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Quickstart Pack tutorial: Duplicate the part

In this task, you duplicate the part to make a two cavity tool.

  1. Click multicavity icon (Home tab > Mold type panel > Multi-Cavity).

  2. Click duplicate icon (Geometry tab > Layout panel > Duplicate).

    1. Select Grid.
    2. Enter 2 rows.
    3. Enter 100 mm row spacing.
    4. Select Edge of selection spacing from the drop down box.
    5. Enter 1 column.
    6. Click OK.

    duplicate part

    The injection locations are slightly offset. This can make the runner system unnecessarily complicated.

  3. Click inj loc icon (Geometry tab > Layout panel > Align).

    1. Select X direction as Alignment Direction.
    2. Hold CTRL Key and select both injection locations.
    3. Select Cavity 1/Gate 1 from the Align with part field.
    4. Click OK.

    align gate

    The gates are now aligned.

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