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Part Design: Uniform Wall Thickness

Critical Constraints

  • Maintain uniform wall thickness

Notes:

  • Thick walls cool slowly and allow increased shrinkage
  • Thin walls cool quickly and allow minimal shrinkage
  • Different cooling rate and shrinkage at intersection of thick and thin walls stretches molecular bonds and increases molded-in stress