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I have 2 halves of a plastic injection mold I'd like to use SolidWorks to fill the cavity. What command or feature should I use to accomplish this? Basically I need the sprue and runner, and want to generate the from the mold I have.

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Are the two halves in a single part? If so, you can use the combine. When I do things like this I usually draw some arbitrary bounding geometry and do a combine-subtract to get the internal volume I'm after.

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I have an assembly that saved as a part.

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I think it will easier if you can use "Cavity Feature".
 
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I need to fill a volume. Looks like the cavity tool want to cut away.

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Can you attach the 3d model ? maybe someone here can help better.
 
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It's automotive so I cut away the part. I just need the runner and sprue.

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If you extrude (merge unchecked) a blob of material encompasing the volume of the cavity and runners inside the mold and then us subtract to subtract the mold from the blob you should have the cavity and runners left over.

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I was able to fudge it by converting entities to get my profile then made a 3D sketch following the runners path. Then mirror that to get my other half. Not exact but works for what I need. If anyone can do a subtract or combine to get the runner let me know how you did it I keep getting zero geometry errors.

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I did as kellnerp suggested on another mold and got the runner as separate solid body. Worked great but took some time getting to just the runner portion.

Thanks again.

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