Designing thermally optimized molds becomes more challenging as part designs become more complex. There are various cooling design strategies, from using drilled coolant circuits or baffles and bubblers, to selecting mold steels or thermal pins. In this lesson we will focus on thermal pins as a cooling strategy to optimize thermal behavior inside a mold.
This lesson covers: what thermal pins are and when they should be used in mold designs; mold temperature distribution differences between copper inserts and thermal pins; and how mold temperature distribution impacts packing, clamp tonnages, and warpage.
