About the Insert Unit

The Insert Unit generally contains 4 Prints.

• Cavity Print
• Core Print
• Ejector Print
• Runner Print

Prints are products that are dispatched:

• In mono-print case, to the main Mobile Units of the Tool, when the Insert Unit is directly inserted into the Mold Base.
• In multiprint case, to Layouts (Cavity Layout, Core Layout and Ejector Layout) of a Multiple Layout Insert when the Multiple Layout Insert is created from the Insert Unit.

All Prints:

• Are fixed in the context of the Insert Unit.
• Publish similar information:
  • HBox, LBox, WBox for their main dimensions,
  • ZBox, that is, the Zlevel of their Hook in the context of the Insert Unit. Once the Print is in the context of the Multiple Layout Insert or of the Tool, if the Z coordinate is equal to ZBox, the Print keeps the same position in its new context as it has in the Insert Unit. This is automatically managed by Multiple Layout Insert and Mold Base.
  • Their Hook.

This information is sufficient to manipulate each Print as a black box, no matter what its content is.

The structure of the output depends on the input.

If the input is a Molded Part with valid publications, the Insert Unit product structure is created. It contains products, parts, and representations with tooling types:

• The physical Cavity Insert and Core Insert parts contain the physical Inserts retrieved from the Molded Part and the protected Assembly Features required to generate the impacts.
• The physical Cavity Print Skeleton representation contains the Cavity Surface and a plane named OuterCavityPlate useful for Form Ejection Component Reservation design.
• The physical Ejector Print Skeleton representation contains the Cavity Surface and Core Surface and a plane named InnerEjectorPlateB useful for Form Ejection Component Reservation design.
• The Runner Part contains the Cavity Surface and Core Surface useful for Runner design.
• The required engineering connections are created.

The following publications are retrieved from the Molded Part

• CavitySurface
• CoreSurface
• CavityInsert: Publication of the body that contains the physical Cavity Insert
• CoreInsert: Publication of the body that contains the physical Core Insert
• CavityInsertProtected: Publication of the body that contains the impact of the physical Cavity Insert
• CoreInsertProtected: Publication of the body that contains the impact of the physical Core Insert
• LBox, WBox, HBox: Publications of the parameter representing the length in X, Y, or Z of the Molded Part bounding box
• ZBox: Publication of the parameter representing the Z coordinate of the Molded Part hooking point
• MoldedPartBody: In the Ejector Print Skeleton and in Runner Print Skeleton.

  If this publication is missing, you are informed that some simulations are impossible (kinematics or plastic fill, for example). Fix the problem in Define Molded Part

If the publications of the Molded Part are not valid, or if the Molded Part is missing, publications do not exist, nor can they be retrieved. Insert Unit creates the Insert Unit structure with its four empty Prints. This way, an Insert Unit Skeleton exists and is available for next actions. You can work in an iterative way.

The Skeleton is filled with available publications:

• If the Molded Part is missing, publications are also missing, thus not imported. The structure is created without physical Cavity Insert or Core Insert.
• If only Cavity Insert or Core Insert are missing, the other publications are imported into the Insert Unit Skeleton, mainly as external references. No physical Cavity Insert or Core Insert is added.
• If Cavity Insert and Core Insert exist, physical Cavity Insert and Core Insert are created. They contain the body of the corresponding Insert.