Creating cooling circuits with the Cooling Circuit Wizard

The Cooling Circuit Wizard can be used to create a pair of serial cooling circuits above and below your part.

Your part must be oriented in the XY direction to use the Wizard.

1. Click (Geometry tab > Create panel > Cooling Circuit). The Layout page of the Cooling Circuit Wizard appears. This page is used to specify the layout of the cooling circuits.
   Tip: Click Use Defaults to apply default specifications to both pages of the Wizard.
2. Enter a value into the Please specify the channel diameter to use: text box.
3. Enter a value into the How far above and below the part would you like the circuits to be created? text box. This is measured from the part surface to the closest point on the cooling channel (not the midpoint of the cooling channel).
4. Select X or Y to choose how you would like the circuits aligned with your part.
5. Click Next. The Channels page of the Cooling Circuit Wizard appears on screen.
6. Enter a value into the Number of channels text box.
7. Enter a value into the Distance between channel centers text box.
8. Enter a value into the Distance to extend beyond part text box.
9. Optional: Click Preview to preview the cooling channels layout.
10. Optional: Select the Delete existing circuits first checkbox if you would like to delete existing circuits before creating a new circuit.
11. Optional: Select the Connect channels with hoses checkbox if you would like the sections which extend beyond the part to be assigned as hoses (heat transfer effectiveness = 0).
12. Click Finish to create the channels and close the wizard. The newly created cooling system will appear on the model.