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 |
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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. |
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Surfaces |
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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. |
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Midsurface |
Shortcut to the Midsurface panel, which provides tools to extract a midsurface from selected surfaces. |
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Lines |
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Create |
Shortcut to the Lines panel, which is used to create lines. |
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Edit |
Shortcut to the Line Edit panel, which is used to edit lines. |
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Shell Mesh |
Opens the panel to generate surface mesh (tria). |
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Runner System Mesh |
Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the runner |
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Coolant System Mesh |
Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the coolant channel. |
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Model Setup |
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Create Property Cards |
Opens a submenu for setting up the model. See Create Property Cards for details. |
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Diagnostics |
Computes the element quality of the displayed solid elements. |
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Export |
Opens the Moldex3D MSH Export dialog for exporting the model. See Export for details. |