Molds that have been created using the Mold Surface Wizard and which contain part inserts, mold inserts or cores, can be meshed using the 3D mold mesh. It is important that before you use the 3D mold mesh tool, you apply the Stitch Contact Interfaces tool, to ensure that there is no ambiguity at the various interfaces prior to creating the mold surface mesh.
In order to prevent the creation of slivers of mold at the contact surfaces between the part and any inserts or cores, a new Stitch Contact Interfaces tool has been developed which creates mold internal triangles on the boundaries of each mold internal component. These new mold internal triangles are then stitched together to create a surface that envelopes the part and insert/core components cleanly, without ambiguity at the interfaces.
The stitched surface is then used in the generation of the mold mesh in the usual manner, using the 3D Mold Mesh tool; the first pass creates the 2D mold surface mesh and the second pass creates the 3D mold mesh.