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This study systematically evaluated the impact of resin mold design factors (optical zone (OZ) radius of curvature and resin mold thickness) and injection molding parameters (holding pressure and injection speed) on the properties of a dry-state lens (dry lens) using an L18 orthogonal array. The results demonstrated that optimizing the resin mold thickness to 0.9 mm reduced astigmatism by approximately 95%, while high holding pressure and low injection speed improved structural stability. Notably, the findings suggest that the refractive power of the dry lens is more strongly governed by macro-level curvature fluctuations and internal stress distributions arising from the resin mold thickness and shape than by the wavefront aberrations of the resin mold itself. Designs with a smaller radius of curvature (R = 6.5 mm) exhibited substantial power deviations of up to +2.8 D, whereas deviations remained within \u00b10.2 D for designs with a larger radius of curvature (R = 8.5 mm). 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