Plastic injection mold of a computer mouse modeled in SolidWorks

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This project is taken from two different projects I found on GrabCAD…one was a popular detailed Logitech M185 mouse in Solidworks which now seems that it is removed by its author so I can’t specify its source any further but the other project is a seemingly simple injection mold project made for an unspecified part in here: (Plastic Injection Mould) I first took the injection mold project and made it Solidworks and English language friendly (the original model would get imported as some surfaces in Solidworks with accompanying non-English part names) Then I took the Logitech M185 mouse project and made it much simpler (as that is what I am supposed to do on GrabCAD , I made it so simple that even Solidworks mold feature could easily generate the core and cavity that I needed with no effort for me)… Then I took these core and cavity and inserted them back into the injection mold project and made some minor adjustments such as changing the position and height of the guiding rods… And that is it… you have the final result as two perfect Solidworks-friendly Parasolid files! From technical (injection mold making point of) view I think this mold has problems… although I did my design almost flawlessly but I think the engineering part needs some serious considerations…