TopSolid'Mold was specifically developed with mold making and manufacturing in mind and, more importantly, with manufacturing as the final result. If you can't build it...you shouldn't design it. This is the fundamental foundation behind the development of TopSolid.

Easy to Learn and Use

Based on TopSolid, TopSolid'Mold is extremely easy to learn and use. Unlike other software on the market, TopSolid'Mold is 100% integrated within TopSolid. This means that the interface and operating experience is identical.  Because of this tight integration, TopSolid'Mold is extremely easy to learn and use.

To make it even easier, we have developed a step-by-step training guide with more than 300 pages of tutorials. This guide will walk your designers through designing a two-cavity mold using TopSolid'Mold.  Once finished with this tutorial, your designers will have a basic understanding of working with TopSolid'Mold.

Automated Parting Lines & Surfaces

Do you build molds for very complicated parts? Are the parting lines and surfaces anything but planer? Is it taking you days to complete the creation of your core and cavity?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have to look at TopSolid'Mold. TopSolid'Mold has automated tools that allow your designers to quickly and efficiently create parting lines and parting surfaces. TopSolid'Mold looks at your part like you do; it analyzes the geometry and automatically determines the best parting lines for you. From there you can use TopSolid'Mold's automated parting surface tools.  These tools have been specially developed to allow parting surface construction to take minutes instead of hours or days.

Automatic Cavity & Core Creation

Once your designer is finished creating the parting lines and surfaces, TopSolid'Mold goes to work for you. TopSolid'Mold automatically suggests a core and cavity stock size. From there the system automatically creates the solid models of your core and cavity blocks. This process takes seconds, not hours. In today's manufacturing world saving time saves money and allows you to keep more work in your shop!

Automated Inserts/Lifters

Are you adding a lot of sub-inserts in your mold designs to make manufacturing easier and faster?  If you are, you need to look at TopSolid'Mold. 

TopSolid'Mold's automated insert and lifter functions allow your designer to create sub-inserts and lifters in minutes with just a few clicks of the mouse. While creating the inserts TopSolid'Mold is also creating the associated process. This means that once the insert is created, the pocket for the insert is automatically added.

Do you need to key your insert? That's not a problem with TopSolid'Mold. Within the insert function you have the ability to add a heel. The heel can be rectangular, circular, or an offset heel based on the profile of the insert. From there, you have a choice of keying the insert by placing the heel only on one side of the insert.

Standard Components

Are you spending a lot of time re-creating standard components in your current system? Or is your designer constantly downloading dumb data from the web?

If you answered yes to any of these questions you need TopSolid'Mold.

TopSolid'Mold offers standard libraries from DME®, HASCO®, PCS® and Progressive Components®.  All of the libraries are intelligent in TopSolid'Mold.  For example, when you put an ejector pin into your design TopSolid'Mold automatically processes the pin for you. This means that the pin is trimmed to the molding surfaces, all of the correct clearance holes are applied to all of the plates and the pin is automatically keyed if needed.  The best part about this is that it takes only a few seconds to do. What's even better is that if you need to change the location of the pin, or even the diameter, all of the processes are automatically updated for you. All of the library components within TopSolid'Mold are that intelligent.

Fast Preliminary Designs

Do you struggle to get a preliminary mold design out to your customers? Does it take you days to get this done? Does your customer constantly send you part revisions for the mold you are building?

If you answered yes to any of these questions you need TopSolid'Mold. TopSolid'Mold is the only 3D software on the market to address these issues. For example, with TopSolid'Mold you can quickly create a preliminary mold design for your customer in just a few hours. And when your customer sends you a new database it is no longer a problem. All you do is ask TopSolid'Mold to update the preliminary design with the new data. You then update the automatically created 2D assembly drawings and send your customer the revised preliminary drawing.  This type of update can usually be accomplished within an hour or less!

Once the design is approved by your customer, you turn off preliminary mode and finalize your mold design. From there, you start manufacturing. It's that simple.

Do you find this hard to believe?  Contact us today and see for yourself how TopSolid'Mold can save you time, money and frustration!

Powerful Waterlines

Waterlines can be tricky to design. You have to constantly check to make sure that you are not drilling through an ejector pin hole or a screw hole. You also have to be sure that your water line is not getting too close to any other feature. This takes time and can be very frustrating.

With TopSolid'Mold those problems simply go away. When you are inserting waterlines into a mold design in TopSolid'Mold, the product understands that they are waterlines. That said, during or after the insertion process TopSolid'Mold is dynamically checking for collisions with everything. The software is even checking to see if your waterline drilling gets too close to anything.  Your designer is instantly notified if a collision is detected. From there, your designer knows where the collision is coming from and can more easily correct the problem.

Wouldn't it be great if you could run a simple analysis on your blocks to test the efficiency of the water lines? You can with TopSolid'Mold! This efficiency test makes it possible to find potential hot spots based on your water line design. This test can be completed in just a few seconds. From there, your designer can adjust the water lines as needed.

To top it all off, TopSolid'Mold understands what a waterline is.  We offer specific functions that allow your designers to insert standard components such as pipe nipples or plugs, o-rings and even baffles. These functions take only a few seconds to apply and your designer can now move onto to other aspects of the design.

Automated 2D Drawings

Does it take you days or weeks to create all of the needed 2D prints for your mold design? Are you struggling to ensure that the 2D prints truly match the 3D design?  Do your engineers spend too much time adding dimensions, notes and creating accurate Bills of Materials?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, you need TopSolid'Mold. When you are ready to create the assembly drawings for your design you need only click a button. TopSolid'Mold automatically creates the           A-side/B-side split views for you.  How can TopSolid do that? It's simple. TopSolid'Mold was specifically designed for mold makers. It knows what you need and simply aids in the creation of it.

Now that you have the main views created, it's time to create some section views. This is extremely easy with TopSolid'Mold. Simply specify where you want to cut the assembly and TopSolid creates the needed views. Now click a button and watch as TopSolid'Mold automatically creates dimensions on your views. Next, add a BOM.  Here TopSolid'Mold will automatically create the BOM for you. The BOM will automatically include the name of the component, the supplier, the catalog code, the stock dimensions, and more. The entire process above takes just a few minutes to create. Not hours. Not days. 

Are your engineers working with one CAD system and your programmers working with a different CAM system? How much valuable time are you losing because of data translation issues between these systems? What happens when there is an engineering change? Do your programmers have to start over?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you NEED to look at TopSolid. TopSolid offers 100% Integration, 100% of the time.  This means that your engineers and programmers can work in the same application seamlessly.  Your engineers changes update what your programmers are working on automatically. Be sure to check out the complete line of integrated products.

Whether you're working on small projects or big ones, TopSolid has a solution that will meet your needs.  As of 2007, TopSolid works with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows®.