Finally, because injection molding depends on reliably molding, cooling, and ejecting parts, designing parts with draft (a slight angle to aid part removal) can be a fact of life.

3. Moving the parting line requires a draft angle. It’s very common for product designers to specify parting lines at the right-angle intersection of two perpendicular faces. If one of those ...

Guidelines for draft on injection-molded parts can be found on Protolab’s website. READ MORE: 8 Tips for Designing 3D Printed Parts 3. Bend Radii Forever ...

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