Need help to design a foam package!

[Darra]

Hi guys!

Does any of you had any experience in how to go about when designing a foam package for diffrent types of equipment such as a toaster, or a CD-player or any other product that is safley packaged???

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.!
Thanks!

 

[hwong]

Well, the good thing with I-DEAS is the ability to perform cutting with "orphan" solid forms.

I assume you have a 3D model of your product in I-DEAS. Make it a fully 3D soild orphan form.

After which you have a part to be the foam, which in most cases could be the four corners, for this example I choose.

Then create a cut into empty space of a cylinder... it is ok. After the cut is completed, go to the history, select the feature, and edit it. In the edit menu, select "replace feature" and that of the product model orphan. If successful, you will have removed the volume of the foam part.

Try it... there may be errors and problems at first, but practise make perfect. Good luck.

 

[Darra]

Thanks man!

But how do you make a part to an ^orphan^? Do i just delete the history?

Are there any other ways of making packagesfor part?

Thanks for all your help..!!
Cheers

 

[hwong]

A method of mine is to merge surfaces. This process will delete the part history. Sometimes a merged surface is formed on the 3D part, which can be deleted.

Anyway, the data is greatly reduced and still can be used.

 

[automotivedesigner]

There are two good ways to delete the history of the part without affecting the origional part history.

1. Have the part on the screen. Extract the entire part (you may way to filter for part)using the extract icon R1C3. Put away your master part. Delete the history of your extracted "clone" part by turning on the menus (options-->menus on/off) then select modify-->delete history.

2. (easier) have the master part on the workbench/screen. turn on the menus (options-->menus on/off) then select modify-->delete history. You will be given a prompt on whether to delete history on the current part, or to make a new part with no history. You are gonna want to make a new part with no history.

3. name the part "foam cutter" and use it to boolean cut the foam.

You are also probably gonna have to do some more cutting away of the foam to be able to pull the product out of the foam, and you may have to draft or cut the foam into smaller seperate pieces for manufacturing.

Hope this helps

Automotivedesigner