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Moldex3D Shell Utility Menu

Moldex3D Shell Utility Menu

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Moldex3D Shell Utility Menu

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The Moldex3D Shell Utility Menu consists buttons that provide shortcuts to functionalities in HyperMesh. The layout of the buttons mimic the process flow required to set up a model for Moldex3D Shell.

The main Utility Menu is shown below, along with descriptions of each macro button.

 

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Tools

Midplane Wizard

Opens the Midplane Wizard tab, which contains a step-by-step procedure to set up a midplane injection molding input data. See the Midplane Wizard submenu.

Surfaces

Cleanup

Shortcut to the Edge Edit panel. This shortcut provides quick access to the Edge Edit, Defeature, and Point Edit panels for geometry cleanup operations.

Midsurface

Shortcut to the Midsurface panel, which provides tools to extract a midsurface from selected surfaces.

Lines

Create

Shortcut to the Lines panel, which is used to create lines.

Edit

Shortcut to the Line Edit panel, which is used to edit lines.

Generate Mesh

Shell Mesh

Opens the panel to generate surface mesh (tria).

Runner System Mesh

Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the runner

Coolant System Mesh

Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the coolant channel.


Model Setup

Create Property Cards

Opens a submenu for setting up the model. See Create Property Cards for details.

Diagnostics

Computes the element quality of the displayed solid elements.

Export

Opens the Moldex3D MSH Export dialog for exporting the model. See Export for details.

 

See Also:

Generate Mesh

Create Property Cards Submenu

Diagnostics

Moldex3D MFE Export