Dan Greenberg Design

Final Injection-Molded Minecraft Toy

Handle Cavity Mold CAD

Blade Core Mold CAD

Blade Part CAD

Handle Part CAD

Final Assembly CAD

Machining a Mold Half

Two Machined Mold Halves

Final Parts in Front of Molds

Injection Molded Minecraft Toy

How do you injection mold a toy for a fourth grader?

Working for a class of fourth graders, I made a Minecraft toy using injection molding techniques.

Working with Unigraphix NX and Solidworks, I CADed, programmed, and CNCed two molds making a Minecraft Pickaxe.

Due to variations in the mill and interference fit tolerances, it took dozens of iterations to produce functional molded pieces.

The fourth graders were very happy with their Minecraft toys!