What's New

This page describes recent changes in Core & Cavity Separation.

This page discusses:

R2022x FD01 (FP.2205)

Form Block

The draft mode has been enhanced.
You can now
  • Invert the draft mode, to switch neutral faces,
  • Use the parting line to avoid leaving marks on the injected parts.


Benefits: Construction modes and quality of the Form Block have been enhanced.
For more information, see Creating a Form Block

Insert Manager

The draft mode has been enhanced.
You can now invert the draft mode, to switch neutral faces.

Benefits: Construction modes of the Insert Manager have been enhanced.
For more information, see Creating an Insert Manager

Ruled Parting Surface

Manual Control lets you locally modify the orientation of inner edges.
You can override the alignment of any seam edge along the surface, to control how the surface sweeps along the parting line.

Benefits: Manual Control prevents the creation of unexpected results.
For more information, see Creating a Ruled Parting Surface

Geometrical Set Creation

This new Preferences option lets you create a specific Geometrical Set in the selected commands to store results.
Benefits: You can customize the structure of the 3D Shape.
For more information, see Geometrical Set Creation

R2022x GA

Core & Cavity Separation Features

You can access Core & Cavity Separation Features in another app without having access to a Core & Cavity Separation license.
  • Update of the features is not available in the absence of the Core & Cavity Separation license.
  • In some cases, the display, name, and icon of the features may change.
Benefits: You can use the features as geometrical results, within any role.

Ruled Parting Surface

This new command creates a parting surface on simple parts, from the parting line and a direction.
Benefits: Several creation options are available. The result is compatible with 3D Mold Creator.
For more information, see Creating a Ruled Parting Surface

Insert Manager

The existing Insert command has been rewritten and renamed into Insert Manager.
  • The inserts are now typed volumes piloted by Insert Manager.
  • The construction is automatically managed depending on the building mode, the sketch, and the position of the parting plane.
Benefits:
  • The creation of inserts is more powerful. The result is compatible with 3D Mold Creator.
  • The parametrization is more compliant with your needs.
  • You can specify the parting plane.
  • You can define a draft angle for interlock surfaces.
For more information, see Creating an Insert Manager

Form Block

This new command has been added to the Molded Part section.
Form Block creates a block of metal on the shape or on the insert, for inner inserts, slider and lifter from a sketch profile. The belt of faces around the extruded profile can be drafted.
Benefits: You can generate the inner insert or the head of the slider/lifter system to unmold the undercut areas of the plastic part.
For more information, see Creating a Form Block

Shut Off Surface

The Fill Surfaces command has been renamed into Shut Off Surface.
  • It now supports the selection of solids or volumes.
  • To fill holes on solids or volumes, you must select their boundaries.
  • If the proposed side is not suitable, you can select the other side to impose the tangency continuity.
Benefits: Shut Off Surface is now compatible with Solidworks XMold, and supports the filling of solids or volumes.
For more information, see Filling Holes on Surfaces or Solids/Volumes

Creation of Extension Surfaces

Several commands used in the process have been created or enhanced.
  • Boundary Analysis creates a manager feature that analyzes the boundary, and creates children features that are boundaries of different types.
  • Surface Extension has been enhanced with an auto-pilot mode, proposed by default, that uses m G2 and G1 lengths to compute the extensions. If this computation fails, you can display more parameters and edit them to create extensions.
    Note: These parameters correspond to the previous version of Surface Extension
  • Surface Extension Manager creates a manager feature to compute extensions in a simple and effective way.
  • The selection in Connect Surface has been simplified:
    • Select two Surface Extensions to create a Connect Surface between them (You no longer need to create two stable split curves with correct points).
    • You can still access the previous parameters, especially to connect surfaces of another type, or to adjust the tension. In this mode, you can select two edges to connect.


Benefits: The process has been enhanced to be quicker, with fewer interactions and more stable.
For more information, see About the Extension Process Creating a Boundary Analysis Manager Creating a Surface Extension Creating a Surface Extension Manager Creating a Connect Surface

Fillet Connect

This new command fills gaps between surface extensions.
In particular, it can fill complex holes.
Benefits: This command provides three modes to fill holes, automatically or manually, and is suitable to fill greater areas. It also reduces the number of manual actions, thus making the process quicker.
For more information, see Creating a Fillet Connect About Fillet Connect

Separation Manager

This new command replaces the former command Separation.
Separation Manager creates a feature that automatically manages the separation of a shape (solid, volume, or surface).
Benefits: This new command improves the separation process.
For more information, see Creating a Separation Manager

Molded Part Publications

Molded Part Publications now supports a volume (instead of a body) for the publication of MoldedPartBody, CavityInsert, CoreInsert, CavityInsertProtect, CoreinsertProtect and SliderInsert.
For each selected volume, Molded Part Publications creates a body with the closed shell that has the extract of the volume as input. The body is created with the same name as the publication.
Benefits: The compatibility of Molded Part Publications with volumes enables you to work with volumes as input.
For more information, see Defining a Molded Part and Its Publications

Multiple-Extract

Multiple-Extract is now available from the Tooling Geometry section of the action bar.
Benefits: You can now create multiple extracts.
For more information, see Extracting Sub-Elements