Such software can speed up the injection mould design process and facilitate a design standardisation。 

The current version of the IKB-MOULD supports design-for-assembly for the injection mould design。 This version only provides the 3D-injection mould design and has some automation to generate 2D drawings。 To integrate the CAD/CAM, future work will be focused on design-for-manufacture。 In other words, the NC code of the final injection mould design should be automatically generated。

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