The 3D design of molds is a crucial aspect of digital mold technology and serves as the foundation for achieving integration in mold design, manufacturing, and inspection. Companies such as Toyota in Japan and General Motors in the United States have already implemented 3D design for molds and achieved positive application results. Besides facilitating integrated manufacturing, another advantage of 3D mold design is its ease of interference checking. It allows for motion interference analysis, addressing a challenging issue in 2D design.

Automobile mold scanning site

1. The mold is made of aluminum alloy material, with a glossy and highly reflective surface. To ensure measurement accuracy, the customer requires that no imaging agent be sprayed.

2. The automobile mold is about 3 meters long, with a large and bulky volume. Traditional measurement methods are slow and involve complex workflows. Moreover, many dimensions and geometric features cannot be effectively measured, which is prone to generating secondary errors.

STL data diagram of automobile mold

Addressing the issues faced by the client, Huaguang 3D technology engineers utilized the handheld 3D scanner HOLON 771 to swiftly and precisely acquire the 3D data of the car mold. The scanning process was convenient and quick without the need for spraying imaging agents, taking less than 30 minutes and achieving extremely high scanning accuracy. This successfully resolved the problems encountered by the client

Product Features:

 ● Easy to operate: No need to spray imaging agent, scanning is convenient and quick

 ● Portable design: The hardware system is compact, requires little space, produces no noise, and is easy to disassemble and assemble, making it convenient to bring to the measurement site

 ● Extremely fast scanning speed: millions of data points can be obtained within 3-5 seconds, with extremely high efficiency

 ● High precision: The precision of scanned parts in standard mode can reach up to 0.02mm

Comparison and inspection diagram of automobile molds

Comparison and inspection diagram of automobile molds