Creating a Cooling Circuit

You can create a Cooling Circuit from scratch or from a polyline that takes the conceptual design you have defined into account. This Cooling Circuit can then be edited.

See About Cooling Circuits and Runners for more information about input and other information.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Creating a Polyline With the Robot
Using a Polyline, Spline or Sketch as Input for Runner
Creating Runners
Applying a Mirror and Managing Features in the Tree

Create a Cooling Circuit from Scratch

You can use the Robot to create a Cooling Circuit.

  1. From the Mold Design section of the action bar, click Drilled Cooling Circuit or Conformal Cooling Circuit .
  2. Optional: Modify the diameter. It applies to all the Cooling Channels of the current Cooling Circuit.
  3. Drag the Robot to where you want to start the Cooling Circuit.
  4. On the context toolbar select:
    • Place Robot to position it as wanted.
    • Create Circuit or to start the creation of a Cooling Circuit from the current position. Each drag of the Robot creates a Cooling Channel.
    • Create Channel to add one to a Cooling Circuit. Drag the Robot to the required length, or use the ruler.
    • Move to move the selection. See below.
  5. Pick a point (corner) of the Cooling Circuit or the extremity of a Cooling Channel, place the Robot, select and drag the Robot to move this point.
    The point or extremity is moved. The Cooling Channel may form an angle with its initial position.
  6. Pick a Cooling Channel near its middle.
    1. In the dialog box, select Selected (to move only the selection).

      Whole zone applies the move to all the Cooling Channels contained in the zone common to all selected Cooling Channels.

    2. Back in the context toolbar, place the Robot, select Move and drag the Robot to move this Cooling Channel.
    The Cooling Channel is moved to its new position, that is parallel to the initial one.
  7. Select a Cooling Channel and Erase .
    The Cooling Channel is deleted.
  8. Select one or several Cooling Channels and Change Circuit Color . Select a color and click an empty space.
    The color of the selection changes to the new one.
  9. Select a Cooling Channel and Cooling Component Specifications .
    1. Select one of the proposed types Connector Plug or O-Ring , or use the type browser to select another one.
    2. Select a surface that intersects the drill.
    The Component Specification is created.
  10. Select a mono-channel Cooling Circuit and .
    1. Select the required type Baffle or Bubbler .

Create a Cooling Circuit from a Polyline or a Sketch

You can create a Cooling Circuit from a polyline or a sketch (made of straight lines).

  1. Start Cooling Circuit as explained above.
  2. Select a polyline or a sketch.
    The Cooling Circuit is created.
    Note: When creating a Drilled Cooling Circuit from a sketch, each line of the sketch results into one Drilled Cooling Circuit containing only one Cooling Channel.
  3. If the selection is a straight line with two points, you can create directly a Baffle or a Bubbler .
  4. If required, edit the Cooling Circuit as explained above.