What's New

This page describes recent changes in Mold Tooling Design.

This page discusses:

R2022x FD01 (FP.2205)

Library Usage for Smart Mechanical Components

The process has been enhanced as follows.
  • A button has been added in Tools > Utility > ToolingMigration to associate the component family to a catalog chapter or a library class.

  • When placing a component, you can activate either a catalog or a library browser. By default, the library browser is proposed.
  • The library browser is available to customize context toolbars.
Benefits: Library usage is made easier.
For more information, see Smart Mechanical Components and Mold Tooling Design File-based Design Import Placing Components

Placement of Mold Components

The placement of Mold Components has been enhanced as follows.
  • Several context toolbar items have been added to create or edit Component Specifications.
  • Quick access to the 5 recently used references has been added.
  • The above items are available to customize context toolbars.


Benefits: The placement of Mold Components is easier and quicker.
For more information, see Component Specification Place Components Customizing the Context Toolbar

R2022x GA

Mold Tooling Design

Updated files
FCPK folders and components were renamed Proplastica.
For more information, see Mold Tooling Design

Support of Polyhedral Geometry

You can now apply commands on polyhedral objects, or use polyhedral geometry as inputs.
Benefits: The app is more efficient and robust.

Geometry Section

Three new commands are available:
  • Convert to 3D Spline has been added.
  • Create a 3D Spline replaces the Spline command.
  • Create a 3D Polyline replaces the Polyline command.


Benefits: They increase the productivity while creating Cooling Circuits.
For more information, see Converting a Wireframe to a 3D Spline Creating a 3D Spline Creating a 3D Polyline

Sample Supplier Mold Base

Supplier Catalog Mold Base has been renamed into Sample Supplier Mold Base.
Benefits: This name better fits the scope of the command, that is the generation of a Mold Base for training or to initiate a customer-specific template.
For more information, see Creating a Sample Mold Base from Suppliers Components

Mold Tooling Design Features

You can now use Mold Tooling Design features as result in another app without having access to a Mold Tooling Design license.
  • Update of the features is not available in the absence of the Mold Tooling Design license.
  • In some cases, the display, name, and icon of the features may change.
  • Component Specification features are not yet supported without license.
Benefits: You can use the features as geometrical results, within any role.

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

Component Impacts

The command has been enhanced as follows.


  • All automatic clash options have been moved under the section Options.
  • Automatic Clash has been renamed into Preselect shapes impacted by clash detection.
  • Three options for preselections of created or moved products have been added in Component Impacts
    • No automatic preselection
    • Automatic preselection of created Products
    • Automatic preselection of created or moved Products
  • An option Delete impacts of selected products has been added to delete existing impacts before computing new ones, to avoid inconsistent updates.
  • An option Create new Assemble at each computation has been added to manage solid impacts.

    In Preferences

    • Create solid impacts in one Body has been renamed Optimize grouping of Solid Impacts into Bodies.
    • Two options for automatic impacts have been added
      • Capture the created or replaced Components for automatic preselection
      • Capture the moved Components for automatic preselection.

Benefits: The user experience is more productive.
For more information, see Defining Technological Impacts of a Component on Its Environment General Mold Tooling Design