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No one has any ideas on how to solve this one?

Hi all, I am running 2001+ SP 4.0. Here's my problem. I am creating core and cavity for a plastic injection mold. The way that I create the core and cavity is by doing an extrude upto surface. Unfortunately, i am having trouble creating my surface. The surface is usually created by...

You should be able to use the Join feature. Open your assembly of parts. Choose Insert, New Part. Select a plane to place the part. Then choose Insert, Features, Join. Select the parts in your assembly and they should become one part. Good luck.

Does anyone have experience with Moldworks or Splitworks? I am trying to find out what capabilities these programs really have. I have a brochure but its somewhat vague. I am really looking for a program to cut down time in creating parting lines and cam surfaces. Will they do that?

We are looking for a mold design software that will really help us in the creation of parting lines and slides. We currently have both Cadkey and Solidworks. We have a Lickety Split for Cadkey but that is very basic and just splits the part surfaces. Has anyone used MoldWorks or SplitWorks...

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I'm not very clear on what you are doing, but i tried making a lofted part between two plates (not parallel) and it worked. I just created a new part in assembly, made two sketches in the new part (one on each plate's face) and created a lofted solid between them. Let me know if that is what...

.igs files have "levels". Levels are the equivalent of "layers" in Autocad. Levels can be turned on and off to help seperate items. I dont know what more there is to tell you. If you import an .igs into solidworks, it allows you to choose which levels you import, so why...

Ok, here's the deal. I want to make an .igs file of my assembly. No problem. But, now I want each part on a seperate level in my .igs file. The help file wasnt much help, so now I'll throw it to you experts. Do you know a solution?

Charley, Check out Scotts site @ http://www.3dmca.com/ meintsi, Those two solutions appear to be the only way to go about this problem. Too bad its so time consuming and eats up so much file space. Maybe solidworks should allow self-intersecting cuts and extrudes in future releases.

meintsi, if you could send me a sample of the second way you described of making this cut, that would be great. airkidd@hotmail.com thanks

Ok, I'm not going to say that what you modeled is wrong, but it is not what i want, and not what is practical for the machinist. Your assembly shows 3 ball-endmills. One for the X-axis move, one for the Y-axis move, and a third in the corner. The endmill that is in the corner moves in a...

No, the outside RADIUS would be .250 for a .500 DIAMETER cutter. I emailed you a workaround example, hope you get it. This seems to be a more complicated problem than i envisioned. LOL

WAIT! That's not right either. The outside radius should only be half the cutters diameter. Well, back to the drawing board.

Thanks Scott, using the outside guide curve gives me what i want. I had tried this technique before posting the thread and that is when i got the error message. I am on SP4.0 so maybe it was just something i did wrong. I notice you didnt use any pierce constraints so maybe that is where i...

Thanks for the try scott but i havent ever seen a cutter that makes square corners. The outside corner of the 90° should be the same radius as the cutter. Anyone else care to give this one a whirl?

I need some help creating vent channels and runners. The channel has a profile to be projected along a path. The path has a 90 degree corner. I want a cut that looks like a ball end mill came to a 90 degree corner. I tried doing a swept cut using a path that matched the cutter radius at the...

I am trying to create the parting line for the core and cavity of my mold. Here are the problems i am having. 1. My part is an .igs file that comes in as a surface. It will not solidify because there is a small overlap of two surfaces. I cant figure out how to repair it because the...