Family Mold
A mold where more than one cavity is cut into the mold to allow for multiple parts made of the same material to be formed in one cycle. Typically, each cavity forms a different part number.
What family mold looks like?
Below are a mold design of family mold for an example. It makes 5 different parts at ONE mold.
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Layout in DFM Report
At Plastoia, we will layout the mold at our DFM report. You may review it if you have a good background of injection molding.