Creating a Pulling Direction

You can define the main pulling direction, i.e. the mold opening direction, as well as secondary pulling directions. For each pulling direction, you can analyze the shape and assign faces to mold areas.

See Also
About Pulling Direction
Using the Robot in Pulling Direction
Solving Issues in Pulling Direction
  1. From the Molded Part section of the action bar, click Pulling Direction .
  2. Select a solid.
  3. Select to edit preferences.

    • Global Preferences apply to the command.
    • Active Direction Preferences apply only to the current pulling direction.

  4. Expand Analysis then each category to retrieve information or actions.
  5. Alternatively, expand Automatic Dispatch and select a dispatch mode.
  6. To create a spline to split faces, select a point and click Spline on the context toolbar. then
    1. Select the end point of the spline.
    2. Drag any point on the spline to edit it.
    • If it does not yet exist, an extract of all the faces of the solid is created as support of the spline.
    • If one extract already exists, it is used as the support of the spline, thus saving computation time.
    • The spline is created.
  7. To create individual disconnected faces for Core and Cavity analysis, click Disconnect on the context toolbar.
    1. Select the faces to disconnect and the disconnecting elements (Spline or projection) using Ctrl Key.

      Selection of faces is optional:

      • If you do not select faces, the whole input solid of Pulling Direction is disconnected by the disconnecting elements.
      • If you select faces, only the faces are disconnected.

    2. Alternatively, click Disconnect by Reflect Line and select faces.
      The reflect line acts as disconnecting element.
  8. When existing faces are not sufficient to define the area associated to a slider, you can complete them with the projection of edges or wireframe elements.
    1. Select edges or wireframe elements and click Project on Shape on the context toolbar.
      The selection is projected on the shape, using the nearest solution option.
    2. Alternatively, select edges or wireframe elements and a set of faces. Click Project on Shape on the context toolbar.
      A join is created from the selected faces. The selected edges or wireframe elements are projected on this join using the nearest solution option.
  9. Press Ctrl key and drag the Robot to a new position or select faces.
  10. Click New Slider on the context toolbar to create a secondary pulling direction.
  11. Manage faces from their context toolbar.