tool splitting command
tool splitting command
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I'm a plastic injection mold designer and I've always use the cavity cut in the assemblies to create the A and B mold surface inserts. This generally involves alot of trimming and is time consuming. Recently I have begin playing around with the tooling split command to create the A and B insert, however solidworks puts the solid bodies in the same part file and I haven't figured out an effiecient way to copy these into seperatee part file to be used in an assembly that is still dynamically linked. Anyone have any experience with this or is the cavity cuts in the assembly the best way to go.






RE: tool splitting command
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RE: tool splitting command
I used to make molds the way you mentioned--it used to be the only way to do it. Last year I had a complex mess to figure out and taught myself the new method--had to shut of holes, make my own parting surfaces, etc.--and it worked great. I highly recommend reading everything in the help files that remotely relate and you'll find it's a powerful new method.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: tool splitting command