or think about how big the screws in the mold are, why they choose them, and why they put them in this way?
The difference in work content leads to different thinking. The fitter considers more reasonable processing and assembly, while the design considers the overall mold process, structure, cost, and standards.
The most difficult thing to break through for the fitter learns to design is the limitation of thinking and the lack of structure. As long as this restriction is broken, designing is just around the corner, and it is a matter of course. Software can be done as long as it takes a little time, it's just a matter of the efficiency of drawing out.
Whether it is fitter, machining or other practitioners, if you want to learn design, you must go through the software, mechanical drawing, mold structure, process analysis, design standards and other links.
