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Context Part

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Menu access: Part

Description:

Allows to analyze, modify and manage the loading of the plastic part.

 

Before loading the part, please not the "essentials" about the part to inject .

 

 

Part load

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Menu access: -

Description:

Allows the loading of the part into TopSolid'Mold.

General procedure:

  1. If your TopSolid'Design containing the part to load is not open, a button EXPLORE allows you to navigate in your projects.

  2. Select the part to load.

To change focus to documents from a window to another use the CTRL+TAB key stroke.

  1. The following possibilities would be presented: Control of part positioning with Direct positioning or Manual positioning, the MATERIAL of the part and control of the shrinkage factor with DIFFERENTIAL or entering a value for a global shrinkage factor.

Available options:

When several parts have to be loaded to the same mold file we recommend to use to use positioning on coordinate system.

A warning can be activated during the insertion of the part to check your shrinkage factor value.

Available modifications:

The shrinkage factor of the plastic part can always be modified at any time during the project by opening the construction tree and editing the part.

Specific point(s) :

 

In normal mode, the part has to be a SOLID, VALID, SIMPLIFIED .

 

In preliminary mode design, the part could be SURFACE, NON VALID, NOT SIMPLIFIED.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part orientation

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Menu access: -

Description:

This command helps in orienting the part to its injection position in the mold.

General procedure:

  1. Choose the positioning mode :

  1. Select the part to position.

Possible modifications:

To move a part, please move its insertion point or frame.

 

IT IS ABSOLUTELY  FORBIDDEN TO MOVE OR REORIENT THE PLASTIC PART BY ANY OTHER PROCEDURE THAN THE ONE DESCRIBED HERE.

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Specific point(s) :

To better and easier control when moving the part around we recommend to always position the part on a coordinates system.

 

Part modification

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Menu access : -

Description:

Allows to report the part modification during the mold design.

General procedure:

In normal mode, you can:

With the preliminary design mode :

 

Check hole

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Menu access: Part | Hole

Description:

Allows to automatically detect existing 'holes" in the part.

General procedure:

  1. Select AUTOMATIC SEARCH of holes.

  2. Select a VISUALISATION that will show the result of the detection operation on the part and affected faces .

  3. If you find not convenient the result of the automatic search use the tool MODIFICATION .

  4. When you have found a convenient result OK it. Exiting the function without OK the operation will not have any effect on the procedure. If you OK the searching result the system automatically will create solids corresponding to the holes that can eventually be joined to their corresponding cavity blocks.

Specific point(s):

The "no hole" part is created when you insert the part to inject in the TopSolid'Mold document. If you do not ask for the hole detection, "no hole" part = part to inject. You need the "no hole" part to imprint edges during the parting lines creation, for example.

Available options:

The RESET puts back the part to the initial state in which it was loaded.

Possible modifications:

While in the process of modification you can manually Select a face and eventually wait for the function to Look for neighbour faces. Make sure to OK the selection once you are done.

 

Undercuts

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Menu access: Part | Undercuts

Description:

This function will visualize the undercut zones in reference with the mold's Z axis (mold's opening direction).

General procedure:

  1. Select between the Mode = CENTER and Mode = MESH

  2. Adjust you angular tolerance. We recommend to use the value given by default in TopSolid'Mold.

  3. Select the part to be analyzed.

Available options:

Once the analysis has been done the results can be hidden by selecting Visible = NO

 

Drafts

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Menu access: Part | Drafts

Description:

This function will visualize zones with angular drafts in the part

General procedure:

  1. Adjust the value for the angle of the draft. The function will show the drafts included between 0° and the selected value.

  2. Select the part.

Available options:

Once the detection has been done you can press ANALYZE FACES. By selecting the analyzed face the system will return the angular value of the draft .

 

Projected area

Icon access:

Menu access: -Part | Projected area

Description:

This function will compute the projected area of the part.

General procedure:

  1. Choose your computation resolution.

  2. Select the part.

  3. Select the projection direction.

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