Creating a Solid Body from the Cavity in a Mold

Next, you open a mold, and with the Intersect tool, and create three regions from the top and bottom bodies: the top, the bottom, and the cavity. Then you remove the mold top and bottom regions to create a solid body from the filled cavity.

1. Open install_dir\samples\whatsnew\surfaces\Mold_to_part.sldprt.

   The part consists of the two solid bodies of a mold.

   

2. In the FeatureManager design tree, click Move-Copy/Body1, and click Suppress to close the mold.

   To apply the Intersect tool to create a solid from a cavity, the cavity must be enclosed by the selected bodies. The mold bodies enclose the cavity when you close the mold.

   

3. Expand Solid Bodies(2) (FeatureManager design tree), and select Split1[1] and CirPattern1.

   

4. In the PropertyManager, click Intersect.

   

   The features you can remove appear in the Regions to Exclude list.

5. Select Region 1 and Region 3.

   By removing regions 1 and 3, you exclude the mold bodies and retain the cavity.

   

6. Click .

   

   The result is a solid model of the mold cavity.

7. Save the part as my_Mold_to_part.sldprt.