Parting Line

You can create parting lines, which are the geometric junction line on the molded part of the mold.

Before you begin: Define the pulling direction of the mold before creating the parting lines.
  1. From the Mold Features section of the action bar, click Parting Line .
  2. In the dialog box, select the pulling direction from the work area. This automatically adds parting lines and edges to the dialog box.
  3. Select other edges from the work area as parting lines.
  4. Enable split silhouette if required. The split silhouette works on the straddle faces and converts them to a combination of positive and negative faces.
  5. You can choose the colors for the faces from the color palette. Double-click the draft color to open the color palette. The default colors for faces are as below:
    OptionDescription
    Faces Default Colors
    Positive faces
    Straddle faces
    Verticle faces
    Negative faces
  6. Optional: From the Advanced section, you can enable Display curve endpoints to display any selected open parting lines

    Note: If you manually define Parting Line, the software indicated incomplete edges as dots (marked in orange circles here).

  7. Optional: From the Advanced section, enable
    • Remove open edge selections
    • Remove unnecessary loops
    • Undo last change
  8. Click .
    Note: To edit parting lines, double-click the parting line in the Design Manager tree.