Mold Folders
When you use various mold tools, the software automatically creates
the following folders and adds the appropriate surfaces to them:
Cavity Surface
Bodies
. When you create a parting line with the
Parting
Line PropertyManager, the software automatically creates this
folder. If shut-off surfaces are not
needed, the software populates the folder with one cavity surface body.
If shut-off surfaces are
needed, the folder remains empty.
Core Surface
Bodies
. When you create a parting line with the
Parting
Line PropertyManager, the software automatically creates this
folder. If shut-off surfaces are not
needed, the software populates the folder with one core surface body.
If shut-off surfaces are
needed, the folder remains empty.
Parting Surface
Bodies
. When you create a parting surface in the
Parting
Surface PropertyManager, the software automatically creates
this folder and populates it with the parting surfaces. If you select
the Knit option in the PropertyManager,
one surface is added to the folder. If you do not
select the Knit option, many separate
surfaces are added to the folder.
If your part contains through
holes, you need to create shut-off surfaces. When you create shut-off
surfaces in the Shut-Off
Surface PropertyManager, the software populates Cavity
Surface Bodies
and Core
Surface Bodies
with the appropriate surfaces. If
you select Knit in the PropertyManager,
one surface, which is the main core (or cavity) surface knitted together
with all the shut-off surfaces, is added to each folder. If you do not
select Knit , the folders are
populated with the main cavity (or core) surface, plus a separate shut-off
surface for each through hole.
If you want to define a mold using surfaces that were not created with
mold tools, you can create the mold folders manually, then add the surfaces
to the folders.
To create the mold folders manually:
Click Insert
Mold Folders
(Mold Tools toolbar) or Insert,
Molds, Insert
Mold Folders.
The mold folders appear as sub-folders in Surface
Bodies
.
In
Surface Bodies
,
drag the surfaces you created into the appropriate sub-folder.