Extracting Mold Areas Surfaces

You can extract faces that form mold areas for a pulling direction, and organize the resulting datum surfaces in geometrical sets.

  1. From the Molded Part section of the action bar, click Extract Mold Areas .
  2. Select a pulling direction and validate.
    • If it does not yet exist, a geometrical set is created for each side (such as Cavity, Core, Other, Undercut, NoDraft) and each slider.
    • In each geometrical set, a datum surface is created for each set of faces forming a connected area.
    Notes:
    • Datum surfaces do not keep a link with the pulling direction, therefore are not updated if the pulling direction is modified.
    • If you start Extract Mold Areas again from the same pulling direction, the resulting geometries are duplicated, not updated.