Transient cool and Conformal cooling analyses require the creation of 3D mold meshes around the mold.
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Preparing the mold mesh
Getting ready to generate a 3D mold mesh requires several steps, depending upon your starting point. In all cases, it is important to generate a mesh that is sufficiently fine on the internal surfaces next to the part, feed system, and cooling channels, yet sufficiently coarse on the outside edges to minimize the element count.
Generating the mold mesh
The mold mesh is prepared in a single step, or in two steps, depending upon the mold model.
Contact stitching for inserts and cores
Molds that have been created using the default parameters of the Mold Block 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.
Part Beam dialog-Mold Properties
The Mold Properties tab of this dialog is used to specify the properties of the mold block in contact with the selected beam elements or curves of type Part beam.
Part Surface (Midplane) dialog-Mold Properties
The Mold Properties tab of this dialog is used to specify the properties of the mold blocks in contact with the select elements or regions of type Part surface (Midplane).
Part Surface (Dual Domain) dialog-Mold Properties
The Mold Properties tab of this dialog is used to specify the properties of the mold block in contact with the selected elements or regions of type Part surface (Dual Domain).
Part (3D) dialog-Mold Properties
The Mold Properties tab of this dialog is used to specify the properties of the mold block in contact with the selected tetrahedral elements of type Part (3D).